Posted on 08/28/2009 8:13:33 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
I hope it does not come to it either, but BUT got to remember with the internet being a part of free enterprise, Obama touching that internet would open a pandoria’s box for trouble.
Actually, I already have a CCNA (though I never saw any video when I was studying for it, and I need to renew), as well as an MCSE, a MCSA, and a CISSP. And I have a Masters in information assurance, but I’m sure there are plenty of folks for whom this is useful.
Just want to reassure all of you who are worried about the government “shutting down” the Internet, or even portions of it.
Every bank in the world, almost all large businesses, and every large financial transaction in the world, today, is made over the Internet; that includes the business of the FED and the US Treasury. All international diplomatic communication are carried out over the Internet, and at least half of all military communication.
The Government cannot shut down the Internet without shutting itself down (which is really not a bad idea, actually).
If the Internet were shut down today, all the communication necessary to maintain trucking shipments, for example, would be lost. In 72 hours Washington DC would be starving. Every major city in the country only has enough food to sustain it for 3 days, and only the continuous replenishment by truckers keeps those cities from starving.
Shutting down the Internet would eliminate all electronic Bank transactions (which today is 99% of them), and eliminate the control of most nation-wide control system (think gas and oil pipelines).
Shutting down the internet would mean the almost instantaneous destruction of the world’s enonomy and society. Even Obama is not that stupid.
Think it over.
Hank
Yes...many FReepers have short memories and don’t recall that it was the Bush Administration that first started this garbage. Heck, remember the provisions in the John Warner DAA?
It's not a matter of stupid. It's a matter of marxists goals.
Think it over.
5.56mm
They are already trying to define the swine flu as an emergency.....
.....laying the ground work for a crisis.
Right now the internet is the biggest enemy 0b0z0 and his thugs have and our best tool to expose them.
“(Dave, remember the warning we were given for pulling an unauthorized eavesdrooping offense.....$10,000 and 10 years for each offense.)”
I guess the warnings on eavesdropping only applies those not in the 0b0z0 camp.
I think they are busy pushing bills such as this under the radar. My opinion is they don’t want the healthcare bill to pass. Not yet anyway. They are just using it as cover.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/guns/blairholt.asp
Technically, the government (FCC) can shut down the Amateur Radio Service at will simply by ordering the service to cease operation. This is why you have to be licensed, you are technically a government service. Of course, the "Service" was initially set up when threats were assumed to be foreign or natural disasters. I don't think a "Kommunist Presidential Koup" inflicted on the citizenry was in their mindset.
That being said, in a real emergency where the government was out of control and "in the wrong", if you have the equipment, it could be used despite the order. But they could jam communications, and transmitting too much from one location could get you located and shut down by force.
I would imagine, the safest communication would be to transmit from Canada or elsewhere with amateur receivers in the USA. Smuggle messages to the transmitter and everyone listening could hear if it wasn't being jammed.
>>I would imagine, the safest communication would be to transmit from Canada or elsewhere with amateur receivers in the USA. Smuggle messages to the transmitter and everyone listening could hear if it wasn’t being jammed.<<
You mean from Canada from Ham radio?
I’m really close to Windsor.
You could smuggle messages across the border.....
.....a freedom loving Canadian Amateur Radio Operator could talk to another freedom loving Canadian Amateur Radio Operator so it isn't a "broadcast" (illegal in Amateur Radio, at least in the USA), and the information could be weaved into their discussion like a coded message.
But the Michigan border crossings would likely be shut down in such an "emergency". I was thinking about a country crossing west somewhere, where you could use an ATV or hike across in the wilderness into Saskatchewan for instance.
LOL!
Thanks....very interesting....
I had a college buddy that was into HAM big time....but I never did anything with it....but there is a HAM Club around here.
I should go to a meeting.
You forgot man is destroying the planet, and warming will kill us.
Nearly everything these leftist are using as a crisis to push legislation is a lie.
Right on, metmom. This danger must not be overlooked. — FRegards ....
One can heap scorn upon GWB for suggesting wire taps on suspected foreign agents of the State is illegal, but it seems quite permissible in the minds of the left to control the whole Internet to some degree. Like some have raised the question, where is the ACLU on this issue.
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