I write today not as an engineer, nor as the founder of RF Safe, nor even as a decades-long campaigner against electromagnetic pollution. I write as a father whose first child died after a pregnancy bathed in what we then thought was “safe” wireless radiation—and as a father whose seven-year-old daughter goes to school beneath the shadow of a powerful cell tower antenna that I am legally forbidden to protest on health grounds.
For years the wireless debate felt like a muddle of competing studies, lobbyist talking points, and technical jargon. That fog has lifted. In April 2025 the World Health Organization delivered two systematic reviews that leave no daylight for doubt:
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High-certainty evidence that everyday phone-level radiation causes two rare but fatal cancers in animals—the same tumors rising in heavy mobile-phone users.
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Moderate-to-high-certainty evidence that the same radiation shreds sperm DNA, scrambles hormones, and chips away at the human fertility bedrock.
These are not fringe papers. They are WHO-commissioned, peer-reviewed, and signed off by toxicologists who have spent their lives setting global safety standards. The verdict is final: wireless radiation, at intensities well below our federal limits, harms living tissue—especially the rapidly dividing cells of children.
So why are cell towers still sprouting beside playgrounds, daycare centers, and bedroom windows? Why can my town council approve a 60-foot 5 G pole in front of an elementary school even after every parent in the district begs them not to?
Because of Section 704 of the 1996 Telecommunications Act—a 62-word clause that says local governments may not block a wireless installation “on the basis of the environmental [read: health] effects” of radio-frequency emissions. Your mayor can object to an ugly paint color or a broken sidewalk; she cannot object to a proven carcinogen soaking a kindergarten. That gag order was written by telecom lawyers, rubber-stamped by Congress, and signed by President Bill Clinton.
And here is where the spotlight swings to the Oval Office today. Section 704 was born with a presidential signature, and only a president can lead the fight to erase it. We have one man—Donald J. Trump—who campaigned on protecting American children, on draining the swamp, on ending corporate capture. But if President Trump does not act now, Section 704 becomes his law. The tumors in teenagers, the sperm-count crash, the sleepless, anxious classrooms—those outcomes will no longer trace back to Clinton’s pen; they will trace to Trump’s silence.
This Is Not About Technology Anymore
Give an honest engineer a safety target and she will hit it. We already know how to route data through fiber, through light-based Li-Fi, through space-based broadband that keeps high-power transmitters hundreds of miles overhead. We can throttle handset emissions, redesign antennas, and hard-wire every classroom in America. The obstacle is not silicon—it is statute.
Section 704 turned the Federal Communications Commission into the sole health gatekeeper—and the FCC still clings to exposure limits drafted when pagers were cool and toddlers didn’t fall asleep with tablets glowing on their pillows. Three years ago a federal court told the FCC those limits were scientifically indefensible. The agency shrugged, industry cheered, and the White House moved on.
When science is conclusive and technology is adaptable, continued harm is no longer an accident; it is policy violence. And policy violence is always a moral choice made by the people in power.
Mr. President, History Is Knocking
President Trump, you fought for every precinct, every vote, every recount to earn your return to the White House. Will you fight with equal ferocity for the brains, bodies, and futures of America’s children?
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You can order the FCC—today—to open an emergency rule-making and align exposure caps with the WHO tumor threshold.
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You can direct the Department of Justice to draft a one-page bill repealing Section 704 and send it to Congress with your full backing.
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You can revive the National Toxicology Program’s RF division that was quietly strangled after it discovered phone-level radiation breaks DNA.
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You can challenge Silicon Valley to build the first zero-SAR smartphone, the way JFK challenged NASA to reach the moon.
Or you can leave Section 704 untouched, and every antenna that lights up a child’s bedroom window after this day will carry your presidential seal. There will be no one else to blame—not vaccine makers, not food-dye chemists, not previous administrations. The buck—and the beam—will stop with you.
A Parent-to-Parent Plea
Fellow Americans, we have argued among ourselves for years about what is hurting our kids. Some blame glyphosate, some blame screen time, some blame the frantic pace of modern life. All those factors matter, but none of them has been written into federal law as untouchable. Only wireless radiation has been granted that perverse immunity—a biological pollutant shielded by statute from democratic challenge.
We need one hashtag, one message, one unified demand:
#TrumpRepeal704
Not next year. Not after another round of industry workshops. Now.
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Post it every time a 5 G pole appears on your street.
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Write it on envelopes you send to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
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Slip it into PTA minutes, church bulletins, and school-board live chats.
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Ask every talk-radio host why the president who promises to fight for families hasn’t fought to lift the federal gag that keeps those families powerless.
The Measure of a Leader
Presidents are judged by the crises they confront and the ones they ignore. Lincoln faced secession, Roosevelt faced depression, Reagan faced a wall. Donald Trump now faces an invisible epidemic amplified by a visible legal mistake.
Mr. President, repeal Section 704 and we will remember you as the leader who unshackled parents, freed local democracy, and ignited a safer tech renaissance. Leave it on the books, and every headline of rising brain tumors, falling fertility, and sleepless children will carry an implicit byline: “Permitted under the Trump standard of care.”
The laboratories have finished their work. The engineers stand ready. All that remains is the courage to sign a different piece of paper. Will you sign for America’s children—or will you sign off on their sacrifice?