Creeva’s World 2.0

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A few weeks ago I wrote about the NYPD want the abil­ity to turn dis­able cell­phone cov­er­age in the case of a ter­ror­ist attack. Now it seems that states and local gov­ern­ments are fight­ing for their own abil­ity to do that.   In my pre­vi­ous story I pointed how fruit­less and inef­fec­tive it would truly be dur­ing a ter­ror­ist attack, I think it’s insane.   The ques­tion I have now has any­one thought about how this is a ter­ror­ist attack against our own people?

The idea of a ter­ror­ist is that they use fear as an attack weapon.   If there is an emer­gency going on and peo­ple can not get through to there loved ones that this wouldn’t inspire fear.   Heck it may scare some peo­ple if they can’t send a mes­sage about the emer­gency to Twit­ter or Face­book.  We’ve all seen enough movies that we are ingrained as a peo­ple if hte enemy is going to attack they will cut off our com­mu­ni­ca­tions so we can not coor­di­nate a counter offen­sive prop­erly.   This is an of it’s self stu­pid since some­thing will always get through, exam­ple Inde­pen­dence Day and the Morse Code maneu­ver.  Yet this would scare and dare I say ter­ror­ize peo­ple since not only would you be scared since you can’t call, no one around you can call and is freak­ing out also.

This is a sad side effect of liv­ing in the era of con­stant com­mu­ni­ca­tion, we take it for granted.   When it would be ripped away form us, and we wouldn’t know what is going on, what ideas is that going to put in your mind.  Peo­ple in the mid­dle amer­ica may think a cell tower is down, what if they drive an hour — even the most idi­otic per­son isn’t going to think all the tow­ers are down.   Some peo­ple may think since I’m say­ing that the gov­ern­ment has an inad­ver­tant take on an idea that could become a ter­ror­ist weapon that I’m a nut job.   I how­ever think this is a fairly obvi­ous look at human psychology.