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Giuliani,
Thank You!

by Robert Lederman
robert.lederman@worldnet.att.net
September 22, 2000

Thank you Mayor Giuliani for repeatedly spraying my home, my city, and my entire family with Malathion, an organophosphate nerve gas that damages DNA and Anvil, a pyrethroid nerve gas that reduces sperm count, causes cognitive difficulties and increases breast cancer tumors. I also want to thank you for killing off all those annoying little bees, birds, butterflies and fish that were taking up valuable space on which office towers and baseball stadiums could be built to glorify you as Mayor. You are absolutely right when you said that New Yorkers who don't understand that seeing a police car means they should run for their lives deserved the harmful spray effects they got. So many of my fellow citizens just can't appreciate that sometimes it's necessary to poison millions in order to theoretically save a few lives.

NY Times 9/22/2000

Giuliani Calls West Nile Spraying Necessary

New York City residents should be thankful the city has been so aggressive in spraying pesticides to kill mosquitoes carrying the West Nile virus, Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani said yesterday, rejecting criticism from environmentalists who are suing the city to stop the spraying.. Mr. Giuliani said yesterday that the people who were sprayed with Anvil -which the city Health Department calls "relatively nontoxic to humans" - had only themselves to blame. "There is a very simple thing to do here. Get out of the way. Don't stay there and inhale the spray," the mayor said, noting that a police car accompanies the pesticide-spraying trucks to warn people.

Daily News 9/22/2000

Rudy: "City's Skeeter Tack Rates Thanks"

To a Directory of Mr.Lederman's Essays

Robert Lederman is an artist, writer and activist and is also the President of the street artist advocacy group, A.R.T.I.S.T.
Click here for an archive of A.R.T.I.S.T. related news articles on the Freedom Forum website

His essays and Op-Eds have appeared in hundreds of alternative publications as well as the Daily News, Penthouse, Africa Sun Times, Street News and The Shadow.
Lederman was falsely arrested 41 times for his anti-Giuliani activities and was never convicted of any of the charges. As a result of the arrests, he's won four Federal lawsuits and overturned three laws.
He is best known for having created hundreds of paintings of Mayor Giuliani as a Hitler like dictator which were carried in demonstrations throughout the eight years of the Giuliani administration. Images of his paintings and articles about his arrests and lawsuits have appeared on all of the major television networks hundreds of times as well as frequently appearing in the NY Times, Daily News, NY Post, Newsday, Newsweek, People, The Washington Post, LA Times and NY Magazine.

Robert Lederman,
President of A.R.T.I.S.T.
(Artists' Response To Illegal State Tactics)
robert.lederman@worldnet.att.net

For a detailed exposition on the West Nile issue
http://www.nospray.org/
For an article on the Manhattan Institute go to
http://www.konformist.com/2000/rudyg.htm

If you would like to help oppose the spraying,
please write to the
No Spray Coalition
PO Box 334
Peck Slip Station
NYC, NY 10272-0334
or call the No Spray hotline at (718) 670-7110.

Any funds you can send to help continue the lawsuit
and this work are greatly appreciated.

Important Note:
Mr. Lederman has explained that his articles posted here are not to be taken as official statements by the No-Spray Coalition of which he is a member or of the "No-Spray" lawsuit in which he is a plaintiff.

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