Refuse Smart Meters

 

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The Vermont Legislature’s eliminating the safety net. They cut assistance to Seniors, Vets and even the pensions that Vermont Teachers have earned… bumped the Middle Class up a tax bracket. They’re talking about cutting fuel assistance to Seniors next year.

Austerity has reached Vermont… and it’s being imposed on the least powerful first, then on the Middle Class and small business & family farms.

Forced Austerity breeds civil unrest: people are only allowed to keep a fraction of their hard earned cash… the rest goes to debt service. As the complex web of the economy unwinds, there are no jobs in Vermont. Regardless of ‘job creation’ schemes that cost more money to those who are still working. I’m still working out-of-state every week just to pay the bills, along with many others. Vermonters want to know, where are the opportunities?

This is why the Legislature’s spending like there’s no tomorrow… on police surveillance, tasers, drones, mobile camera vans. And now ‘Smart Meters’… which wiretaps every house that gets one, but it’s GREEN. Actually it’s a scam. Smart Meters violate our rights under the US and Vermont Constitutions. Automation allows the utilities to lay people off!

Hold your State reps & senators accountable. Ask them, what they’re expecting? Civil unrest? Do they even know about this? No? It’s common knowledge… why are they out of touch?

The disappearance of unemployment from elite policy discourse [in Montpelier] and its replacement by deficit panic has been truly remarkable. It’s not a response to public opinion.

In a recent CBS News/New York Times poll, 53 percent of the public named the economy and jobs as the most important problem we face, while only 7 percent named the deficit. -Star Tribune, 7/24/2011

After all, the events of last year didn’t happen:

Foreclosures of Vermont residents did not reach an historic high rate just as the State and some Towns stepped up subsidies to nonresidents. The Vermont State Banking Division didn’t report that “Foreclosures have jumped nearly 30% through August to 1,111 foreclosures compared to 793 for the same period last year.” (Rutland Herald, Sept. 9) And no homeless persons got tasered.

The subsidized media didn’t observe a blackout on 40 Independent candidates running for the Legislature, Attorney General, Treasurer, Lt. Governor & Governor. VPR got no public money for, additionally, promoting smart meters and calling Independents, ‘racist’ on the air.

The Vermont Budget didn’t wind up $400 million short thanks to bloated spending and confiscatory taxation in Montpelier. The Democrats in Washington didn’t write a $400 million check to the State of Vermont to bail out said budget… buying the 2010 election for their fellow Democrats, who would have been otherwise exposed as fiscally incompetent.

The magic money didn’t flow:

Vermont ‘Digger’, a supposedly independent web journal didn’t get a hundred grand for not digging, for observing the media blackout on the 40 Independent candidates, as well as publishing government/military press releases verbatim. ‘Digger’ didn’t become an exclusive mouthpiece for Smart Meters and Smart Grid, censoring any opposing points of view, even using the Hurricane Irene outages as a scare tactic… as if microprocessors and wireless technology can actually stave off the anger of our Grandmother.

Former ‘green’ organizations didn’t get bought: Vermont Sustainable Jobs Fund became a money funnel to bribe farmers to plant GMO oilseed instead of food. NOFA-VT didn’t fall in line with the Monsanto agenda, joining Monsanto, Cargill and the rest of Big Ag to back the ‘Food Safety Modernization Act’. NOFA-VT didn’t become worth five million as a reward, in its pursuit of becoming an exclusive marketer of boutique food that middle class Vermonters can’t afford… after all, Monsanto employees know better than to feed their products to their own kids.

Greenwashing consulting firms like ‘Carbon War Room’ didn’t come out of the woodwork. So-called ‘Progressive’ Burlington Mayor Bob Kiss didn’t make deals with Lockheed… Anything and everything can be sugar-coated… and if you’re good at it you can take home a six-figure salary too.

What didn’t happen last year set a stage. Recognize, that words like ‘sustainability’, ‘climate change’, ‘carbon footprint’ are powerful symbols and can be used to manipulate us. Sometimes it’s corporations doing it… sometimes overbearing government, violating your privacy.

The Vermont stage has been set for Smart Meters:

Use the letter below to forbid smart meter installation (or modify the letter to demand the meter be removed).

From:
Energy Customer’s Name
Street Address
Town, VT 00000

To:
Energy Provider
Street Address
City, VT 00000

Date of letter

NOTICE OF NO CONSENT TO TRESPASS AND SURVEILLANCE, NOTICE OF LIABILITY

Dear (Energy Provider) and all agents, officers, employees, contractors and interested parties,

If you intend to install a “Smart Meter” or any activity monitoring device at the above address, you and all other parties are hereby deny consent for installation and use of all such devices on the above property. Installation and use of any activity monitoring device is hereby refused and prohibited. Informed consent is legally required for installation of any surveillance device and any device that will collect and transmit private and personal data to undisclosed and unauthorized parties for undisclosed and unauthorized purposes. Authorization for sharing of personal and private information may only be given by the originator and subject of that information. That authorization is hereby denied and refused with regard to the above property and all its occupants.

“Smart Meters” violate the law and cause endangerment to residents by the following factors:

1. They individually identify electrical devices inside the home and record when they are operated causing invasion of privacy.
2. They monitor household activity and occupancy in violation of rights and domestic security.
3. They transmit wireless signals which may be intercepted by unauthorized and unknown parties. Those signals can be used to monitor behavior and occupancy and they can be used by criminals to aid criminal activity against the occupants.
4. Data about occupant’s daily habits and activities are collected, recorded and stored in permanent databases which are accessed by parties not authorized or invited to know and share that private data by those who’s activities were recorded.
5. Those with access to the smart meter databases can review a permanent history of household activities complete with calendar and time-of-day metrics to gain a highly invasive and detailed view of the lives of the occupants.
6. Those databases may be shared with, or fall into the hands of criminals, blackmailers, corrupt law enforcement, private hackers of wireless transmissions, power company employees, and other unidentified parties who may act against the interests of the occupants under metered surveillance.
7. “Smart Meters” are, by definition, surveillance devices which violate Federal and State wiretapping laws by recording and storing databases of private and personal activities and behaviors without the consent or knowledge of those people who are monitored.
8. It is possible for example, with analysis of certain “Smart Meter” data, for unauthorized and distant parties to determine medical conditions, sexual activities, physical locations of persons within the home, vacancy patterns and personal information and habits of the occupants.
9. Your company has not adequately disclosed the particular recording and transmission capabilities of the smart meter, or the extent of the data that will be recorded, stored and shared, or the purposes to which the data will and will not be put.
10. Electromagnetic and Radio Frequency energy contamination from smart meters exceeds allowable safe and healthful limits for domestic environments as determined by the EPA and other scientific programs.

I forbid, refuse and deny consent of any installation and use of any monitoring, eavesdropping, and surveillance devices on my property, my place of residence and my place of occupancy. That applies to and includes “Smart Meters” and activity monitoring devices of any and all kinds. Any attempt to install any such device directed at me, other occupants, my property or residence will constitute trespass, stalking, wiretapping and unlawful surveillance and endangerment of health and safety, all prohibited and punishable by law through criminal and civil complaints. All persons, government agencies and private organizations responsible for installing or operating monitoring devices directed at or recording my activities, which I have not specifically authorized in writing, will be fully liable for any violations, intrusions, harm or negative consequences caused or made possible by those devices whether those negative consequences are justified by “law” or not..

This is legal notice. After this delivery the liabilities listed above may not be denied or avoided by parties named and implied in this notice. Civil Servant immunities and protections do not apply to the installation of smart meters due to the criminal violations they represent.

Notice to principal is notice to agent and notice to agent is notice to principal. All rights reserved.

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