Cell Phones And The Federal Government

Cell Phones And The Federal Government

Government Propaganda/Tracking Devices?

A Commentary by J. D. Longstreet

Like many men, I wear my cell phone in a holster on my belt.  It goes where I go and it remains in the same room in which I sleep every night.  If you want to know where I am… just find my cell phone. 

It is easy enough to track me as the phone emits a signal, which shows my geographical location, continuously, even now.  The only way I have found to defeat that GPS locater system is to remove the battery.

Up to now, when I didn’t want to be reached, I simply turned the phone off.  Now, however, with the federal government about to enter the business of contacting me whenever they want and knowing my whereabouts 24 hours a day, I will have to turn off the phone AND, I repeat, AND -- REMOVE THE BATTERY!

If you are still with me, enduring my paranoid rant, and you STILL don’t know what I am venting about, go HERE.

OK.  I’ll give you the short version:  The federal government is about to begin calling cell phones with what they believe are important messages about terrorism, weather, amber alerts, etc.  Why, heck, they’re going to call you when the President wants you to hear one of his pre-recorded messages.  Oh, JOY!

Look: I don’t trust the federal government. More so than ever now that the executive branch and half of the Congress is under the control of Socialists. 

We are in the early stages of the creation of a “police state” in America. “If you see something – say something.”  Rat on your neighbors and your government will thank you.  And now we arrive at a point in this downward spiral of freedom at which the federal government will be able to track us without the fabled chips under our skin.  They may simply use our cell phones, which most Americans seem to have grafted to their ears.

You may think this is a case of paranoia, if you choose, but we warned this was going to happen, rather a long time ago, in our previous scribblings.  Now it is here. 

Just because you are paranoid – doesn’t mean they’re not out to get you! And when they are out to get you, paranoia is just darned good thinking!

I hope you have read the article to which we supplied the link above.  If not you need to do so now.  As you read … notice how you may opt out of the first two messages but you cannot opt out of a presidential message.  See that?  All American cell phone users must hear a pre-recorded message from “Dear Leader Obama.” 

Allow me to ask: If we can opt out of the other two messages, why, in the dickens, is it so darned important to install this system in the first place?  Oh, the answer is simple – so we can all be blessed by the sound of our Dear Leader’s supreme oratory telling us what a GREAT MAN he is and why everything he is doing is for the CHILDREN and for our own good.  Jeez, I HATE THAT!  I am fed up with the mealy-mouthed hypocrisy of the socialist-democrats.  Their condescending “Bovine Scatology” has been made into an art form for use against the weak-minded followers of their political philosophy.

What we have here -- is NOT a failure to communicate, but a federal government propaganda machine.  We are beginning to look more and more like World War Two Germany under the Nazis -- only hi-tech.

This just another freedom being taken away.  Which freedom?  The freedom to just be left alone!  It is the reason my Confederate ancestors went to war against a repressive US government.  They wanted only to be let alone to run their own affairs.  So do I.  So do millions of Americans. But the same US government that rained death and destruction down on the Confederacy has now reached heights of repression even the southern Americans of the 1860’s could not fathom.

Just a few weeks ago, when that swarm of tornadoes swept through my state, North Carolina, a few minutes after the storm had passed, our phone rang and it was the 911 center telling us to be alert we were under a tornado watch!  See how efficient and effective that can be.  It was, and is, totally useless! 

So, I am done with cell phones.

Look, America.  Our federal government has grown entirely too big, and too intrusive -- by far.    And believe me when I say, they have only just begun to get into our business.  

When that “accursed ObamaCare” kicks in, the federal government will be able to enter our homes, without a warrant, to insure our compliance to federal mandates.  Did you know that?  No part of our life: living, eating, sleeping, recreating, sexual intercourse, raising the resulting children, schooling those kids, what you eat, what you drive, where and how you drive, what you wear, which church you attend, and yes – how you VOTE! 

We won’t need two political parties; we will have only one – the socialist/communist party …  you know, like the old Socialist Soviet Union in what we know today as Russia.

May God help us, America, because we are just too dumb to help ourselves.  History will record the suicide of the great United States of America right alongside the exact same story of that other great nation, Rome.  America is following every twist and turn the Romans made on their way to ruin as though it were a road map.  And it is a road 

map – to destruction.

Uh-oh.  My phone is ringing.  Could it be Obama?  ALREADY?  Gotta get the cussed battery out of that thing!

J. D. Longstreet

US Government “Health Police” Go Too Far This Time!

US Government “Health Police” Go Too Far This Time!
A Commentary by J. D. Longstreet

Gruesome pictures on cigarette packs only serve to demonstrate just how ignorant the US Government thinks Americans really are.

I live in a state that was, more or less, financed by tobacco for over 200 years. Within two blocks of my home are three tobacco warehouses where tobacco was trucked in by farmers and sold at auction. I, myself, have followed the auctioneer down the long rows of tobacco as each pile was auctioned off to the highest bidder. I still savor the memory of the aroma of freshly cured tobacco on the floors of those warehouses.

It was a wonderful time here when the tobacco-selling season opened. Money was everywhere. A farmer could truck in a load of tobacco in the early morning and leave the warehouse in the afternoon with a roll of bills large enough to choke a horse. They headed for the retail district of town, ASAP, to pay off loans and buy the needed clothing, etc, for their families and supplies for the next years planting. The sidewalks of our town were so crowded with shoppers that often one would have to walk in the street because maneuvering the sidewalks was impossible. Cash flowed like water.

That is all gone now. The city is a ghost of its former self. The county is now one of the poorest in the state. And I resent the hell out of it.

Look, I am a smoker. I have been since pre-school age. I am now a few months shy of my 70th birthday and I am still smoking.

I smoked cigarettes, a pipe, and cigars, and I carried a plug of chewing tobacco in my hunting vest when I was in the swamps or fields hunting. I never liked to smoke in the forests and swamps for fear of accidentally starting a fire. So rather than smoke, I would chew tobacco.

Today I only smoke cigars and a pipe.

I like tobacco. I always have. I intend to smoke, because I enjoy it, until my life is up on this plain on existence.

Love of tobacco sort of runs in my family. My maternal grandfather used tobacco products all is life. He only lived to be 96 years old. My paternal grandfather did the same thing but he was not as fortunate for the Lord called him home at the relatively young age of 93. (One of my most prized possessions is his pipe.) My father was a cigarette and pipe smoker until he expired at the age of only 89.

My aunts died in their 80’s and 90’s and they were smokers, too.

One of my greatest joys in life is to “PO” a non-smoker who might dare to look exasperated when I light up my pipe.

See, I don’t give a rat’s rear-end whether you favor or disfavor smoking. I really, really, could not care less. It is a personal choice I made many decades ago, and I like it, and I make absolutely no apologies for it.

That said -- it irritates me no end that the government, which derives tons of cash off taxes from the sale of tobacco products, has the audacity to pressure me -- and all smoking Americans -- to quit. It is none of the government’s business what I choose to do with a legal product.

When they finally make the sale of tobacco products illegal, I intend to grow my own, shred it, and continue to smoke ‘til my dying day.

As to those god-awful pictures they are proposing placing on cigarette packs, I suppose we will have to bring back the old plastic and metal cigarette cases, within which, one could slide a complete pack of cigarettes hiding the logo and the government’s scare art. Cigarette smokers may continue to smoke without looking at those disgusting government propaganda posters splashed across the packages.

Another thing that really, and I mean R E A L L Y ticks me off about the “holier than thou” anti-smoker crowd is they totally ignore the dangers posed by the use of alcohol, which is indisputably far more dangerous to a consumer’s health than a cigarette, cigar, or pipe. How about some pictures of an auto crash with dead bodies lying all about the pavement alongside empty beer and whiskey bottles. No, that is not going to happen because the authorities, the “Health Police,” and so darned hypocritical and, most likely, many are consumers of alcohol products, themselves. Being the elitist snobs they are, they are going after only those who offend them -- and drunks obviously do not offend them. I wonder how many of those elitists “Health Police” have DUI tickets they’d rather we not know about? Huh?

This is simply another case of our elitist government flexing its muscle and demonstrating its power over we “peons” by intervening in the lives of the private American citizen.

This is also another reminder that America is no longer a free country. We have a lot of rogue government agencies in Washington with the power to pass rules and regulations, which have the power of law. That, absolutely, must be brought to a screech halt.

In my opinion, there is no need for the majority of those interventionist agencies and the new US House of Representatives, where all spending bills must originate, ought to begin defunding those agencies and starving them out of existence just as soon as they are sworn into office.

Ronald Reagan once said: “Government is not the answer to our problems. Government IS THE PROBLEM.” Some of the agencies, I’d personally like to see disbanded and done away with include: the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Education, the Department of Health and Human Services, and all of Obama’s Czars and Czarinas. And that just scratches the surface for the list of agencies that serve only to harass the American public and American business. It is a very long list, indeed.

The government is too big, too intrusive, too powerful, and too full of itself. It needs to be brought to heel, which is where an American representative republic belongs in the first place.

The “Health Police” have crossed the line with their gruesome scare tactics on packs of cigarettes and I sincerely hope, when their budget comes up for review soon, it will be cut to near zero in order to bring some control and humility to their agency and remind them who they work for. They, apparently, have it backwards.

Oh, I am happily puffing on my pipe as I write this piece. If you don’t like it, may we suggest – well -- you know what you can do with your objection.

J. D. Longstreet