It's Good to be Loved

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Update:  As of 2/20/12 we are about to hit the 10,000 mark for number of page views on our site since we first started it in September 2011.  Thank you for following this important issue and letting us help educate the communities affected with the best information we have been able to find, summarize and post for you here!  Please check the Events tab at the top of the Home page for the upcoming events where you can get involved and help us make a difference for the sake of ALL our children throughout DeKalb County and the state of Georgia!

GTCO-ATL stats (all-time) by country, in case anyone is curious.  Our FB page is doing well, too, even though we have been out of commission for a short while.  We appreciate the followers sticking with us and promise to update you on whatever new things we find out for as long as we are able to remain involved.  Remember, we are NOT activists.  This is an issue that was placed into our laps for no good reason.  Everywhere we went to get answers ended up giving us more questions and a lot of conflicting stories. 

That is how this blog was formed and why we are still trying to get someone to explain this mess to us and everyone else who will be affected.  A simple, truthful answer would have been all it took from the beginning.  But, it started, for us with a misleading flyer that gave us no choice but to try to understand the reasons behind these decisions ourselves.  And, if you have any ideas yourself, please comment on any of our blogs as subjective therories are not scoffed at as they are truly all we have to go on.  And that goes for any of us - if you are reading this with mild curiosity, start from the beginning and work your way up.  Soon you will see that the only people smiling are the ones who don't realize that if it happens to us, it will soon be happening to you. 

And, please, if you have not already done so, you can still sign the petition and add your comments at www.thepetitionsite.com/1/GTCO-ATL.  It is countywide opposition to this issue which should concern all of us for the sake of the children. 

All other agendas aside, we cannot do this to them.  They need the adults to act like responsible people and consider whether this whole thing is really what is best for them.  If you don't know the answer, you shouldn't be in favor of cell towers at schools.  We don't want towers near our homes or kids.  We don't mind them in the areas that are already zoned for them... or vacant lots.  We don't want these big businesses to push us around.  They should pay their taxes like we do.  They should use their own electricity and mess up their own roads.  Why should we have to pay for their nuisance and then pay the outrageous cost of a phone system that does not even require an infrastructure for them to maintain?  It's wireless, remember??  It should cost us LESS, not MORE!