Want your WiFi? A group of allergy sufferers in Santa Fe says you can’t have it, their tin foil hats aren’t strong enough to combat the death rays.
A group of people in Santa Fe, New Mexico have banded together to take away your WiFi in area public buildings. The Santa Fe / Taos area already has a reputation for being somewhat artistic (read: flaky), and is a haven for alternative health practices, artists and spirituality. This call for a ban is what happens when that alternative approach goes a little far.
This group has decided that WiFi causes a myriad of health issues, including allergic symptoms and illnesses. They are taking an approach much like that of people who believe in sick buildings, getting cancer from electrical wires or that cell phones are putting unhealthy “waves” into your brain.
Believe or not, these are not the first tin-foil hat wearers to try and get WiFi signals banned. A handful of teachers have sued schools to keep useful WiFi signals out of the classrooms, ensuring they stay in an outdated learning environment and don’t have to learn any of that newfangled technology, and other groups have sued to keep WiFi signals away from them as well.
What makes the Santa Fe group interesting is the approach they are taking. Claiming that the “issues” that they believe are caused by WiFi signals violates their rights as wackjobs citizens under the Americans with Disabilities Act. The group has actually gotten a city attorney to look into their claims, basing them on phantom “chest pains” and other issues.
Never mind the fact that the city is already covered in Wifi service, or that many people depend on reliable WiFi for their work – they want their little slice of heaven to look more like 1950 Pleasantville again, no matter the cost serving this small chunk of people has to the rest of their community they claim to care about so much.
Thanks to Jonathan Schlaffer for the original image.
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July 18th, 2008
Why all the anger? Do you actually know anyone who suffers? I love wifi. Laptop freedom was an amazing concept to me. Then I shut the wifi off at night and my 5 year old son’s screaming headaches disappeared. When he’s too close to a transmitter, he becomes unbelievably distracted and distraught. He’s been sleeping for months since we shut it off. And no, he’s not particularly artistic and neither am I. I wouldn’t wish the kind of discomfort and pain he went through on anyone and am so grateful to my friend (one of those crazy santa fe people – a scientist) who told us to try shutting it at night. If it hits the public schools, us middle income people are going to have to consider a private alternative. That doesn’t seem like fair access to me. And what about freedom of information. Other parents and kids suffering who don’t have well-informed friends will have to deal with bad grades, pain and little sleep because we’ve relegated this issue to crazies and won’t do any research into the problem or into alternatives to wifi. Having wifi service isn’t the same as having close proximity to transmitters. And I’m sure there is a lot more to this issue – but I’m not the scientist and still have lots of research to do.
August 26th, 2008
have you heard about wireless electricity, its still a ways away, but intel recently had a breakthrough, just imagine these people when this comes out, all the benefits that we could have, but NO, some people just cant handle it. really. not to say that their claims aint true, i cant prove or disprove, but the benefits we could have, or could not have. i dont know, but this sounds absurd to me. sorry for those who suffer (really) the world is full of prolbems, and we’ll never get all the answers, fighting cant solve it all.
January 29th, 2009
tim .. it sounds liek you whole heartedly not only supoprt this stuff but are actualyl a part of it and messign with peoepl and mocking them adn experimenting on them.. am I correct? I”l bet I am but dont answer me honestly it would be out of character..
BTW.. eveyone. the new push to get all peopel int eh states to have to change their anaolog tvs to digitall. .si because of the labnguage of the brain. more human slavery adn total mind control;.. WAKE UP AND ATOP THIS NOW! DONT BUy digital tvs or COMPUTERS OR CELL PHONES ETC… tehre is no other way to stop these murderes.. they are using everyone as human lab rats and not giving a shit.. they get their goddamned millinos from teh giovt for experimentatsion if they work or not. they stil get paid. nevermind teh wrecked lives and h umans. and then they send the sateliilte to give the eall y destroyed ones heart attacks and then they get buried and the family grieves nad wonders what happened.. doh. such an invisible disease. as if the person just had a natural heart attack butiots’ a lie! dont beliecve it.
If anyone knows ANYEON who is accepting ANY of this govt funding money .. make them stop.. please it’s not ok.. this is the terrorism we have to fight our own goddamned former govt opened this shit up.. That idiot had no clue and in effect they even experimented on him.. i.e why else do you think he sat there fro a few minutes when teh trade towers got bombed. he literalyl had no clue.. he was progamemd and controleld and mind fucked already.. opeope were controling hum just like they contrll teh current new regime.. I just hope there are better techs geeks invovledin teh new regime to battel teh otehr tech geeks to keep them out of peoepl shead.s but so far it’snot workign.. I am stil beign attacked.. they can give you nosebleeds. they can control your fertility, they control you thoughts. your body functions adn movements. they can extort your banka ccuon adn teh bank can not figuer it tou .. one minute al your money is gone adn al teh checks boucne adn teh nextminute all teh nmoney is back int ehre .. but you have high fees for boucned checks acause teh banks system is automatic.. adn so you loe more and more money to teh banks and they get riccher and richer on your fees.. not ok !by far.. and I am sure they nkow this is going on but no one has comlpained yet..
it takes more than jsut me tospeak otu against thist uf.f. and stup peoepl like TIM who obviosuyl dont give a shit about human life. but prefer their cash and experimentaotni on otehrs and that sense of power. that rush adn high they get when they are in cotrnl adn have human slavesnad their bacnk accuotns are gettgni fat.. hmm yeah I get it. duh..
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