Opinion/Editorial
DO NOT BUY THAT DAMN PHONE!
The public is not being informed. The cell phone companies, producers, stations, ISP’s, and all the manufacturers tied up together in that industry are not letting this stilted mass of mass media we call the news in this country reveal that this latest incident to get out and make it marginally through the communications system is something that should frighten everyone acquiring new electronic equipment, and I’m not talking about pagers here. The Israeli intelligence services managed to infiltrate major electronics manufacturers and produce pagers, portable radios, and yes, cell phones, with tiny packets of C-4 high explosives inside of them. So far, the broken media is telling everyone that these pieces of equipment were cheap junk only being used by the Hezbollah terrorists (even though at least four children have been killed and God knows how many maimed).
The way these things work is not rocket science. There’s a tiny packet of explosives (about half the size of a matchbook, there’s a detonator about the size of the lead in a lead pencil, and finally there’s two hard wires attached to the right part of the motherboard inside the device. The wires work to access the phone’s tower signal receiver. When a special number is dialed by the device’s installer, or whoever gets it from the installer, the phone, pager or radio vibrates in response and detonates the packet almost instantly in about 3 milliseconds (an eyeblink is about 100 to 400 milliseconds). All of the portable communications devices we use today in every country of the world are unsealed. They are built to be able to be disassembled using special tiny tools of all sorts. When they are taken apart and put back together by decent technicians it is impossible to figure out if they were taken apart and put back together at all (if you’ve had a iPhone screen replaced you understand what I’m writing about).
What is the great, now revealed, and devastating danger in all this? There are more than one. The public is not being fully informed, alerted and put immediately on the lookout. Now that this new ‘booby trap,’ roadside bomb or IED is out there, what’s going to stop many more terrorists or evil governmental agencies from mass producing iPhone and every other sort of electronic device and having explosives now built-in to be set off not by the dialing of a general number (it will become more sophisticated as time goes by) but right down the dialing of a person’s cell phone number. Since the manufacturers of these booby traps (those operations that produced them) are all denying that their companies made them at all, or they only licensed out their name to companies they knew nothing about that have done the manufacturing, everyone is running for cover because of the next danger coming. The mass media did mention a couple of those company’s names. What’s coming next is first the tossing out of any device that one of these companies has sold and never buying anything they might make or try to sell again. ICOM, one of the largest sellers of walkie-talkie handheld devices is through. What’s next, the looming elephant in the living room. Nobody should ever buy a handheld device from an Asian supplier.
This is all Asian manufacturing right now. Goodbye, Apple iPhones, iMacs, iPads, Androids, and all the rest of the phones, pagers, and radios made by companies that cannot be controlled by the people in the countries purchasing and using these devices. As of right now, nobody should buy any of that stuff without a sense of deep trepidation and fear. You don’t have to get killed by an explosion so small. Anyone, man, woman, or child can have plenty of vital bodily parts blown off or destroyed, however. By the way, the pager, radio, and or cell phone, do not have to be answered as there won’t even be time for the device to ring or alert at all if the signal is dialed in.
The media and people are going to say, “Well, this is against a terrorist group, so what’s to worry about?” The spreading of this newly thought-up element of evil is what we all have to fear. People are still dying in thousands every year or being ripped apart bodies by mines that were left in places where now forgotten wars were fought. In Vietnam, during that war, down in the A Shau Valley the enemy used booby traps all over the place. As many villagers died from them as U.S. Marines or troops.
Trouble is coming to the USA in a brand-new way. It wasn’t the evil genius in Israel who was at fault for this new weapon to be fielded. It’s the lack of true genius who might have stopped its development and use. As of this writing, there have been 32 deaths (with 21 more yet to be confirmed dead), two of them children and thousands injured. This is merely the beginning of this new slant on the setting of age-old traps which almost all societies have considered terroristic, except for the laying of mines which seems to have avoided that negative descriptor. Readers may not recall that both NATO and the United Nations, years back, decided that officially nation-states cannot be accused or labeled as committing terrorist acts. Those actions are only deemed such if the actions are done by individuals or groups not acting as nation-states. Israel is behind the invention and use of these new devices and tactics but cannot be officially called to the mat about it.
It’s sincerely hoped that this kind of stuff will not spread but it’s also almost impossible not to predict that it will.
