Iris, I fully agree, children of that age should not be using cellphones
- period.

The most troubling part is, when they complain later of health symptoms
related to the exposure to EMF from the phone, they will be diagnosed by
their doctors in the following manner:

(1) Hearing loss and ear pain-will be called, ear infection.
(2) Ringing ears-will be named, tinnitus.
(3) Slow learning-will be named, attention deficit disorder.
(4) Headaches-will be named, migraine.
(5) Joint pain-will be named, fibromialgia.
(6) Lack of energy-will be named, chronic fatigue.

All will be treated with the selected drugs for the misdiagnosed
illnesses. (Of course they will not be diagnosed as suffering from EMF
sensitivity, because, according to the medical industry, that don't exist.)

As the children grow older and the symptoms become more prevalent and
painful, and the prescribed drugs do not relieve the pain, and the
children, now adults, keep on complaining, they will most likely be
farther misdiagnosed by the Psychiatrist Industry, as PSYCHOTICS and
again, treated with, trial, drugs for mental illness. And when the drugs
show little or no effect, they may even end up in a mental institution,
with a cellphone tower on the roof, or next door, or both, and be given
more EMF by way of, what is called, shock treatment. They may even have
a chip implant, Of course they will always be given access to a
cellphone, so they can make contact with their doctor and family
members. This keeps the Medical Industry in business so they are always
there when we need them. And as far as the cellular phone industry is
concerned - They are Just Someone Else's Children, and they are working
within Government Guidelines. After all, it has been well established by
government scientists, through very careful research, using a fake brain
in a phantom head made of fiberglass.
IF IT DON'T HEAT YOU IT WON'T HURT YOU.

Regards,
Robert Riedlinger

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CELL PHONE TOWER
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MY CHILDS SCHOOL AND SEVERAL OTHER CATHOLIC SCHOOLS IN MY COMMUNITY HAVE
PLACED CELL PHONE TOWERS ON THE SCHOOL BUILDING. WE THE PARENTS ARE
TRYING TO GET THE SCHOOL TO TAKE DOWN THE TOWERS.

WE ARE HAVING A VERY HARD TIME WITH THE SCHOOL. IT IS A CATHOLIC
SCHOOL. WE [THE PARENTS] ARE PROTESTING BECAUSE WE KNOW THAT THIS IS
HARMFUL NOT ONLY TO OUR CHILDREN BUT TO THE PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY. WE
NOTICED THAT THE TOWERS WERE PLACED ON THE ROOF OF THE SCHOOL AND THE
TRANSMITTERS OUT SIDE OF TWO CLASSROOM WINDOWS SOMETHING IN MAY OF 2003.

THIS IS VERY DISTRUBING - HOW CAN THE GOVERNMENT LET A THING LIKE THIS
HAPPEN - I THINK WE KNOW THE ANSWER - A LOT OF THE PARENTS HAVE TAKEN
THEIR CHILDREN OUT OF THIS SCHOOL AND A LOT OF US ARE JUST KEEPING THEM
HOME FOR THE FIRST FEW DAYS OF SCHOOL.

CAN YOU GIVE US SOME ADVISE.

Message from Algera9

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Congratulation on your article re. gross errors in psychiatric diagnoses
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Dear Dr. Hoeller:

I totally agree with your opinions expressed in THE SEATTLE
POST-INTELLIGENCER article, printed below. In case you are not aware
that electrohypersensitives (EHS) are frequently mislabelled by
psychiatrists as psychotics/paranoid schizophrenics who are being
delusional about the bioeffects they claim they suffer from excessive
exposure to electromagnetic radiation,

I have pasted in below your article a statement I wrote on this some
time ago. It is posted online at "Citizens Initiative Omega" (quickest
via google) archives, dated 19/9/02. I know a number of EHS sufferers
who have been involuntarily committed to psychiatric facilities and most
inappropriately and dangerously medicated. The suffering they endure
from being wrongly medicated and incarcerated although mentally well is
increased to excruciating levels by their being exposed to strong levels
of e-equipment, flourescent lighting, etc., in these facilities. Can
you do anything about this ghastly medical bungling for EHS patients?

Sincerely,

Imelda O'Connor

--- "www.MindFreedom.org" <office@mindfreedom.org>
wrote: > Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 14:03:39 -0700
To: "Freedom in Mental Health" <dendrite@efn.org>
From: "www.MindFreedom.org" <office@mindfreedom.org>
Subject: _Seattle Post-Intelligencer_ Fast for
Freedom in Mental Health oped

Here's a really unique opinion piece in today's _Seattle
Post-Intelligencer_ 29 August 24.

It covers the Fast for Freedom in Mental Health which is an ongoing
hunger strike (Day 14) that claims the psychiatric drug industry is
squeezing out freedom of choice in America, and globally.

More info on Fast check out
http://www.MindFreedom.org,
and there are other links at the end of this.

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Friday, August 29, 2003

_The Seattle Post-Intelligencer_

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/137089_mentalhealth29.html

No proof mental illness rooted in biology

By KEITH HOELLER
GUEST COLUMNIST

What is "the mental health movement?" Its proponents claim that millions
of Americans are afflicted with a mental illness, which is a disease
"just like any other" and that the mentally ill suffer from a chemical
imbalance in the brain that is corrected by psychiatric drugs.

Mental illness is said to be the cause of many of our society's social
ills, such as suicide, murder, divorce, child abuse, sex offenses,
depression and various addictions. If only mental illness could be
cured, mental health supporters say, all of these ills could be prevented.
Because the mentally ill often are unaware of their disease, treatment
must be forced on the mentally ill. All 50 states have laws that allow
involuntary treatment if professionals deem they are a danger to self
and others.

Psychiatrists, we are told, can now accurately diagnose mental illness
and have safe and effective treatments. Psychiatry is considered a valid
medical specialty, like cardiology, and the claims of the movement are
based on scientific research.

The largest lay group is the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill
(NAMI). The media routinely refer to NAMI as advocates for the mentally
ill, although its membership consists almost entirely of family members
and not the mentally ill themselves. NAMI ascribes to the "biological
basis of mental illness," and endorses forced treatment of the mentally ill.

The movement's major source of funding is the highly profitable
pharmaceutical industry, which funds the drug research; which funds
psychiatric journals, and even the American Psychiatric Association
itself; which funds advertising to doctors and the public; and even
funds lay groups such as NAMI (at least $11 million) and Children and
Adults with Attention Deficit Disorder (at least $1 million).

Yet many professionals claim that the mental health movement is not a
legitimate medical or scientific endeavor, let alone a civil rights
movement, but a political ideology of intolerance and inhumanity.
Numerous psychiatrists and psychologists have examined the psychiatric
research literature and found it to range from smoke and mirrors to
quackery.

Psychiatrists have yet to conclusively prove that a single mental
illness has a biological or physical cause, or a genetic origin.
Psychiatry has yet to develop a single physical test that can determine
that an individual actually has a particular mental illness. Indeed, The
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders uses behavior, not
physical symptoms, to diagnose mental illness, and it lacks both
scientific reliability and validity.

On Aug. 16, eight members of MindFreedom (www.mindfreedom.org), an
umbrella organization of mental patients who call themselves
"psychiatric survivors," began a Fast for Freedom "to press for human
rights and choice in psychiatry" and to "demand that the mental health
industry produce even one study proving the common industry claim that
'mental illness is biologically-based.' "

Dr. James Scully of the American Psychiatric Association responded to
the hunger strikers by claiming the evidence was so vast one need only
look at "Mental Health: A Report of the Surgeon General" (1999) or a
recent psychiatry textbook.

An expert panel for the strikers, made up of members (like myself) of
the International Center for the Study of Psychiatry and Psychology
(www.icspp.org), quickly responded by pointing out that neither of these
works contains any such conclusive proof. Actually, the surgeon
general's report on mental health states that "the precise causes
(etiology) of mental disorders are not known" and "there is no
definitive lesion, laboratory test, or abnormality in brain tissue that
can identify (a mental) illness." The Textbook of Clinical Psychiatry
(1999) states: " ... Validation of the diagnostic categories as specific
entities has not been established." In its reply to the fasters, the
National Alliance for the Mentally Ill did not cite any scientific
evidence at all.

In 1784, a similar debate raged in Paris about the scientific validity
of the latest psychiatric nostrum (hypnotism) and its inventor, Dr.
Franz Anton Mesmer, who claimed to have discovered a physical mechanism
he called animal magnetism. The Academy of Sciences formed a panel,
including American scientist Benjamin Franklin and French chemist
Antoine Lavoisier, to assess the movement sweeping the city, and
concluded that Mesmer's "cures" had no scientific basis. They were due
entirely to the power of suggestion, now called the placebo effect. The
Royal Society of Medicine issued a report with similar findings on Aug.
16, 1784.

Let us hope the Fast for Freedom has a positive outcome for all
involved. If not, let us insist that the American Medical Association
(or similar body) form a panel of objective, non-psychiatric scientists,
without any ties to drug companies, to examine whether psychiatry should
continue as a medical specialty or if it should join the historical
ranks of alchemy, astrology and phrenology as a pseudoscience.

Dr. Keith Hoeller is editor of the "Review of Existential Psychology &
Psychiatry" in Seattle. E-mail: RKHoeller@aol.com

- end -

For the latest news release plus lots of updates, published media
articles, commentary, fact sheets, latest actions you can take to
support the fast, and how to become a member of MindFreedom, check:
http://www.MindFreedom.org

For daily Fast photos, a lively public message board with hunger striker
discussion, and more see:
http://www.cinemaniastigma.com/pages/13/index.htm

For photos of a delegation of hunger strikers meeting with the President
of the American Psychiatric Association: http://www.pagesforpeople.com/

For some of the latest published media articles on the fast:
http://www.mindfreedom.org/mindfreedom/hungerstrike22.shtml

For direct link to the lively public message board that you can post to,
and dialogue with hunger strikers, see:
http://b4.boards2go.com/boards/board.cgi?user=CineMania

For a sample of the debate going on about the "biological basis of
mental illness" see:
http://psychrights.org/

For a "blog" started by a Fast supporter see:
http://mindfreedom-fast.blogspot.com/

* * * PLEASE FORWARD TO ALL * * *
* * * APPROPRIATE PLACES * * *
* * * ON AND OFF THE INTERNET * * *
* * * ESPECIALLY TO JOURNALISTS! * * *

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Biodefence Contravenes Biosafety

http://www.i-sis.org.uk/BiodefenceContravenesBiosafety.php

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FRANKENFOOD AND THE WTO

The world's governments will be gathering for the World Trade
Organisation's 5th Ministerial Conference in Cancun, Mexico, from 10 to
14 September. Greenpeace is going to this meeting to push for trade
rules that reflect the environmental, social and economic priorities of
the world's citizens, not just the world's corporations.

We have launched a weblog to keep you updated on what is going on in
Cancun this September, and we encourage you to read it, react to it, and
take action by sending your comments to Cancun!

http://weblog.greenpeace.org/wto/

Greenpeace's major focus in Cancun will be opposing the spread of
genetically engineered food.

On 13 May the US government declared a global war on consumers, farmers
and the environment when it filed a complaint in the World Trade
Organisation against the European Union's de facto moratorium on
genetically modified organisms (GMOs). However, the fact is the
moratorium was due to be lifted within months anyway.

So why the rush?

The real target of US aggression against GMO restrictions is the EU's
new comprehensive GMO labeling laws.

The WTO case is the first step in a worldwide campaign to promote
Frankenfood, so people everywhere should be concerned.

To find out more, please join the more than 7000 people who have
participated in our cyberaction here:

http://act.greenpeace.org/ams/e?a=859&s=gen

and

SAVE ONE OF NORTH AMERICA'S GREATEST AND MOST ENDANGERED FORESTS

The Bush administration wants to let the chainsaws into Alaska's Tongass
and Chugach forests. It is attempting to undermine the Roadless Rule
that prevents access to pristine forest lands in the US and has already
proposed that the Tongass be exempted from the Roadless Rule altogether.

To find out more and help out, visit:

http://www.greenpeaceusa.org/bin/view.fpl/6880/article/520.html

and

ICELAND HAS RESUMED WHALING

Icelandic whalers have begun the take of 38 minke whales announced by
the Government of Iceland on 6 August as the start of a so called
'scientific' whaling program. The program will expand to take 250
whales, including sei and fin whales as well as minkes, in 2004. Three
small fishing boats have been fitted with explosive harpoons and will
hunt in August and September. All the meat from these whales will be
sold. Please send a protest now to Iceland's largest embassies from:

http://act.greenpeace.org/ams/e?a=915&s=whl

and

HELP PROTECT THE GREAT BARRIER REEF

Australia's Great Barrier Reef is at risk. Last year the reef
experienced its worst case of coral bleaching, with over 60 per cent
being affected.

As the climate heats up so do the oceans, causing the organisms that
give coral its colour and food to die.

The government of Australia's Queensland state now faces a key decision
on the reef's future - accepting or rejecting the second stage of
Southern Pacific Petroleum's Stuart Shale Oil project near Gladstone.

The development of a shale oil industry would more than double
Australia's greenhouse emissions - increasing climate change. This would
be a disaster for the reef.

Please write now from:

http://act.greenpeace.org/ams/e?a=934&s=gen

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O.T. themes:

Bush Fails on Iraq
http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/newsArticle.asp?id=1039

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To be an American
http://libertyforall.net/2003/archive/aug31/american.html

Ashcroft's summer Patriot Act tour
http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0335/fiore.php

Free Iraq's market
http://www.cato.org/dailys/08-29-03.html

Costs of the surveillance state
http://www.mises.org/fullstory.asp?control=1300

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp http://www.rationalreview.com/news/

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Blix Felt U.S. Intimidating Him Before Iraq War
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4571.htm

Wounded, Weary And Disappeared
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4570.htm

Halliburton and Bechtel Win More Deals
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/08/28/1062050603425.html

Poll: Iraq War Makes US Less Safe
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=34313

The Niger Forgery
http://www.yourmailinglistprovider.com/pubarchive.php?globeintel+140

Letters on the death Dr. David Kelly and the Hutton Inquiry
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2003/aug2003/corr-a28.shtml

Informant: George Paxinos