ML19254D640

Statement of Protest Re 791003 Notice of Prehearing Conference Allowing Limited Appearance Statements.Alleges That Limiting Statements to Five Minutes Violates Us Constitution

ML19254D640
Person / Time
Site:	Three Mile Island
Issue date:	10/11/1979
From:	Jun Lee AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED
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NUDOCS 7910290258
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NOTICE CP SPECIAL PEhEEAEING CCNFFJtENCE AND CPPCETUNITY FCE LIMITI'D APPEAEANCE STATEMENTS PECTEST - FIVE-MINUTE TIME Li(IT~;= . .

This is to protest the most recent notice (Cet. 3, 1979) fer the Prehear-ing Conference limitir4 five minutes for limited appearances, his is not only another violation of the U.S. Ccnstitution (freedcm of speech and right to assembly) but a tactic to suppress to the wou d what has and is still occurrirg in the Three Mile Island vicirdty.

Nrire testimony before the NEC in Harrisburg for tc.e licensire of Unit 2 the NEC ignored relevant testimony on safety ud evacuation. I submit that history will repeat itself unless erforts are made to halt this blatant attempt by the SEC to write its own laws and rewrite the U.S. Constitution.

'ihen I personally testified before the h7.C on Unit 2. I report 2d that York Co. had no viable evacuation plant. mis testimony was cc:pletely ignored.

ed Those who sat on the NEC panel never meted nor were any questions ask/ accut evidence to substantiate the lack of eva,cuation plans. 1221 '

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It has been brought to my attention that the EC will not take any limited testimony seriously and that that testimony will be abaclutely disregarded in the considerations for the reopenir4 of TMI Unit 3.

e Since March 28, 79, I have attended most every meeting where the NP.C.

W:,t Ed. and ths CPU were in attendance. Time and again public officials and the press were given precedence over the public with unlimited time.

In stark contrast the public is told "if you write down your questions and send them to us, we will send you the answer'.' or "would you ask me that after the meetir47" The public is constantly imtimidated while Met Ed, the EC and the GPU prcmote their public relations crapaigns.

First our right to Life, Liberty and Happiness are taken away: now ou.

right to protest and freedom of speech are taken away uth the five-minute time limit.

'nye pre. 3arir4 on Unit I at TMI may be an imposition to th NF.C. however, that imposition is nothir4 ccmpared to the sufferir4, uncertainty and the trauma experienced durirg evacuation. We also have the psychological impact to recencile.

In a recent article on American anger, Dr. Samuel Janus, clinical asst, professor of psychiatry at New York Medical College said, "There are signs that people of al3 ages are seething inside" Dr. Farvin Zeporfn, os ychiatric Consultant to Illinois State Eept. of Correction said, "where people were once tense nervcus and anxicus, they're now filled with rage." "It is happen-ing everfwhere. People are reacting with anger to frastrations they once might have laughed off goed-naturedly." Dr. Jackie Soles Assoc. professer of sociology at Georgia State University said, "Pany people feel cheated and shortchanged by the very institutions that are supposed to protect their needs. The government , the oil industry, the power ccmpanies, =edical and

_3-other professions (corglamerates) have taken control of their lives and the public feel they are baird victimized, not helped, by these groups. "

My sense of cutrE6e runs deep and is centered directly on the government.

My husband spent four years in the service of his country - I always believed that right and a sense of justice prevailed in this country but no more. I am a nonviolent person. I abhore the very thought of it but many do not feel as I do,they feel frustration and that the citizen has run cut of options.

It's not the protesters who are violating the constitution it's the U.S.

Governnent who is Suilty of violatir4 the health and well-beir4 of its citizens.

'Ihis continued debasenent of the U.S Constitution is 'done at our cwn peril.

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