Conservative Candidates for Mayor and City Council Debate Incumbents On Smart Cities
Which Candidates Will Stop The Surveillance?
Pictured from left: Brian Winkler, Clark Albritton, and Roger Garlock, Coeur d’Alene City Council challengers
(Coeur d’Alene, Idaho) — Coeur d’Alene City Council incumbents Christie Wood, Dan English, and Dan Gookin were largely on the defense last Sunday night, October 1, 2023, at the StopSmartCities.com candidate panel at The Altar Church, which focused on the threatening advent of 5G surveillance technology currently creeping into American cities.
The advent of “Smart Cities” fueled by 5G technology are particularly relevant to Coeur d’Alene and Hayden, as they are foundational to the implementation of the United Nations (UN) Agenda 2030- a planetary framework to homogenize and surveil the global population. Under the incumbents’ tenure, this framework has been in active implementation in the political shadows of Coeur d’Alene without public participation for over 20 years. To evade public knowledge and interference, the program has undergone three rebrandings since its inception in the early 2000s. The program first became publicly labeled as CDA 2020, then nearly a decade ago the name was changed to CDA 2030, and, as of January 2023, has been renamed as Connect Kootenai.
CONNECT KOOTENAI, FORMERLY KNOWN AS AGENDA 2030
One of the most poignant questions of the evening referred to whether or not candidates believed that the various unannounced closed door meetings that have been happening between the taxpayer funded, UN fostered Connect Kootenai and city officials were in ethical or legal violation of Idaho’s open meetings laws.
Conservative Coeur d’Alene candidates Clark Albritton, Roger Garlock, and Brian Winkler all took ethical issue with the secret meetings, and pledged to combat tenets of Connect Kootenai in Coeur d’Alene.
Coeur d’Alene conservative city council challenger Brian Winkler called out taxpayer funding of Connect Kootenai:
“The city [of Coeur d’Alene] pays [Connect Kootenai] $40,000 a year… if I’m elected, I want to look at all the money we’re spending on NGOs (Non Governmental Organizations), dark money organizations, and consultancies. I do think we should be more authentically engaged with the public, and not some global NGO.”
Roger Garlock - Candidate for Coeur d’Alene City Council
The audience could practically hear a pin drop after Roger Garlock, another conservative city council challenger in Coeur d’Alene, added that:
“[taxpayer funding of Connect Kootenai] has been as high as $70,000 in the past…it’s a homogenization of our cities. It destroys our culture…Has anybody ever been to a [Connect Kootenai] meeting? No. It’s a secret organization that takes taxpayer monies…we can defund them at the city level.”
Incumbent Coeur d’Alene city councilor Dan Gookin simultaneously managed not to answer the question about what he planned to do to stop the UN agenda, and passed the buck of responsibility for what’s been allowed to happen under his tenure to the state legislators.
“I tried every year at the budgeting process to unfund [Connect Kootenai], and I tried again this year…Regarding the 17 points in the UN document- and it’s true, there are 17 issues that have to be covered- we are required by state law to put that in our comprehensive plan…When I saw that it was in Idaho state code, I called up Mary Souza, my senator at the time…because we take our orders from them.”
Is anyone surprised that Gookin was bold enough to openly admit that Coeur d’Alene city councilors are derelict in their duty to represent the city’s citizens, opting instead to take UN marching orders directly from the Idaho state legislature?
ADVERSE HEALTH EFFECTS OF 5G
Adverse health effects of continuous exposure to 5G small cell millimeter wave transmitters were also discussed as a primary public concern. With placement of a transmitter roughly every 10 to 200 meters, the health effects are anticipated to be significant, particularly for children, whose rapidly developing brains absorb ten times the radiation compared to adults, whose skulls are thicker. Yale studies have even linked exposure to cellular radiation (5G or otherwise) to irreversible ADHD behaviors and structural deformities in the brain.
Panelists for Coeur d’Alene were asked if they would be willing to craft ordinances to make building 5G towers within the city difficult.
Conservative Coeur d’Alene city council challenger Clark Albritton says health consequences have “to come first” when considering 5G.
Coeur d’Alene city council conservative challenger Clark Albritton lamented that under the current city council, “the priority always goes to the guy with a lot of money because we’re afraid he might sue us.” He affirmed his willingness to make cellular tower approval more difficult, stating that health consequences have “to come first” when considering whether or not to implement 5G locally.
Brian Winkler got more specific, listing the myriad health effects of concern currently known to researchers by stating,
“RFR exposures are associated with a range of health effects, including cardiomyopathy, carcinogenicity, DNA damage, neurological effects, increased permeability of the blood brain barrier, and sperm damage.”
He pledged to emulate what Dalton Gardens citizens achieved by thwarting new cellular tower installations.
Coeur d’Alene city council conservative challenger Brian Winkler lists the health effects of RFR exposures
Christie Wood, Coeur d’Alene incumbent city councilor, took the all-too-familiar angle that community safety should outweigh freedom in the context of 5G and traffic monitoring system surveillance technology, the latter of which was recently voted down by the KMPO in light of overwhelming community opposition. Wood claimed that current license plate monitoring systems that are already utilized are “so low res[olution], you really can’t see faces,” and that they have already been used “for abducted children.” She offered no specific examples of children rescued by the current controversial “traffic” (i.e. citizen) surveillance systems, or which systems specifically led to any rescues.
The city of Coeur d’Alene requires public records requests to obtain the locations and placement of current 5G small cell millimeter wave transmitters.
Coeur d’Alene incumbent councilor Dan English gave no clear answer to the question, also opting to deflect blame to both the state and federal government for the imposition of 5G in Coeur d’Alene under his tenure.
“I really resent that the federal government can tell us that we can’t regulate something like that. I tell ya, I really resent our [state] legislature telling us that we can’t regulate some of those things at a local level.”
Incumbent Coeur d’Alene city councilor Dan English deflects blame for 5G onto state and federal officials.
In the same breath, Dan English justified the federal and state intervention that he claimed to lament by saying “we can’t kinda live without [5G].” His claims are false, of course, because the vast majority of north Idahoans have been living just fine so far without it.
POPULATION DENSITY
The intertwining of population density and high density housing into the Hayden and Coeur d’Alene Comprehensive Plans and Urban Renewal Districts (URDs) also took center stage. Density of both housing and population is central to the implementation of the UN’s globalist surveillance agenda. Without population density, 5G small cell millimeter wave transmitters cannot as effectively be used to surveil the population, as they require placement roughly every 200 meters to effectively create a “smart city network.”
The Coeur d’Alene Comprehensive Plan, for example, is a 20 year prescriptive agenda to “help guide future growth” and “serve as a strategic plan for the community,” according to the City of Coeur d’Alene’s website, and has been crafted by the “planning Commission and City Council, the public, CDA 2030,” (now known as Connect Kootenai) and others. Urban Renewal Districts are taxpayer funded areas targeted for development within a given city, and are thus critical to the execution of a city’s comprehensive plans.
Asked if they support measures like high density, multi family housing and changing city comprehensive plans to fit more of what the public wants and less of what globalist autocrats want, conservative candidates Tom Shafer for Hayden city council, Luke Sommer for Hayden Mayor, and Brian Winkler for Coeur d’Alene city council all stated that they are in favor of changing comprehensive plans to emphasize single family housing instead of high density housing.
Tom Shafer, conservative for Hayden city council
Shafer, a software engineer running for Hayden city council, took the crowd a bit deeper into the financial rabbit hole of Urban Renewal Districts, highlighting the ludicrous tax collection schemes they create, which shifts a vastly uneven portion of tax responsibility to the taxpayers.
“Current tax structures for the [Hayden] Urban Renewal Agency (HURA)…shift the burden on people outside the [Urban Renewal] zones.”
Shafer accounted that Walmart, for example, paid the Hayden Urban Renewal Agency $80,000 in taxes one year, but only paid the city of Hayden $870 in taxes that same year. He added,
“The current executive director of HURA is the former community development planner for the city of Hayden…connect the dots. It’s problematic at best.”
Incumbent Christie Wood avoided even acknowledging what role a comprehensive plan has in the formation of smart cities, and also avoided taking a clear stance on the issue, stating,
“And when we talk about smart cities, I’m not even sure I’m smart cities. It really takes a lot of digging down into that issue.”
Coeur d’Alene city council incumbent Wood is okay with only “some” mixed use areas being “market driven.”
Wood also declared that she was okay with only “some” mixed use areas of Coeur d’Alene being “market driven,” and that she “opposed numerous projects that don’t make any sense…I will always vote against that.” Wood offered no examples of projects that she felt “don’t make any sense.”
STOPPING THE UN IN NORTH IDAHO
Closing statements for incumbents adopted a broadly apologist tone for the 5G dystopian future being ushered into Coeur d’Alene under their tenure.
Christie Wood, for example, testified that she had a “2008 SUV with no Bluetooth,” and a “crappy Mercedes” in a somewhat desperate attempt to relate to the middle class. Wood also added that she is not going to let Coeur d’Alene “turn into” San Francisco, because she supports law enforcement. English decided to appeal to his extensive history living in North Idaho, and Dan Gookin begged voters to eschew empirical historic patterns and abandon logical deductive reasoning about the direction in which North Idaho is obviously heading.
Conservative Coeur d’Alene city council candidate Brian Winkler, a former Marine Officer, unsurprisingly took broader aim with some key strategic observations about how to sever the globalist hydra’s many heads:
“If you go to any fortune 500 company and you look at the top institutional investors…it’s Blackrock, Vanguard and State Street…so this is absolutely an agenda that's been driven top down...If you look at how things have evolved since covid, everything is moving towards centralization…monopoly capital is a very dangerous thing. That’s the definition of fascism. I don’t want to see this place go the way of Seattle, the way of San Francisco. And that’s where we’re heading.”
He testified that his experience in corporate America has given him a valuable perspective in the understanding of the cost, inner workings, and origins of the problems that need addressing.
Roger Garlock, conservative city council challenger for Coeur d’Alene, asserts, “it’s time to elect somebody with the public.”
Coeur d’Alene city council conservative challenger Roger Garlock shifted the conversation from Winkler’s profile on the enemy at the gates by bringing the conversation to the local battleground on which said enemies will be stopped:
“We’ve pointed a lot of fingers tonight- whether it’s at the state or cities’ councils- but really [the responsibility] lies with all of us. And so on November 7th, it’s time to elect somebody with the public, who has been there with the public for a long time.”
“The bottom line is we need a clean sweep,” says conservative Coeur d’Alene city council challenger Clark Albritton.
And of course, Coeur d’Alene conservative city council challenger Clark Albritton summed the entire evening up with a call to action to remove the currently impotent Coeur d’Alene city council members.
“The bottom line is, we need a clean sweep, because the future in front of us is dangerous…we have the same team [that] has been in place for a very long time, and yet it's business as usual. So my recommendation is make a change, and put in people that will represent the interest of the citizens and the voters.”
