I wonder just how the poers that be will prevent the internet when they desire to completely shut it down? Sever all T1 lines? send out a massive e-bomb, a series of "EMP" accidents blamed on UFOs?

Originally posted by Eye of Unk
I wonder just how the poers that be will prevent the internet when they desire to completely shut it down? Sever all T1 lines? send out a massive e-bomb, a series of "EMP" accidents blamed on UFOs?

The funniest/saddest thing about that is that they think we're too stupid to ask questions if something happened to our internet. Sad thing is, they're mostly right. I figure a decent amount of people would believe whatever excuse they would have. And that is just really tragic.

The government is scared of things they don't know or can't control. Especially now a days with their Alien Slave Masters working there tiny brains with the precision of a laser scalpel. Of course they want to stop it, to many people are being informed at an alarming rate of their super illegal activites. The Internet makes all the lies they spew out of the white house so transparent. America is doomed, just as Rome was so long ago. Whoever said this was the land of the free, must not live here today. Sometimes I think the government is devolving into a bunch of lunatic crazed crackheads, that are afraid someone might fart and they won't get to smell it.

To Gov't Official's:
If your reading this, then get the hell out of peoples lives. Your entire agency was created to keep the population stable and the economy good. It can also be taken away from you to. Keep pushing people in the wrong way and you will see a fierce animal that feels trapped in a corner. You know what happens when you trap an animal in a corner don't you? Free Market has worked fine by itself for ages. Why suddenly now do you want to go and throw it all in the trash? Oh wait you won't answer that because you can't think of a good lie to tell us.

-BB

Here are some points I think we all should ponder;
IF our, or any government, or corporate body, is so afraid of the PEOPLE knowing what they are doing, or up to, that they create secret hearings, write referendums and policies that inturn, put the people at large, under strict confines and can impose fines, punishments and detention, for not agreeing with what they are doing, then THEY, are our enemy!
When any enity uses lies, deciet, propaganda, misinformation, and otherwise withholds vital information that directly affects us, the people, THEY are our enemy!
When any organization intentionally writes policies that cannot be clearly understood by the commonly educated people,then THEY are our enemy!
When anyone, group, or organization, hires ARMED security,mercenaries,private armies,or advisors,investigators,bodyguard thugs, that are a direct threat to the safety and well being to the people at large, THEY are our enemy!
Any form or document that is ment to capture and reveal sensitive information about your privacy,history,credit, affilliations,education,religion, friends, and it is used against you by employers, insurance companies, doctors, courts, then THEY that practice this form of extreme prejudice are our enemy!
When you no longer have the right to be left alone in the public spaces, without being surveiled, videoed, photographed, tracked, identified, recorded, without your consent,thenTHEY that do it are our enemy!
When there is nothing that you can do, that isn't regulated,licensed,taxed,
or has an access fee charged, then THEY that stiffle your freedom, are our enemy!
When any elected official, that is paid by public taxes, and cannot be recalled, impeached, and declares themselves to be above and beyond the law of the people, then THEY are our enemy!
When any government acts as or tells you that they OWN you, and restricts you in any way, then THEY are our enemy!
When any government agency restricts or terminates your right to defend yourself, your family, and property, and then uses your defenselessness against you with armed force tactics, then THEY are our enemy!
Finally, when anyone who represents corporate, government, or private concerns tells you what you can read, say, look at, or think, then it is time to REVOLT, and ELIMINATE all of our enemies.

It looks like that time, is now at hand!

Because all of the things listed above are happening right now.

Sounds to me like your blowing the comments made out of proportion.

The internet since it IS global in nature it does hold the chance of being used as a weapon against the United States.
Sort of like the reasons you use a firewall?

Well all this does is prove what I have been saying all along, that the US has tirned into a full blown Fascist state. Perhaps now the nay sayers and doubters will finally realise that I was right all along. And for all thsoe who say where is your proof here it is, this and many actions that have taken place in the US over the past decade prove my facts.

Originally posted by magicmushroom
Well all this does is prove what I have been saying all along, that the US has tirned into a full blown Fascist state. Perhaps now the nay sayers and doubters will finally realise that I was right all along. And for all thsoe who say where is your proof here it is, this and many actions that have taken place in the US over the past decade prove my facts.

I would hesitate to accept this is a U.S. phenomenon. Unfortunately, this potential problem transcends national boundaries, and it's important note that the 'establishment' has been working for years on an 'improved' Internet, to which, so far, only they have access.

If the government wanted to, it could shut the entire Internet down.

I don't believe they can anymore.

I worked for many years building power plants and in the last 10 years all the plants were connected to the Internet.

All the big wind turbine across the US are connected and run by the Internet.
all if the big solar power plants are run by way of the Internet.

The whole power grid is connected and run by way of the Internet.

Many cities have hooked there water systems to the Internet.

How would you turn off the Internet without turning the US off.
what i worry about is a Internet 2.0 and them moving all the critical Internet to it.

Then they could turn off the internet 1.0

the US needs a Internet police system not to go after people in the US but to go after the criminals working from outside the US
make these internet cops like the CIA and only allow them to operated out side the US.

Well its easy to shut it down seeing as most of it goes via satelites and who owns them. It may not be completely down but it wont be much use will it.