wtf?
So Obama will have a kill switch for the internet and the ability to disrupt, with continuous alerts, cell phone communication for the US. Sweet.
In simple terms the cell grid will be gridlocked with government alerts. No Thanks! That is not why I have cell service nor pay a bill for.
From: POTUS
RE: Terror
Run for your lives!
PS: Don’t forget to vote for hope and change.
Drudge had this up yesterday.
The #ing commies know no limits. Conservative statists will tacitly endorse it.
Gotta switch to digital...$500.00 later I have a service that works about half as well beyond the end of the sidewalk...Phone company buyout disrupts my secondary phone service and I get a week to use up the 800 minutes and year's service before that phone is dead. Now, the phone company who bought out my primary cellular provider (by Federal mandate the other provider here couldn't buy them out and have twice as many towers in a very rural area because that would mean a monopoly) has changed styles of phones, and off to the bloody races again with new equipment and a host of 'features' I don't want (I just want a phone that works!).
Now this....If I didn't need one for work, I wouldn't have one.
Anyone? Bueller? Anyone?
I think one of the most telling signs of the times was the changeover from “personnel departments” to “human resources”.
That put people on the same level with everything else, whether it is fuel, raw materials, energy, whatever ... people are just another resource.
That dehumanizing change comports with the gradual loss of citizenship evident when we have become a “population” rather than the citizens of our nation. Bacteria can “populate” a petri dish, wildlife “populate” a habitat, one can “populate” a spreadsheet with numbers.
A resource is something to be used for the benefit of the owner. A population must be managed.
This might sound like quibbling, but it is a way of looking at people that is different than thinking of them a citizens of a republic. Citizenship means something, take the Apostle Paul for example, the Roman governor was going to scourge him until Paul appealed to Cesar as a Roman Citizen. Then the governor totally changed his attitude towards Paul, and his behavior. Citizenship is special, it means something, it carries rights and privileges.
But being part of a population looked upon as just another resource is different.
This cell phone thing is just another way to manage the human resources that populate the country. I don't like it.
Next comes free Phones for poor people so they can
Exercise their right to be safe via ObamaTexts.
Somebody just poured some Wesson oil on the Slip-n-Slide of totalitarianism.
Looks like I’ll be losing the cell phone soon.
“Users will be able to opt out of every type of alert except those from the president”
Oh, so sorry...pressed the wrong button. I’ll pay a $150 fine
Special chips to receive alerts? So, what more will the “special chips” be capable of??
Yeah, rots a ruck getting that one enforced.
They may get away with requiring new phones to include said chips but only a ninny would voluntarily allow the Central Planning, Nanny-Statist, Big-Gubmint to tinker with existing cell phones, most notably, mine!
Not surprising, there is no outcry how this will disadvantage the poor, you know those who can't afford a drivers license to prove they are citizens when voting???
And there will be a new fee (non-tax deductible, of course) tacked on to your bill to support this program. Naturally, those who are receiving cell phone service at no or reduced rates because they are “disadvantaged” will pay no such fee.
Will be REQUIRED? FUBO.
Guess my new phone this year will be my last phone.
Oh, not just the libertarians.
Get the damn government out of my personal life.
What’s to stop him from sending anything to our phones and having us arrested for downloading (you fill in the blank)?
Think about that one.
Oh - but of course since they can mandate the purchase of health care, they will mandate everyone buy a new cell phone and then via technology render any old ones inoperative.