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Massachusetts During Columbus Day Wind Turbine Oppression Continues

In memory of Jack Alexander as he was unable to leave the property he loved. Wind development destroyed his peace and tranquility.

Massachusetts residents who live in close proximity to commercial wind turbines have experienced symptoms that include decreased quality of life, annoyance, stress, sleep disturbance, headache, anxiety, depression, and cognitive dysfunction.

Comprehensive peer-reviewed information prepared by medical doctors, pathologists and engineers strongly warn of major physiological consequences of living too close to industrial wind turbines.

In Massachusetts, no wind turbine project goes up without a fight that involves massive litigation and the devaluation of the homes around the poorly placed wind turbines.

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Today Massachusetts celebrates Columbus Day where hundreds of years ago the indigenous people suffered from deadly smallpox epidemics and had their land seized by settlers. Christopher Columbus and his shipmates treated the indigenous groups they came across as obstacles to their greater agenda. The holiday after 300 years in the rest of the country is known as Indigenous Peoples Day.

Native Americans during Thanksgiving has a National Day of Mourning on Cole's Hill in Plymouth to protest the oppression. Today Plymouth has the four largest wind turbines in the state of Massachusetts. Nothing has changed.

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After all this time our Beacon Hill politicians continue to take the health and property rights of citizens in twenty-one communities with poorly placed wind turbines to an even greater wind turbine agenda.

Massachusetts politicians have learned nothing, in fact, they have declared an all-out war on fossil fuels that takes your health and property rights for a wind turbine agenda gone horribly wrong.

The Massachusetts political agenda of concern that energy production from fossil fuels contributes to climate change does not justify taking the health and property rights of homeowners who purchased homes in residential neighborhoods with commercial megawatt wind turbines in their back yards.

Everyone in Massachusetts has heard the stories of residents who live around the wind turbines. It's at a point where everyone knows someone who needs drugs to go to sleep or has to live in their basement to get away from the noise and shadow flicker.

We all know people who have had to leave their homes for long periods of times to get away from the noise.
The constant two distinct types of noise from the wind turbines measured in decibels and low-frequency infrasound are like Chinese water torture.

We have even heard of people who were driven to suicide as a result of the noise when they had nowhere else to go.

In memory of Jack Alexander as he was unable to leave the property he loved. Wind development destroyed his peace and tranquility.

His suicide should have been prevented if the DEP, BOH AG, governor, ... intervened to protect public health. Jack was tormented by the wind turbine demons: audible and inaudible (infra-sound).

His last words to friends; "I can't take it any more, I don't know what to do, ... something must change".

Jack died alone on a cold winter night at one of his favorite places beneath those damn wind turbines.

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