Posted on 01/30/2013 4:34:14 AM PST by Timber Rattler
Two Naperville residents who have long opposed the city’s Smart Grid Initiative clashed with police Wednesday afternoon as municipal employees attempted to install an electric smart meter at one of their homes.
Malia K. “Kim” Bendis, president of the grass roots Naperville Smart Meter Awareness group, and board member Jennifer A. Stahl face trial in DuPage County Circuit Court in Wheaton on misdemeanor charges. Bendis was cited for attempted eavesdropping and resisting a peace officer, and Stahl for interfering with police and “preventing access to customer’s premises,” according to a city of Naperville community relations officer.
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Stahl allegedly resisted installation of a smart meter at her home. Bendis reputedly filmed what happened after city workers and police arrived at the scene.
A video that accompanied an e-mail sent by the Naperville Smart Meter Awareness group depicts an installation in progress, despite a locked gate outside the house.
(Excerpt) Read more at beaconnews.suntimes.com ...
Installer hops locked fence escorted by armed Naperville police
This is ridiculous, but the scariest part is the violation of private property. She’s got no right to electricity and they’ve no right to hop her fence.
They sure wear sharp looking police uniforms out there.
That cop was the sharpest looking guy I have seen in a long time.
I never heard of a charge of Attempted eavesdropping, Must be a new one , but we have thousands of laws no American ever heard of I guess.
Personally I haven’t got a lot of animosity toward smart electric meters, as far as I can tell the main reason for them is so the meter reader doesn’t have to come once a month, but I am sure there are several other reasons that they could be suspect, such as cutting off your electricity remotely whenever they feel like it
You can't have 'eavesdropping' in an open air public setting. The officer was performing his ordered public duty and the eavesdropping charge is intentional abuse of authority. A good lawyer would eat him alive in court. He should have done like the rest of the LEO chickens that stop recordings citing "I was in fear for my safety" crap.
> I never heard of a charge of Attempted eavesdropping, Must be a new one , but we have thousands of laws no American ever heard of I guess.
America 2013 - a nation of powerful men making laws in secret.
You would have thought that they could have just put the meter on the pole off of her property and without the fuss. This was staged to make an example of he and put the fear of government in the sheep.
Two Naperville Women Arrested After Trying To Block ‘Smart Meters’
...including this quote from a local LEO thug:
“No matter where you move, no matter what jurisdiction you move into, you agree to all that stuff. If you’re in the city of Chicago, or the city of Elgin, or wherever you’re at – the city of Naperville – that’s city property,” the officer said. “The law allows it.”
And the weaselly city manager?
Naperville City Manager Doug Krieger said the city is within its legal rights to install the “smart meters” on private property, replacing old meters which are also their property. Krieger also said the meters are safe.
Krieger said Stahl and Bendis deserved to be arrested if they violated the law, but it was not immediately clear what charges the women faced.
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“We absolutely are not bullies. I believe we’ve bent over backwards to accommodate them,” Krieger said.
And here, we get to the root of the evil...
Krieger, however, said the meters are funded in part through an $11 million federal grant, that requires them to complete the installation. He said the lawsuit could drag on for years, “and we don’t have that much time.”
However, the larger issue is that they give the government, via the utilities, the means in which to control how much electricity a customer can use, and at what settings heat and air conditioning have to be set, all in the name of global warming.
Recall what happened in california...
Krieger, however, said the meters are funded in part through an $11 million federal grant, that requires them to complete the installation. He said the lawsuit could drag on for years, “and we don’t have that much time.”
Of course trying to find a judge who will issue an injunction pending the suit outcome will be impossible in the socialist people’s court too.
From 1/24/2013:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2981639/posts
Personally I haven’t got a lot of animosity toward smart electric meters,...(Putting tin-foil hat on) It is said these have, or will have, the ability to read RFID chips so the gubbmint knows what you cook, when you are awake, how much laundry you do, etc., etc. They also emit electromagnetic fields (what doesn’t?)and cause tooth decay, I guess. EMF’s have never been proved as unhealthy or healthy as far as I know. (Did you know you can take a flourescent light tube underneath a power line and wave it around and it will light up in your hand, sometimes?).
I don't think that's possible. Meters don't contain an on/off switch they simply monitor power usage. A 200 Amp switch is pretty big.
What they can do is communicate with the new appliances that have smart technology. The theory is that they can set the temp in your fridge, A/C, etc. They can also track usage and generate trends for the power company to regulate generation.
These women didn't interfere physically with the installation they simply didn't open the gate. NOT grounds for an arrest. Filming the cops should be done at EVERY arrest or confrontation.
The city provides the electricity so they own the meters and can change to whatever they want. It sucks but if you live in a place where you allow the govt to control such things then the govt controls them and not you.
IBM and Cisco are some of the players behind the push for smart meters. IBM on the software and Cisco on the wireless networking. This is a scam to get American consumers to pay more for less electricity (as coal gets driven out and useless solar&wind projects get promoted)
All under the guise of the hip phrase “Smart Meter” as if it is more advanced. It is not. It is designed to make you into an electricity slave same as 0bama-Care makes people medical slaves. Plus you and me have to pay for the installation of these POS smart meters. About $500 will be built into your bill
Bump
It would sure be a shame if some mischievous neighborhood tyke also jumped the fence some night and took a pipe wrench to that expensive smart meter. The city would then have to come out — at its own expense — and replace it. It would be even more terrible if the replacement meter suffered the same fate. And if hundreds of other Smart Meters were also repeatedly vandalized. It might even make the city think twice about their insistence that every home have one.
And that would sure be a shame, wouldn’t it?
It wouldn’t be necessary to break the meter; simply blocking the signal would suffice. A couple of hundred people doing this randomly (in a town of 200,000 people) would do it.
You could tie up the bureaucrats with a staff just to fix that.
The problem of course, is that they’re spending your money to fix something you don’t even want.
So, did this woman cancel her electricity service?
Does she have any legal grounds to refuse the electric company?
No, I didn’t think so.
Paranoid hysteria. What FR does best.
So you're OK with the gross violation of private property rights in this case, as well as getting arrested for recording cops on your own property?
Seems like you're on the wrong forum, bub.
This is just the latest in a series of violations of property rights.
Many people, even FReepers, supported HOA and other covenants that restrict private-property usage even after a deed has been signed over (here are the keys to your new car, but remember, you are never allowed to hang an air freshener from the mirror) because they claimed it protected the value of their property to force their neighbor to obey by the rules of others.
Then of course there is the the thousand nicks from the EPA.
Eminent Domain is perhaps the most egregious violation of private-property rights.
Now we have the eco-nazis claiming that it is required to save the planet.
I saw them on TV. They are the very definition of fools. They contracted for electricity and implicit in that contract is the right for the power company to come read the meter.
That contract also allows the power company alone to determine what shall be done to the meter, including replacing it with a radio that transmits a digital read out of the metered numbers.
The hoopla over smart meters is pretty much ignorance extrapolated beyond the limits of reason. If absolute privacy is demanded then it must suffer the consequence of doing so in the cold and dark.
Did she cancel her electric service? Didn’t I already ask that?
She gives the electric company the right to install a meter since she freely chooses to buy electricity from them.
She is violating her contract.
This isn’t a “private property” issue.
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