Are Lease Arrangements the Right Thing?

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From: aajonus [mailto:optimal@...]

Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2010 4:32 PM

Sheri Giachetto

Subject: Re: Are Lease Arrangements the Right Thing?

Hi, Sheri,

Thank you for your response and clarifications. I have been actively fighting

this battle since 1977. I discovered that

people will adjust to the worst unless there is someone like you or me doing the

battle. People are so overwhelmed with

family and living that they do not have the health, energy or time to battle as

I do, and maybe you do. I tell everyone

that the lease agreements work for now but it is now being tested with the Los

Angeles Rawesome raid. I stated that we

must attack now while they are in violation. I requested donations for the legal

battle. 60 people send donations

totaling about $27,000 out of over 3,000 people on my list. Two donations were

10,000 and 2,000. So excluding those 2,

from 3,000 people I received only $15,000 for a legal battle that will cost

about $300,000. If 3000 people gave $100

each, that would be $300,000. I think you get my point.

healthfully,

aajonus

Aajonus,

Thank-you for taking the time to reply to my post. I think you are fighting a

really good fight and I agree with much of

what you said below. My comments were not so much against your leases, but were

to get consumers to think twice about

the situation.

I, too, am partaking in a food freedom legal battle here in MN and I have heard

many conversations around the lease

programs. I feel a need for caution on two fronts. Frist, consumers must

understand that these are not truly free for

farmers. The farmers in these leases no longer have 100% true ownership of their

operations and this would be bad if it

were a permanent solution. People MUST be sensitive to this issue.

Second, I have gotten a strong sense from reading and hearing conversations,

that many consumers just want the farmers

to hurry up and do leases so they can go back to their families and their jobs

and not worry about this any more. Giving

people a tool that allows, and perhaps encourages, such complacency is extremely

dangerous at this time. You may not

feel this where you are because the people you are working with were so directly

touched by this. But I feel it amongst

people that have only been tangentially affected.

I want to urge people to use this cautiously and do everything it takes to make

sure the right fight keeps being fought.

Thank-you for everything you're doing.

Sheri

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> From: aajonus [mailto:optimal@...]

> Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2010 8:56 PM

> Sheri Giachetto

> Subject: Re: Are Lease Arrangements the Right Thing?

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> Hi, Sheri,

> My lease programs are designed to protect not only the farmer but the

consumer. Yes, we should have the right to grow

> and eat whatever we want but we are not in the rational times of years ago. We

are in Nazi-like times when

> government-individuals want to control everything for their own and corporate

friends benefits. All of your ideals are

> valid but not pertinent to the present situation. We are all fighting for our

rights for everything everywhere in the

> world. Multinational companies are fighting for their right to rule the world.

They have a lot more money and board

> members who are willing to spend whatever it takes.

> I and several others are about to engage in a legal battle that will challenge

governments depriving us of basic

> rights/choices. However, I cannot fight for our rights without help. I do not

have the financial resources to engage

in

> such a legal battle. I pled for donations and 60 people gave a total of

$27,000. That is not enough to bandstand a

legal

> attack much less win one. How much did you donate to help me protect your

rights?

> While we are defending our rights, do you want to have access to the healthy

foods that my lease agreements afford? Do

> you want farmers to lose their land and livelihood rather than be much safer

under a lease agreement? Do you want to

> lose access to healthy food? Of course you don't. Your house analogy did not

complete the question, which logically

> would have been; Do you want to lease out your home and pets with complete

freedom to live in it and with them, and

> function freely with the only restriction that you have to feed your pets

organic foods to keep the government from

> taking it all?

> healthfully,

> aajonus

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> Sheri Giachetto wrote:

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> Dear Aajonus,

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> I thought you may want to respond to this email which was posted on my Trad

Foods list.

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> God bless you.

>

> In ,

>

> Sheri

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