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Original Message -----
From: "Amy M Seager"
To: "Contact Form" <Sales@rfsafe.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2003 7:06 PM
Subject: Your safety tips to drivers if they will be using a
cell phone.....
Both of
my twin daughters were
killed by a driver on a phone. Their names were Kimberly and
Kathy Seager. This was not a "split second" of inattention. The
man had a clear view of the car our children were in for a
quarter of a mile as well as the flashing train signal lights,
the lowered gate, and the very loud train whistle. Yet he plowed
into them at 60mph, never hitting the brakes. Phone
conversations cause "tunnel vision" and "inattention blindness"
in drivers according to the findings of Dr. David Strayer of the
University of Utah. Many respected researchers across the
country and in other parts of the world concur that headsets do
not improve driving performance in drivers engaged in a phone
conversation. Because it is not holding the phone that is the
greatest danger, it is the phone conversation. Hence the
tendency of drivers on phones to run red lights, stop signs, and
train signals.
Therefore, offering instructions on how to use the phone safely
while operating a motor vehicle is immoral and irreprehensible.
You are lulling drivers into a false sense of security that if
they follow these "tips", they will be safer.
If your company truly wants to do your customers a service, you
will vehemently discourage any use of their phones while
operating a vehicle unless in a dire emergency.
Mrs. Amy Seager
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RF Safe's Reply
From: "webmaster"
<webmaster@rfsafe.com>
To: "Amy M Seager"
Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2003 11:55
Subject: Re: Your safety tips to drivers if they will be using a
cell phone..
Hi Amy
I lost my girl because
of cell phone radiation, and I support you! My site
is to inform people! I only sell accessories to help and to
support my research for better solutions. My site is here to
give people the facts!
I am very sorry it happen to you! People need the facts!
You are a FACT! and people need to hear your voice too!
http://www.rfsafe.com/state_cell_phone_laws.htm
I linked you on many more pages that deal with driving and cell phones too
GodBless
I hope this helps. if I can do more please let me know.
John Coates
http://www.rfsafe.com/Seager.htm
Also linked to home page
Mrs. Seager's
Reply
----- Original
Message -----
From: Amy Seager
Sent: Friday, August 22, 2003 2:23
Subject: Re: Your safety tips to drivers if they will be using a
cell phone.....
Oh, John, I am so sorry. What was your girl's name? How old was
she? Is there a picture on your site?
Because of what happened to my girls, I've read some about the
radiation risks, but don't know a lot.
When I was contacting attorneys about starting a class action
suit against the CTIA, one of them informed me about the
radiation suit and how it had been dismissed even though they
had plenty of evidence. He wasn't enthusiastic about going up
against the industry again. The CTIA simply enrages me with
their careless disregard about human life. They are constantly
pushing the headsets for drivers, when they know full well that
there is no safety advantage. And they are forever comparing the
distraction of a phone with eating a hamburger when they are
fully aware of the experts' conclusions on the matter.
Meanwhile, every year, thousands are killed.
My husband is on his cell all the time (except while driving, of
course) and after what you told me, now I'm worried about him. I
will look into getting him a shield.
Thank you for adding the links and my warning to your site. I am
working on updating my site and will add a reciprocal link to
yours.
Amy
RF Safe's Reply
----- Original
Message -----
Dear Amy,
The damage to my Girl was done in the first weeks of pregnancy
that resulted in her living only 15 minutes or so after birth.
On the birth and death certificates we chose the name Angel
Leigh Coates, to depict our true feeling that she is now an
Angel among us in heaven.
As far as the CTIA goes, they only flip cards for the hands that
feed it! Dedicated to only one thing – “protecting sustained
growth for overall profitability of the wireless industry” They
have threatened me in the past but my Internet presents was not
affected. However pressure from the CTIA has added pressure on
the FTC to water down fears over RF Safety.
This is done by not offering any other methods of gauging health
effects except those offered by industry-funded programs. CTIA
has only supported SAR Levels developed by the IEEE. these
standards measure the heat generated by the phones radiation
output and does not consider any biological effects whatsoever!
In a decision released August 14, the FCC admitted that there
was a "dearth of [scientific] information" concerning the health
effects of RF radiation. The FCC noted that only the industry
proposals (ANSI/IEEE) were submitted for its consideration. The
FCC said that it would open a fact-finding proceeding when
"reliable pertinent information [was] developed."
This clearly tells the truth of the matter that an industry was
again given the power to regulate itself. In 1996 the Federal
Telecommunications Act was passed by the House and Senate and
signed into law by President Clinton. It was enacted to regulate
and govern the new technologies of the electromagnetic
(wireless) telecommunications industry. This act, while
necessary to a growing industry and technology, is biased in
favor of the telecommunication companies over the public
interest in that the current law prohibits local communities
(states, cities, townships etc.) from having any jurisdiction
over the sitting of cellular base station antennas with regard
to health and safety issues. Legal scholars are of the opinion
that many facets of The Federal Telecommunications act are in
fact unconstitutional under the first and tenth amendments.
The effects of this kind of bombardment and interaction of RF
radiation have never been studied as the FCC recognized on
August 14 and to preclude local safety and health concerns is
preposterous. We feel that caution is required when the
technology implemented by industry (supported by government)
exceeds our capacity to understand it's long-term social and
environmental effects. In the case of electromagnetic radiation
it may be decades before we fully realize the consequences of
our actions. Unfortunately there have been many instances in our
country's history where we have not proceeded with caution with
regard to health and public safety concerns. (Tobacco, Asbestos,
etc.) I fear unless we take a common sense approach we will be
condemned to repeat our past mistakes.
I have always taken the approach that I had to build my own
media for people to find the truth about cell phone hazards. The
Internet gave me a platform for people to hear my voice side by
side with the industry. Without this information consumers
cannot make an informed decision. My goal is to build so many
WebPages that no matter what people search for they will be
exposed to the warnings we both have for all cell phone users
when looking for anything about cell phones online. Not only
must I continue to build a media to support my educating the
public, I must provide the solutions for changing an industry
that is way off track with regards to public safety!
My willingness to support you (Driving issues) and any effort to
balance the so-called dearth of scientific research goes
unmatched. Supporting new private studies and public awareness
efforts fits well with my vision for rfsafe I posted in 1998 "To
become a self supportive charity for mankind to lessen or leave
no impact on the environment and life from the use of new
wireless technologies, putting safety first!"
RF Safe has a growing number of websites and retail
establishments around the world that support our awareness
efforts in RF Safety. This explosive growth in name recognition
for total RFS solutions is responsible for our projection of
becoming a household name in the cellular safety market place.
Educating the public is priority #1 - Real life facts!
Please consider this mutually beneficial awareness endeavor, or
please pass it alone to anyone you may run into that wishes to
join my battle to inform the public of the real hazards of
owning a cell phone and how to use it safely!
Please help me make
your points on driving issues, everyone looking up cell phone
laws online finds my site - now let them find the truth!
Thank you
John Coates
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