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What do we do if OUR Government shuts down the internet?

Posted on 01/28/2011 9:33:26 PM PST by jongaltsr

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To: dragnet2
Twiddler ain't got no QUERTY to it.

/johnny

61 posted on 01/28/2011 10:36:03 PM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: JRandomFreeper

The concept of the keyboard is older than 110 years old.

End of story.


62 posted on 01/28/2011 10:38:01 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: jongaltsr

Cutting off the internet would be the second surest way to unite the American people against the government. The surest way would be to cut off cable/satellite TV.


63 posted on 01/28/2011 10:41:59 PM PST by TigersEye (Who crashed the markets on 9/28/08 and why?)
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To: Baynative

You’ve lived in the “Bay” too long.


64 posted on 01/28/2011 10:44:51 PM PST by antceecee (Bless us Father.. have mercy on us and protect us from evil.)
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To: TigersEye
The surest way would be to cut off cable/satellite TV.

That would be spectacularly ugly.

Miss the Superbowl because of a politician? Bad move, Mr. Politico.

/johnny

65 posted on 01/28/2011 10:48:19 PM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: JRandomFreeper
Oh honey, you're a young'un. The "real" hams know the value of their dots and dashes, and wait until the right moment to liberate us all, as only they will.

I just hope you haven't forgotten your training.

66 posted on 01/28/2011 10:52:52 PM PST by MrsEmmaPeel (a government big enough to give you everything you want, is big enough to take everything you have)
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To: JRandomFreeper

People all over the internet are talking about this very topic... not just political sites.


67 posted on 01/28/2011 10:53:47 PM PST by Minus_The_Bear
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To: JRandomFreeper

Superbowl? Heck, just missing Two and a Half Men or Jersey Shore would send millions of couch potatoes into the streets and they wouldn’t be carrying signs.


68 posted on 01/28/2011 10:54:19 PM PST by TigersEye (Who crashed the markets on 9/28/08 and why?)
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To: jongaltsr

I read to post 25 and did not see it.

GET A FRICKIN CB RADIO!


69 posted on 01/28/2011 10:57:21 PM PST by Jet Jaguar
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To: Texas Fossil
Possibly in CA, but NOT in TX.

You underestimate Californians. Sure we've got hippies and Hollywood types and illegal Mexicans and slackers, but we've also got the largest population of cowboys, ranchers, and otherwise hardcore, independent, red-white-and-blue patriots that you've ever seen, that would put Texas to shame. And we're pissed off in a way that you cannot fathom, because we've had to live in the stench of leftism for so long that we have massive allergic reactions to liberal ideas, the result of which puts us in a berserker mode that would make William Wallace cringe. You wonder where the next revolution will burn the hottest? Look no further.
70 posted on 01/28/2011 10:59:46 PM PST by fr_freak
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To: jongaltsr

What do we do if OUR Government shuts down the internet?
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

We use telephones both land-line and cell, and ham radios.

The nets are already set up. Get on one today.

http://alarmandmuster.com/


71 posted on 01/28/2011 11:02:28 PM PST by Candor7 (Obama . fascist info..http://wwvw.americanthinker.com2009/05/brack_obama_the _quintessentia_1.html)
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To: fr_freak

Well stated. ^^


72 posted on 01/28/2011 11:02:53 PM PST by ResearchMonkey (Holding Conservative Country in California.)
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To: jongaltsr

Lock. Load.


73 posted on 01/28/2011 11:04:26 PM PST by buccaneer81 (ECOMCON)
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To: MrsEmmaPeel
No, ma'am. I haven't forgotten my training. I can still build a Colpitts oscillator from a triode, a #2 pencil, and the foil from a cigarette pack. (not much call for that these days)

And not to put too fine a point on it, but I'm not a young'un, you are just older than dirt.

/johnny

74 posted on 01/28/2011 11:04:42 PM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: AlexW
As for ham radio, they could shut that down, just as they did in WW2,

How is (was) that possible? Do you mean triangulation and confiscation?

75 posted on 01/28/2011 11:09:18 PM PST by buccaneer81 (ECOMCON)
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To: buccaneer81
During WWII, radio amateurs complied with requests from the government to modify their activities.

It was voluntary. Because it was war, and that's what hams do in a crisis. They are part of the solution, not the problem.

/johnny

76 posted on 01/28/2011 11:17:31 PM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: buccaneer81

“As for ham radio, they could shut that down, just as they did in WW2,
How is (was) that possible? Do you mean triangulation and confiscation?”

Remember, it was the 40s.
Back then Americans were Americans.
I doubt there was much need for the government to run around with DF loops.

There was just a legal ban on Ham Radio activity.
I was too young to have been a ham then, so I do not know all the details.

The last potential limitations that I remember were in the late 50s.
All ham stations were to have a Conelrad detector.
If all radio was to shut down, you would know from the Conelrad system. This applied to commercial and all other radio.


77 posted on 01/28/2011 11:20:39 PM PST by AlexW
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To: buccaneer81
And then lots that could already do Morse code enlisted, and then there were MARS stations (Military Affiliate Radio Station).

And many were drafted into special projects and practical vhf radio and radar came out of WWII.

/johnny

78 posted on 01/28/2011 11:21:18 PM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: jongaltsr

What Good Can a Handgun Do Against An Army?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/2312894/posts


79 posted on 01/28/2011 11:24:29 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (Please donate to FreeRepublic, sanity in a world gone mad!)
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To: All

Dial-up BBS’s would be back! Add lots of modem lines to the server Jim!! ;-)


80 posted on 01/28/2011 11:25:01 PM PST by Drago
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