Just Say No to Big Brother’s Smart Meters by Orlean Koehle Chapter Five
What Individuals and Neighborhoods are Doing to Stop Smart Meters:
Posting Signs on Smart Meters, Signs on Lawns, Large Banners, Bumper Stickers, Leafleting Neighborhoods, Letters to the Editors, Contacting Elected Officials, Protest Rallies
Do we want any of what is going on in other countries regarding the Smart Meter and the smart grid to happen here in our nation? Do we want to go to prison for committing “energy or economy crimes?” Do we want to have some strange power in your home that can turn off your appliance so you cannot even finish a dishwashing cycle when you so desire.
Is that not just a little too
much Big Brother? As you have read, neither Hendrick in Holland nor the family in Switzerland had any idea that such things would be going on. This has all happened by stealth, just as the installing of the meters and the Smart Grid is happening in the USA. But for many of us, it is not just “Big Brother” snooping into our lives that disturb us the most. It is the health aspects. That is how the Tavares family got involved and so many of the people who belong to the EMF Network and various other organizations who are now working together.
Notifying Neighbors: Thanks to the efforts of many concerned Americans, utility companies are having a tougher and tougher time “depoloying” the meters. Thanks to Deborah and Lou Tavares, their son Brian, their daughter Kelly and son-in-law Brian Thalhamer, who live in the Hidden Valley area of Santa Rosa, many people in their neighborhood have been notified in time to say no to PG&E. They have signs posted on their meters saying “Dear PG&E, We refuse you to install a Smart Meter.” They have signs posted out in front of their lawns saying “Refuse Smart Meters, PG&E Installation,
www.RefuseSmartMeters.com.” Because of this, PG&E has pretty much left them alone - other than letters and telephone calls
intimidating them and telling them they have until a certain deadline to call their office and set up an appointment to receive their smart meter. That deadline has come and gone, and they still do not have Smart Meter, and somehow they still are receiving their electricity all right. Kelly Thalhamer even made a home video about the Hidden Valley standoff that can be seen at the following website: MobileMeGallery <
noreply@mac.com.> Many people in various towns and cities have taken it upon themselves to call their neighbors or walk their neighborhoods leaving information at the doors or talking to them in person - warning them also in time to say no to PG&E. Jennifer Delaney takes a stack of handouts about the Smart Meter to Curves, her exercise place every day. The manager has given her permission to leave them there. The manager is in total agreement with Jennifer. She told her that she has elderly relatives in the Midwest who are having below freezing temperatures, but their smart meters won’t let them turn up their heat to where their home is warm enough for them. As we learned that the “deployment” was moving up north, Deborah even called many Bed and
Breakfasts places, whatever telephone numbers she could find and warned them about it as well. I called old friends where we used to live in Fortuna, Ca, and others whom I knew in the Eureka area.
I was able to speak at Tea Party groups in several towns that had not yet been deployed. They began at once spreading the word about it and also talking to their local elected officials to try to get a moratorium to stop it before it comes to town.
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