Posted on 07/12/2013 10:52:18 AM PDT by Lorianne
Note: original date is a year ago. Edited time: July 11, 2013 15:48
US President Barack Obama quietly signed his name to an Executive Order on Friday, allowing the White House to control all private communications in the country in the name of national security.
President Obama released his latest Executive Order on Friday, July 6, a 2,205-word statement offered as the “Assignment of National Security and Emergency Preparedness Communications Functions.” And although the president chose not to commemorate the signing with much fanfare, the powers he provides to himself and the federal government under the latest order are among the most far-reaching yet of any of his executive decisions.
“The Federal Government must have the ability to communicate at all times and under all circumstances to carry out its most critical and time sensitive missions,” the president begins the order. “Survivable, resilient, enduring and effective communications, both domestic and international, are essential to enable the executive branch to communicate within itself and with: the legislative and judicial branches; State, local, territorial and tribal governments; private sector entities; and the public, allies and other nations.”
President Obama adds that it is necessary for the government to be able to reach anyone in the country during situations it considers critical, writing, “Such communications must be possible under all circumstances to ensure national security, effectively manage emergencies and improve national resilience.” Later the president explains that such could be done by establishing a “joint industry-Government center that is capable of assisting in the initiation, coordination, restoration and reconstitution of NS/EP [national security and emergency preparedness] communications services or facilities under all conditions of emerging threats, crisis or emergency.”
“The views of all levels of government, the private and nonprofit sectors, and the public must inform the development of NS/EP communications policies, programs and capabilities,” he adds.
On the government’s official website for the National Communications Systems, the government explains that that “infrastructure includes wireline, wireless, satellite, cable, and broadcasting, and provides the transport networks that support the Internet and other key information systems,” suggesting that the president has indeed effectively just allowed himself to control the country’s Internet access.
In order to allow the White House to reach anyone within the US, the president has put forth a plan to establish a high-level committee calling from agents with the Department of Homeland Security, Pentagon, Federal Communications Commission and other government divisions to ensure that his new executive order can be implemented.
In explaining the order, the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) writes that the president has authorized the DHS "the authority to seize private facilities when necessary, effectively shutting down or limiting civilian communications."
In Section 5 of his order, President Obama outlines the specific department and agency responsibilities that will see through his demands. In a few paragraphs, President Obama explains that Executive Committee that will oversee his order must be supplied with “the technical support necessary to develop and maintain plans adequate to provide for the security and protection of NS/EP communications,” and that that same body will be in tasked with dispatching that communiqué “to the Federal Government and State, local, territorial and trial governments,” by means of “commercial, Government and privately owned communications resources.”
Later, the president announces that the Department of Homeland Security will be tasked with drafting a plan during the next 60 days to explain how the DHS will command the government’s Emergency Telecommunications Service, as well as other telecom conduits. In order to be able to spread the White House’s message across the country, President Obama also asks for the purchasing of equipment and services that will enable such.
Hundreds of them surely are. An Apache helicopter directed by an AWACS can take out just about anything without the target having any forewarning.
They can be easily detected and you targeted rather quickly.
I fear that Obama could soon use that power to declare himself president for life (i.e. dictator). I doubt that the GOP RINOs would hardly issue a whimper.
THEY CANNOT CONTROL THE AIRWAVES!
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But they can hear everything you say so what good is that. We have to do like Putin, revert back to the basics, like the old standard typewriter or the pen and paper sent by personal messenger.
You sure they’ll have money for hundreds?
Your fears are well founded in light of his continuous totalitarian prepping. He isn't doing this for the Country's sake, you can count on that for sure.
Sure they do! They control the credit valve. They also have "dark sources" of money like the drug trade. You do know that the US government runs drugs, don't you? Read about the Clinton/Mena Arkansas boondoggle.
Besides, they probably already have hundreds of those things.
“They” as in whom? Red China?
Buzzzzzzzz! Lose ten points.
The US government.
Easy recall of ten points: Who funds the US government? (Hint: I already answered that one.)
Have you ever done a signal foxhunt? It involves a small dish and headphones, and if you’re using a VLF signal with CW (Morse), it’s going to sound very faint.
If you’re broadcasting from a radio shack on a few hundred or thousands of dollars of high end radio equipment with a static tower, Yagi, etc., then yes, they’ll find you.
If you’re on a tri-band HT in your car broadcasting on 440/220/SSB traveling at 50-60 MPH, not only are they going to have a devil of a time finding you, they’re not going to jam anything.
This is why I said LEARN HAM RADIO. I’m not saying, “Go buy a radio just to have it.” I’m saying “learn the science of radio.” When the SHTF, you’ll have a skill that will be in high demand, equipment that could save lives, and likely a leg up on the enemy since most “kids” (20-somethings) wouldn’t know the difference between Morse code and a tripped car alarm.
The gist of the article was that the Federal government could shut down all mass communications whenever they felt the urge. This means no cell, no Internet, no television. Try as they might, they'd never be able to shutdown radio. You're talking about an enormous swath of radio spectrum that they'd have to indiscriminately jam causing issues with legitimate radio use such as by their own people (the military) or law enforcement/emergency response.
Yes a typewritten letter attached to a carrier pigeon is going to be relatively undetectable, but the point isn't to go undetected, the point is to be able to communicate at all. If they subject us to communications blackouts, they could do whatever they wished to the masses such as putting up large fences, rounding up dissidents, leveling entire neighborhoods, and you wouldn't know anything.
If you make weak enough radio signal to be heard but a short distance, you'd be better off just passing a note or talking to the recipient. When the SHTF, you won't be traveling at 50-60 mph because you will prohibited from doing so. The US military can hit moving vehicles with a single shot; and, plenty of evidence was shown about that in GW I & II.
I know the science of radio.
I suggest that clusters of people learn to make and use scratchpad cyphers and establish old-fashioned "drop boxes". Electronic surveillance is well beyond what most people think.
I guess I’m thinking more along the lines of who will be in control of the military hardware, Gingis. Our military men and women today will not likely be at the helm of these modern war machines, as they’ll have been drummed out of the military by the faggots and communists.
I’m not disagreeing with you, but for brief, coded communications over a large metro, radio is the way to go.
I don’t disagree with the idea of sneakernet, but that only works for local communications. If you need to relay across a metro or a region, radio is the only way that can work.
Sure, as long as the intensity of the situation is low. People could even establish an organized net like the ARRL hams do using GRMS walkie-talkies. It will all need some grass-roots organization and some planning. My neighborhood association wasn't even slightly interested in emergency preparedness. They just knew the goberment would take care of us. I responded, "Katrina". It didn't help.
Once the military chooses to hump your part of the world, only couriers will work, as in "Paul Revere".
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