Subject: Suggestion for activism in US Senate (Neil Cherry) (fwd)
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 155538 -0600 (CST)
From: "Roy L. Beavers" <rbeavers@llion.org>
To: emfguru@hotmail.com
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Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 15:35:23 -0600
From: "Marjorie A. Lundquist"
To: rbeavers@mail.llion.org
Subject: Suggestion for activism in US Senate (Neil Cherry)
EMF activists may be interested in reading the following excerpts from
a letter I sent to Christopher Beaver, who is involved in bringing Neil
Cherry to the USA later this spring. -- Marjorie Lundquist
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I am very pleased that Neil Cherry is coming to the USA. I do wish
that it would be possible for him to visit the one physician in Congress,
Senator William H. Frist (R-Tennessee). He got his M.D. from Harvard
Medical School in 1978 and became a cardiovascular surgeon, practicing
at Vanderbilt. After a successful surgical career, he went into politics.
Being a Republican, Bill Frist is an important person, now that the
Republicans control Congress. He chairs two very important subcommittees:
Public Health and Safety (of the Senate Committee on Labor and Human Re-
sources) and the Subcommittee on Science, Technology and Space of the Sen-
ate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation. (Dr. Frist prob-
ably should be approached in his capacity as Chairman of the Public Health
and Safety Subcommittee, since there is a subcommittee on Communications
of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation chaired by
someone else who would have jurisdiction on wireless telecommunications
issues. He IS a MEMBER of the Subcommittee on Communications, though.)
Bill Frist, in conjunction with Senator Joseph I. Lieberman (D-Connecti-
cut), established a bipartisan science caucus in the Senate. I would
think it appropriate for Neil Cherry to be a featured speaker at this cau-
cus, if something can be set up in the short time between now and when Dr.
Cherry is on the east coast of the USA. I suggest that you contact the
offices of both Senators Frist and Lieberman to try to make this happen.
Senator Lieberman chaired a subcommittee hearing in August, 1992, (which
I attended) to address the issue of traffic radar guns, which have been
associated with cancer in law enforcement officers who used the early
models that could not be turned off when vehicular speed was not being
measured. These devices emit a continuous microwave beam, so the fact
that they have been associated with cancer in users who were exposed to
the low-intensity beam over a long period of time has a direct bearing on
the issue of cellular telephone health hazards (and health hazards of
other microwave-using technologies).
Dr. Neil Cherry may not be aware of this association between cancer and
long-term exposure to a microwave beam; the establishment has ignored it,
so it falls in the category of anecdote, rather than "established scien-
tific fact".
I suggest you call or fax the offices of both Senators without delay,
to explain who Dr. Cherry is and why he would be a good person to speak
before the bipartisan caucus. It will take time to set something up, and
there is not much time available.
Here are numbers for the two Senators' offices:
Voice Phone FAX Phone
Senator Joseph Lieberman (202) 224-4041 (202) 224-9750
Senator William Frist, M.D. (202) 224-3344 [no fax number]
I don't know the names of the people in the office that you should speak
to. Just ask for whoever is in charge of the Seantor's involvement with
the bipartisan science caucus; if that is not the right person, that indi-
vidual can probably tell you who you should be speaking to.
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Activists who reside in the USA and who favor the idea of Neil Cherry
being a speaker at a meeting of the Senate Science and Technology Caucus
could support this idea by writing to one or both of these Senators, urg-
ing that an invitation to Neil Cherry to be a caucus speaker be extended.
Here are mailing addresses of the Senators' offices.
The Honorable William Frist The Honorable Joseph Lieberman
565 Dirksen Senate Office Bldg. 706 Hart Senate Office Bldg.
Washington, DC 20510-4205 Washington, DC 20510-0703
If anyone wants to ask Bill Frist to take action in his capacity as the
Chairman of the subcommittee on Public Health, write to this address:
The Honorable William Frist, Chairman
Subcommittee on Public Health and Safety of the
Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources
SD-422 Dirksen Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510-6310
because then subcomittee staffers will open and read the letter.
Tips to those who want to "get active" are:
(1) Write a snail mail letter, not e-mail. A study has shown that MUCH
more attention is paid to ordinary mail than to e-mail by members of Con-
gress.
(2) Briefly explain who Dr. Cherry is and what he can talk about. Also
explain that concerned citizens are bringing him to the USA so he can talk
to local government officials--so it would be pretty foolish for Congress
to ignore him!
(3) If you are a resident of either Connecticut or Tennessee, write to
your Senator's office as a constituent. You have a right to tell him what
you think he should be doing on your behalf in Congress.
If you are NOT a resident of the senator's home state, tell him you
are writing to him as a founder of the Senate's bipartisan Science and
Technology Caucus. This will justify your interest in his activities, de-
spite the fact that you are not one of his constituents.
If you want to ask Bill Frist to do something in his capacity as a
subcommittee chairman, it is appropriate to write to him at the address of
the subcommittee. (You don't have to write separate letters; you could
write just one, and send a copy to the subcommittee address, so that staff
there will read it, too.)
Your letters could make a difference. Members of Congress will pay at-
tention to ANY issue that generates a lot of letters of the snail mail
variety! (Your letters to Bill Frist could ask that he hold subcommittee
hearings, or develop new legislation.) -- Marjorie Lundquist
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Reprinted with permission of Roy Beavers, http://www.feb.se/EMF-L/EMF-L.html