Hi Everyone
I just wanted to reply to "Strike's" comments about my post as follows, as he says and I quote:
"This statement just serves to cause fear where it may not even be warranted"
Referring to my statement below:
REMEMBER WE STILL DON'T KNOW YET WHAT THEY HAVE BEEN SPRAYING FROM 1985 TO 2005.
I don't believe that I am causing fear where it may not be warranted. I was poisoned by Agent Orange and then by Agent White. And as a result, I have seven major organ dysfunctions and I am tested for liver and pancreatic cancer every three months.
I was in the freaking hospital SIX times last year. One time I almost didn't make it!!
I am dying and that, I believe, gives me the right to warn people about what exactly has been sprayed. It not a question of causing fear, it is a question of causing people to ask legitimate and legal questions to which they have a right to know.
NO ONE did anything about the issue of poisoning of military or civilian personnel. We were lied to and misled on a massive scale. If someone had done something about the mess back then, maybe a lot more people would be alive because of seeking treatment for cancers a lot earlier if we had known about the poison.
What I am doing is alerting people to the fact that we DO NOT KNOW what has been sprayed on the Base since 1985, and it CONCERNS NOT ONLY ME BUT HUNDREDS, POSSIBLY THOUSANDS OF OTHERS AS TO WHAT HAS BEEN SPRAYED THERE IN THE PAST 20 YEARS.
We have been lied to and misled, we still have an official position that only Agent Orange and Agent Purple was sprayed by the Americans over a short period of time in the summer of 1966 and 1967. Well, excuse me for bursting anyone's balloon but there was a policy of defoliation in place from 1956 to 1984 which involved spraying of Agent Orange & Agent White by our own government, that does not even include what the Americans sprayed.
From 1956 to 1984, our government allowed the spraying of Agent Orange and Agent White on a massive scale. They sprayed Agent Orange from '56 to '64, then switched to Agent White from '65 to '84. It involved the spraying of:
Total Acreage sprayed from 1956 to 1984 - 181,038 Acres sprayed with 6,504 (45 gallon barrels) or 292,680 imperial gallons or 1,328,767 litres of defoliant chemicals. Just in case your eyes popped out at that, it is available from the DND Freedom of Information Officer at 613-992-9560. Ask for document
#A-2004-00207. It will be sent out to you free of charge.
Since I HAD to access this information through the Freedom of Information Act from the Department of National Defence, what makes anyone think that the government is going to tell us what they sprayed at CFB Gagetown for the past twenty years?
Given the current stance of the government on the spraying, they are certainly not going to tell us unless someone accesses the information and I have a request in now for that information.
Kenneth Dobbie