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Certainly not without FCC approval, which I'd doubt would be easy to get.

The big issue (as described in the article) as that the chance of interfering with a legitimate emergency communications system is fairly high.




The FCC does not even allow cell phone jammers at prisons. The Secret Service protecting the President is probably one of the few authorized users of cell phone jammers anywhere in the country.


Guess the "pigs"# are indeed more equal than the rest of us. #And no, I don't mean pigs as in the derogatory term for the police.


Are you arguing that it's wrong for the President's security team to be given special privileges under the law?


No, I'm saying we're not all equal if such "special privileges" are granted to some special few individuals for one reason or another. Overall, it was a reference to the Animal Farm book.

But if you want to know if I think it's wrong for us to have inequality in the form of non-universal applications of morality or "law", then I'll answer with Yes.


Interesting. Is this essentially an anarchic worldview? I can't see how a government could function without privileging certain individuals.


As long as people recognize that, it's a good start. But I suspect a lot of people would do mental gymnastics to avoid accepting that governments privilege certain individuals.




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