Suspicious Signals - Government Disables Your Cellphone

Cowboy Confessional ^ | 6/17/2013 | Guy Smith

[guyshomenet]

If your cell phone stops working, don’t blame your battery. The government remotely disabled it.

Central to society is the constant question of who is in control. Our quaint republic is rather unique in that we believe, and actually once enforced, the right of individual self-determination. In short, you were in charge of you and any problems you created for yourself were yours to deal with. Despite being widely popular, certain insecure individuals with weak mental constitutions wanted a perpetual nanny once they were too old for their original keepers, and found pliable politicians to allegedly protect them. In return, they had to surrender their self-determination and freedom.

And yours too.

Yet people move forward and find ways of preserving their prerogatives. In modern times mobile technology has liberated more people than all of Patton’s tanks. Various soft and hard revolutions around the world have been sped by mobile communications and universal evidence gathering. Cellphones are the new tool for keeping government hooligans in their place be it Egypt or Syria, Burma or Baltimore. Publicly employed profligates aren’t very fond of this trend. In Iran, they have shut down the nation’s cellular networks in order to control and contain the masses. Since violence and directing public information are two of the three main means for controlling the masses, disarming and gagging people are common tyrant tools.

Even here in America.

Citizens are butting heads with bad cops because we have made a habit of capturing their crimes on video. Long established has been the principle that what one does in public is not private. Yet when We The People started snapping videos of officers doing despicable deeds, some jurisdictions insisted that work performed by police in public was private, and have gone as far as jailing people caught in the act of catching police in the act. This war on cameras has waned a bit because the legal fiction advanced by amateurish district attorneys has been ground under a few judicial boots. Thus, you are free to film flatfoots all you like.

Until they remotely disable your cellphone.

The New York Attorney general – a man supposedly neck deep in cover-ups – has demanded that cellphone makers add a hardware-based remote kill switch on all new phones starting next year. He hustled the major makers of handy handsets into a closed door meeting, an act in and of itself offensive to the people who pay his salary. Under the artifice of making stolen phones less marketable, he and his cohorts want “a ‘kill switch’ installed on all new smartphones … by early next year … demanding action and will not back down.”

This despite the fact that the cellular trade group CTIA has already implemented a database for stolen cell phones to prevent them from being reactivated.

This despite availability of remote control and disabling apps that only you can manipulate.

This despite the fact that there is no general public demand for this feature.

Given these realities, government has zero reason to demand anything much less the ability to disable your phone without your permission. Even criminals waiting arrest have the right to call their attorneys or film cops violating due process procedures. Small mobs of people documenting police misconduct, as many did for Oscar Grant’s execution, could be geographically disabled through cell tower triangulation. New York’s head shyster is even demanding that the remote kill switch be hardware based – wired directly to the cellular receiver and bypassing the phone’s operating system – to prevent you from bypassing their bridle.

Emmanuel Goldstein lives and is gainfully employed in Albany.

 

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You might consider dropping these fine gents a note and telling them to tell Eric Schneiderman which New York pier to walk off.

Tim Cook, CEO of Apple: tcook@apple.com

Y.K. Kim, CEO of Samsung (via PR rep): samsungpr@edelman.com

Larry Page, CEO of Google (Android): Larry.Page@google.com

Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft: SteveB@Microsoft.com

[Dallas59]

Then how am I supposed to report my family and neighbors to Dear Leader?

[bgill]

Yoohoo! Hey there, you big hunky guy behind the screen! Just a shout out to Big Brother.

Psst, carry an extra camera in case your cell phone gets zapped.

[kevkrom]

Y.K. Kim, CEO of Samsung

No need to send to Samsung - if you get Apple's Cook to do it, Kim will just copy him.

[from occupied ga]

More tyrannical filth being exported from New York (If you were giving the USA an enema, then NY is where you’d inset the probe.)

[Sacajaweau]

A bunch of us were out with portable GPS units....All of a sudden....wham...we all got shut down...and had to reboot from “0”.

[ShadowAce]

[Scrambler Bob]

Happened to me out near 29 Palms. Would not work at all.

Later in the week, same area, no problem??

[Scrambler Bob]

OK, how soon till some geek builds a shutdown button for civilian to use?

Use on other folks, OR on cops themselves???

[steve86]

Was there a large triangular-shaped craft flying overhead at the time? /

[GOPJ]

The New York Attorney general – a man supposedly neck deep in cover-ups – has demanded that cellphone makers add a hardware-based remote kill switch on all new phones starting next year. He hustled the major makers of handy handsets into a closed door meeting, an act in and of itself offensive to the people who pay his salary. Under the artifice of making stolen phones less marketable, he and his cohorts want “a ‘kill switch’ installed on all new smartphones … by early next year … demanding action and will not back down.”

It's thuggy alright - but what else can we expect of democrats?

[Wurlitzer]

Why does government insist on trampling the rights of 320+ million REAL Americans instead of outlawing their hate cult and deporting the 2.6 Million Islam Hate Cult scum living in the USA?

Oh, we can’t offend 7th century monkey boys with a love of their pedophile Mo-Ham-Mud and his comic book for retards the Koran who have avowed to kill or convert us. NOooooooooooooo! Lets go after the honest REAL Americans.

Islam is a hate cult and never should be given any 1st amendment protect afforded real religions.

[guyshomenet]

“Why does government insist on trampling the rights of 320+ million REAL Americans?”

Because they are _not_ real Americans themselves.

I fear the now seemingly inevitable showdowns.

[Sacajaweau]

Nope...but there were a couple strange looking guys walking towards a bright light which was far away.

[Wurlitzer]

“I fear the now seemingly inevitable showdowns.”

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Actually my FR Friend, my greatest fear is that the inevitable showdown never comes and we continue to lose more and more ability to recover (assuming we could right now).

With public unionized schools feeding our kids anti-Founder and pro-government BS for decades and no end in sight and a media filled with these spawn of public schools and communist fill universities, the voting booth no longer is a viable option.

[JimRed]

I think they might have just done a test run. My Blackberry stopped delivering new e-mails at 5:45 Saturday. This morning about 9:30 I suddenly got 117 of them!