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Thank you. Good evening Mr. Mayor,
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Commissioners, City Attorney, City Manager,
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ladies and gentlemen. Cell phones cause
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cancer.
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That's what numerous doctors and
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scientists from all around the world
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have been warning us about for years.
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On May 31st, 2011, the International
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Agency for Research on Cancer, part of
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the World Health Organization, put out a
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report that says your chance of becoming
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a cancer victim doubles once you hit the
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10-year mark of using cell phones for a
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minimum of 30 minutes per day, and yes
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there are industry-funded studies that
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tell us not to worry about cell phones, or
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that it'll take another 20 or 30 years
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of research before we know whether cell
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phones cause cancer.
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In essence, they're telling us to treat
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cell phones like cigarettes 30 years ago.
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I, for one, happen to know that cell
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phones do cause cancer because
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everything we're being warned about by
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the World Health Organization's report
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and prestigious university professors
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like Dr. Devra Davis, fits me. I'm an
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attorney. From 2001 to 2011.
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I used to use cell phones a lot more than
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just 30 minutes a day. I always held it
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in my left hand, up against my left ear,
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and I carried them around in my suit
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jackets' inner pockets. Lo and behold, if
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you were standing close to me, you'd see
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that there's a scar on my left hand, the
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result of nerve tumor removal surgery. If
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you can see the scar, on the left side of
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my head, that's the result of brain
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cancer surgery on August 23rd, 2011.
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That's glioblastoma multiforme level 4.
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On top of that I have an MRI that shows
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a tumor at my aortic bifurcation, right
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where my cell phone sat
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in my suit jackets. So that's one, two,
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three results of having a cell phone
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against my body. If you don't agree just
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read through the booklet that was in the
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box when you bought your cell phone. If
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you have the time to dig through those
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200 or 300 pages, somewhere in there
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you'll see that your cell phone emits a
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type of non-ionized
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radiation into your body, radiation that
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they prefer to talk about as Radio
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Frequency and Specific Absorption Rate.
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Somewhere near the term S.A.R. you'll see
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them asking you to always keep your cell
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phone away from your body because of the
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radiation and by body they mean your
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entire body. So if you're one of the
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people we saw on the news standing in
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line to get your hands on an iPhone 5,
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please be advised that somewhere in that
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manual they're telling you to always
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keep it at least 10 millimeters away
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from your body. That's about an inch. Did
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you know that you're supposed to keep
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that thing an inch away from your body?
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Do your children know that? I'm pretty
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sure that's not what they see on TV or
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anything that we see in cell phone
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commercials. If you pay attention to what
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doctors and scientists are telling us
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about cell phones, look up what it says
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in your cell phone manual and put all of
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that together with the scars you see on
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a growing number of cancer victims like
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me. It should become crystal clear that
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cell phones do cause cancer and that the
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American people are not being properly
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warned about cell phones. Now, ever since
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my surgery, I've been doing all that I
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can to help spread the word about cell
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phone induced cancer. If you spend time
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on Facebook, just look up Pembroke Pines,
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Jimmy Gonzalez. Go through an album that
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I've titled 'Jimmy
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versus cell phone induced cancer' and
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you'll see what I'm talking about.
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I'm here today because I believe my City
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Commission can do something to warn
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adults and their children about keeping
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cell phones away from their bodies. I
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think Pembroke Pines should follow the
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example set forth by San Francisco and
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several City Commissions in California,
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Connecticut, Hawaii, Maine, New York, not to
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mention the nations of India, Canada,
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France, Russia, etc. on this issue. I
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respectfully ask that you read through
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San Francisco's right-to-know ordinance,
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and I brought a copy; the information
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posters that they came up with, and show
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your voters that you too are willing to
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do whatever it takes to warn everybody
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about keeping cell phones away from
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their bodies. Thank you. Thank you, thank
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you much very much Gonzales. You'll
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get that to us? Okay City Clerk, Mr.
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Schwartz? Yes. Jimmy thank you for having
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the courage to come forward to share
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your story. Commissioner Castillo, Jimmy
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lives in your district. I met Jimmy and
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his family a few years ago and several
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months back I learned about the
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infliction and the struggles he was
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going through. What he didn't tell you
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is the man should not be standing here
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today based on the type of cancer he had,
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a life expectancy of 9 to 12 months and
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you're in month 13 or 14. Correct Jimmy?
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Yes. And you got some really good news
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from the doctors recently correct?
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Correct. I'm doing well, as compared to
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many other patients, who unfortunately
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continue to put cell phones against
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their heads. Yeah and again I want to
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thank you for for bringing the awareness
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not only to this community, but your
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continuous effort of ensuring that cell
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phone use and reading the manual
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is most important. Thank You Commissioner.
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Monsieur Casteel you and I to get
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together and to talk a little bit more
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about this and if you will leave your
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name, your address and your phone number
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with the clerk I want us to get together.
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I want to learn more about this. This is
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the first that, first time, that someone
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has come here to talk about this issue
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and I think that if if we're going to
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proceed as a city, the first thing we
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need to do is we need to catch up with
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your fact base, and I think that this is
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a very, very important issue and I want,
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and I want to tell you, when I devote
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myself to something it's 100 percent, so
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if you will leave your name, your address
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and your phone number with the Clerk you
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will get a call from me next week, so
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that we can get together and we can
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start talking about this. We can start
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gathering information and see what the
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best approach for this is. Thank you
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Commissioner.
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How about the hearing earpiece? Better?
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The hearing earpiece is the, the
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Bluetooth, or whatever they want to call
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it; how is that thing getting a message
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from your cell phone? Some, some, thing in
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the ear. Essentially a lot of the people
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that I see wearing it, wear it like an
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earring, so if they say that well it has
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less radiation or Radio Frequency, but
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you're wearing it in your ear all day,
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which one is worse? Okay.
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Well because, Mr. Castilla we want to
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look at this seriously. We will certainly
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be in touch with you. Thank you for coming.
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Thank You Mr. Boucher.
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