On July 2nd I received an email from the office of Senator Romero, instructing me to call Linda Reinstein – bill sponsor and CEO of ADAO, the non-profit awareness group dedicated to stamping out Asbestos. I was being instructed to discuss this issue with someone who has all the information available, but cherry picks to prove her undeniable fact; Inhaled fibers can cause cancer. This is the fact I knew I was going to hear and indeed, while Mrs. Reinstein is a very nice lady, any scientific inquiry I gave her would be met with the reply, inhaled fibers can cause cancer.

I have a very simple theory that can be dis proven with an example. We have a list of “Asbestos Death” cases and we can trace these back to one thing in common…Amphibole Minerals.

Penge South Africa – Amosite – now a ghost town – thousands killed
Whittnoom Australia – Riebeckite – now a ghost town – hundreds killed
Libby Montana – Winchite or Sodic Tremolite – mines closed – hundreds killed
Armley Asbestos Mill – Processing Riebeckiete – Mill cleaned up – dozens killed, hundreds contaminated

In all of these cases you find blatant disregard for death. The miners and the people living in the community all talk about how the streets were filled with asbestos fibers, or how the kids used it in the sand boxes. The lack of understanding that amphibole fibers will kill, coupled with the breathing of almost unimaginable amounts of amphiboles, it shouldn’t be hard to understand why these are such well known asbestos tragedies.

So, just give me examples of mass deaths from Chysotile mining.

Simple. Science! Observations and theory! Here is my theory, Chrysotile is a safe mineral. Prove me wrong with the scores of dead chrysotile miners at the Atlas Mine! Should be simple! They just do not exist in any numbers higher than any other comparable occupation. Prove me wrong, show me all the dead people from walking around the clear creek management area.

Much like I can’t berate my mother for believing in angels, I didn’t even want to try to convince Linda of the science behind the issue. If you can picture someone with enough dedication to be an activist, you can almost be certain there will be almost nothing short of a life changing moment to make them drop their stead fast opinions. There was nothing I could say that would win Linda over to the side of reason. There was nothing to work with. It was one thing to lose the Clear Creek Management area outside of Coalinga California. My wife and I love to visit that area, collect rocks, hike and enjoy nature. The flowers and landscape are like nothing else I can describe, it is so beautiful. But when I made a motion to express my joy of that area, Linda hit me with the “I don’t care what you ATV riders want to do”. I’ve never been “ATVing” anywhere in California, but when we succeed in reopening that area I’m going to get a dirt bike and make it to those mineral deposits that were tucked away on the slick serpentine bike paths I could never get to in the car. The Ford Impala was always my favorite ride for navagating those roads.

So, yes, it was not a hostile conversation, but it was rather pointless.

I have asked for an actual meeting with Senator Romero, here is hoping she talks to me or someone else who opposes this bill, just for the sake of hearing from the opposition.

Let me say goodbye to this update with the note…when I first heard about this bill I flipped out, quite literally. I just couldn’t believe this could even happen and I wanted to know what I could do to fight it. There were just a couple of editorial pieces about the bill, mostly saying it was foolish to pass a bill like this while the budget was well overdue. But when I read the actual bill, I saw through the “humorous” notion and right to the heart of the evil behind this bill. I kept seeing scientific inaccuracy and then decided that I needed to drop everything and fight the bill. I wrote from the heart, a bit heated, a bit wild, but what I felt about the situation. It is my JOY that the bill can be stopped. I do feel like the bill is near unstoppable. The facts behind the actual science are enough to make most citizens fall into a deep slumber. Indifference.

If I can do just one thing, it will be bring attention to this bill in hopes that all of our voices can work together to extinguish this bill. I like Linda. Don’t get me wrong. I just wish she would accept the truth, if she can’t produce the chrysotile deaths.

PS – The representatives being contacted are calling this a “Non-Issue”. It is going to be a sad day when they understand they passed a time bomb into law. The extra costs just on construction alone are going to sky rocket in areas with serpentine rocks. The costs that will be handed down to the state of california because of the lawsuits and “cleanup” fees will make this little “non-issue” something that will come back to bite them. They keep acting like they already won. That there was no opposition to this bill. Well, since the bill was made 2 years ago and just waiting to be sprung on us, since we had no time to MOUNT an opposition, of course there was none! But, now that we see what ADAO and asbestos litigators were doing, we have to stop them. It is bad science and bad for our government! If you want to just take away Serpentine as the state rock and nothing else, it is a non-issue, but by adding all of the “findings” about mesothelioma and asbestos, you’ve made an issue worth fighting over!

I don’t want to live in an “Idiocracy”.

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