Environmental Health Network » Legal http://ehnca.org We all are stakeholders when it comes to breathing.© Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:30:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Hate Crimes http://ehnca.org/hate-crimes/ http://ehnca.org/hate-crimes/#comments Sat, 17 May 2008 17:22:40 +0000 admin http://ehn.users.sonic.net/ehnca.org/?p=15 Do the law enforcement officers, school administrators, workplace management teams, health care
administrators, et al., around this country understand the nature of the hate crimes perpetrated
against the already chemically injured? We are disabled by chemicals you may think of as
benign, but believe me, that simply means you have a lot to learn. At least word is now getting out
on the harmful effects of pesticides, but the ignorance that continues to be shown by the
powers that be amazes me.

I keep asking myself: If county health officials, members of the local police, doctors, and various
management teams are still clueless about the effects of pesticides, acute and chronic, then how can
I expect them to understand about poisoning someone by perfume? Nonetheless, I fully expect
that they will use EHN’s site to educate themselves about the toxins in pesticides and perfumes
and then PROTECT those who have filed complaints against neighbors, colleagues, peers, and
even members of management, who engage in hate crimes against the already chemically injured.

Hate crimes against people who are paint-, perfume-, pesticide (HYDROCARBON)-poisoned can
take the form of spraying pesticides on windy days so the chemicals spread, paint without
warning, dump their paint clean-up on the property of the already injured, spray perfume
around the work area of the individual, spray a fellow student in the face with perfume, spray
pesticides or fragrances outside of doors, use fabric softeners at such a time as to adversely
affect the health of the person the hate is directed against,… etc.

Frankly, I’ve come to learn through my own experiences and those of others, that there is no limit
to their imaginative means of further poisoning us. This has got to stop! And, it is up to the
people with authority, to start believing the already chemically disabled people when we
try to report such actions. Please do not dismiss us, further stultify us. We are not insane, but
lack of concern and action by authority is maddening.

To those in authority, I plead: Think of us as having a violent act committed against us. As
with others under such circumstances, we become desperate, we may not be seen by you as fully
rational at the moment. That would be a given for anyone suffering a traumatic event. But,
it is more than just the emotional jolt that is normal to any other human being who has been hurt
and intimidated by another, we have become poisoned by the chemicals that include
NEUROTOXINS.

Neurotoxins adversely affect the brain and the nervous systems. And knowing that, folks, is how
I got myself through my years of harassment by a very few managers and colleagues — it only
takes one to pollute air and body. I told myself they were mentally affected by the very poisons
they used and weren’t in their “right” minds. Believe me, I had to remind myself of that daily
and I didn’t care whether that was a vialble excuse for their heinous actions, it kept me going
in the workplace where I had to remain civil to them. Why not contact a lawyer, you might ask.
I did. Several. A chemically disabled individual, it seems, is fair game. And from the request
for help that I get, I don’t see that changing. Yet.

For those wishing to deal with toxic tort cases — ATTORNEYS and clients — please read,
Chemical Injury and the Courts by Linda Price King
ehnlinx/bbooks.htm#King
For more information, see EHN’s pages:
Assaults
ehnlinx/a.htm#Assaulted

Take Heart!
Accommodation and access guidelines from cities, police, hospitals, workplaces, schools …
ehnhompg/takheart.htm
– barb

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