To the editor,

 

The League of Women Voters of La Plata County is presenting its annual Legislative Lowdown this year at 9 a.m., Sat., Feb. 21, at the Durango Public Library.

 

We invite everyone in La Plata County to attend to hear your elected legislators, Sen. Ellen Roberts and Rep. J. Paul Brown, discuss what they expect from the Colorado Legislature in this session and answer questions that you may have. 

 

In a change of format this year, we are asking all questions be submitted before the event. We hope this will make our coverage more efficient and provide a broader range of topics. Please send any questions you have to LWVLPC, 776 Animas View Dr., Durango, CO 81301, or email to trishpegram@gmail.com.

 

 We hope to see many of you at the Lowdown and to receive all your questions before Fri., Feb. 20.

 

– Trish Pegram, League of Women Voters, La Plata County

 

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To the editor,

 

Congratulations to the Durango Smart Meter Opt-Out group for packing the house at its showing of Josh Del Sol’s “Take Back Your Power.” You can You-Tube it for a couple bucks if you missed it. I wouldn’t miss it.

 

The public is coming unglued as the industry cover-up regarding wireless radiation and smart meters unravels and many sicken and quit sleeping after the little digital devices replace the user-friendly analog ones. If your power bill has taken an unexplained hike in the past one to three years, find out the date of the not-so-smart meter’s installation and start shoveling. You can watch the meter explosions and fires for yourself on the film. Josh is getting damned good with that camera and has lots of help.

 

La Plata Electric Association may very well be headed toward national fame and profile, probably this year. Also making his public debut at the filming was private investigator Wayne Alexander, hired by the Pagosa4  Springs Opt Out Group (Pagosa got its “smart frying” meters last summer) to investigate the mysterious government-funding paper trails, collapsed corporations and the like LPEA launched to receive government stimulus funds, unanswered questions, denials and abuses surrounding the meter rollout. This is despite the truckloads of information warning them not to, which, of course, they also refused to read.

 

We are rapidly entering (many insist we’re there) the time where management/ownership that refuses to access and respect professional documentation of the toxicology and morbidity stemming from wireless radiation create a career-terminating situation for themself.  When their construence removes the rights of any employee or customer to make their own determinations for health and safety, this is indeed a classic, prosecutable and despicable criminal offense. Now we proceed to enforce those rights; certainly not to pay for their abuse as a condition of the monthly power bill.

 

If you have evidence and facts regarding LPEA abuses, denials, false claims of safety and discrepancies, email Wayne: smartmeterinfo@hushmail.com.  My hunch, having fought several long and bloody power company wars before, this one is going to be epic.

What was heartening was the public turn-out and outrage around the film as well as thirst for accurate information. As we all realize, there isn’t (and never has been) a safe level of wireless radiation. Having a meter with not just one, but two cell phones in it sizzling 24/7 on the wall outside your baby’s room is a no-brainer.

 

I’ve written many medical documentation/ resource letters to Durango/ Pagosa media in the last two years. I won’t bore you with another list. Email, and I’ll fill you in if you missed them.

Everything I’d send you is in Electronic Silent Spring by Katie Singer (Electrosensitive/ Santa Fe)..  Have it by your bed, not the Iphone. She hits the smart meter fiasco and what’s behind it, hard. Regionally, smart meter removal mandates also are forming in Aspen, Carbondale, Redstone, Paonia, Gunnison, Rico, Ridgway, Ouray, Moab, Dolores.

 

In a lifestyle that leaves you non-voluntarily swimming in wireless radiation, anything you do to dump any of it is a help. By now you all know not to buy into the industry cover up. That filming was hardly a room full of psychosomatic whackos. Del Sol’s picture of the power company employees in bullet proof vests and flack helmets going over a single mother’s locked back fence and breaking through the back door to install a meter are pretty damned hard to refute. The film clip of Obama saying, rather stuttering, “under my plan, electrical power prices will skyrocket” pretty much says it all.  I live off-grid on recaptured (not smart grid and not renewable) power.  Your world, go for it while you can.

PS….you own your power company in La Plata and Archuleta counties. You vote, heads roll, things change. That depends on what you do, right now.

 

– Gary Duncan, Moab, Utah

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To the Editor:

On Jan. 11, 40 leaders from various countries and 1.3 million people participated in anti-terrorism events in Paris. President Obama was AWOL, and he was only represented by our ambassador to France.

It is difficult to believe our President overlooked the need to be in Paris for the anti-terrorism rally. Based on his previous comments, it is quite possible he decided he did not want to offend Islam by appearing at the anti-terrorism unity march.

In the past, he has refused to label the multitude of attacks conducted by Muslims as Islamic terrorist attacks. He said “we are not at war with Islam,” but it sure appears Islam is at war with us. After all, what is the religion of almost every terrorist who has attacked Western civilization in the past 50 years?

President Obama, you just offended every freedom-loving person in the world.

 

– Donald A. Moskowitz, Londonderry, N.H.

To the Editor

 

Alison Dance, as owner of a respected restaurant, entrepreneur and an enterprising member of Durango’s business community, is a loyal supporter of local foods. Thank you to Alison and her kitchen staff for believing in buying local.

Sure, Alison made some honest mistakes. To her credit, she admitted the errors in her ways once she realized what they were and did everything to correct the situation. Let’s move on. Thank you to Alison and her crew for remaining “on the job” and for having continued to believe in and rely upon local producers who continued to support the local economy.

We are a business community and Cyprus is a vital part of that system.

 

– Denise King-Stovall, chairwoman, and the Board and members of Local Brands Farm and Ranch Co-op, Hesperus

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To the editor,

 

This letter is a rebuttal to Gary Duncan’s letter regarding smart meters and the Durango showing of “Take Back Your Power.” We are a small group working to disseminate our message in an honest, respectful manner, thereby giving consumers the opportunity to hear the other side of the story. We do not condone nor are we a part of Mr. Duncan’s inflammatory rhetoric regarding LPEA.

 

– Angie Andersson, Deb Shisler  and Sally Florence (all from Durango)