Uniformed Secret Service Agents Arrest Organic Consumers Association Political Director as She Tries to Deliver Petitions for GMO Labeling to Michelle Obama
Posted: December 19th, 2012 | Filed under: Incident Reports, Video | Tags: Alexis Baden-Mayer, arrest, Beehive, contamination, DC, Direct Action, Eddie Gehman Kohan, gmo, GMO Foods, GMO Labeling, government, Herbicide, Honeybee, Jewish, Jews, Michelle Obama, Monsanto, Mother, National Press Club, Obama Foodorama, OCA, Office of Public Engagement, Organic Consumers Association, Pesticide, petition, Press Conference, Prop 37., Proposition 37, Protest, Research, Russia, Secret Service, Stephanie Valencia, Study, Tefillin, trespass, Washington, We the People, White House, World Trade Organization, WTO |You wonder why we think petitions are a waste of time? Watch what happened on October 11, 2012, when OCA Political Director Alexis Baden-Mayer attempted to deliver petitions for GMO labeling:
We are told the arrest was for trespassing (When? Where? How are we supposed to deliver petitions in person?). We’ll update this entry with any further details…
Text from YouTube:
There’s no more basic right than petitioning the government – but not if there’s no one to receive the petitions. And so it was with the petition that called for the labeling of food containing genetically modified organisms (GMO). Plenty of people want to know what they are eating and want food labeling to indicate if the food has been genetically modified.
But in this Instant Film, the story gets [interesting] when a couple of Jewish “missionaries” coincidentally roll up at the White House and ask to see the President, then perform the Jewish Tefillin ritual which consists of strapping a small box containing Torah verses to the head and arm of Adam, one of demonstrators, whispers to them about how GMO foods are not Kosher and how the insecticides now genetically engineered into corn, are killing the bees. But all this does not go unnoticed by the uniformed Secret Service, who become increasingly impatient, with a demonstration, now blocking an entrance, that seems to be spiraling out of control. But instead of arresting those blocking the entrance, they arrest the person trying to deliver the petitions, Alexis Baden-Mayer from the Organic Consumers Association.
Sources:
+ Multiple Routes of Pesticide Exposure for Honey Bees Living Near Agricultural Fields
+ New Study Finds Widespread Pesticide Contamination of Beehives
+ Honeybee Disappearance: The GMO Connection
+ Study says insecticide used with GM corn highly toxic to bees
+ Why GM food isn’t kosher
+ Russian scientists discover GMO’s cause animals to lose their ability to Reproduce
+ Russia halts imports of Monsanto corn over cancer fears
+ Russia halts imports of GMO corn after cancer study
According to Eddie Gehman Kohan at Obama Foodorama:
A spokesman for the East Wing declined to comment on the record about the petition delivery or Mrs. Obama’s position on Prop. 37. And when she delivers the petition to the White House at 3:00 PM, Baden-Meyer will not be meeting with anyone from Mrs. Obama’s East Wing staff or the Let’s Move! campaign, she said, but rather with Stephanie Valencia, the Deputy Director of the White House’s Office of Public Engagement.
As you can clearly see, the White House does not want to engage in any discussion about GMO labeling or answer multiple petitions. This is why we’re going to protest Obama during the Inauguration on January 21, 2013.
