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To: Mark Dunn
20 April 2004
Mr Dunn
I was glad to have the opportunity to speak with you last night in Chichester, and indeed look forward to receiving any reply at all to any of the questions I have asked since February.
You mentioned Dr Gerard Hyland in the case of the Gower planning situation. In the light of our conversation relating to pulsed EMFs having a biological effect and being used in medicine, and your suggestion that this was irrelevant in the case of TETRA base stations, I thought you might be interested in this very recent reply from Dr Hyland to the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Mobile Phones, regarding safe power levels:
"DR HYLAND: It is lower. Much lower. The guidelines are fixated with intensities; that simply means, if you could see it, how bright the light would be. The point is that living organisms are sensitive not just to the brightness but to the colour – that means microwave, which is a sort of invisible colour – and also to the fact that the radiation is emitted in bursts at a rate that the brain recognises. The brain can detect electro-magnetic signals which are 100 billion times lower than you would find near the base station. The base stations thereby constitute a significant perturbation on the natural levels of microwave radiation that come from the sun and outer space. Although numerically the numbers look very small, they are a huge alteration in the natural environment within which life has evolved, and this has occurred over a very, very short time, so we have not been able to develop any evolutionary immunity to it. It has boomed in the last ten years."
My personal circumstances regarding adverse health effects are very far from being unique. The use of any electronic system that affects the physical well-being of a population at a distance and at will, such as is the case with TETRA, must surely run counter to every principle of ethical and effective policing.
The meeting last night did a very great disservice to open police consultation, ending as it did with an abrupt refusal to answer the very reasonable question: "why not monitor the health of people living around TETRA base stations?" Only a public meeting involving the whole of Sussex, residents and police with any expert you wish to field, will begin to meet the public concerns. But I fear this kind of discussion and debate to bring out the full facts is something that you and Sussex Police Force do not wish to happen.
regards
Andy Davidson
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