SMART METERS: A triple threat

SMART METERS: A triple threat

The PPJ Gazette

Marti Oakley

“Along with the known health
hazards, the unwarranted and unlawful surveillance and inflated energy
rates after installation of a SMART METER, is the threat of
compromised national security. “

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As a nationwide revolt is growing against the invasive and costly
electric Smart Meters, public utilities and corporations, intent on
putting the entire nation under surveillance unlawfully, not to mention
creating a massive health threat, are moving quickly to install phase 2
of the SMART GRID: Gas Smart Meters. It won’t stop there; they are
planning on rolling out SMART water meters as quickly as possible.



On March 31, 2011 in Capitola California,
it was reported that PG & E spokesman Jeff Smith said a total of
17 of the wireless devices were installed on residences and businesses
where existing meters had been damaged by floods. Fifteen of the meters
were for gas and two were for electric.



The City Council placed a moratorium on Smart Meter installations in
February, though the California Public Utilities Commission has sole
authority over PG&E.;”

The CPUC has no authority to override a city council inititiative and
to move ahead with a private corporate contract between CPUC and
PG&E; that the public is unaware of, has not seen and did not enter
into.



The California Public Utilities Commission may have sole authority over PG & E, but they do not
have authority over private property and the owner’s rights to refuse
the meters. The statement CPUC is using is misleading as it leads
people to believe that because the CPUC has authority over PG&E;,
that that authority is somehow extended to private citizens.



“The California Public Utilities
Commission (CPUC) has authorized the state’s investor owned utilities
(PG&E;) to replace conventional customer meters with SmartMeters in
order to give consumers greater control over their energy use,” Chow
said. “Section 8 of Article 12 of the California Constitution states
that ‘[a] city, county, or other public body may not regulate matters
over which the Legislature grants regulatory power to the Commission.”



PG&E; has had to admit there is no
mandate to install these meters. Because the legislature has issued no
mandates and the governor has not signed off on any mandates, the claim
by PG&E; and CPUC of Sect.8 Article 12 of the California
Constitution does not apply. This section applies only if the
legislature directs CPUC to engage the program. Once this happens,
CPUC can then enact regulations but these cannot arbitrarily infringe
on property and civil rights.



No one is disputing CPUC’s authority to
contract with whomever it pleases. What is disputed is CPUC contracting
with PG&E; and then foisting the provisions of this private,
unrevealed contract onto the public. Clearly the California legislature
did not intend for private contracts struck by CPUC to be used
arbitrarily against the citizens, nor was their intent to enable a
system of spying and endangerment of public health.



CPUC has NO authority over private citizens and cannot arbitrarily
subject them to a product or service they do not want and surely do not
need. This is a clear violation of the Commerce clause of the
Constitution; no one can be forced to buy a product they do not want or
be forced to enter into an unrevealed contract with another entity most
especially through coercion and extortion. The jurisdiction referred
to is actually a privately struck corporate contract and can be
enforced only within the contracting party’s.



In an effort to deflect the growing revolt over the meters as a result
of the health hazards they represent and, because the claimed savings
from having one of these hazardous meters installed is non-existent,
PG&E; has resorted to extortion, using coercion to pressure
consumers into allowing them to install the meter. While many citizens
objected to the meters at town hall meetings with PG&E;, the
spokesmen for PG&E; claimed there was no “opt-out” provision, but
had to admit that there was in fact, no mandate giving them authority to
install the meters. As no mandate exists, there can be no “opt-in”,
such as forced compliance either, but PG&E; carefully never mentions
that.



These Meters represent a direct threat to the over all health of
communities and should never have been installed on the first home, much
less 15 million+ homes.

From electricalpollution.com comes this statement:

This is of great concern
because the exposure to microwave and radiowave radiation from these
meters is involuntary and continuous. The transmitting meters may not
even comply with Federal Communications Commission (FCC) “safety”
standards (see http://sagereports.com/smart-meter-rf/).
However, those standards were initially designed to protect an average
male from tissue heating (cooking) during a brief exposure. These
standards were not designed to protect a diverse population from the
non-thermal effects of continuous exposure to microwave and radiowave
radiation. Therefore, these “safety” standards were not designed to
protect the public from health problems under the circumstances which
the meters are being used.

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Having
been faced with a rejection of their hazardous meters, PG&E; in
collusion with the energy provider, then decided to charge a $40 fee
just to process the order of refusal from the consumer and followed
that up with notice that they would be attaching as much as $12 a month
as a surcharge (extortion fee) to penalize the consumer for refusing
the meter. After all, a meter reader would have to be paid to walk by
and scan your analog meter and they do not want to pay this
expense….although they will write it off their taxes as an expense and
re-title the revenue stream produced by this surcharge as an expense,
also. Either way the utility gets an increase in revenue, which is part
of the plan.

Smart Meters: A threat to national Security



Along with the known health hazards, the unwarranted and unlawful
surveillance and inflated energy rates after installation of a SMART
METER, is the threat of compromised national security. SMART GRID, the
system intended to be linked together from Canada to Mexico and used to
control power availability and usage has a back door “shut-off” switch.
This switch makes the system vulnerable to hacking which could shut
down not only localities and states, but also all government. The
“shut-off” switch was installed to allow the federal or even state
governments to arbitrarily shut down single homes or businesses, or
entire cities or states.



From the Federal perspective, entire states or regions of the US could
be denied access to power as a means of coercing citizens into
complying with Federal mandates and encroachment. This switch would be
invaluable in case of civil unrest …(its actual intended use)….in
cutting phones, lights, heat, air conditioning and overall power access
in the event of some paranoid fantasy being expressed in the homeland
security agency, the military, or even in the White House. The switch
has no other intended purpose other than disabling an area in order to
cut communications and necessary power in order to disable a civil
revolt. (I wonder why they are so worried about that?)



As the second and third phase of this control grid is put into place,
water, electricity and gas will be delivered only as long as we are
able to pay the inflated rates based on market activity and only so long
as we cooperate with federal encroachment.

The noose tightens.



The problem with SMART GRID is its vulnerability to hacking which could
directly affect all systems in the Federal government. But, as with
most things the government does, the stated reason for doing anything
bears little resemblance to what they actually intend. SMART GRID,
SMART METERS, are intended to control every aspect of your daily life
and to gather and report as much personal information from your
residence or business as possible, all of it collected and stored in
constantly growing files compiled by various domestic spy agencies.
SMART GRID is not about energy efficiency and conservation. It is a
system of spying and population control that can result in the immediate
disruption of all utilities for any reason.



Don’t worry. If they ever shut the GRID or any portion of it down they
will fabricate some wild story about how a terrorist living on the
back of a three humped camel blew up the kill switch because he hated us
for our electricity. And a fair number of you will believe it.

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