Power company illegally sends three armed men to disconnect woman’s power after she opts out!
LAS VEGAS, Nevada (PNN) - September 12, 2012 - A woman living near Las Vegas has been living without power for more than a month because the electric utility, Nevada Energy, refuses to give its customers the choice to retain an analog style electrical meter.
Mona Orkoulas lives in the mountains outside Las Vegas, Nevada. For years Mona worked on humanitarian projects in the Middle East: drilling wells and providing drinkable water and renewable power to remote villages. Now she needs some humanitarian assistance herself.
The story begins when Nevada Energy (NVE) installed a “smart meter” on Mona’s bedroom wall in January without permission, or even so much as a few days’ notice.
Mona has no prior history of medical issues. Shortly after NVE installed their smart meter, she started experiencing a range of adverse symptoms including headaches and tinnitus. A letter from Mona’s doctor to NVE reads:
“Neurological and cardiological findings may be associated with pulsed EMF. I recommend that this patient be allowed to have NVE reinstall an analog meter at her house.”
Mona called the power company, expecting that they would at least send someone out. Months later, frustrated after at least six failed attempts to have NVE address the problem, Mona finally purchased a standard analog meter and had an electrician install it at her residence. She carefully photographed and recorded the readings on the old and new meter, to be sure that she paid for every kilowatt-hour used.
On August 6, 2012 at about 10:30 am, three men from Nevada Energy, armed with guns, trespassed on Mona’s property, arriving unannounced, illegally removed the analog meter from the socket, took both meters (stealing the analog meter), and left her without any electricity. Mona was in tears, visibly shaken by the encounter, and recalls asking the men, "Why are you on my property with guns?" The response from the fascist pig thugs was, “This is procedure ma’am.”
More than a month later, the lights are still off and Mona hasn’t budged. “They’re not putting that thing back on my house,” she says.
According to Angel de Fazio of Nevada Stop Smart Meters, who has been on the front lines fighting NVE’s fascist smart meter program, “Nevada residents only won the right to be placed on the ‘delay list’, not a full ‘opt out’.”
In other words, NVE has a ‘delay list’ you can sign to ‘delay’ your installation date. But if the power company managed to illegally trespass on your property and install a smart meter then your choice is to accept the radioactive smart meter or have no power at all, which is also illegal.
NVE is now accusing Mona of tampering with their equipment, which she says is ridiculous, because she gave them plenty of opportunity to remove the problematic smart meter. “I had no intention of stealing electricity,” she says. “I just wanted the grinding noise and headaches to stop.”
For the last month, Mona has been camping in her house, unable to use her appliances, lights or hot water. The laundry that was in the washing machine when they cut her power was locked in, and by the time she could get it out it was totally destroyed by mildew. The outlaw fascist pig thug NVE agents came without warning. The power cut has had a devastating effect on her life.
“My business has taken a nosedive since I have had to travel into town to access my e-mails. My computer, fax machine and printer don’t work. I’m cooking over a camp stove in my living room,” says Mona. “Some of us eat organic foods, buy bottled waters, exercise daily, but where is the point in all this wellness when we are forced to have a radiation box attached to our homes?”
