With all due respect to ham radio operators, your ability is almost worthless in the context of modern communication.
I can pick up a telephone and call someone or drive and tell them, but its not the same as FreeRepublic, emails, social networking, the radio/TV station, or texting.
The idea of controlling communication is not to control everything, just the rapid/mass forms that everyone uses and relies on.
Sure, you can pick up a telephone and use it under normal conditions. But what happens if everyone wants to use the phone at the same time? What happens if the phone company’s local office is destroyed or loses power? What happens if the streets are blocked off and you can’t drive and tell someone? Local infrastructure can be destroyed or disrupted, but there’s no way to destroy the radio spectrum from DC to daylight. That’s where amateur radio operators come through.