No joke indeed.
Posted on 11/09/2011 2:42:15 PM PST by Driftwood1
Today was the first test of the new Emergency Alert System, which is a centrally controlled version of the Emergency Broadcast System whose tests have been annoying the hell out of people for the better part of fifty years. The idea is to give the President a way to alert the entire populace to a national emergency instantly, by seizing control of all TV and radio communications.
In the event of a nuclear war, large-scale civil unrest, a massive cyber-attack, or a zombie apocalypse, you’ll hear a headache-inducing tone, followed by emergency instructions. Unless we get attacked by an electromagnetic pulse weapon. Then you’ll be alerted to disaster by the collective howl of millions of enraged cell phone users. The EAS tone is less alarming.
The test was a… well, “failure” is such an ugly word. Let’s just say it was a “conditional success.”
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I’m paranoid enough these days to wonder if they’re getting things all set up for 11/11/11.
We got through 9-11 just fine with all levels of media working together with government agencies everywhere. There’s something creepy about our current federal government doing this.
“This is why tests exist. Rockets, planes, cars, etc. You push the button and see what happens. Then you fix it.”
When you have a politically connected inept entity tasked with overcharging the taxpayers for an unnecessary service, why would you not want to have another shot at it.
Sounds like there must be a commission that meets regularly, like 5 times per week, to discuss what messages to send out. Its got a chairman, vice-chair, secretary, treasurer. Paid well, could be union representation in there. Consultants they use: Acorn and others. This is emergency stuff, so the town probably bought and paid for hardened underground bunkers for them to meet in, and live in during a real emergency for them to deliberate making more emergency calls.
Damn! Does this mean he won’t be able to use a national emergency to
halt the election?
He probably has his army amassed and waiting to swarm.
Not kidding,
That jerk could talk until he turned White and I still wouldn’t be listening to him.
Wow...I finally agree with you on something. ;-)
I think it would still be funny if it was an emergency. But of course I’ve spent most of my life in extremely “high value” nuclear targets, the kind of places where nobody really bothered with duck and cover drills or fallout shelters because we knew if it went that way the city would be nuked to glass. So the whole EBS to me has always been kind of funny.
GATOR 113, THATS FUNNY!
No joke indeed.
;>)
If truly the SHTF, there’s nothing the government can do to stop it anyway, so what’s the point?
Yep. The gubmint hep'ed us.
And we need this test why??
I heard ours on our local talk radio station out of Las Vegas. It was like triple or quadruple, old notice talking over new notice.. almost sounded like an echo.. one would start, then another, then another, all talking a few seconds behind one another.
Had it been an emergency, I would have never understood what the heck they were saying.
In my mind it was a success. I expected everything to go black and never return.
Maybe the information will be useful in an emergency. Whatever the government says to do, do the opposite.
to observe a moment of silence.
Was talking on the cell phone with my son and got cut off in the middle...it only lasted a few minutes but they can shut down communications in the country and thats what they wanted to test...computer didn’t go out and radio just had static...
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