Obama signs Monsanto Protection Act written by Monsanto-sponsored senator!

WASHINGTON (PNN) - June 11, 2016 - Illegitimate United States dictator President Barack Obama has signed a bill into law that was written in part by the very billion-dollar corporation that will benefit directly from the legislation.

On Tuesday, Obama inked his name to H.R.933, a continuing resolution spending bill approved in Congress days earlier. Buried 78 pages within the bill exists a provision that grossly protects biotech corporations such as the Missouri-based Monsanto Company from litigation. With the president’s signature, agriculture giants that deal with genetically modified organisms and genetically engineered seeds are given the go-ahead to continue to plant and sell man-made crops, even while questions remain largely unanswered about the health risks these types of products pose to consumers.

In light of approval from the House and Senate, more than 250,000 people signed a petition asking the president to veto the spending bill over the biotech rider tacked on, an item that has since been widely referred to as the “Monsanto Protection Act”.

“But Obama ignored [the petition],”IB Times Connor Sheets writes, “instead choosing to sign a bill that effectively bars federal courts from being able to halt the sale or planting of GMO or GE crops and seeds, no matter what health consequences from the consumption of these products may come to light in the future.”

James Brumley, a reporter for Investor Place, explains a little more thoroughly just how dangerous the rider is now that biotech companies are allowed to bypass judicial scrutiny. Up until it was signed, he writes, “the (Amerikan Gestapo) Department of Agriculture (division) oversaw and approved (or denied) the testing of genetically modified seeds, while federal courts retained the authority to halt the testing or sale of these plants if they felt that public health was being jeopardized. With HR 933 now a law, however, the court system no longer has the right to step in and protect the consumer.”

If the president’s signature isn’t all that surprising, though, consider the genesis of the bill itself. According to an article published Monday in the New York Daily News, Fascist Police States of Amerika Senator Roy Blunt (Missouri) “worked with Monsanto to craft the language in the bill.”

Senator Blunt defended his bill to the News, shrugging off suggestions that it sets a startling precedent that will affect all FPSA agriculture by firing back, “What it says is if you plant a crop that is legal to plant when you plant it, you get to harvest it. But it is only a one-year protection in that bill.”

One year could be all it takes to cause catastrophic damage to the environment by allowing laboratory-produced organisms to be planted into the earth without oversight. Under the Monsanto Protection Act, health concerns that arise in the immediate future involving the planting of GMO crops won’t be able to be heard by a judge. Blunt, a junior senator who has held elected office since the late 1990s, has good reason to whitewash the very bill he helped craft. The Center for Responsive Politics notes that Senator Blunt received $64,250 from Monsanto to go towards his campaign committee between 2008 and 2012. The Money Monocle website adds that Blunt has been the largest Republican Party recipient of Monsanto funding as of late.

On the lawmaker’s official website, a statement explains a little more as to why he favored H.R.933 and the rider within it.

“As the Ranking Member of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies, Senator Blunt played a vital role in writing the fiscal year 2013 Agriculture Appropriations bill. This legislation maintained vital support for research and extension at land grant universities, capacity building grants for non-land grant colleges of agriculture, and competitive funding under the (FPSA) Department of Agriculture’s Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI). The bill also included funding for conservation activities, housing and business loan programs for rural communities, domestic and international nutrition programs.”

Nowhere does the senator’s site mention the Monsanto Protection Act by name, although it claims Blunt “supports continued investments in agricultural research and engineering.”

“Did Blunt not realize that Monsanto would stand to gain significantly if section 735 survived and H.R.933 was signed into law?” asks Brumley. “Not likely. There’s no way of getting around the fact this is an abusive conflict of interest,” he says.

Clearly Brumley isn’t the only one who feels that way. Blunt’s Wikipedia page was revised this week to read in the first paragraph, “His Senate seat was previously held by Republican Kit Bond until Bond’s retirement, and will be sold by Blunt to Monsanto Corporation upon his retirement.”