Obama Phones

I originally wrote an article on 7/14/10 about just this subject.  It's not new.  I had to search for the article (why oh why do I not use tags?) on my blog, but I finally found it.  I had titled it, the most curious thing.  Here is the original blog.

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The Left is really trying to capture us. A couple weeks ago, we had a flyer left on our door. I'm sure it was a random thing, left on everyone's door based on the neighborhood I live in. It was offering a free cell phone to anyone who is in a government program. I've since shredded the offer, because I read the whole thing and it just sounded plain spooky to me. But get this, you got 200 free minutes a month, with a basic phone. It had text capabilities, but you would have to pay extra for it. So, get you hooked, and then get you in debt, I suppose. But in order to qualify, you had to be in some sort of government program, like my son being on SSI. What caused me to shred it, was that they reserved the right to change the applications on the phone, even remotely, without notice at any time. How do you change an application remotely?


I had an attack of paranoia one time (the Obama administration has me doing that) and thought my cell phone was bugged by my mother in law. I know, sounds insane. But I checked it out on line. I discovered that it is possible to bug a phone, but it has to be one of those really fancy phones, the ones that can hold lots of applications, and you have to have access to the phone personally. As in if the government mailed you one? The program, I forget the name of it because it's illegal to bug someone's phone if they don't know you're doing it (unless you're the federal government) costs over $200. Like I said, you have to have access to the phone to install it. So I know I don't have it, because I've never let my mother in law have access to my phone, and it's not a complicated phone. It sends all the information to a predetermined location, either another phone or a computer, in a download.


Interesting, huh? So the Government is sending out flyers, trying to give away free phones to everyone on government assistance of some sort. Is this so they know where they are? I was really tempted to take it. I thought to myself, this would be a great way for my son to have a phone in case we were gone and the power went out. With 200 free minutes a month that would be all he needed. And the kids could share it.


Then we got a call from a marketing agency....to tell you the truth I've forgotten the name. We've been involved with them before. They send $1 in an envelope and tell us they're going to call with survey questions. Well, this time they called before we got the envelope. They wanted to know if we would be willing to wear a device that monitors everything we watch....it just makes it easier. It picks up all our electronic devices. It scans our grocery purchases, etc. EXCUSE ME???!!! Can it also monitor my cell phone calls? Can it also tell them where I'm at at all time? We said absolutely not. The next day we got the letter explaining it with $10. They wanted to pay us $50 per person willing to wear it.


THIS IS BIG BROTHER! This is the scariest thing I've ever heard of. I just could not believe it. And when you put these two things together? How do things like this happen in America? I would not have believed this was possible just a short year ago. I would have said *I* was crazy for even suspecting anything was wrong. But I was the person who, at the age of 20, went with a total stranger and let him show me around New York City. And I don't think THIS is safe. You tell me that wearing a tracking device in this day and age is right. Yea, it's just marketing.


And everyone knows that cell phones have a GPS in them. Why would anyone let the government give them a phone with a GPS in it? So the government can track down all the people on disability? It specifically says only the person assigned the phone can have the phone. That is population control. Hand out the phones so at a later date they know where everyone is.


If you know anyone who got those, make sure they tie them to rats...just like in the movie with Arnold ...what was it where he went to Mars? We'll have all the government men tracking down varmints instead of Patriots!

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I bolded the things that strike me now, over 2 years later.  I remember reading the whole disclaimer.  I remember them saying they could change the phone remotely.  What else can they do remotely?  At the time I wrote this, 2.5 years ago, I already had a feeling where this President was leading this country.  I know more about communism now besides it's not American.  In China (one of the few remaining truly communistic countries) they don't have welfare of any sort.  They don't have unemployment insurance.  If you lose your job, they give you a small severance pay, and you're on your own.  You're expected to either find another job or have family take care of you.  The most they do is give poor villagers a free fishing net to start a fishing business, or give a free bamboo starter plant so you can raise bamboo and either sell it or make something and sell that. 

If Obama is really leading us down the road to Communism (remember, his mother was a communist and his grandparents, who raised him, were "fellow travelers," code for Communists), his voting base that he's firing up will lose all their benefits.  What happens when you have someone how is dependent on government aide and that aide is suddenly taken away by the very government who gave it to them?  I'd wager to say they'd riot.  I read a report recently (sorry, didn't save the site) that said if the EBT (food stamp) system collapsed, rioting would begin IN HOURS.  They say if the economy collapsed, we'd have a couple days before people realized the dollar wasn't worth the paper it was written on.  But if the takers can't use their EBT card for their smokes, junk food, etc. things will go south much faster.  I can hear it now.  Someone goes to Walmart with a cart full, and tries to use their EBT card.  It fails, they try using their pin a couple more times, then turn to the person who is with them, asking to put it on their EBT card.  Theirs fails, too, so they call someone on their Obama Phone, to find out theirs doesn't work either.  Chain effect.

You've been hearing all these stories about lost Ipads, phones, etc., being found with a system that will track it to where it is, right?  What if this already has that program loaded onto it?  What happens if they can turn it off remotely? 

There is NO WAY my son is getting one of those phones.  Texas Medicaid went to the Star Plus program.  I had 2 choices of plans.  One included a free phone so I turned it down and took the other one.  If they force one on me, I'm finding a bum on the street to give it to.