For those of you who were blasted awake not once, but TWICE in the middle of the night last night, by an Amber alert for a child who for whatever reason wasn’t with the person who the court said they should be with, no matter if you needed the sleep, had a medical condition that is exacerbated by these assaults on your peace, or for whatever reason, you do not like your personal equipment hijacked by the state to ram information on you about which you can do nothing, check this out:
That is right. The Government of Canada has decided it has the right to take over your equipment, lets call it a ‘Telescreen’ and blast you awake no matter what your personal disposition might be.
If you search Twitter and most venues looking for a solution, you will be met with no arguments but lots of people trying to shame you for not wanting this intrusion. A sort of pre-Orwellian solution to massive government overreach.
PLEASE Call the CRTC and launch a complaint if this is a problem for you. It may be medical or it may not. The fact is, it should not matter. Why should some people have special rights to not be blasted awake by a government policy and not others? Anyone should have the right to opt out of whatever alerts they want.
In the US, they implemented a new level recently called a Presidential Alert. This cannot be turned off. But all the other ones can. In Canada, they, (quite typical to CRTC decisions I have seen) decided to make ALL alerts, thunderstorms or whatever, a presidential style alert so they cannot be disabled.
I am looking for a way for people to control their own equipment they bought and be able to take out the line of code so you can stop these, and I will publish it once I find one that works and is practical and safe. But for now, please call the CRTC and demand that they change the alerts so people can opt out. Certainly between 11:00 PM and 9:00 AM but really, freedom means freedom to not have the government decide what should be important to you.
Consumer Support Line:
1-877-249-2782
The Gentleman I spoke to explained that they are taking comments and may change the policy. So now is a good time to call. I understand that to people these alerts seem rational as any parent can be as upset as a person can be when a child has been taken by the other spouse, (which is probably 99% of these issues.) But freedom is freedom. We all must be able to decide to what extent government can intrude on our lives for the collective, especially when at 3:00 AM there is absolutely nothing you can do for these problems. Triply so as they do not event send a picture of the child. So its not like you could do anything even if you wanted to jump in your car and help.
We did an interview with Brad Johnson the other day about the likely cause of the failure of the cellular voice network across Canada last Sunday.
In it he speculated that it was likely the Chinese government causing Huawei equipment which is the backbone of many nation’s telcos, to malfunction as a response to Canadian disobedience in terms of releasing the daughter of a well connected woman to the Chinese Government, and a VP of Huawei, whom we arrested on behalf of the USA.
The CBC published an article about it where as one has come to expect, they did not utter one word about WHY the system went down. Just noting that it did and no one should be angry at their telco because it was across the board, and not the fault of any one company. In fact it was likely certain Chinese switching equipment used by both Bell and Rogers, which all the smaller companies also use.
Two people I know of, attempted to leave a comment on the CBC website story about this, and neither were published, and now, comments are closed for the subject.
So now we know.
CBC = Comrades broadcasting Communism.
Defund the CBC
I am compelled to draw everyone’s attention to the many ‘not withstanding conflict with substantial Government interests’ clauses salted…liberally, you may say…through the Charter of -giggle- rights and freedoms. You have no unalienable rights, at all in canada.
Any communications the state gets it’s sticky stasi fingers on is compromised, always have been. Phones are a particularly nasty and intrusive state surveillance platform, however.
Ditch ’em, start thinking tactically, folks.
Cell phones today are harder to quit than drugs. But I begin to lean your way.
I suspect that in life, whenever you catch yourself saying to yourself, “I can handle this” you probably can’t. That is with problematic relationships, any form of substance that is dangerous and now I guess I have to include cell phones.
You can’t fully ditch them but you can ensure that you don’t take about sentisitive issues when they are anywhere near (inside the house), you can also get use to g going out without them.
There are other things you can do but they are mainly common sense.
We The People.
“An Act
To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to direct the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency to modernize the integrated public alert and warning system of the United States, and for other purposes.”
“In General.–To provide timely and effective warnings
regarding natural disasters, acts of terrorism, and other man-made
disasters or threats to public safety, …”
” “(d) Use of System.–Except to the extent necessary for testing the
public alert and warning system, the public alert and warning system shall not be used to transmit a message that does not relate to a natural disaster, act of terrorism, or other man-made disaster or threat
to public safety.”
https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/senate-bill/1180/text
Such a perfect example of the slippery slope. In Canada the CRTC (A brutally politicized institution as evidenced by who and who does not, get a licence to broadcast) has decided to make all warnings, including Amber alerts for hundreds of miles at any time of day, a presidential alert that cannot be disabled by law.
I plan to find out how to disable them and post that information. This is not a law in any healthy sense of the term. This is about politics and forcing people’s private equipment to virtue signal for the government. nd it will clearly not end with Amber alerts. It already doesn’t. Thunderstorm warnings and more already cannot be disabled and this can only mean more circumstances to come because government ALWAYS works that way.
And the excuse of terrorism in Canada is already moot. Look at Ralph Goodale’s decisions to not call clear and obvious acts or attempts at mass casualty events, not terrorism because it would make Islam look like Islam really is. (my words not his obviously, he said it would make Islam look bad) So we know the system is political and not in the public interest.