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.

  • Varyk@sh.itjust.works
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    7 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.