by Jon Rappoport
November 21, 2014

Right now, the heart of the ACTUAL American struggle against Monsanto is in Maui.

On Election Day, voters in Maui County passed a local ballot measure blocking Monsanto and

Dow from further development of GMOs.

Maui is a very importance piece of Monsanto’s empire. Because of the year-round weather, they

can run many, many tests on new GMO crop varieties.

So Monsanto and Dow immediately turned around and sued Maui County.

On top of that, the federal judge in the case is Barry Kurren, who has already sided with

Monsanto against Kaui’s attempt to regulate GMOs.

Monsanto’s mouthpiece, John Purcell, released a statement: “This local [Maui] referendum

interferes with and conflicts with long-established state and federal laws that support both the

safety and lawful cultivation of GMO plants.”

Really.

In that case, why was the ballot measure allowed to be voted on, in the first place?

Why didn’t Monsanto file suit, win its case before Election Day, and knock the measure off the

ballot?

The truth is, Monsanto lost the vote. Now, they’re whining. If they had won, they wouldn’t

uttered a peep of protest about the legality of the measure.

The county of Maui has every right to make a decision about GMOs and Roundup. They have

every right to put the clamps on Monsanto and Dow.

This is a matter of public safety.

I don’t care what state or federal law says.

Local citizens always have a right to defend their lives and health. In this case, they are

challenging official science. They are ready to oversee authentic investigations of GMO and

Roundup safety.

Essentially, they are saying that any state or federal law that would hamstring them is based on

false science.

And what is the sub-text of Monsanto’s remarks? “We got the laws on GMOs passed in the first

place. We lied about the science. We got the FDA, in 1996, to lie and obfuscate and allow GMO

crops to enter the US. So now we are appealing to those laws to make our case.”

I don’t know, Michael Carroll, the lawyer who is defending the voters of Maui against

Monsanto. I know they could use a man like Gerry Spence, if he would come out of retirement

and take up the sword one more time.

I know they could use a few PR sharks, who would blow this case up into the global scandal

that it is, for all the world to see.

But that costs money.

The men who have been bankrolling the soft and weak GMO labeling initiatives could start

writing checks, if they really cared about banning GMOs. Talking to you, Gary Hirshberg. Joe

Mercola, David Bronner, Grant Lundberg.

And there is another man who could step in and make a difference. He lives far away, but he

was raised in Hawaii. He claims to cherish those roots. Once upon a time, he seemed to be an

ally.

His name is Barack Obama, and his silence is deafening.