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Government Emergency Messages On Your Cellphone: Valuable Information, or an Attempt to Scare You Into Submission?
As I explained
Monday, the Neoconservatives used fear to scare people into submission.
Obama used the emotions of "hope" and "change" to rally his base, but
has now largely abandoned those themes in favor of fear.
Indeed, as the Boston Herald notes, President Obama will soon be able to reach out and scare the dickens out of you wherever you are:
President
Obama could soon have the ability to personally text message every
single cell-phone-toting American -— whether they like it or not — with
“critical emergency alerts” under a new federal program that civil
libertarians and political opponents say is a Big Brother-like
intrusion posing a high risk of political abuse.
Federal
officials in New York yesterday unveiled the three-tiered emergency
alert system that would blast messages about Amber Alerts, impending
weather disasters and terror threats to mobile devices.
Cell-phone users could opt out of most alerts if they want to, but not the texter-in-chief’s presidential pages.
“It’s
like the state rep sending out mailings about how wonderful they are,”
said Tad Kasperowicz of the Quincy Tea Party. “President Obama
says,’Here come the high winds and the thunderstorms’ and it’s not
really an emergency, but, hey, he gets his name out to every cell phone
in the area. I can see that. Absolutely. There’s potential for abuse
there.”
A special chip, which some smartphones already have,
allows the phone to receive the messages. All phones will be required
to have to the chip by next year.
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Officials hope to have the
alert system up and running in New York and Washington, D.C. by the end
of the year and ultimately installed throughout the country.
Of course, the emergency alerts could hypothetically be useful, if used
sparingly, only in real emergencies, and only in a way which helps
people. But given that the government has used claims of "national
security" to effect all sorts of shenanigans, it's hard to believe that
the system would not be used for political purposes. See this, this, this, this and this. (Remember that peaceful protest is now considered "low-level terrorism", as shown here, here, here and here.)
Indeed, fear is the main tool which governments have to motivate, pacify and control their people.
And as the Herald points out, the new emergency chips might do more than just receive incoming messages:
Some
critics worry about the government’s ability to identify cell phone
users by location -- officials can limit alerts to customers in a
specific radius.
“If you can send a message to people based on
their location, you can identify or pinpoint them based on their
location,” said Marc Rotenberg of the Electronic Privacy Information
Center. “We may need to look at this a little more carefully.”
“I
always like hearing from my government,” said Cambridge civil
liberties attorney Harvey Silverglate. “But I’m awfully curious what
else this chip can do.”
If you want to go down the rabbit hole regarding the implications of this new program and similar programs, read this.
And see this:
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...and the ultra liberals. Have we forgotten the lessons of 2008?
I'm sure they just want to give us a quick heads up on the status of QE3 so we can adjust out portfolios accordingly!
Does this mean IPHONE sales will be down to short AAPL? F the bitchezz/ I used a prepaid cell phone and if I leave it home could'nt give a f. Who cares what Cell phone you have. Sheeples and their fucking show off toys.
I must confess: I forgot my cell phone the other day and missed 7 calls...half of them from my mom...yes, ditch the phones!
Errr...not all have cellphones.
Welfare hasn't paid for mine yet.
Apperently you live in the 57th state that sucks ass. Here in the appalachians all you have to do is breed with random sperm donors to collect 1500 per child, get a mobile to stay in touch with potential employers and get a car to travel to interviews. Go females! Dress your daughters like prostitots, get 'em pregers and your in for 2 grand per child per month. Gotta love the workin' stiff. Thanks aunt Nancy!
In a serious emergency the people that would most likely need to get the messages won't because the cell system is usually the first thing to go out or get overwhelmed.
Oh, and by the way, fuck off- I already get too many government messages.
On September 11th, 2001, I lay in a gutter at 16th and K St. N.W., Washington, D.C.. The fear instilled in me from the Cuban missel crisis washing over my being as a mushroom cloud of burning jet fuel rose over Arlington, VA. The entire State Department in the street surrounding me, rapidly and desperatley tapping for connection to cell towers in short term memory loss.
Get fucked by a mule you government bastards and bitches!!!!!!!!!
People died because of decisions like this.
I WILL NEVER FORGET AND NEVER FORGIVE.
My cellphone has no internal memory, and can barely display SMS (which however cannot arrive, because i intentionally let it out of memory, so that i can no longer receive spam. I did this, after the provider rejected my request to stop spamming me). Go fuck you smartphones and all this shit. The only way you will get my equipment turned into trojan horses, is via my dead body.
Ring Ring Ring Ring Ring Ring Ring Obamaphone
Cellular
Modular
INTERACTIVE-odular!
Attention!!!!!
We are at Defcon 1!!!!.
IF we are not melted, VOTE Democrap..........(;
This warning brought to you by your friends at SEIU.
Now that I think about it, or not, I am not smart enough to think and act for myself and I would really appreciate it if the government could just send me messages constantly telling me what to think, where to go, and let me know how I shouuld feel at any moment in time. This would simplify my life and allow me the alloted time I need to watch more television- approved programing only of course.
1984. Why can't people opt out? Oh thats right...Unions and FOO (friends of Obama) will be anble to.
Next thing you know a return text of your location and physical PM holdings will be legislated and mandated, for our safety of course
consider it may not be the voice of a man
speaking with regardds the implications of
this but the meaning is in the technology,
connectivity, and the potential these technologies
are presenting. seduction gone full machine like?
are we being seduced by machines, the mind being
seduced or otherwise copulated with?
It seems the farther we literally get from 1984, the closer we get to it figuratively.
If you protest, you are a soft terrorist? Does that mean that if you block AMBER alerts that you will be branded a soft pedophile?
Heh, yeah. And the justifications for such violations of your private parts these days seems to be of the "if you find it uncomfortable having a microscope up your ass 24/7/365 you must be some sort of pervert" variety....??
Two words: Reverse Engineering.
(void where prohibited)
Hmmm. The next false flag attempt re the terrorist straw man is already being planned; especially since the Osama thing fooled all the sheeple. Per Chuckie Schumer, we now are to be groped everywhere.
Hey George! This, this, this, and this are still incredibly annoying (if it is important enough to reference it is important enough to summarize).
But you are right on the mark on this one. This idea is so ripe for abusive and blatant politicizing and other shenanigans it isn't even funny, it's scary.
I'm open to suggestions for providing links to original source information while not making an already long piece even longer.
haha - GW is the king of the this, this, and this's - I kinda like it though
The first of these 'alerts' I get, will be the day I take my phone to Verizon and make a scene of returning it. Ma Bell just may have a comeback!
Gee........I wonder..............
Any collective idea can be twisted into a justification for moronic, fear based psychosis.
It's a shame to let a moronic, fear based psychosis go to waste. Ask Glenn Beck.
bad sheep.
Beck does his research...you or Rep Wiener obviously don't. Keep barking the jingoisms, they provide humor to aq lot of people.
apparently feary-scary works better long term than hopey-changey is the lesson we learned I guess
Hopey changey is definitely more effective.
Unfortunately, it can only be used short term as eventually, people start to realise that 'the change' has not been delivered.
Not nearly as scared as the fuckers inside the beltway.
Hann,
Their not scared, their too frigging arrogant to be afraid.
Some douchebag Congress crittter was submitting a Bill,to ban anyone from having a firearm within 1000' of a beltway whore.
Like a 1000' meant shit.
'Don't Run, You'll Just Die Tired.'
What doucheb#gs
All stop to watch Big Brother's latest pronouncements, only the fucking TV is always in your pocket.
perhaps it's time to check on some basics.....http://www.gemworld.com/USAvsUS.htm
The Obama administration already calls me all the time. He keeps telling me he wants to help with my mortgage. I keep hanging up.
Who pays for the text messages?
Tax breaks for the carriers, I'm sure.
Emergency!
Michelle's ass is too big to pull off the Jackie/Chanel suit look but I don't know how to break it to her!
Fuck Obama.
I pay off what little deblt I have, buy physical gold/silver, perfect my ammo reloading hobby, ignore phone calls from numbers I don't know, leave the MSM off the T.V. and enjoy time with my family.
This government fears people like me, not the other way around.
edit: I don't even own a cell phone. lol!
Brilliant. I'm taking the exact same path.
In my experience, the closer I stick to values of honesty and truth, the more my family is blessed.
It can be frustrating to watch the lies and manipulation causing these short term moves. But I believe in what I know. And I have faith that in future years the consistant aquisition of PM's will have been a wise decision.
Be Strong.
Firefighter302
As was said many years ago by Chairman Mao: "Political Power" grows out of the barrell of a gun.
Glad to hear it and well said, firefighter302. Our time is coming..
America has 150 million gun owners! The Government can't have that. Get you hands on oa few that aren't registered and hide it! Their coming for guns next. They will say we could be lone wolves!
'Bury a gun and ammo for 15 years':
http://www.backwoodshome.com/articles2/wood115.html
edit: those $99 Mosin M91/30s make excellent cache guns.
That is what they did in the Philippines after Marcos took over and ordered everyone to disarm.
Yeah, that'll go over real big. LOL.
When we hand over our guns, we lose.
I'll be pushing daisies before I do that.
Firefighter302
Ditto
"You can opt out of receiving Imminent Threat and Child Abduction/AMBER alerts, but not Presidential Alerts."
And then the next step will be what, to make it illegal to turn off your mobile device?
http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/consumerfacts/cmas.html
If you block the AMBER alerts, are they going to brand you a potential pedophile or something?
Opt out of the messages, the taxes, the nonsense.
Ditch the phone.