Presidential Alerts

[41chevy]

I thought it was a modern version of the Civil Defense channels on the radios, it's is apparently upsetting to certain groups of people. A massive ploy for Trump  to UH do something evil. . . yeah that's it EVIL!

 

How Did 'Presidential Alerts' Become A Political Issue?

Erich Reimer

At 2:18 pm EST on Wednesday afternoon every cell phone and television received and displayed a message entitled “Presidential Alert: THIS IS A Test of the National Wireless Emergency Alert System. No action is needed.”

It should relieve every American that our country has the technological capability to alert Americans were a national emergency of existential proportions – say a nuclear exchange, asteroid, foreign invasion, etc. – to potentially occur. Indeed the legal basis and system for the alert, through the Communications Act of 1934, has apparently already been used over 40,000 times by local governments for various natural disasters and other crises in just the past half-decade alone.

Yet in our modern political climate it seemed almost doubtless that even such a seemingly unquestionable national security mechanism would become politicized. A lawsuit was already filed a few days before the test claiming worries that the president might use the system as a means of sending his own personal messages or other such content, a ludicrous theory that reflects more of its proponents than of such a possibility actually occurring.

Indeed on Twitter we saw how quickly “#PresidentialAlert” became a joke as users, largely opponents of our president, took to the platform to create memes mocking the alert as if it were used for trolling or minor notices. Many others took a more serious tone, attacking the ability of the president to be able to send such messages and claiming everything from invasion of privacy to feeling personally affronted despite the message’s lack of any opinion content or even mentioning President Trump’s name.

The fact that it seems some of our nation’s citizens are actually worried, some in jest but others in reality, that the president might abuse the system to distribute his own personal musings to everyone in the country just shows how twisted and unrealistic an image so many have of President Trump

President Trump has now already been in office for almost two years. He has had the vast apparatus of the greatest nation in the world at his disposal and we’ve seen little to no more misuse or abuses of the system as compared with any other administration, and even perhaps less. To think otherwise is to live in a fantasy land, where seething hatred of our president overrides facts, logic, and reason.

As previously mentioned, a Presidential Alert like this is for the worst of worst cases and has a long and well-ironed out history in our country. Were a time-sensitive and devastating event to truly be coming to our nation’s shores it seems like any citizen who cares about themselves, their communities, or the country would want to be alerted. Those who are encouraging opt-out or even dismantling of the Presidential Alert system over some personal dislike of our President are doing more than hurting our nation’s national security readiness, they are also putting themselves and their fellow citizens’ lives at risk. On a smaller scale, imagine were those affected by the recent slew of hurricanes to have opted out and been unable to receive accurate and coherent information regarding the arrival and severity of the storms - even more damage and loss of life and limb may have resulted.

Edited October 6, 2018 by 41chevy

[tjc transport]

the "presidential alert" is not a Trump thing, obumper did at least 4 of them. 

don't know if he did more, because i have only had a cell phone for 6 years. 

[HeavyGunner]

The democrats will politicize anything even if it’s good. I hope all of the swing states see through their bs. 

[Dirtymilkman]

1 hour ago, HeavyGunner said:

The democrats will politicize anything even if it’s good. I hope all of the swing states see through their bs. 

Every party trys to politicize everything. Trust none of them. 

[david wild]

I have taken plenty of BS for this but I will say it again, you vote liberal democrat you have a mental defect, this is the only way to explain your behavior, how else could you justify voting to ruin the greatest country on earth. GO TRUMP   

[HeavyGunner]

9 minutes ago, Dirtymilkman said:

Every party trys to politicize everything. Trust none of them. 

They do but the democrats have taken it to a whole another level. You can look at any news without seeing complete and utter click bait headlines everyday since trump got in. 

[GA_Dave]

The "Emergency Broadcast System" was in place long before I was born, before most people alive today were born.  This "new" system is the modern day equivalent of the EBS.  Anyone with a little logic and reason can easily understand this, but therein lies the problem for many people.  They cannot deal with logic and reason, just feelings and emotions.  Those of us who understand these things can't help them.  They cannot be taught, nor do they want to be.  Since we are not allowed to shoot them, our only choice is to ignore them! 

If the system had been used today to congratulate Justice Kavanaugh on his confirmation into the Supreme Court, their heads would have literally exploded!

[41chevy]

21 minutes ago, GA_Dave said:

The "Emergency Broadcast System" was in place long before I was born, before most people alive today were born.  This "new" system is the modern day equivalent of the EBS.  Anyone with a little logic and reason can easily understand this, but therein lies the problem for many people.  They cannot deal with logic and reason, just feelings and emotions.  Those of us who understand these things can't help them.  They cannot be taught, nor do they want to be.  Since we are not allowed to shoot them, our only choice is to ignore them! 

If the system had been used today to congratulate Justice Kavanaugh on his confirmation into the Supreme Court, their heads would have literally exploded!

1934 and has been used over 40,000 times by Federal ,State and local governments. The weather/ tornado alerts are part of it. 

Logic, reason and common sense are coming back since Oblameher left.

 

[Quickfarms]

their heads would have literally exploded! [emoji4]

the down side to that is the clean up