Smart city foes plan push, starting with data about allies in Chattanooga
Chattanoogans plan old-fashioned media push to get word about dangers of high-tech surveillance and management; website readied
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., April 4, 2023 – Nearly 80 people gather in a planning meeting by Tennessee Neighbors for Liberty to see how they might slow, if not block, the city establishment’s “smart city” plan that a week before got a thumbs-up from the city council.
By David Tulis / NoogaRadio Network
The group’s participants oppose what Glenda Pappu, the liberty group founder, calls a “digital concentration camp.” The control grid relies on exhilarating technology of smart phones, incredibly empowering and freeing, to bring people into a system of monitoring and surveillance, counting on ubiquity of the devices to bring people voluntarily into the system.
Oxford is testing the 15-minute concept, with digital “gates” to keep people from one section out of another, and if the person is past a limit, he will be fined. The scheme involves digital ID that regulates a person’s life by remote parties using social credit scores.
Transportation is the technical means of affecting the smart grid, starting with street monitoring. Electrical vehicles, Evelyn Axelrad says, are vulnerable to weather, hacking, surrounded by claims by people such as President Biden that with electrical charging grid in place, one can cross the continent on the equivalent of one tank of gas.
Eventually, landlords will be commanded to make “green” modifications, so will businesses and churches, and if they cannot pay for the repairs, they may be dispossessed, Mrs. Pappu says.
The group hears part of a presentation by Max Igan through a YouTube presentation. He points out that smart phones are part of the control grid, and no doubt every person in the room, except the children, came to the event at Rib & Loin in Hixson with a smart phone, the day’s leading surveillance device that people voluntarily carry on their persons at all times, even when they go to the bathroom.
“This comes from Europe,” says Evelyn Axelrad, self-exiled from Lake Forest, Calif. “Europe is targeting Chattanooga. It’s really a planned worldwide dominance by elite overlords. I did not know Klaus Schwab — many people don’t even know who he is. What is is talking about — Chattanooga?”
Larry Grohn says the green agenda is forcing an exodus of manufacturing from Germany, which is committed to green agenda. Energy costs there are 5x higher with the devolution of the power grid. “You can’t have a little brownout, because it will completely mess up all the intricate computers that it takes to do all this manufacturing,” he says.
Among the group’s plans:
➤ Website. It will have videos, files, and details on how to take action, meetings, potlucks, town meetings, special events, rendezvous and other means of unifying the labor of fighting the “smart city.”
➤ Door knocking and business owner efforts.
➤ Going on radio, on TV shows, even writing letters to the Times Free Press.
➤ Several members of the group, including Harriette Reid Walser and Bob Biles, filed a petition for injunction in Hamilton County chancery court eight days prior. A judge put off until April 12 a hearing. Among the attorneys involved is Katherine White, a conservative.
The petition seems hastily drawn, with little claim or evidence that the plaintiffs have suffered a concrete, actual injury or harm. Without a showing of particularized injury, a chancellor will not issue an injunction, or a temporary injunction. The court likely will dismiss the petition for lack of standing, a requirement that people in a lawsuit show injury or interest in the matter aggrieved.
“You folks are the phoenix of what was the tea party 10 to 12 years ago. Rise to the occasion,” Mr. Grohn says.
Councilmen Chip Henderson and Ken Smith voted against the plan. Mrs. Pappu says she is disappointed that Darrin Ledford was absent for the vote, whom Mr. Grohn says would have voted “no.”
“I’m totally disappointed in Darrin Ledford,” Mr. Grohn says. “Someone should run against him. “
“Smart city” is a pleasing moniker. But the word is an acronym for “surveillance, monitoring, analysis, reporting and technology,” a concept that shows high ambition disputed by Tennessee Neighbors commoners.