Posted on 08/15/2015 4:52:15 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The federal government has a plan to kill all cell-phone service in certain areas when officials decide it’s necessary.
But you aren’t allowed to see the plan.
And the fact that you cannot learn what might justify its use or who has the authority to push the kill button is the focus of a new case before the U.S. Supreme Court.
Pulling the plug on local cellular service already has been done. In 2011, officials with the Bay Area Rapid Transit system in San Francisco cut off service inside four transit stations for three hours after a BART security officer shot and killed a homeless man and protests erupted in reaction.
The shutdown order was made when a protest organizer sought to coordinate activists via cell phone.
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2015/08/feds-refuse-to-reveal-cellular-kill-switch-plan/#C8BEH7hAxghyLWTQ.99
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
Well, it’s not as if they plan to pull the plug on internet communication. As much as they may want to, they will never be able t
In other words, the feds are fascists. The new nazis.
Heh.
Unfortunately, that’s been the case for a while now.
Hmmm....would using sat phones preclude their ability to do this, or not?
What better way to control Free Speech (RIP)
-— except when it is “for” the undocumented
First Moslem Tyrant brazenly against the
US Constitution and the American People.
That would be a separate issue, but since there are far fewer satellite phones and the GPS location of a call is built right into the metadata, it would be very easy to write a little program that allowed them to block satellite calls from defined areas.
No, different system entirely. Though they might have that one sabotaged, too. Its an arrangement with the tech manufacturers.
You mean the feds are secretive? Heaven forbid! BJ Bill Clinton and the current feckless fool on the hill both promised “the most transparent administration ever.” Any evidence of that in fast and furious, the current EPA in any regulations and their polluting the Animus river, the IRS and Louis Lerner, the justice dept and both buffoons—Holder and Lynch—or any other federal agency? Nonsense!
I’m sure Obama has both the cellular kill switch and the Internet kill switch ready if he decides to declare an end to free elections and become dictator. He can count on the mainstream media to say nothing and FoxNews and talk radio are also on his target shutdown list. The GOP leadership will go whimper in the corner. His only problem is the Second Amendment
A more refined nazism. Smoother and sharper, incurring fewer edges, but able to kill many, many more. And to come down however harder in a heartbeat.
Amateur radio is low on the turnoff list. 2 meter, 440 and others on FM truly broadcast line of sight for miles, unlike family service radio. 5 watts goes a long way. HF can go around the world on very, very, low power. There’s always a way to communicate for the determined.
I can see the need in the age of Iranian supplied IEDs that detonate over cell networks. Obama will probably allow IEDs by the boatload as part of getting his nuclear deal.
And I doubt the cell service was shut down in BART to stop “activists.” Obama loves the chaos and mayhem.
If he tries, he’ll find there’s a gun behind every blade of grass. Americans don’t go for this dictator crap.
The answer and the response to this is relatively simple. Since they will still need active communications y’all know where to go to resupply....
Except armature radio is LICENSED and they have the list.
They’d like to shut off the devices so they can’t take images within a certain range. No doubt government is working on that too.
In this country they feed us the fiction that the phone companies are private. But they are not private, when the government can cut service and record all calls.
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