MAST ACTION Clondalkin - Public Meeting 8pm

by Anon Tue Oct 02, 2007 11:12

People attending this meeting, might want to read an article in The Ecologist magazine about the TETRA phone system. This seems to have caused serious health effects in the areas where it was installed.

The TETRA phone system is in use by police forces and the Garda have recently started to roll it out. TETRA is a quite different system to the standard mobile phone system and the evidence against the health effects of TETRA is much much stronger than any other system.

Here are some quotes from the article:

The (not so) secret policeman’s report So concerned was the Police Federation about the possible health risks of Tetra that in 2001 it commissioned independent research scientist Barrie Trower to write a report about the system..................Although intended to be confidential, Trower’s report was leaked onto the internet. Read it in its entirety at www.planningsanity.co.uk/reports/trower.htm



And then the people of Llanidloes began educating themselves. What they discovered, just like hundreds of communities around the country, is the full staggering story of Tetra. A story that involves science being ‘perverted for political ends’, chronic illness and agonising death, one of the country’s leading scientists performing an extraordinary U-turn, a company that openly confesses to taking no responsibility for the safety of what it produces, a financial scandal, a political scandal and, above all else, a health scandal. If you live near a Tetra mast, then this story affects you directly. And considering that there will eventually be at least 3,200 such masts erected in the UK, there will be one near you. Tetra stands for ‘Terrestrial Trunked Radio’. It is the new police communication system using microwave radiation and low-frequency electromagnetic pulsing, and is operated by O2 under the brand name Airwave. ‘Airwave.


...When a Tetra mast was switched on in Dursley in Gloucestershire people there complained of migraines, sleeplessness, nosebleeds and being ‘shocked awake’ up to 15 times a night....



At Drumcarrow Hill in Fife a Tetra transmitter has been in operation since the late 1990s. Only about 200 people live around the mast, but there have been at least seven recent cases of cancer and five cases of motor neurone disease (MND) diagnosed in the area over the past five years. (Normally, no more than two people to every 100,000 is diagnosed with MND per year.) MND is a particularly nasty and fatal degenerative disease. Last year Dr Neil Cherry, former associate professor of environmental health at Lincoln University, died from it, convinced he had contracted MND as a consequence of his long exposure to low-frequency radiation, the potential health hazards of which he researched. Cherry’s work suggests that low-level radiation, and Tetra, could also cause heart and blood problems, interference with bone marrow and tumours. Not surprisingly, Llanidloes does not want Tetra.

And as for testing, as always the authorities will tell you whatever it is they are talking about whether it is GM crops or in this case the phone system that is has been rigorously testing, but as usual this is a lie:

Since many of Tetra’s potential effects could take years to surface, scientists agree that any studies of the system should run for several years. But the experiments that the government did instigate, at the Ministry of Defence’s laboratories at Porton Down on Salisbury Plain, were completed in just three and a half months and involved exposure to Tetra signals lasting only 20 minutes


And even the members of the Police force in the UK themselves are scared to death of this system which is being rolled out for usage by An Garda here:


Officers felt they had no choice in the matter. ‘It was something we couldn’t stop.’ Speaking only on condition of anonymity, a senior police source told me: ‘I’ve got to be guarded. There’s an awful lot of political pressure regarding this issue.’ He was not allowed to speak to other officers about the risks of Tetra, and felt that his career was on the line if he objected publicly. He spoke of his feelings of being kept ignorant and isolated.

by Anon Tue Oct 02, 2007 11:22

You can find a much more printable (PDF) copy of the above referenced article at the link provided.