Just Say No to Big Brother’s Smart Meters by Orlean Koehle
husband fighting the smart meter battle and who had spoken for our Sonoma County Eagle Forum meeting on October 19. With her help I had written a resolution against the SmartMeter for our Sonoma County Republican Central Committee meeting to be presented that night. I had the resolution in hand ready to take to the printer to be copied off, and in the other hand, I had the phone as I was talking to Deborah.
whom did I see but a young man dressed in a Wellington uniform and standing next to his Wellington Energy truck. I said to him, “I know who you are.
I walked out to the garage to get in my car, and lo and behold, You’re here to install a
SmartMeter, aren’t you?” He looked surprised and said, “Yes, could you tell me how to get to your meter?” I showed the young man where our meter was, but that there was no access to it. It was on the side of our garage, surrounded by a fence, surrounded by our two dogs. There was no gate to the fence. The dogs go in and out through a doggy door inside the fenced off area. I added, “Do you see the sign hanging above it. It reads that I refuse to allow you to install a SmartMeter. Legally, you cannot install a meter where you see such a letter posted, is that correct?” He said, “Yes, that is correct.” As he turned to go, he noticed the paper in my hand that had written at the top, “Resolution against Installation of SmartMeters.” He said, “I can see from your paper you feel very strongly about this.” I told him that is correct, that I was determined to fight it in every way I can, and hopefully our Republican Central Committee would join me in the battle. As he was leaving, I asked him if he was going to all of my neighbors and he said yes.
I told
him I don’t think any of them would want a SmartMeter installed, but he said that he had already done it for three of them. As soon as he had left, I called as many of my neighbors as I could and warned them that he was coming, but he didn’t show up. He probably thought that is exactly what I would do. The Battle is not Over: Even if you have had a SmartMeter installed, don’t give up. Join in the battle and warn your neighbors and friends about it. As you will read later in this book there are now many cities and counties (and more pending) in Northern California where the city councils have come out with either city or county ordinances or moratoriums against the SmartMeter. Talk to your neighbors, whether they are Republican, Democrat, or somewhere in between. No one should want their privacy and property rights invaded. Everyone should be concerned about the health issues.
People are told that once the SmartMeter is installed, there is no going back to the old meter.
Why is that? If there is enough stimulus money for this silly venture, there is certainly enough money to pay to bring back and install the old meters. As long as there are pockets of protestors, the federal government, utility commissions, and
energy providers cannot implement their total “SmartMeter” program. This is still America. We are not a soviet-style dictatorship yet. We still have property rights, but we won’t much longer if we all roll over, play dead, and let people talk us out of those rights. Don’t be intimidated by their threats of higher costs to you, the lone person protesting, or that sooner or later you will have to give in - that it is mandatory for all people. That is not true. Some people are actually hiring electricians and having them take off the smart meter and install an old analog meter. Dr. Bill Diegle told about doing this on his radio program September 26, 2011. Perhaps, because he has a national show and 5 million people listening, he is too high profile to try to do anything to him. As long as analog meters are available and there is no law passed against it, perhaps that is something you, the reader, might consider doing. For more information, signs to use in your neighborhood and letters to share with your neighbors, go to
www.refusesmartmeter.com. You can also help circulate this article, and other information from this booklet and the following sign and resolution that I presented to the Sonoma County Republican Central Committee, which they unanimously passed.
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