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A group in Santa Fe, New Mexico which includes Arthur Firstenberg a well known activist in the area, is seeking a ban on Wi-Fi signals in public buildings because they say they’re allergic to wireless Internet signals.

Firstenberg is the author of famous book Microwaving Our Planet: The Environmental Impact of the Wireless Revolution which he wrote in 1997 against wireless and microwave communication.

The group wants to start by removing Wi-Fi from libraries and then from all other public buildings. Members of the group claim to be “electro-sensitive” and deserve to be able to live without Wi-Fi. As such they are being “discriminated against” under the Americans with Disabilities Act.

According to Firstenberg:

I walk in, get a headache and I get chest pain and it doesn’t go away right away.

He claims that the telecommunications industry has “suppressed damaging evidence about its technology since at least 1927″.

He is president of the Cellular Phone Task force, a citizens’ group formed in response to the uncontrolled growth of the cellular phone industry. He was electrically injured in 1981 after three years in medical school at the University of California, Irvine. A holistic health practitioner, he also an expert in the effects of technology upon the environment. He has been studying and writing about electromagnetic radiation for the past 15 years.

Government officials have dismissed the fears as groundless, although they are checking the legal situation.

City councillor Ron Trujillo said:

It is not 1692, it is 2008 and g needs to embrace this technology. It is not going away.