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.
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.
(snip)
“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.”
From 1/24/2013:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2981639/posts
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?
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.
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.