17Sept2011 | by: Cloudylissa | TRUTHstream Media.com
Something about the upcoming national EAS "test" just does not sit right with me. On November 9 at approximately 2 pm Eastern, FEMA will interrupt our radio and television (including satellite services) for three and half minutes as part of a nationwide test of the emergency alert system. Seems like a very long time for a mere test, doesn’t it? I mean, it’s bad enough they play that horrible ear-raping sound for thirty seconds together and then tell you not to do anything because it’s a test… I really, truly loathe that baby scaring sound.
But even that isn’t what’s bothering me.
I know many people have weighed in to say something like, “Well I think it’s a great idea to ramp up our emergency broadcast system in this country.” At first, I even agreed. Having a national system is a good thing, right? Natural system progression to enhanced safety? So what’s bothering me?
What indeed. I think it’s simply this.
What kind of emergency are we talking about that every single person from the shores of Hawaii to the coasts in Maine would need to hear about it all at the same time?
Think about it for a minute ladies and gentlemen.
Emergencies are usually not that wide scale. Were a mega tsunami ala The Discovery Channel to rip across the Atlantic tomorrow and hit the eastern seaboard, why would people in Seattle or San Diego really need to know via EAS? Even the attacks that took place on 9/11 were not something that physically affected every city across the nation at that exact moment. In fact, when that happened, if the authorities were genuinely concerned and had each state wanted to sound the alarm as a call to action, couldn’t they have if they wanted to? Was anything stopping them? It's not like we didn't have the capabilities in place.
So, again I ask, what kind of emergency are we talking about that FEMA needs to take over the airwaves of every television and radio in every home in every city in every state in America for over three minutes at once?
The only possibilities that grace my brain are mass nuclear threat, alien invasion (laugh it up, but it makes the list), or a giant meteor impact otherwise known as an ELE or earth level event. In each one of these scenarios, ask yourself honestly, what purpose would a nationwide EAS broadcast serve? Besides sending the masses flooding out into the streets in sheer panic, that is. Oh, I guess I forgot global stock market crash and total dollar devaluation… but even then, what good is a national emergency broadcast going to do besides pour starving fire ants into our collective pants?
Truly, in any of these dreadful scenarios, a national-level radio and television interruption complete with that annoying brain raking across a chalkboard sound would serve no purpose other than to send people into a mind melting terror. It is not as if they really believe we would all hear the EAS, realize it isn’t a test, absorb the obviously horrid information to follow in a calm, rational manner, then sit back and take the news with an indifferent shrug like someone just told us it's going to rain today.
If an enemy is going to broad-scale nuke us, aside from the few that have a slot reserved under the Denver airport, the majority of us left on the surface are pretty much hosed. If aliens are coming, telling us on TV isn’t going to change that or really even prepare us for anything, so why bother? "Oh look honey! FEMA just told us aliens are coming. Grab your gift basket and area 51 T-shirt!" If the stock market crashes or giant meteors are on an unstoppable collision course with Earth, do we really need to be told what to do with what little time we have left by the government?
I mean, again, think about it! Our modern government is already pretty much running every aspect of our lives as it is. Our free speech and right to peaceful protest in public places is basically gone; in president-declared emergency situations, the constitution can now be thrown completely out the window by our dictator, I mean, erm, president; we can’t even choose for ourselves whether or not we want to consume raw milk now; and in some states they are going to start vaccinating our children with dangerous chemical cocktails without parental consent. I mean, the government has basically taken control of nearly every single choice we have anymore except what color underwear we can wear on a Tuesday.
If an event so catastrophic were to occur that every man, woman, child, and housepet in all our 50 states from sea to shining sea needed to know about it at once… if it were to THAT level of bad… is there really anything the government can tell us at that point that would actually matter??
On a sidenote, if we are all getting nuked or blown to bits by hostile extraterrestrials or crushed to death by a Bruce Willis level meteor, I really don’t want that ill-conceived rabid polar bear getting simultaneously hit by a bus while releasing the biggest fart of all time emergency alert system test noise to be the last sound I ever hear.
That’s just not right.
Source
http://www.fema.gov/news/newsrelease.fema?id=55722
