Date: Fri, 16 Feb 1996 01:51:57 -0500
From: GalileoII@aol.com
To: pore@mainelink.net
cc: orgonomy@jefferson.village.virginia.edu
Subject: DeMeo admits to Mid East disaster
Sender: owner-orgonomy@jefferson.village.virginia.edu

To Jamerling Ogg:

I find your response to my letter, "Carlinsky's challenge; deMeo's retreat,"
which I sent to PORE, quite intriguing.  Though I sent the letter direct to
you with you and your legal situation in mind, I don't mind that you
published my letter on the Orgonomy Mailing List (OML).  Considering what's
being happening this past week, I think that it's perfectly OK for others to
see what you've discovered.  

You have pointed out some facts to me that I was not aware of.  It would
appear from the material you researched in the #4 issue of "Pulse of the
Planet," James deMeo's own publication, that, if push comes to shove, deMeo
actually could be considered as being responsible for causing the deaths of
innocent people, along with considerable damage to property and to the
environment, during one of his cloudbusting experiments in the Middle East
--just as Joel Carlinsky alleged in his article earlier this week on OML.

Specifically, you indicated that, on page 96 of the Pulse #4 issue, there is
a report by deMeo entitled "OROP ISRAEL 1991-1992," in which [deMeo] does 

<<mention flooding, homes destroyed, and people dieing [sic] from traffic
<<accidents on flooded roads as a result of the heavy rains>>

occuring after DeMeo's November 1991 cloudbusting operations in the Middle
East.  Quoting now from deMeo's own report:

<<Our research team had not anticipated the strength of the storms 
which subsequently developed in the eastern Mediterranian.... When heavy
rains came, traffic often came to a standstill for hours.  Previously
bone-dry river beds and conduits filled quickly, and overflowed onto major
roads.... A few deaths also occured on the highways due to the fatal
combination of rain-slickstreets and highway speeding, or when people
attempted to drive their cars through rain-swollen streams.... Additional
difficulties also occured in a few areas when power lines were knocked down
by heavy winds or accumulated snow, leaving many persons without power,
sometimes for days."

Here, in his own words, deMeo admits to having participated in a scientific
experiment which appears to have wreaked havoc on the ecology while
concurrently serving as the direct or indirect cause of several deaths.  Can
any rational, caring person honestly defend this kind of irresponsible,
anti-social behavior as something that could be justifiably done "in the
spirit of Wilhelm Reich" or for the furtherance of orgonomy?  

Now, I wouldn't go so far as to call deMeo's activities "murder," for I
seriously doubt that he performed his obviously reckless operation with
malice aforethought or an intent to harm people.  Nonetheless, for those of
us who understand and believe in the effectiveness of cloud-busting, it is
impossible to overlook the fact that there is certainly considerable
culpability involved here.  

It's bad enough that deMeo engaged in such a diastrous experiment, and that
he can only write about it in the detached tone of a superior being, or of a
child who has just flooded a backyard of helpless ants and watches their
habitat get washed away.  What I find even more reprehensible is for deMeo to
be able to acknowledge that his cloudbusting activities actually did result
in human deaths and in ecological damage, but not to cease from performing
subsequent cloudbusting operations!  

Anyone continuing to perform reckless cloudbusting operations with little
regards to the consequences of their behavior does so with an arrogance that
deserves to be treated with the same contempt with which he apparently views
his fellow human beings and the planet upon which he resides.  DeMeo's
decision to continue his cloudbusting operations, after he has consciously
observed and reported on the connection between his cloudbusting activities
and their disastrous results on other people and on the environment,
inevitably raises certain moral, ethical, and legal questions which should
not be ignored by any life-affirming, rational, caring human being.  

It is apparently cloudbusting operations like this one in the Middle East
which Joel Carlinsky had in mind when he published his provocative, if not
well documented, article earlier this week.   

Of course, what is peculiarly interesting about the ensuing flack that has
resulted is not only the complete unwillingness on deMeo's and his
supporters' part to deal rationally with the facts (or, if they prefer, with
the "accusations"), but also their holier-than-thou scare tactics and their
belittling, name-calling attempts to side-step the issues by fomenting the
preposterous idea that anyone who questions the authority or integrity of
deMeo and his cultish group are, de facto, non-persons, or just plain fools
undeserving of their august company.  

Although a real-life courtroom trial on the matters touched upon by these
revelations would be a highly detrimental way to introduce cloudbusting,
orgonomy, and Reich to the general public, litigating the issues surrounding
deMeo's rain-making activities in the Middle East and elsewhere would
undoubtedly raise some rather fascinating legal and moral questions.  

What a case it would be, though!  The legal principles would probably turn
out to be something completely new in the annals of a murder trial:  Can a
man be found guilty of negligent homocide, or reckless endangerment, or some
such crime related to having caused the deaths of innocent people, for having
allegedly performed scientific experiments involving nothing more than a
turret-like set of metal pipes pointed at the sky in order to tap into an
energy source that mainstream scientists have long claimed does not exist?  

Quick!  Call Mulder and Scully!  This sounds like a story for the "X-Files!"

Or, in real life, has James deMeo become so wrapped up into believing that he
is the only rightful successor to Wilhelm Reich's throne of orgonomic science
such that he has ascended above the law and need not tolerate any criticism
whatsoever--even after he follows his martyred master's footsteps all the way
to jail?!  

Stay tuned.  



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