Posted on 08/11/2006 3:01:13 PM PDT by madison10
Has any one made a map, or done any tracking, of cities/towns the cell phones are being purchased? or of where the suspects are being picked up?
Thanks.
Yes, sure there are.
Some hard. Some easy.
But if we know they are using this particular device to do it - stop it / them.
I know it reeks of gov intervention, but what would you do to stop it?
Same reason we now watch who / how much fertilizer is bought. We never used to do that. Until a bad guy showed up.
I'm all for it. Stop the sale of "works right now / disposable cell phones. Perhaps your "rights" - convenience ? - may have to get tweaked a bit.
I know what you will say, "little here, little there..."
Besides your "taking my rights away from me response", what would be your solution to this?
Not slamming, just asking, ok?
Tracphone and other prepaid provider do offer phones with builtin E911/GPS.
bump for publicity
Thanks mreerm.
I remember reading something like that.
Thank you.
Should we do the same thing with computers? After all VOIP and WiFi can do almost the same thing?
What about IM programs?
Please tell us how to program my CDMA phone to work with the GSM carriers.
"They also work, irregardless of whether you have them activated for a carrier or not Because all cellphones, by law, must be able to dial 911 and reprogramming these phones to respond to a different number is a possibility."
To stop Americans from being slaughtered in our own yards, the cell phone purchase procedure must be modified to prevent these crazy murdering IslamoFascists from buying them by the hundreds or thousands.
This is from an ABC story back in January 2006. You could go to the ABC site and do a search using "cellphones" and see what turns up. As far as I've seen, there are LOTS of "little" stories like this (with 60 phones found in a van while the perps were being busted for something else) to know that it's a problem. A problem where the dots are not being connected, as usual. (Or we're not hearing about it for some reason.) And I'm HARDLY a 'Conspiracy Theory' type. ;)
"There's very little audit trail assigned to this phone. One can walk in, purchase it in cash, you don't have to put down a credit card, buy any amount of minutes to it, and you don't, frankly, know who bought this," said Jack Cloonan, a former FBI official who is now an ABC News consultant.
Law enforcement officials say the phones were used to detonate the bombs terrorists used in the Madrid train attacks in March 2004.
"The application of prepaid phones for nefarious reasons, is really widespread. For example, the terrorists in Madrid used prepaid phones to detonate the bombs in the subway trains that killed more than 200 people," said Roger Entner, a communications consultant.
*SNIP*
In one New Year's Eve transaction at a Target store in Hemet, Calif., 150 disposable tracfones were purchased. Suspicious store employees notified police, who called in the FBI, law enforcement sources said.
In an earlier incident, at a Wal-Mart store in Midland, Texas, on Dec. 18, six individuals attempted to buy about 60 of the phones until store clerks became suspicious and notified the police. A Wal-Mart spokesperson confirmed the incident.
*SNIP*
FBI officials told ABC News that while the cases may wind up in the hands of Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, the FBI would benefit from any intelligence gleaned and would take the lead if a solid terrorist connection emerged.
http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/Investigation/story?id=1499905
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One can setoff IED with cell phones, kitchen timers, pagers, PDAs with wireless access and a host of other tech.
Should we register the owners of those things too?
Another thing that is hot selling right now is the lower priced digital cameras.
Thank you!
yep, and adjusting takes time...time we can use to our advantage.
and after considering all the possibilities, establishing priorities and tackling the biggest/most-probable, not putting most of ones efforts behind the lowest return.
If it takes that, I suppose so. We started requiring checks on fertilizer purchases after Oklahoma City.
"Besides your "taking my rights away from me response", what would be your solution to this?"
Maybe if our government would do the 'profiling' that should be, instead of all the 'pc' crap, none of this would be necessary.
But no. "Diversity is number one".
Yeah. Number one way to get us killed.
"Not slamming, just asking, ok?"
No problem.
Maybe I'm just frustrated by all the garbage I read everyday about how the government basically refuses to uphold the Constitution and do their jobs.
Everyone on here is probably right, but it still doesn't mean I need to accept the status quo of the 'pc' crowd.
It's just tiring trying to figure out where we are and where we should be.
I gotta go and find something else to do. The news is just to damn depressing to read anymore.
what about cheap teenagers?
I should add that Spearfish, SD., is a very small college town right on Interstate 90.
The "dark, swarthy type" population here is almost nil.
That's sort of the point. There needs to be built-in tracking and registration of all of them. The fact that they can be bypassed is a national security flaw. It should be hard-wired and tracked.
You really believe that we should register those that purchase kitchen timers?
Well, we have some smart guys working on this. I hope if they do shut down the phones, that they don't tell us or the media until it's done. I don't want them hurrying to use them.
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