Legislation targeting baseless concept to keep state’s skies clear essentially futile given politicians cannot control sky and wind

The “chemtrails” conspiracy theory is enjoying its moment in the clearly visible, not blocked by government-released toxic chemicals, sun, after the Tennessee state senate passed a bill this month targeting the baseless concept.

Legislation banning the “intentional injection, release, or dispersion, by any means, of chemicals, chemical compounds, substances” swept through the Republican-dominated senate, and will now be considered by the Republican-dominated house, before then being weighed by Tennessee’s Republican governor. There is also a movement to pass a similar law in Pennsylvania.

The Tennessee bill, introduced in the senate by Republican Steve Southerland, does not use the term “chemtrails”. The language in the bill, however – there is talk of the government “intentionally dispersing chemicals into the atmosphere” – directly evokes a decades-old conspiracy theory.

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    8 months ago

    I see no evidence for chemtrails specifically, but the US Navy did intentionally spray biological weapons on San Francisco and other cities in multiple states dozens of times to check how deadly different chemicals were, so it’s not a terrible law to have on the books.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Sea-Spray

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      8 months ago

      Fucking fuck that Operation Seaspray is all kinds of fucked up.

      And people wonder why we have COVID 5G tower conspiracy theorists today…

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        8 months ago

        That’s the best documented one they have the name of but there’s a more complete list that came out with the church committee with almost 300 different incidents of the navy and army spraying biological weapons in different cities all around the states and I believe dropping them from the air also. Not exactly chemtrails but not exactly not chemtrails.