As is expected from politicians who know only how to pretend to know about things, a liberal Maine House member, Andrea Boland, is pushing for legislation that would place warnings on cell phones stating that they cause brain cancer. Is Boland an engineer? No. Is she a medical specialist of any sort? No. Is she a physicist with extensive knowledge of radioactive materials? Absolutely not. According to http://www.maine.gov, she is actually a real estate title examiner and an independent distributor of nutritional products. As for her education, “she graduated from Elmira College in New York with a B.A. in international relations and French… studied for a year at the University of Paris at the Political Science Institute and earned her M.A. in business administration from Northeastern University.” Apparently, a fluent knowledge of French qualifies her to know about the health effects of cell phone use…

In reality, there is no scientific consensus that cell phones cause brain cancer (here’s a great article), but that inconvenient truth is not going to get in the way of liberal encroachments on the free market. The question is, why would a politician try to present legislation that is not backed by real evidence if not for political gain? Time and time again, Democrats try to panic everyone over some false crisis and use this as an excuse to expand their power, tax more, spend more, intervene in the free market, and violate individual rights. The real crisis is the lack of logic on the part of leftists and liberals who simply take politicians’ word on technical issues and support legislation that ends up concentrating more power in the hands of the state. Though Boland’s incompetence will not affect us nationally (at least I don’t think so), it is another example of how these leftists chip away at freedom with the big government chisel on the small and large scale. The place to stop these types of people is when they are simply local politicians, when they are community organizers, and when their socialistic careers start taking form. Stopping them early is the only way to prevent their ascent to the national stage where they can cause, and currently are causing, all sorts of problems. The way to stop politicians like this is simple: blast away political agendas with cold hard facts.

As an aside, there are two reasons why Boland should not be concerned with cell phone brain cancer: first, the scientific community has not determined that cell phone use causes brain cancer (that’s the big one) and second, brain cancer can only develop in brain tissue. You can sleep safe, Andrea.

-AG