New York City officials introduced a new national alert system called the Personal Localized Alert Network (PLAN) that will transmit government messages and terror alerts directly to people's cell phones during a state of emergency. CBS reported that, "By the end of the year, the new system will be in place in New York City and Washington and in cities around the country by the end of 2012."
On the surface this new system appears to be an upgrade of current government and commercial communication networks that will prove useful in the event of a civil emergency or a major terrorist attack. But it would be foolish to pay attention to the surface of reality, and forget the history of how governments exploit public fears and states of crisis to acquire unlawful government powers, and how authoritarian political leaders like to invent excuses to scare the people into submitting to their evil will and corrupt demands.
New government powers and new laws which are draconian in nature are always presented to the people as instruments of public security. It is only later that the people wake up and realize that they were manipulated and led like sheep into the abyss of despotism.
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