My last FortisBC bill came with a propaganda flier with an announcement: smart meters (a trademarked oxymoron) have been approved by the BC Utilities Commission and will be slapped to our dwellings in a year or two. Some of them will be inches from our living rooms, bedrooms or kitchens.
Of course, smart meters are for our good — at least, that is the official baloney line. Another piece of the carrot? Our rates will go down. Right…
So-called smart meters operate at 900 megahertz, the same as your brain. It was proven with mobile phones that they cause brain cancer. In addition, these meters can spy on you, and spy they will. Isn’t it enough that we are illegally spied on through wiretaps, the Internet, Facebook, Twitter, GPS in cars and God knows how many more ways?
In the past, I would be really upset. Today? I know where this world is heading and what each of us can realistically do, and the rest is of no concern to me. Those who do evil do not realize that each and every one of their deeds is being watched (by someone other than a Big Brother), recorded and will be used against them not in this world court room, but at the end times in a heavenly one. No tricks, no corporate lawyers, no excuses. By their own words and actions they will be condemned.
When I talked to meter-reading guy, he said he knows about job loss, and he knew it is useless to complain to FortisBC, because they won’t listen. He suggested to complain to the BC Utilities Commission instead — as if they ever listened to an average citizen.
Another irony is that when FortisBC dudes “preventively” cut down trees on my property few years ago, without my knowledge or consent, we lost beautiful harmless trees, but when I asked them to cut down dangerous trees leaning the wrong way after the July 2012 storm, which would definitely bring problems during the next windstorm, they first refused, then sent a worker, then walked out altogether. Thank you for nothing! So I climbed the trees in question and cut them down, top to bottom, piece by piece, one by one.
Events like this are prime examples of the proverbial boiling of the frog, at the end of which humanity will be enslaved, imprisoned or slaughtered by the very same insidious ilk that plays nice guys or authority today.
As for lowering your electricity bill? When did it ever happen?
Am I upset? After half a century walking this earth, knowing how big boys treat humanity, not really. I would be surprised, though, if smart meters were installed on the power pole instead of attached to my house.
A parting shot: Smart meters are smart. For who? Or against who?
Vladimir Certik believes that thinking outside the box and engaging fellow citizens may bring simple solutions to complex problems. The West Creston resident can be reached at 250-402-0055.