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In article <v03s02$fsao$1@dont-email.me>,
 "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

> In Maine, in which those holding a state license may grow marijuana, an
> unlicensed grow operation was busted.
> 
> Why were police suspicious?
> 
> 1) Cardboard-covered windows
> 
> Yeah, 'cuz no one who wants to maintain privacy is ever not doing
> something illegal.
> 
> 2) High electricity consumption
> 
> Serves the perpretrators right for not going green with solar and
> battery storge and staying entirely off grid.
> 
> Gotta love those smart meters. Now, I don't think there was privacy in
> electrical consumption but those were monthly records. These meters
> allow remote access and provide detailed real-time analysis of
> electrical consumption. This helps burglars know when you aren't home

Well, burglars presumably don't have access to the Dept of Water and 
Power's usage meters.

> and gives police all sorts of interesting information about your habits,
> all of which are presumed to be crimes.

And you can't even choose not to be hooked up to their surveillance 
system.

Government is increasingly cracking down on anyone who tries to live 
independently and free of "the system".

Like the woman in Cape Coral, Florida, who was threatened with eviction 
from her own home for daring to live "off the grid". She was generating 
her own electricity and using a rainwater shower and said she had no 
need for city utilities. The court ordered her to hook up to the grid or 
be evicted.

http://www.naturalnews.com/044102_Orwellian_nightmare_off-the-grid_living
_code_ordinances.html#