What if Obama shutsdown the internet?

[Chip45]

This has been part of the news lately, but let's think about what if he [government] actually shut it down;

(1) One person on this forum said we should begin to prepare for such - how? That comment made me think of how I shared and learned about the "awfulness of our situation" prior to the internet.
a) I had subscribed the The New American for several years prior to the internet. It is a monthly publication (slow) from the John Birch Society.
b) I bought books like "The Creature From Jeykl Island", "The Elders of Israel and the Constitution", "Many Are Called But Few Are Chosen", 'The Making of America", etc., etc. So I was educating myself and shaking off the years of indoctrination through our public [government] schools system about what was "constitutional" and what was not and thus, was not as easily fooled by the establishment press. My eyes were being opened. It took effort whereas the internet makes it much easier and widespread.

(2) For the last decade, almost all computer applications have increasingly been developed and deployed as "internet applications". This means that the computer languages used, screen development, all the many technical support structures for our complex computer applications are intimately tied to the internet. If the internet goes down, they do not function. Previous to the internet, there were "LANs" (local area networks) and "WANs" (wide area networks) which had computer system development geared to that environment.
In America today, if our computer systems "go down", businesses do not function. That includes government at all levels. Literally, people are sent home. I've seen it happen locally when a connection to the internet has shut down a particular business for several hours and office people simply sit around and talk. Their jobs are so integrated with the PC sitting on their desks. My point - if the internet is "shut down", America will come to a sudden lurching halt. How long can that be tolerated before serious economic impact occurs?
Further, notice how connection to the internet is involved even at the commercial level. How many times have you seen that connection required to complete a purchase? Have you bought gasoline lately using your debit/credit card? Have you purchased anything, in any store, using your credit/debit card? Have you tried to write a check instead?
So, if "they" shutdown the internet, "they" shutdown America.
(3) Exactly what is meant by "shutdown" the internet? I'm more inclined to think the PTB will want to stifle only certain websites, (cherry pick certain sites) not the whole internet. Isn't that what we are seeing in China and other totalitarian countries? They want complete control and hate the free wheeling atmosphere of the current internet for that freedom is what threatens them. They want control of information.
(4) If "they" just want to control the internet, and seek to do so by blocking websites, how can free people's get around that?
a) form personal email networks, noting in time they will be monitored and there would most likley be a "knock at the door at midnight" as the increasingly totalitarian government would reveal it's "steel boot" .
b) subscribe to email-based information circles, like Joel Skousen's WAB, or there are others.

The above are just some thoughts for surely the internet is a major threat to the globalist PTB. If they do not control it's freedom of information, they risk failure. Note the quotes we have read like those from David Rockefeller, where he applaudes the "secrecy" afforded the CFR through the establishment media, otherwise they'd have had a much harder time implementing their agenda. Thus, they will try to control it, they must.

[sbsion]

yea...get the show on the road

[kd7one]

People have communicated before the internet. They will continue to do so if it gets shut down. I plan on using my computer to communicate by using Packet radio. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zK4TsBOqYQ

[Col. Flagg]

http://www.prisonplanet.com/obama-can-s ... owers.html

President Obama will be handed the power to shut down the Internet for at least four months without Congressional oversight if the Senate votes for the infamous Internet ‘kill switch’ bill, which was approved by a key Senate committee yesterday and now moves to the floor.

The Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act, which is being pushed hard by Senator Joe Lieberman, would hand absolute power to the federal government to close down networks, and block incoming Internet traffic from certain countries under a declared national emergency.