I Just Grew A New Tin-Foil-Hat

[ThomWV]

Within the last couple of months two new cell phone antennas have been built in our area. We still do not have service at our home even though each of the two new towers is within just a few miles of us. Its the West Virginia terrain I suppose.

Last year I lost my cell phone. I had still had one my wife had recently retired that still worked and while it had few features it was certainly good enough for me. I took it to the store and asked them to program my number into it. This is no big deal to do and the guy could have done it but he was not allowed to do so. The reason wasn't that they were trying to sell me a new phone, it was because they were prohibited from putting any phones into service that did not have a built in GPS. This was almost two years ago. All new phones, and I would dare say that means most of the phones in service today, have the ability to identify their location in the background any time they are turned on.

Last week I started to read Orwell. Somehow in my 60 years I had not read 1984. Now I have.

When you pass by and see those cell phone towers and you feel that lump of a cell phone in your pocket, in a purse, or on your hip, just reflect for a moment how close Big Brother is today. Our Government already snatches people up off the street without charge and holds them in secret. Your Congress can't or won't protect you. Your Court can't or won't protect you.

PS: The first GPS receiver I bought (1995) cost me just under $200. I have owned a half dozen of them since and they have not been inexpensive. Now days you can get a phone for less than $25 and it has a GPS built into it. The price of that additional receiver and other technology does not seem to be included in that phone's cost. So let me ask - is someone subsidizing the cost of having a location device included in the phone? Yep, I said it. Is the Government covering the cost of putting a sort of locator bug in the pocket of every person who carrys a phone now days?