FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Joshua Hart, Director, Stop Smart Meters!
Monday Dec. 12th, 2011 joshuanoahhart@gmail.com
PG&E THREATENS TO DISCONNECT FAMILIES PROTECTING THEIR HEALTH
Hundreds of Households Having SmartMeters Removed as Health Toll Mounts
Capitola, CA- Last Wednesday, more than a dozen Santa Cruz County residents- including mothers and grandmothers- assembled outside Pacific Gas and Electric’s Capitola Payment Center with their unwanted wireless electric meters in hand, and spoke about what prompted them to defy their utility and replace the ‘smart’ meter on their homes with widely available analog meters. After being interviewed by the media, they quietly got in line and waited for the next clerk. But before they could speak to anyone, PG&E called out half a dozen Capitola Police Officers, and kicked everyone out of the office. The unwanted ‘Smart’ Meters were left piled up on the counter. Late last week, PG&E sent letters threatening to disconnect power to those who returned their ‘smart’ meters on Wednesday, including a family of four with headaches and a single woman in her seventies.
Video of the “Great ‘Smart’ Meter Return” can be viewed at: http://stopsmartmeters.org/2011/12/08/the-great-smart-meter-return/
The dozen residents who assembled last week outside a PG&E office just 30 miles south of Silicon Valley are the most visible part of a growing movement of people suffering from insomnia, headaches, tinnitus and other symptoms linked to smart meters- fed up with being ignored by the monopoly utilities and state regulatory agencies (who have received over 10,000 health complaints about the new meters). Many have begun taking matters into their own hands and having their smart meters removed from their homes. Their efforts have been bolstered by online videos showing how to do the switch, and ‘smart meter replacement kits’ are now being sold online for $49.95. (See FreedomTaker.com)
Despite thousands of threats, not one household has had their power disrupted for refusing or removing a ‘smart’ meter in California. According to many legal experts, utilities do not have the legal right to force a carcinogen on people’s homes. Nevertheless, the threats continue.
Last week’s events in Capitola should send shivers down the spines of utility executives, who are facing a growing backlash against their ‘smart’ meter programs. While investment banking and tech firms are looking forward to potential profits of $49 billion from rolling out the ‘smart grid’ worldwide- mainly through utility rate hikes- increasingly customers are rejecting ‘smart’ meters as surveillance devices, fire hazards, and as dangerous sources of non-ionizing electromagnetic radiation- what the World Health Organization now identifies as a Class 2B carcinogen.
“The ‘smart’ meter was installed outside my children’s bedroom,” says Bianca Carn resident of Santa Cruz and mother of an 8 and a 6 year old. “Since the meter was installed, they are both complaining of headaches. I asked PG&E multiple times to take it off- they refused. So we hired an electrician and had it removed.”
PG&E’s ‘smart’ meters emit radiation bursts that are more powerful than wireless consumer devices and have been measured at levels that would exceed safety limits for RF exposure in much of Europe.
“PG&E does not care about health and safety and does not respect private property rights,” said Joshua Hart Director of Santa Cruz County based Stop Smart Meters! “Threatening to turn off the power to a family who are simply trying to protect their children from radiation-induced headaches- two weeks before Christmas- is about as Scrooge-like as you can get.”
The County of Santa Cruz, all 4 municipalities in the county, and 42 other local governments throughout the state have demanded a halt to deployment because of health damage, privacy violations, and safety concerns. At the time Santa Cruz County was “deployed” with ‘smart’ meters, a County Ordinance prohibiting their installation was in force and PG&E chose to ignore it. According to Hart, “it appears that PG&E’s chickens are coming home to roost as hundreds are returning unwanted utility equipment that was installed illegally in the first place.”
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Joshua Hart
Director, Stop Smart Meters!
http://stopsmartmeters.org
Joshua NB
Dec 13, 2011 @ 20:01:04
http://www.rense.com/general95/smrt.htm This is supposed to be VOLUNTARY… now we have it in writing….
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Barbara Talbert
Dec 13, 2011 @ 18:14:37
Keep standing up to the bullies–there are so many of them these days. EMF to the right of us, gene guns to the left of us,volleyed and thundered. We are in a war for our rights. Cheers to the people who returned their smart meters in California. The assaults from every corner will be met by good people standing up for what is right.
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Louie Cocroft
Dec 12, 2011 @ 23:52:21
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http://www.pacificlegal.org/
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Sandy
Dec 12, 2011 @ 22:58:04
The insanity of it all is that they are forcing us to pay to make ourselves sick. I am from Florida and seems like many are not aware of this, but I got mine several months ago and found out the next day just what the “little monster” was. This inspires me to get busy and start complaining and start removing.
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Joshua NB
Dec 12, 2011 @ 21:29:28
Ann: If the righteous fail to take a solid stand against evil oppression, we become the captives and will be taken down…. we must ALWAYS stand for what is right, or it will become wrong, as they teach us now: White is black, good is evil. I would like to share a few quotes that remind me how very strong goodness and righteousness really is.
The masses behave like stupidity was a virtue and finding truth isn’t important.
“ The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent full of doubt. ”
All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost. From the ashes a fire shall be woken, a light from the shadows shall spring; renenwed shall be blade that was broken, the crownless again shall be king.”
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself
Facts are the enemy of truth.
I hope these words encourage others as we fight the good fight for Justice.
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ann
Dec 12, 2011 @ 21:01:08
Thank you to every person standing up. It gives me faith in people.
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Joshua NB
Dec 12, 2011 @ 20:57:20
Great post Chris… they must be thoroughly incensed at the thougth of any of us rebelling… but lifes a bitch, and I for one RESIST with all my might, and will til the death of them all.
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PG&E Threatens to Disconnect Families Protecting Their Health: Smart Meters « Zionist Outrage
Dec 12, 2011 @ 20:42:00
ChrisYAHanWatcher4YAH
Dec 12, 2011 @ 20:36:03
Don’t You just: Love Monopolistic Terroist Extorionists? They presume You; to be Trustees, and presume to assume; That You have tactly agreed, to Volunteer to Submit to SLAVERY, to fullfill their LUSTS; for DEMONIC CONTROL, of Your: Privacy, Security Health, and Psychologic Wellfare!
Oh and YOU have to Pay, ad infintum for the Privlege; Love Your ABUSER / Murderous Meter, Can You SPELL: Stockholm Syndrome?
Perhaps the “Torturous Mind METERS;” will Drive YOU Crazy and provide: “Plausible Deniability,” based on: Smart METER Caused: Insanity, rendering You: “Mentally incompetent,” for Your Re-actions, to the Effects, of the Medusa Murder Meter?
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Joshua NB
Dec 12, 2011 @ 20:24:27
Good for them… if one doesn’t protect their own families, no one else will… not only do these meters make people sick, they cause electric bills to fudge on the amount of electricity being used causing bills to be, on average, about 20% higher. Power companies, of course know this, that is why they installed them without customers permission…. another example of how big business screws the public that pays them… crooks.. all of them.
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