Holding the G8 this year in Chicago is stupid enought but giving the protesters any support is even dumber. This is a blood bath in the making.

Blocking cell phone transmissions is illegal.

This Mike Sheilds is a real piece of work.

He previously demanded 37 million from the Federal Bureau of Homeland Security for planning and police training to prepare for the G8 summit.

All these police state tactics are considered justified because there was an outbreak at the G8 protests in Seattle years ago. I have heard the dollar amount damage from these protests estimated at 2 to 3 million dollars.

So this FOP leader feels 40 or 50 million dollars is justified prevention spending because 2 to 3 million dollars damage MIGHT happen.

Math is apparently not his strong point.

The government has no business cutting communication here in the City regardless of what happens.

There is no price too great to pay to protect our men in Blue!

Throw a few more millions at the problem what the hell.

They do realize there was protest before the New Social Media, right? Are they going to shut down all Kinkos so nobody can print fliers too? Cut all phone lines? What about people not in Chicago? Better shut it all down, right?

If they cut all the cell phones off how will Fox and Murdoch get the juicy news stories for the next day?

Blocking cell phone transmissions is illegal.

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But.................... its for the greater good!!!!!!!!!!! So they will do it.

Blocking cell phone transmissions is illegal.

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Link?

Never mind, Googled it myself.

It's interesting. Intentional jamming would seem to be illegal under an 87 year old law. On the other hand, if the police were to simply overwhelm that portion of the spectrum with their own higher-power transmissions...that might be classified as "unintentional interference".