<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I received this e-mail last month. Thought I should bring it to everyone's attention.<div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Peter</div><div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Peter Myers</div><div><a href="mailto:pmyers42@gmail.com">pmyers42@gmail.com</a></div><div><a href="http://www.myersforcalifornia.com">http://www.myersforcalifornia.com</a></div><div>200 Hollis Ave. #45</div><div>Campbell, CA 95008</div><div>408-242-4212</div></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><div><br><html>Inicio del mensaje reenviado:</html><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>De: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><a href="mailto:Marcusdouglashorton@comcast.net">Marcusdouglashorton@comcast.net</a></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Fecha: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">5 de marzo de 2008 12:01:32 p.m. PST</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Para: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><a href="mailto:peter@myersforcalifornia.com">peter@myersforcalifornia.com</a></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Asunto: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>Bush administration lied in Ca. tuna court case to protect Bush advisor</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> </div>Hello,<br> I am asking for the Green Party to lead a Congressional investigation into the matter of the Bush administration perjuring itself in the Ca. tuna case. Safeway does not want this to get out. Safeway tried to make it look like I was going to blackmail them on this issue. I state that to customers while waiting on them with management watching. <br> The Bush administration places money over the lives of the American people it has the duty to defend under the U S constitution. It will even practice perjury in order for members of its administration to make money. Steve Burd was one of the Bush administration Home Land Security advisors. The company he is CEO of is Safeway and the state of Ca. wanted to put warning labels on some of its food products so it went to court because Safeway refused to do so. The federal government wrote a letter to defend Safeway and in it the federal government stated that what the state of Ca. claimed had no scientific basis to it and also that the federal government did not want fish sells to go down. The claim that there is no scientific basis is not true. We have known for a long time that methylmercury and mercury binds to DNA. We have various scientific methods to show that this occurs. For example in circular dichroism studies one uses how items absorb beams of polarized light<br> in order to determine the structure of an item. Different items absorb light in different ways and at different wave lenghts. Another way is to use DNA sedimentation rates. Different items have different rates of moving through sediments and that is the reason for using this way to look at things. The next one I will mention is nuclear magnetic spectroscopy (nmr). Nmr spectroscopy looks at how items absorb radio waves in a strong magnetic field. The last one I will mention is thermal analyses. Heat is used to look at things because things behave differently at different temperatures. The point I want to make here is that all these different ways of looking at things show that mercury binds to the DNA and anything that binds to the DNA can potentially cause problems to the DNA. We have known that mercury and methylmercury mutate genes years before the court case. Safeway and the Bush administration do not care if your DNA gets messed up due to methylmercury and mercury. <br>If you do not believe what I state look up the Ca. court case the People of the State of California v Tr-Union Seafoods, LLC, et al. (case no. CGC-04-432394) since Safeway was in that court case and claimed that DNA damage does not happen by methylmercury.<br> Over two hundred years ago we knew that mercury reacted with oxygen. Studies by two of the most famous scientists in the history of science found this to be important in their studies of oxygen. J. Priestley who is best known for the discoverer of oxygen and doing some of the first studies of photosynthesis used this fact in his studies of oxygen. A. L. Lavoisier who is known for his work in animal respiration also found mercury's ability to react with oxygen useful in his studies. One can find these people's names in high school science textbooks. The reason I state this is the fact that this reaction is one of the reasons why mercury causes birth defects, cancer and miscarriages. Lets look at the periodic table because things are grouped together by the fact they have common traits. Mercury is found in the transitional metal group. A common reaction to this group is the Fenton reaction. It is the name for the reaction of these metals with oxygen and it creates r<br>eactive oxygen species. Reactive oxygen species is what causes the destruction of DNA and thus causes what the state of Ca. claimed in court. Right next to mercury is cadmium which is a known cancer agent and it causes cancer by doing this reaction. Mercury does the Fenton reaction at the temperature which living things live at but at a slow rate according to a chemistry book. Also various science papers that I have read state reactive oxygen species levels go up due to methylmercury.<br> Mercury mutates various genes found mutated in cancer patients. Some of these genes are p53, Fos, Jun and L1. The mutation of either Fos or Jun genes can cause tumor growth. L1 mutaions are due to retrotransposition of DNA which causes lots of problems to the DNA due to the misreading of DNA and this can be found in breast and blood cancers. <br> We have population studies out of Japan that show areas in Japan that had methylmercury problems have a higher rate of cancer and<br>prebirth deaths. I have listed a couple of them below in the listing of science papers to back up my statements.<br> Now I should state some textbooks state that a change in a single gene is not important but that is not true. The last time I checked there was around six thousand human diseases caused by a single bases change of a gene. For example there are osteogenesis imperfecta (brittle bone disease) and sickle cell anemia diseases caused by a single base changed<br> Mercury also causes nondisjunction of the chromosomes. This has been known for decades and it is because it impairs spindle function thus the cell cannot divide correctly. Various human diseases are caused by the nondisjunction of the chromosomes such as Down's syndrome, Edward's syndrome and Patau's syndrome.<br> My fellow Americans I am asking you to ask for a Congressional investigation into this matter.<br> Marcus Horton<br> P O Box 84 <br> Salinas, Ca 93902<br><br> This is for the paper in order if anyone asks about the above.<br><br> I should also state that methylmercury loses its methyl functional group in the human body and becomes just mercury so one has to look at studies that have to do with both when looking at this issue. Also mercury also binds to other functional groups once inside the human body. <br><br> List of some studies to back up the statements in the above article. I have a longer list of studies showing what I stated is true.<br><br> Mercury binding to DNA <br><br>A. Casadevall and L. A. Day Silver and mercury probing of deoxyribonucleic acid structures in the filamentous viruses fd, If1, IKe, Xf, Pf1, and Pf3.<br>1983 Biochemistry Sep 27;22(20):4831-42. <br><br>D. Ding and F. S. Allen A circular dichroism study on the structure of DNA and the nucleosomal core particle using Hg (ll) and Ag (l)<br>1980 Biochim. Biophys. Acta. Nov 14; 610(1):72-80.<br><br>D. Ding and F. S. Allen Electric dichroism and sedimentation velocity studies of DNA-Hg(II) and DNA-Ag(I) complexes.<br>1980 Biochim. Biophys. Acta. Nov.14;610(1):64-71.<br><br> H. Torigoe, A. Ono and K. Kawahashi Thermodynamic analyses of the specific interaction between T:T mismatch base pair and mercury (II) cation: toward the efficient detection of single nucleotide polymorphism (1). <br>2004 Nucleic Acids Symp. Ser. (Oxf.) (48):275-6.<br><br>P. R. Young, U. S. Nandi and N. R. Kallenbach Binding of mercury(II) to poly (dA-dT) studied by proton nuclear magnetic resonance.<br>1982 Biochemistry Jan. 5;21(1):62-6.<br><br> Early studies showing mercury causes nondisjunction of the chromosomes.<br><br>J. Magnusson and C. Ramel Genetic variation in the susceptibility to mercury and other metal compounds in Drosophila melanogaster.<br>1986 Teratog. Carcinog. Mutagen 6(4);289-305.<br><br>C. Ramel and J. Magnusson Chemical induction of nondisjunction in drosopila.<br>1979 Environ. Health Perspect. Aug.;31:59-66.<br><br> Some studies showing chromosome problems due to mercury.<br><br>H. C. Wulf and others. Sister chromatid exchange (SCE) in Greenlandic Eskimos. Dose-response relationship between SCE and seal diet, smoking and blood cadmium and mercury concentrations.<br>1986 Sci. Total Environ. Jan; 48(1-2):81-94.<br><br>L. Verschaeve, M. Kirsch-Volders and C. Susanne Mercury-induced segregational errors of chromosomes in human lymphocytes and in Indian muntjac cells.<br>1984 Toxicol. Lett. Jun;21(3):247-53.<br><br>A. Renzoni, F. Zino and E. Franchi Mercury levels along the food chain and risk for exposed populations.<br>1998 Environ. Res. May;77(2):68-72.<br><br>J. R. Lazutka and others. Chromosomal aberrations and sister-chromatid exchanges in Lithuanian populations: effects of occupational and environmental exposures.<br>1999 Mutat. Res. Sep. 30;445(2):225-39. <br><br> One of the population cancer studies we have dealing with methylmercury. Since methylmercury goes after microtubles and causes microtubular damage one should find chronic liver damage as well and this study also shows that.<br><br>H. Tamashiro, M. Arakaki, M. Futatsuka and E. S. Lee Methylmercury exposure and mortality in southern Japan: a close look at causes of death.<br>1986 J. Epidemiol. Community Health Jun:40(2):181-5. <br><br>One of the population studies showing methylmercury causes fetuses to die before being born.<br><br>M. Sakamoto, A. Nakano and H. Akagi Declining Minamata Male Birth Ratio Associated With Increased Male Fetal Death Due To Heavy Methylmercury Pollution.<br>2001 Environmental Research.<br><br>A couple of studies showing that methylmercury causes an increase in the reactive oxygen species in the cell. It does this by various ways.<br><br>T. Sarafian and M. A. Verity Oxidative mechanisms underlying methyl mercury neurotoxicity.<br>1991 Int. J. Dev. Neurosci. 9(2) :147-53.<br><br>S. Gasso and others. Antioxidant compounds and Ca(2+) pathway blockers differentially protect against methylmercury and mercuric chloride neurotoxicity.<br>2001 J. Neurosci. Res. Oct 1:66(1):135-45<br><br><br><br><br></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>