World-renown doctor who owned Lakeland Veterinary Hospital and conducted research on paralyzed swans and dead birds since onset of the Gulf of Mexico operation has disappeared, just before due to release his research. Citizen reporters trying to locate him continue to be stonewalled, even someone who has known him for years who says his sudden absence is out of character.
In an era in which kidnapping, torture and assassinations are officially authorized in the United States; the petrochemical-industrial-complex has silenced reporters from providing Gulf region information in best interest of the public; and scientists are paid for whitewashed research reports, when a prestigious research scientist suddenly disappears, naturally, red flags are hoisted.
USAF veteran who worked as an Intelligence Operations Specialist in the US and in Europe, Anita Stewart is now flying such a flag high for the swan doctor, Dr. Geoffrey Gardner.
"Swans were a big story when Testing the Water had a Sarasota sand sample at 173ppm on September 22nd," stated Stewart.
Gardner had been arrested three months earlier, in June, in the middle of his research. On July 9, with what appears as rough as a mug shot of the prominent veterinarian, the Lakeland Ledger reported that Gardner was charged with possession of a controlled substance including pain medication Torbutrol and Torbugesic liquid.
Was he targeted due to his research?
According to the Ledger, the investigation had begun "in May." The Drug Enforcement Agency, Florida Department of Business & Professional Regulation and Lakeland Police Department were all involved in that investigation and later turned it over to Lakeland police "to pursue state charges."
Gardner's DEA license to prescribe controlled substances expired September 2009. At the time of the Ledger report, it was unclear why the investigation was really initiated.
"Gardner maintains the lapse in his DEA license was a clerical oversight and he has not renewed it since."
The Ledger reporter Gardner saying, "I think the state attorney is an idiot for pursuing this. Surely they have bigger fish to fry. It's completely a waste of taxpayers' money and completely unnecessary."
The case was resolved within a week. By September 23, Fox News reported on Gardner's work, as per Florida Oil Spill Law on September 24: (http://www.floridaoilspilllaw.com/sarasota-area/comment-page-1)
Dr. Geoffrey Gardner, a ["world renowned"] Lakeland swan expert, is facing the challenge of a lifetime. Something is killing the seabirds and swans on Long Boat Key…
“Our concern is that it may be coming from toxins in the waters, something coming from the dispersants that might have been used for the Gulf oil spill,” Gardner told FOX 13 on Thursday.
The birds started getting sick and dying two months after the spill…
(Snip)
Sea birds and swans sick and dying from a mystery illness has investigators worried tonight. They want to know if the sick birds off longboat key have anything to do with the BP oil spill. If it does that could be bad news for other kinds of area wildlife as well.
What’s attacking the birds and swans on Longboat Key?
Concerns that it’s toxins in the water or dispersant used in oil spill.
Swans started getting sick 2 months after spill and they’re not the only ones dying. So are all kinds of sea birds, gulls, terns and more. Rehabbers are worried because they can’t save these birds like usual. 65 have been lost in a little over a month… you know there’s a problem.
The symptoms are all the same, but could not diagnose the problem.
The birds become weak, paralyzed and just drop dead.
The symptoms and duration are unusual…
It’s a matter of life and death…
Could it mean the dispersants are here?
[W]ildlife rehabbers who discovered the problem are concerned because they have been seeing an alarming number of gulls and terns die lately.
"Since then, that same sample was 'fingerprint' tested and found to be an exact match to the oil and contaminants from the Macondo well site in the Gulf of Mexico," reports Stewart, - and Gardner has disappeared without a trace.
"Even more mysterious," Stewart says is that her friend and colleague, Lauren Hallahan, of the Lauren Report, learned that the 49-year old esteemed swan expert, Dr. Gardner (who would be flown to England to work on the Queen's swans) "has mysteriously closed up shop, retired, does not respond to emails, and his office phone has been disconnected."
In a private email to Stewart on Nov 9, 2010 at 12:51 PM, Hallahan wrote:
"I am taking over their client base and we have their records in our facility so we can tell what the pets need whenever they come in."
Bell said that Gardner sent letters notifying customers about the change.
But where is the report?
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Comments
May our angelic forces go forth now in all their many guises to assist this truth teller and make transparent the circumstances surrounding his disappearance..in God's name we pray in unison..Gabriel
Amen.
May we take these truths and shove them in the faces of the people who have been trying to squash them, this includes members of our own Government and officials
We hold these truths to be clear and self evident......ALL PEOPLE, MEN, WOMEN and CHILDREN ARE CREATED EQUAL
Who ever knows anything about this Good man better start talking, Someone knows something in regard to this mans whereabouts.
many people missing that are involved of course cortes phosphates killing them
What is "cortes phosphates"? There does seem to be a pattern. It seems like often the most knowledgeable and outspoken people face the most pressure...but, there will always be people who are brave and the more threats, the more honest people there will be who have less to lose!...
As Scottish William Bruce (real person) of "Braveheart" fame essentially set forth: you have no true "freedom" or "life" if your spirit is chained down by falsehood. Some people would rather have true freedom at any price!!... hmmm, oh yeah, that's what our nation was founded upon!!
God bless this kindly doctor who merely was doing his daily job and loved swans. His expertise and accounts on TV were interesting... I also hope the FL manatee rescue groups have managed to pull out and save as many as possible!!...
This is extremely disturbing. We can only hope and pray he is okay for now until we get some sort of clue or hint. I am getting really tired of good people who do great work suddenly disappearing. It's happening way too much and with much more frequency than ever. I think we know our own government is responsible for many of these disappearances and so called 'suicides' and I'd like to see them held accountable and punished in some way. For now, I will be meditating, thinking positive thoughts and praying that he is okay.
Thank you for keeping us informed...A few months ago another man who knew too much died from a suspected heart attack...Have you ever heard about the Heart Attack Gun....
Has anyone checked the building his office was in? Sold in 2 days, and due to be demolished in as many days...sounds like someone is destorying evidence. His body may be buried under that building ! Where is his family?
Sadly, I believe this is just a preview of what is to come for us all. Our goverment has never had a problem with killing those that step out of line, but in the past they were not so open about it. I guess since they have gotten away with 9/11, countless deaths from two wars, destorying the US Constitution and the Bill of Rights, just to mention a few, while Americans watch without real question, then what is one more citizen.
I hope that enough people make enough noise to find him. Contact Fox news. maybe they can do a story, since they did a story with him.
God Bless you all. I will keep him in my prayers.
Here is a documentry about 2 teens murdered because they were in the wrong place at the time and MAY have seen too much.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7349140906801270904#docid=-86812...
What a surprise! Americans never stopped their country's administrations from secretly bribing, torturing and killing abroad so your cleptomaniac corpations could have their way (for their bottom line) and you are only reaping what you have sowed.
For the people. by the people .... what a joke that has been for over 100 years. More like "God Bless United Fruit" .... what a price to pay for cheap bananas!
The man is not dead ... he very likey has been bought off under a very serious threat and has moved away from the Gulf coast because of that and because what is there will likey end up killing a very large number of you.
I am no longer eating seafood unless I know EXACTLY where it came from!
A follow up to this story what happened to Dr Gardner???
Is he still missing, or what?
I am very familiar with the building. there is a burger king next door that i often go to and always saw black unmarked vehicles watching the building from the burger king parking lot. thought it was strange but who am i to come up to the law and question them. there is also railroad tracks across the street that i used to see people laying on the otherside with what a[[eared to be binoculours. then one night drove by the building around closing time and saw a white conversion van taking off abruptly out of the parking lot. i didnt not think anything of it until i just stumbled upon this site and now i am putting things together. i hope he is ok. because a week after i saw that van leave he closed up shop and sold in 2 days. something definately does not add up. but now the mattsons own the building and they are not good people. i wouldnt be suprised if they had something to do with it. the world will never know.
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