Madsen - Government
Jamming N.O.
Communications Links
From ML
9-5-5
Reports continue that communications in and around New Orleans are
being purposely jammed (and severed) by the US government (see Sep. 2
article below). The jamming is having an adverse impact on emergency,
disaster recovery, and news media communications. The jamming is even
affecting police radio frequencies in Jefferson Parish, according to
an Australian news report. The President of Jefferson Parish Aaron
Broussard told Meet the Press today that FEMA cut his parish's
emergency communications lines and he had to have his sheriff restore
the severed lines and post armed deputies to ensure that FEMA did not
try to cut the communications lines again. Broussard's statement:
"Yesterday--yesterday--FEMA comes in and cuts all of our emergency
communication lines. They cut them without notice. Our sheriff, Harry
Lee, goes back in, he reconnects the line. He posts armed guards on
our line and says, 'No one is getting near these lines.'"
Jamming radio and other communications such as television signals is
part of a Pentagon tactic called "information blockade" or "technology
blockade." The tactic is one of a number of such operations that are
part of the doctrine of "information warfare" and is one of the
psychological operations (PSYOPS) methods used by the US Special
Operations Command. Jamming is currently being used by US forces in
Iraq and was used by the US Navy in the botched coup attempt against
President Hugo Chavez in April 2002. US Navy ships off the Venezuelan
coast jammed diplomatic, military, emergency services, police, and
even taxi cab frequencies in Caracas and other large cities.
From "The Manchurian Printer," Simson L. Garfinkel [The Boston Sunday
Globe, March 5, 1995, Focus Section, Page 83]:
"Not surprisingly, the unclassified version of the Pentagon's report
barely mentions the offensive possibilities of Information
Warfare---capabilities that the Pentagon currently has under
development. Nevertheless, these capabilities are alluded to in
several of the diagrams, which show a keen interest by the military in
OOTW---Operations Other Than War. "They have things like information
influence, perception management, and PSYOPS---psychological
operations," says Wayne Madsen, a lead scientist at the Computer
Sciences Corporation in northern Virginia, who has studied the summer
study report. 'Basically, I think that what they are talking about is
having the capability to censor and put out propaganda on the
networks. That includes global news networks like CNN and BBC, your
information services, like CompuServe and Prodigy,' and communications
satellite networks. 'When they talk about 'technology blockade,' they
want to be able to block data going into or out of a certain region of
the world that they may be attacking."'
ALERT: WMR readers should be aware that web sites like Democratic
Underground are "locking" information on the radio jamming in
Louisiana and the corruption involved in FEMA hurricane disaster
preparedness (IEM Team contract). Readers should also be aware that
the Pentagon's technology blockade strategy extends to the Internet.
Web sites like Democratic Underground and Daily Kos have a lot of
explaining to do when they censor critical information during a
national emergency. These web sites, along with Fox News and the other
news sources with overt and covert political agendas, are not serving
in the public interest and should be avoided as sources for important
information. For example, some Daily Kos posters are questioning
whether FEMA deliberately cut Jefferson Parish's emergency telephone
lines. That is because many of those involved with Daily Kos and
Democratic Underground are squishy Democrats with a pretty obvious
agenda. - WM
http://waynemadsenreport.com/
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