11/9 this is a test, or it something else ????

[Osmium Steele]

Originally Posted by JU_88

The scary part is, its possible they doing this 'test' in preparation for something real.

Like announcing martial law during next summer's nationwide "unplanned, homegrown, impromptu" riots?

[mookiemookie]

Originally Posted by Osmium Steele

Like announcing martial law during next summer's nationwide "unplanned, homegrown, impromptu" riots?

It's funny because that's exactly what they said ahead of the 2008 elections about Bush.

[Osmium Steele]

They who?

[mookiemookie]

Originally Posted by Osmium Steele

They who?

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=bush+cancel+2008+elections

About 11,200,000 results

So they do it in all the states every month just to check and do it on a local level throughout the country every week just to check and use it thousands of times for real every year either on a state or local level but this is the first time they are checking the nationwide coverage in one go.


This does raise two questions.
Firstly for blaze readers who are able to sign up for instant Glenn Beck news alerts...does this mean Obamas secret personal army of Nazi dentists is on the march to throw everyone into FEMA death camps?

Secondly for normal people, isn't it crazy that the system has only been checked up to a state by state level in all those years?

[Osmium Steele]

Originally Posted by Tribesman

Secondly for normal people, isn't it crazy that the system has only been checked up to a state by state level in all those years?

No.

Weekly EAS tests are mandated by the FCC, but are left up to the local stations to carry out when they desire, within certain guidelines.

This system has always been effective in the past, since the most likely operational need for an EAS broadcast would be at the local level.

This new system seizes complete control of the nations airwaves, at the discretion of a single federal agency under the Executive Branch. There is nothing locals can do to stop it other than turn off their transmitters, which would result in huge fines and probable loss of license.

You honestly cannot see the danger here?

[razark]

Originally Posted by JU_88

The scary part is, its possible they doing this 'test' in preparation for something real.

Like an emergency that they might want people to be aware of?

Originally Posted by Osmium Steele

This new system seizes complete control of the nations airwaves, at the discretion of a single federal agency under the Executive Branch.

CONELRAD, established in 1951:

In the event of an emergency, all United States television and FM radio stations were required to stop broadcasting. Upon alert, most AM medium wave stations shut down. The stations that stayed on the air would transmit on either 640 or 1240 kHz. They would transmit for several minutes, and then go off the air and another station would take over on the same frequency in a "round robin" chain. This was to confuse enemy aircraft who might be navigating using Radio Direction Finding.

Really, they're just testing a system that's been around for a while. Emergency systems are pointless if they don't work, and they just want to be sure this one works. Yeesh.

[Osmium Steele]

Although I was only a tiny bit serious with my initial post, I'm not at all surprised you jumped on it like a duck on a junebug.

The difference between 2007 and 2011 is, in 2007 nobody was laying the groundwork for mass protests and unrest by organizing violent flahsmobs in the spring and summer (which have curiously ceased), organizing union protests in various states across the nation, encouraging the race and faith baiters in this nation to get involved in class warfare, eat the rich protests across the nation, and all the other bollux we are bombarded with on a daily basis. You've read Saul Alinsky haven't you? You know exactly what I'm talking about.

In 2007 it was just words. In 2011 it is all deeds.

The Community Organizer-in-chief is rallying the troops, and everything is going according to plan. If it weren't for the internet, that is.

Darn that pesky alternative media... Alinsky didn't see that coming.

[mookiemookie]

Originally Posted by Osmium Steele

Although I was only a tiny bit serious with my initial post, I'm not at all surprised you jumped on it like a duck on a junebug.

I knew you were only a tiny bit serious. At least I thought you were. You never can tell in GT.

I found it funny that everything that's old is new again:

What has been will be again,
what has been done will be done again;
there is nothing new under the sun.

Originally Posted by Tribesman

Secondly for normal people, isn't it crazy that the system has only been checked up to a state by state level in all those years?

What's crazy is that they check it so often that if it were used in a real emergency, I'd think it was just another test.

What's crazy is that they check it so often that if it were used in a real emergency, I'd think it was just another test.

It cuts both ways, when I was in Broadmore I wondered how they would know if it was a real nutter alert since they tested the alarm so often and when the alarm went off when I was in AWRE nobody knew what to do because it had never happened before.
But in truth you could see why each establishment worked it like that, the public would be reassured knowing the high security nuthouse had good working security measures, whereas a warning alarm from a nuclear bomb factory would scare the crap out of the whole region.

[August]

Originally Posted by mookiemookie

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=bush+cancel+2008+elections

About 11,200,000 results

Clicking your link produced 73 million results. Obviously this is a growing controversy!

Bush is back!