A California woman was arrested Saturday morning for attempting to block the installation of a new "Smart Meter."
Amy O’Hair, a resident of the Glen Park area of San Francisco, sat on the hood of an installation truck and refused to move, preventing a Wellington Energy worker from installing one of the controversial meters.
According to the website StopSmartMeters.org, O'Hair is not the only one who has been arrested in California over the installation of the meters, but she is the first to be arrested in San Francisco:
Though there have been a number of acts of civil disobedience in the Richmond, Marina, and other neighborhoods, this is the first actual arrest of an anti-”smart” meter protester in San Francisco to date. Amy joins a number of other women (including mothers and grandmothers) in Sonoma and Marin Counties who have been arrested over the past year blocking Wellington Energy smart meter installation trucks.
According to a post at the anti-Smart Meter website, a bystander at a nearby bus stop cheered O'Hair, and later said she and others had been threatened by PG&E - the local utility company - with service disconnection if they refuse the meters.
“Though the company claims that the threats are isolated to a few renegade employees, there is growing evidence that this is part of a corporate strategy to isolate and intimidate people into accepting the increasingly unpopular dumb meters.” said Joshua Hart, Director of Stop Smart Meters!
The San Francisco Examiner reports:
SmartMeters have faced strong opposition by some who believe low-frequency radiation from the devices causes health problems. PG&E, which touts the meters as “smart” because they transmit information wirelessly and provide more detailed information on individual energy use, began major installation efforts in San Francisco in March.
But according to a post at the blog P/Oed Patriot, the meters do more than just emit radiation:
The Smart Grid is being sold as a modernization of the power grid which includes a distribution system that will contain a two way communication between your home and the utility company. This communication system will allow 'Demand Response Appliances' (the creation of which is being spearheaded by GE) the ability to 'talk' to the utility company and inform them of it's energy use, time of operation and function. Demand Response Appliances also allow the Utility company the ability to shut them off during times of Peak Energy use in order to cut down on the demand of the power grid, thereby reducing the need for rolling blackouts.
Not only can the meters track energy usage and give utilities the power to shut them off, but they can allegedly track how much water is used, how much sewage and garbage is generated by a household, along with television and Internet usage.
The idea did not originate with the Obama Administration - according to P/Oed Patriot, it was first put forward by the first Bush Administration, but Obama supports the idea wholeheartedly:
But the Obama Administration have gone through great pains to not only fund it's advanced development (3.4 Billion Dollars) but to twist it in such a way, with the help of useful idiots in the industry, that future administrations can utilize it as a tool to control the populace for the sake of Global Warming.
If the Smart Grid comes to completion as envisioned, every time you walk in your front door, turn on a light, take a shower, make ice or even throw away a piece of garbage the utility company and even possibly the Government, will know.
If that isn't disturbing enough for you, think of it this way...
If it wasn't for the technology, then in order for this amount of detailed information about your private actions in your own home to be collected, it would require a platoon of utility or government employees following you around 24/7 recording every thing you do, how long it takes you to do it and what device you are doing it with...
How do progressives and environmentalist radicals spell control? According to P/Oed Patriot, "S-M-A-R-T G-R-I-D."
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