As a NYer, I can tell you that since 9/11 our city has become the test site and poster child for the growing (but not yet quite here, purplewolf) proto-totalitarian police state.  This is only the latest example.  And, of course, even if this idea had some merit, the potential for its abuse is staggering.

Peace.

That is exactly what caused th einablity to communicate between depts during 9/11. Good ol’ Rudy bought the cheapest, Non compatable communication devices he could find! People Died because of his ineptitude! Not to mention the lunacy of putting the Emergency HQ in the very buildings which had already been attacked 8 yrs earlier. One could summize, Rudy was aiding the Attackers with such obvious fuck ups.
do they test NY officials for Retardation? Is it a prerequiste to getting a high powered position in the State Gov’t? At the Very least we should be testing some of their officials for Lead Poisoning!

I’m sure that the Mumbai thugs would have been stopped long before they had a chance to kill as many as they did if they tried a similar tactic here since many of us are legally armed.  I’m not a right-wing wacko trying to spam this site, I agree with many of you, and this article shows how if we don’t defend our rights, we are going to be reduced to a population of helpless sheep that can do nothing but watch or run if something were to happen here.

We are now officially a police state. If they jam all the cell phones and land lines, what are people who need to call for say, an ambulance or fire emergency supposed to do? Use smoke signals, carrier pigeons, semaphore signals, Morse code? And how far will they jam these signals, a city, state, country, or all of North America? It would literally shut down the whole country if nation wide and would cause more harm by doing so, besides if a situation occured, the “bad guys” will no doubt have another backup system or plan in which to communicate.

No matter what these so called experts come up with, the criminal mind always overcomes or out smarts the experts.

Hasn’t this terrorist thing gone on long enough? It is like the boy crying wolf, after the trillionth time of these idiots in charge screaming terrorism, people tend to tune them out. It has become meaningless as it has been over used for everything to justify what this administration has taken away from the people of America. Like the rights we had when Bush entered the White House. Do you really feel safer after the last 2 terms of Bush? A country run by paranoid politicians who see boogeymen everywhere? I know I don’t, but it is not from foreign threats, but rather more like the home-grown ones from this administration.

Sounds like a spark to fuse of a new American revolution.

The first instinct of Security Mind is to make others more helpless so that Security Mind will be more important and can pretend to take control of everything.  If the cell phones are jammed, then terrorists will simply resort to other forms of communication, like walkie-talkies (direct radio) or something else, whereas the honest, peaceable persons will be made suitably dependent on their masters.  An alert, active citizenry could use working cell phones to report hostile activity, to fight back as it were.  Security Mind would prefer you to be helpless.  Sound familiar?

Are the police serving the interests of the people of New York by eliminating their ability to communicate?  To me it doesn’t seem so but that is up to New Yorkers.

That’s a kind way of saying Kelly is stupid (or, perhaps, hiding a sinister reason) for saying he wants to be able to jam cell phones at his whim. Not only would it not stop the terrorists from communicating, it would stop civilians from communicating and, perhaps, saving lives, as well as possibly interfering with community service communications.

This is an exemplar for “better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool than open your mouth and remove all doubt.”