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MMC
08-13-2011, 07:04 AM
http://news.yahoo.com/cellphones-blocked-sf-hinder-transit-protest-041114962.html
AP – 3 hrs ago.....
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Transit officials said Friday that they blocked cellphone reception in San Francisco train stations for three hours to disrupt planned demonstrations over a police shooting.
Officials with the Bay Area Rapid Transit system, better known as BART, said they turned off electricity to cellular towers in four stations from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Thursday. The move was made after BART learned that protesters planned to use mobile devices to coordinate a demonstration on train platforms.
A civil disturbance during commute times at busy downtown San Francisco stations could lead to platform overcrowding and unsafe conditions for BART customers, employees and demonstrators," BART officials said in a prepared statement.

The statement noted that it's illegal to demonstrate on the platform or aboard the trains. BART said it has set aside special areas for demonstrations.

The American Civil Liberties Union questioned the tactic.

BART officials were confident the cellphone disruptions were legal. The demonstration planned Thursday failed to develop.....snip~

Here is California's response to shuting down just one way that people are able to communicate using a social network? This was done by a Transit Authority. BART. People had set up protests. Upon discovery of the information this Transit Authority Shut down Power to not one but 4 towers in an effort to stop the protests.

What Questions are being answered with this type of response.....BART thinks they have broken no laws and that their disruption of service was legal. Is it??? Service was interrupted by an outside source. One that is not Homeland Security, Nor Frisco Police or their City Government. There was no call made by the Govenor to do such. Should some Transit Authority be allowed to do such? Thoughts?

Conley
08-13-2011, 08:59 AM
Hell no that's not ok, for many reasons. What if there is an emergency? What if it's something as simple as a commuter who needs to talk to his pregnant wife?

Of course people shouldn't be allowed to protest next to the trains. If you see protesters or loiterers start to gather, bust em up and make them move to a safe place. But to eliminate cell phones for everyone in the general area is not cool. They may end up paying for this one with their wallets if someone can prove harm was done. Don't be trying this tomfoolery in America >:(

Conley
08-13-2011, 09:38 AM
Also, Frisco is in Texas. The city you're looking for is San Francisco, that's in CA. :P

MMC
08-13-2011, 10:29 AM
Also, Frisco is in Texas. The city you're looking for is San Francisco, that's in CA. :P


Grrrrrrrr...............thers only one Frisco in this Country, and it sure aint in Texas. All know where lala-land is. Ya'll keeps telling those 70yr old snizibits that they loookin reeeeeeeeeeeal good.
Thers more than one reason theys call Frisco.....Flakes, and we aint talkin Frosted. >:D

Conley
08-13-2011, 10:33 AM
So what do you think MMC? Was BART justified?

MMC
08-13-2011, 11:31 AM
So what do you think MMC? Was BART justified?


Not me brutha.....I look at this with major cities invoking cufews and invading privacy laws in gathering pics and information from public sources. As something that will lead to problems with the future and this nation progresses to more of a Police State. I think its the start of rebellion in this country. If it continues to spread to other major cities what else would one call it.....not like it was back in the 30's with class warfare and the Wall street peeps jumping out of windows.

All the jobs we had when people were kids 50-55 years ago are gone.....with more and more being lost. We wont see bread and soup lines like they did during the depression. The system is now designed not to allow the World to see such with Democracy.

Conley
08-13-2011, 11:48 AM
Yep, I think you speak the truth. We are headed for a police state...the UK is talking about regulating and banning the internet as a response to the riots there. As if the net caused it somehow. Although it certain did show how inept Cameron and the rest of the crew was at handling the situation.

North America and Australia are about the only places left where we have not seem massive rioting lately. In China there have been huge uprisings as well, but of course those are put down quickly with force and not widely reported. Ten or twenty years from now, maybe sooner, we will see revolutions that do not stop at national borders. Just as the ultra wealthy have become multinationals, so will the rebellion join people from many countries.

freecell
08-13-2011, 11:57 AM
BART thinks they have broken no laws and that their disruption of service was legal.

Bull, just another way to control others.

MMC
08-13-2011, 06:48 PM
BART thinks they have broken no laws and that their disruption of service was legal.

Bull, just another way to control others.


Which right now it will impact major urban cities. I doubt out in the sticks. They worried about curfew and packs of youths roaming around. Both Chicago and Philly have responded with more police measures. The Metra Trains and CTA Chicago Transit Authority have installed more cameras got more cops they hired. Not Chicago Cops.

If both private companies and government are allowed to do these things now at this point in time. Just think how it will be in 12 years. Hence my thinking that this should be talked about across all lines. So all know that such is being watched for. Including government itself. Which we already have one for watching what the other hand is doing. :-\

waltky
10-21-2012, 07:53 PM
Uncle Ferd says dat's why Granny so goofy - `cause she always yakkin' on her cellphone...
:grin:
Cancer cells: Italian court rules ‘mobile phones can cause brain tumors’
20 October, 2012, The Italian Supreme Court has ruled there is a causal link between mobile phone use and brain tumors in a landmark case. The ruling has set a legal precedent that could potentially trigger a deluge of lawsuits.


Innocente Marcolini, a 60-year-old retired businessman argued that the excessive use of his mobile phone for around six hours every day for 12 years caused a benign brain tumor that left his face partially paralyzed. The Italian court ruled in the businessman’s favor, conceding that there is a “causal link” between phone use and the development of the tumor. "This is significant for very many people. I wanted this problem to become public because many people still do not know the risks,” said Marcolini to Corriere della Sera. “I was always on the phone for at least five or six hours a day. Always with a mobile pressed to my ear.”

Marcolini’s tumor was located on the trigeminal nerve, close to where his cellphone touched his head. Although the tumor was non-cancerous, it endangered his life as it could have spread to the carotid artery and blocked one of the main blood vessels to the brain. In his case he argued that the electromagnetic radiation emitted by cellphones can damage cells, making tumors more likely to occur.

Oncologist and professor of environmental mutagenesis Angelo Gino Levis, who gave evidence during the court hearing, said that the ruling was “extremely important.” “Finally a correlation has been officially recognized between electromagnetic waves and development of tumors in spite of the anti-alarmist propaganda and research financed by mobile phone manufacturers,” Levis told the Corriere. He stressed that after working on several case studies the relationship between the use of mobile phones and the increased risk of brain tumors is proven. "It'll open, not a road, but a motorway to legal actions by victims. We're considering a class action,” Levis told UK newspaper The Sun.

More http://rt.com/news/italy-phone-causes-tumor-840/

Peter1469
10-21-2012, 08:21 PM
microwaves and the brain don't mix.