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A few weeks ago I wrote about the NYPD wanting 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 out 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 their 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 that if the enemy is going to attack they will cut off our communications so we can not coordinate a counter-offensive properly. This is itself stupid since something will always get through, for 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, but 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 from us, we wouldn’t know what is going on, or what ideas are going to put in our minds. People in the middle of 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 inadvertent 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. Simple Share Buttons Adder (8.4.5) simplesharebuttons.com