Dear Editor,
Thank you! On Tuesday, I had just arrived home from work, when I
received a call from my mother. She had informed me that my uncle
John had taken a hard fall at the levee.
High praise and thanks for the Good Samaritan on the levee
Dear Editor,
Thank you! On Tuesday, I had just arrived home from work, when I received a call from my mother. She had informed me that my uncle John had taken a hard fall at the levee.
So, I took the next flight out of Las Vegas, Nv. I was told that a young lady had found my uncle laying on the ground unconscious. He was taken to the hospital where they had found that he was bleeding internally in his head.
I just want to take the time to thank this young lady (hero) for being there at the right time and place. And to thank her for being a real Good Samaritan because I have witnessed and read about people just walking by someone who was in need.
I would like to let her know that my uncle is doing great and that she saved a life of a special person in my life and others. It has shown me that there are still good people on this earth.In closing, may God watch over you and may you prosper whatever you do in life. God bless you. Thank you very much!
Juan P. Zamarron, Las Vegas
Misguided and mistaken anti-cell phone tower zealots strike again
Dear Editor,
It appears from a recent issue of the Dispatch that the anti-cell phone tower activists are busy spreading hysteria again. Ludicrous!
Consider the situation. We have experienced more than 60 years of exposure to electromagnetic radiation from FM and TV stations without even a hint or suspicion of any adverse health effects and, to my knowledge, none have ever been claimed. This radiation ranges in frequency from 50 to 800 megahertz. Then about 30 years ago a new source of radio frequency radiation from cell phones was introduced in the range from 1800 to 2400 megahertz. Suddenly, all manner of adverse health effects have been propounded. Plausible? Actually no; there is no such expectation whatsoever based on the applicable scientific understanding for electromagnetic radiation.
Back in 2003, I made a presentation to the City Council and staff regarding the science underlying electromagnetic radiation. At the time, I characterized the health risk from cell phone towers as infinitesimal based on then current data.
Nevertheless, the Council authorized the staff to prepare a Cell Phone Tower Ordinance with the active involvement of the anti-cell phone tower clique. The ordinance affords them the opportunity to intervene at anytime, even when it is only an application to continue operating an existing cell phone tower; e.g., at the Wheeler Manor Senior Health Center.
Well guess what? Since the ordinance was implemented the situation has radically changed. Both the cell phone and cell phone tower health risk is no longer infinitesimal; it is non-existent.
In May, 2006 the World Health Organization issued Fact Sheet No.304 in which they concluded, after 12 years spent examining all available data and actually sponsoring additional experimentation, that there was no credible evidence of any adverse health effects from cell phone tower radiation.
I communicated this finding in a letter to the editor (published Sept. 6, 2006) shortly after the Fact Sheet was issued. Keep in mind that WHO is a legitimate scientific organization staffed with technically competent, qualified personnel. Further, WHO, like the FDA, is charged with protecting public health.They have a positive bias for finding and exposing even the most miniscule health threat.
An essential fact in understanding the WHO conclusion is that the local radiation exposure intensity when using a cell phone is 1,000 to 10,000 times higher than the exposure intensity from remote cell phone towers. Any purported effect from the radiation exposure – if real – will always be proportional to the exposure intensity. Thus, the absence of any detectable health effect from the cell phones themselves absolutely precludes any effect at the far lower exposure intensities from cell phone towers.
Since the above WHO report was issued another significant result has been published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute (December, 2006). This is really an update on a study that has been underway in Denmark for about 25 years. It compares cancer incidence in 420,000 cell phone users with the same data for the entire Danish population. The study covers the frequency of tumors in the brain, nervous system, salivary glands and the eyes and also leukemia and cancer frequency overall.
To date the cancer incidence in the cell phone using group is slightly lower than that in the total population. The result speaks for itself.
What should the residents and neighbors of the Wheeler Manor Senior Housing Center do?
First of all they should relax. The Consulting Engineering Firm has already determined, by actual measurements, that their exposure intensity is well below the FDA limit. The tiny exposure they are experiencing will cause them no more harm than they incurred from more than 60 years of exposure to FM and TV radiation.
Second, they need to realize that they are being manipulated by a clique of sincere but profoundly misguided activists. They would be far better served by relying on technical experts that are actually qualified by education and experience to understand the cell phone/cell phone tower technology. The Consulting Engineering Firm hired by T-Mobile comes to mind!
Mark F. Lyons, Gilroy
Columnist shouldn’t be such a sheep on freedom issues
Dear Editor,
Ignorant statements are usually best ignored. But occasionally the more ridiculous ones need to be addressed, particularly when people start calling me on the phone mentioning a false accusation.
Ben Anderson in his Jan. 20 column states that I “carp incessantly for anarchy.” This comment makes him sound like the “law and order” fascists of a generation ago (most of whom are now members of the badged thug squads, but I digress).
If I have even used the word “anarchy” in my writings, Ben as a writer should be able to distinguish cloud talk (rousing speech used to incite) from the true agenda at hand. I have repeatedly stated that jail is for people who harm others, not for those who harm themselves. Our prisons are overflowing and by no coincidence the state is going broke, despite the highest tax rates in the country. Yet “law enforcement” at all levels does everything they can to ruin people’s lives and locked up as many as possible. Admit it or not, it’s job security. Consider:
n In a well-published case, a local Gilroy man was arrested for riding his bike at night without a headlight. This is pure harassment, and has led to additional trumped-up charges for “resistance.” When I was working my way through college, I got off work between midnight and 2:30 a.m., and I rode my bike because my Fiat (all I could afford) was down more often than it ran. I could just see Gilroy’s Finest gleefully writing a ticket that would cost me a week’s pay and help justify their pathetic, antagonistic role in society.
n San Benito County Sheriff, Curtis Hill, an expert on abuse of authority, used federal law as an excuse to arrest cancer patients for smoking pot, ignoring the will of the people he pretends to protect and serve. He was later forced to reverse his sadistic policy.
n Read the police and sheriff blotters in this very paper. Count how many are victimless (more than half).
n The state legislature passes a pile of new laws every year; with the exception of traffic violations, these cost more money to prosecute than the fines they charge.
n A vote was brought before the City Council to ban fireworks, which have never been used to harm anyone. This law would be a total waste of money to enforce, but it would please the local whiners. Fortunately, it got only one sorry vote.
The crying about a proposed topless bar by the local fearmongers (“crime is up”) and do-gooders (“not in my town,” like she owns it) is what prompted Ben’s “law-and-order” column. If the place causes problems as did the Forum (the wife-swapping club during Mayor Tom Springer’s term), then shut it down – it’s harming others. (If you recall, the Forum patrons were leaving their soiled devices and parking on neighboring property.)
But if its mere existence bothers the whiner who does not patronize the facility, then what goes on therein is no business of said whiner, and he should live and let live, or better yet, just LEAVE! I hope we get a topless joint and it sells T-shirts, just like ones with the owl and the orange writing, so we can rub it in the face of the pathetic do-gooders.
The state’s bankruptcy is our opportunity to take back the freedom that is ours; make them repeal the whiner laws that they can no longer afford to enforce. That is not “anarchy,” Ben; don’t be such a sheep.
Alan Viarengo, Gilroy
‘King Hussein’s’ election means dark times for the unborn
Dear Editor,
During a time when this town, along with many others are preparing themselves for coming of their messiah, King Hussein Obama, we the people of life (pro-lifers) are preparing ourselves for yet another dark reminder of the 1973 Roe Vs. Wade nightmare.
You can rest assured that the people of life, although now considered minority in this country, are not happy about the coming of the naked king who has promised to increase federal funding (mine and your tax dollars) to pay for the killing of the innocent unborn children at all stages of their preborn lives. King Hussein has also declared that a baby who has survived an abortion must be left alone in some dark room to die and not receive the care that is a right to him or her under the Constitution of this country. This latest one was and will be called the Freedom of Choice Act.
For these and many others reasons but mainly for sake of the innocent little ones of God, we the people of life will be joined together this Saturday for the 5th annual West Coast Walk for Life in San Francisco. If you are a pro-life person regardless of your religious beliefs, please come and show the world that there are those who care and believe that even the unborn have a choice and rights and not just the ones that have been born.
These are not happy times. The blood of the innocents is on the hands of those who voted for king Hussein Obama and continue to support the abortion movement. Pray for an end to abortion. For more information about Saturday’s event, please go to www.walkforlifewc.com.
David Kaeini, Gilroy
