Letter to the Editor: Electric smart meters

To the Editor:

Mid-December, our rural electric company installed a smart meter. We were never directly informed of this. We the customer should have received a written notice in the mail that the company was going to do this type of change. That did not happen. We were never personally informed or given the written opportunity to decline this. It may have been in the newsletter or another public form of media, but not everyone has the time to read the newsletter or other forms of media. Plus, my check is not written out to the other media or to the media department of the electric company.

Ultimately, it was done without us knowing it, which is what the utility companies are doing. They want to get this accomplished as quickly and discreetly as possible. That is the norm for the wireless industry.

Plus, it was done at the start of the cold months. This is common practice for this smart meter movement. It is also common for it to be done around the holidays. It is not only starting to get cold and families are vulnerable to this forced action, but many are extremely busy with work and preparing for the holidays.

Check out a video on You Tube. It is “Santa Cruz Board Questions PG&E Smart Meter Shut Offs.” In this video, you will see how blatantly forceful and calloused the utility companies are in installing smart meters. You will see how appalled the board is in regards to the extent utility companies will go to install smart meters and to keep them installed. People in California continue to pull together to fight smart meters.

Utility companies benefit from this. Bills end up increasing after this has been done. Yet, it reduces the number of employees they have on the payroll.

Smart meters are a health hazard. They violate our 4th Amendment right. They violate privacy and are a loss of democracy and informed consent. At best in some locations, people are forced to pay an opt-out fee to not be violated or harmed. Smart meters bring harm to wildlife and do not cut carbon emissions.

What are smart meters? They are a digital device that emits radio frequency microwave radiation. It’s a pulsed frequency. It is like taking a jack hammer to your body. The earth does have an electromagnetic field. However, manmade electro-frequency is different and forces all biological life to adapt to this foreign invader causing all forms of health problems.

Some of these are immune disorders, fatigue, malaise, fertility problems, miscarriages, lowered libido, dizziness, skin rashes, concentration difficulties, headaches, memory loss, cancer, ill-health unto death and the list goes on. Bacterial, viral and fungal issues increase. There is an increase in Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and Lou Gehrig’s.

Your smart meter does more than just measure how much of that utility you use. It is collecting detailed information. It is able to communicate with anything labeled “smart.” If you have a “smart” refrigerator, it will communicate with it and collect information. It will know when and how many times you open and shut your refrigerator. It will know what you have in the refrigerator and how much of it is in there. The utility company will know what you are using and when you are using it. They will know if you used your hairdryer at 6 a.m. and your coffee percolator at 6:30 a.m., etc. It is endless how much information that it is able to collect.

I am recommending that you do not buy into the smart appliance agenda and that you refuse to buy smart appliances. If you do buy in, in time all appliances will become smart appliances. You will not be able to de-activate them. You will be held accountable for utility theft as well as loss of appliance warranty and/or the appliance won’t even work, if you tamper with the smart device.

Smart meters are capable of communicating with any and all other smart devices, which means they can be hacked into as well. Smart meters communicate with other smart meters. Smart meters talking to neighboring smart meters as well as communicating with towers create a massive amount of wireless radiation, all of which is traveling right through your house and through your body. The current mindset is that if it doesn’t cause heat it is safe. This is false. The World Health Organization has classified this wireless radiation as a Class 2B carcinogen.

Utility companies do not have the right to force us to use these. There is no government mandate forcing them to install smart meters. However, there is government funding to install them. They do not have the right to force us to use something that brings harm and violates our privacy or to force us to pay a fee to use something else. Utility companies imply that these are safe and that they are only collecting usage information, but this is not true. There is what is called proprietary information, which is information that we are not to be allowed to know.

Spend some time learning about smart meters. Check out the following information online: The Truth About Smart Meters, The Dark Side of Smart Meters, The Smart Meter Roll Out by Josh del Sol, No Privacy with Smart Meters - Big Brother Watch, Protect Yourself From Digital Utility Meters, Smart Meters-Must See Smart Meter Fires and Explosions.

I have a meter that can measure these smart meters. If you would like more information about the meter I have and the measurements it takes, just contact me.

Becky Huck
Waukon