ATTENTION ARDEN HILLS RESIDENTS!  Lawyer wanted

Arden Hills, MN - City expanding power to monitor citizens in their homes. 

The city is now monitoring when we flush our toilets.

Smart meters have been associated with privacy issues, data security issues, and fire safety issues, but the biggest danger from RF (radio frequency) meters may be from the signals they give off while reporting their data to the central utility office.  This is based upon over 1800 new scientific studies and includes 29 independent science and medical experts from around the world.  

Cell phone users, parents-to-be, young children and pregnant women are at particular risk.  This is also based upon May 2011 report from the World Health Organization (WHO) that radio frequency RF radiation (aka wireless) is classified as a 2b carcinogen, same as DDT and lead.

Problem 1:  PRIVACY CONCERNS:  The new ‘smart’ water meter updates water usage every 4 seconds.  Then it sends water usage every hour to the city.      No Opt Out option given by the city.

Where is our privacy?  If you stop using water for the night at 10pm the city will know because they will get signals during the night of no water usage.  If the city gets a signal at 2am saying you used 1.5 gallons, then the city knows you just flushed your toilet.  The government does not need to know when we flush our toilet (each flush uses the same amount of water in your home).  They will even use the information to prosecute you if you water your lawn on the wrong days.

Where is our privacy?  After a few weeks usage patterns will emerge.  The city will see water not being used specific times of day and on specific days of the week giving the city (and anyone else) information regarding when we are gone for work/school.  We cannot trust government officials with this data OR even the company that sends the signal to the city. Worse yet, the Freedom of Information act allows this data to be given to anyone who asks, including prospective burglars and pedophiles who can figure out when we are home and when we are gone making it a prime database for criminals.         No Opt Out option given by the city.

The Fourth Amendment protects the right to be left alone from interference by the government.  Reporting water usage every 4 seconds, every hour, even every day is too often.  Can you accept that?

Smart meter story 1 of 2: 
http://www.wnd.com/2012/12/watching-out-for-governments-other-purposes 
WND EXCLUSIVE  WATCHING OUT FOR GOVERNMENT'S 'OTHER PURPOSES'
 
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Problem 2:  HEALTH CONCERNS:  'Smart' units blamed for sleep troubles, stress, headaches AND heart problems.  
No Opt Out option given by the city.

We all know about the health studies of people who are on cell phones too much.  Cell phones should not be near your head hours a day, 7 days a week because the signal is not be good for you – the same goes for cordless phones (DECT 6.0). 

Well, these new water meters will be right in your home, only a few feet from infants, kids, and adults, sending an even stronger signal 24/7 using the 450-470 MHz band making it a major health concern.  Can you accept that?      Four different times I have asked the city (public works director and the full city council) to install the meter outside the home because the manufacture said that is an option, but the city has refused.  Why not let them get installed outside where they possibly would be safer than installing them inside the house nearer where you live and sleep?      No Opt Out option given.

In May 2011, the World Health Organization (WHO) classified radio frequency (RF) radiation (aka wireless) as a 2b carcinogen, same as DDT and lead.  The classification was based on long term cell phone studies, but is applicable to all wireless devices: cell phones, DECT and cordless phones, wi-fi, cell towers, baby monitors, Smart Meters and other wireless devices.

List of Common Symptoms:
Sleep Problems: Sleep disorders are the most common symptom reported. This includes insomnia or the inability to go into deep sleep. Many people report that their sleep problems began the night the SmartMeters were installed in their neighborhood.
Headaches: Many people experience mild to severe headaches when they are in the presence of SmartMeters. Mn ay people have reported that as soon as they left their home on vacation, their headaches vanish. But upon returning to their home or SmartMeter installed area, the headaches come back immediately.
Ringing in the ears
Confusion or difficulty concentrating
Fatigue
Increased stress and agitation
Heart palpitations
Tingling sensations thought the body
Difficulty breathing or heaviness in the chest and lungs
There are many other symptoms that have been reported, but the above list are the most common.

Smart meter story 2 of 2:
http://www.wnd.com/2012/12/health-hazards-linked-to-utility-meters/ 
WND EXCLUSIVE  HEALTH HAZARDS LINKED TO UTILITY METERS 'Smart' units blamed for sleep troubles, stress, headaches, heart problems

Health problems listed:  http://smartmeterhelp.com/HealthSymptoms.cfm  and also http://stopsmartmeters.org/

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Could you cell phone be killing you?   http://www.wnd.com/2012/12/is-your-beloved-cell-phone-killing-you/
Could WiFi be killing you?  http://www.wnd.com/2013/01/are-you-living-close-to-cancer-generator/

01/03/2013 national news story:
http://www.wnd.com/2013/01/now-radio-waves-coming-from-your-faucet/          Or click here

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CITY RESPONSE:   No Opt Out option given by the city.

The city has said 
"The City Council certainly does have the ability to place a surcharge on properties that refuse to allow the new reader system to be installed".   

The City Council's response is
"While it monitors water use, I'm sure there is no intent for invasion of privacy."  

Four different times I have asked the city (public works director and the full city council) to install the meter outside the home because the manufacture said that is an option, but the city has refused.  Why not let them get installed outside where they possibly would be safer than installing them inside the house nearer where you live and sleep?

They want us to TRUST THEM.   Do we really want them to have that much knowledge and do we trust all government employees?  I certainly don't.

Please contact the Arden Hills City:
Arden Hills City website http://www.ci.arden-hills.mn.us/
Main Arden Hills city person to contact: terry.maurer@ci.arden-hills.mn.us  Public Works Director 651.792.7847
City email: cityhall@ci.arden-hills.mn.us

Arden Hills city Phone: 651.792.7800
Arden Hills city Fax:  651.634.5137

Equipment from: http://www.badgermeter.com/   Galaxy meters from Badger meter company.

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Safe Technology Minnesota:
http://safetechmn.org/home.htm
and
http://www.minnesotanaturalhealth.org/safetechnologyminnesota.html

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LAWYER wanted to help fight the city to STOP this illegal act

To contact me by email manager@ardenhills.org

Smart/intelligent suggestion from concerned citizen:
Since ALL information the city has, is considered "public information" and available to ANYONE who simply asks for it, I'd like to suggest that the Arden Hills Resident:
a) demand the complete set of records delivered by the new meters on a CD or DVD (to keep the cost down)
b) hold a news conference to make the public aware that anyone who wanted to know what time of day their house is probably empty can now demand that Arden Hills supply them with the information.
c) I would suggest that the Arden Hills resident run the CD through a shredder at the conference too.

   
News Letter             1st Notice              2nd notice

01/03/2013 national news story:
http://www.wnd.com/2013/01/now-radio-waves-coming-from-your-faucet/      Or click here
 

More news stories:
http://beforeitsnews.com/health/2013/01/now-radio-waves-coming-from-your-faucet-2464470.html
http://godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message2101255/pg1
https://www.sodahead.com/living/now-radio-waves-coming-from-your-faucet/question-3433211/

St. Paul Pioneer Press:
http://www.twincities.com/opinion/ci_22083717/one-strike-left

PS:  My house burned down on July 4th a few years ago and I am still very afraid of fires and these smart meters HAVE started fires according to several fire marshals that invested some of these fires.  I can't and will not have something that could burn my house down again, that is detrimental to my health and invades my privacy as these do.   

“The entire government (federal, state, county, city) acts as if we have no Constitution at all, as if there were no limits to anything they could do,” he said. “It never seems to cross their mind that there are very few things they are allowed to do. We are dealing with a systemic problem of illegitimacy across all branches of government.”