Subject: 18 injured in rioting over cellphone antennas ("Tower")
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 044300 -0600 (CST)
From: "Roy L. Beavers"
To: emfguru
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.........I cannot imagine that ISRAEL would not take seriously such
evidence of a cancer cluster.....??? O.K., so the government does not
believe the electromagnetic radiation from the concentration of antennas
ir responsible....??? What is??? Why would not a "progressive" system
like the ISRAELI government ... be eager to PROVE that it is not the
antenna field??? By finding out what is.....???
The DETERMINED way in which our advanced-progressive-Western-democracies
put their "heads in the ground" like ostriches on the EMF/hazards issue
... defies explanation.... Unless, the "ownership" of our governments by
the special interests ... is even WORSE than we have been saying here on
EMF-L.....
Cheerio.....
Roy Beavers (EMFguru)
roy@emfguru.com
.....It is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness.....
NEW!!! Website... http://emfguru.com
...................People are more important than profits.................
Missed opportunity...
$$$$$ We could have changed the corrupted system!! $$$$$
McCain !!
DO YOU KNOW OF OTHERS WHO SHOULD BE ON THIS LIST???
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Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 20:20 -0800
From: towerofbabble@geocities.com
To: "Roy L. Beavers"
Subject: 18 injured in Usfiya rioting over cellphone antennas
Hmmmm. Sounds healthier to me than the pathological apathy that cell phone
towers are being met with over here by a maleable, uneducated, unaware,
noncaring, selfish, greedy public.
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18 injured in Usfiya rioting over cellphone antennas
By David Rudge
Jerusalem Post 3/14/00.
USFIYA (March 15) - At least 18 people, including 10 policemen, were injured
yesterday evening during riots in the predominantly Druse village of Usfiya,
south of Haifa on Mount Carmel.
The disturbances erupted when several youths set fire to a Cellcom
monitoring station in the village after a series of attempts to dismantle
antennas of the Motorola and Cellcom firms. According to townspeople, the
youths dismantled 16 antennas.
The incidents followed complaints of an increase in the number of cases of
suspected cancer among residents, which some blame on radiation from the
phone companies' broadcasting stations.
Usfiya, because of its position on Mount Carmel, has become a favored place
for siting antennas for mobile phone companies, leading to a concentration
in a relatively small area.
Residents say the number of villagers suffering from cancer has neared 130,
many of the cases having been discovered in the past few months, and they
claim there is a direct correlation with the radar emissions from the
antennas.
They are calling on the Health Ministry and other government authorities to
conduct independent investigations and not leave the matter solely in the
hands of the "interested parties" - the mobile phone companies.
Events took a turn for the worse yesterday when Motorola maintenance workers
were attacked at the entrance to the village, where they had intended to
carry out repairs to one of the firm's damaged antennas. Police said
demonstrators hurled rocks at the employees, whose car and equipment were
damaged.
Cellcom workers who arrived to repair the fire damage to the company's
monitoring station, housed in a gas station, also were attacked and the
restaurant attached to the gas station was damaged.
Police also came under attack from angry residents demanding the removal
from the village of all mobile phone antennas.
Scores of people armed with rocks and sticks surrounded the police cars that
arrived at the scene, trapping five policemen inside. After an hour the five
were released, although in the melee another officer tried to force his
vehicle through the crowd, injuring five demonstrators, according to reports
from the scene.
Several other protesters were reported wounded by plastic bullets. Residents
charged that the arrival of police had inflamed passions, and demanded their
immediate removal.
Several policemen were injured and a number were taken to Haifa's Carmel
Hospital. In addition, several police vehicles were damaged.
Reports from the village last night said shots had been fired during the
rioting, in which demonstrators also tried to block the main road which
links Haifa and Daliat al-Carmel.
Magen David Adom set up a temporary emergency treatment station at the scene
and paramedics treated three people, at least one suffering from gunshot
wounds. Two, suffering from moderate injuries, were later taken to Haifa's
Rambam Hospital and the third to Bnei Zion.
The MDA spokesman said at least three other people were hurt and were
treated at the station.
The latest reports from the scene were that seven people had been arrested,
although the situation was reported to be very tense at press time.
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Transforming the cross into a symbolic telephone pole,
beyond the basic symbology, the wedding of the corporation
and the church for commerce is sacrilege, as well,
and it doesn't take a theologian, or even a Christian, to easily see that.
Please visit the Tower of Babble Watch Website.
We've got the cell phone industries number!
http://www.geocities.com/capitolhill/senate/8739/
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