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Canadian Government to Jam Radio Signals
An anonymous reader submits: "According to this article, the Canadian government has given the military and RCMP permission to jam radio signals during the G8 summit and the Pope's visit. I suppose that the stated reason would be to prevent terrorists from communicating with each other, but I have to wonder whether it's also being done to keep those pesky protesters from effectively organizing at the G8. And if this action manages to block wireless 911 calls, and someone dies because of that, who's going to be willing to step up to the plate and take the blame?"
As it turns out, our representatives wisely decided to opt for a capitalist system. The highest bidder (that is, the bidder with the strongest desire to speak), is able to purchase spectrum at a reasonable cost from the American people. Thus, the maximum possible return is achieved for the taxpayers, and the highest bidder has paid a fair price for the scarce resource they need. Capitalism works - period.
Unfortunately, Canadia is not a capitalist society. Canadians favor socialist approaches to health care, government, and (yes) RF spectrum allocation. This means that the rights to an area of spectrum belong to the government, not to the people (as in America). And the Canadian government is now flexing their muscle and exercising their right to take this valuable resource away from its citizens, who wish to communicate amongst themselves. This underscores a crucial point of socialism: its sole purpose is to maintain control over the populace, at any cost. The basic premise of capitalism flies in the face of this sort of manipulation, and that is why America will never become a police state, regardless of what Draconian laws the Bush administration manages to pass.
So, in summary: you get what you elect. If you vote for socialists, don't expect to get fair use out of the natural resources and public goods in your country. The lesson comes at a high cost for many Canadians (witness the breakdown of their health care system), but recognizing the problem is the first step in finding a solution and joining the rest of the Western world in becoming a capitalist country.
Bill
911 calls are free from pay phones. Wait, they're free from American pay phones. Heaven forbid I should tell Canadians how to run a telephone system.
Pay phone calls are not 25 cents, and haven't been for several years. The Verizon pay phones down the street from me are 50 cents. Many pay phones do not even accept loose change, as it's just easier to restrict your customer base to those customers who have credit cards or calling cards.
The "what if someone dies because 911 can't be called from a cell phone" argument sounds suspiciously close to "won't somebody please think of the children!!", which we all know is crap.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
We lived without sanitary water supplies for one hundred years.
We lived without electricity for 100 years.
We lived without roads and cars for 100 years.
We lived without airplanes for 100 years.
And of course, we lived without stupid comments on what we lived without for a long long time.
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Won't somebody PLEASE think of the children!
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
ROFLMAO,
I fully expected some simpleminded modarator to mod that post down.
Get it right! That was a pure and simple flame attached to a flamebait post, tho' I shouldn't expect the politically correct crowd to understand a nuance like that. Not something that told the cold hard unvarnished truth about modern liberalism's value system.
Free Speach for all who agree with you, isn't that the essance of political correctness?
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