Don’t cry
over spilt milk
Anonymous
(which means it was done by your truly, Lindsworth Deer)
Senator
Dwight Nelson, Minister of National Security, has realized the untapped
potential of MRSI (Mandatory Registration of Subscriber Information) as stated
in the article “CLARO
Backs Cell Phone Tracking Plan; Digicel, LIME in Wait-And-See Mode”,
published Sunday May 16, 2010 by Mark Titus, Business Reporter, the Sunday Gleaner
This
after having made his intention clear some weeks ago to pursue the same
Crime strategy as Mexico as there is an obvious link to criminals or “badmen”
as laid out in my blog article
entitled “Mexico
and MNP: A solution to crime in Mexico” , who use Unregistered
Mobile Phones, Phone Instruments (mobile, fixed line mobile, landline or wired
/wireless modems) IMEI and SIM Cards (mobile, fixed line mobile, landline or
wired /wireless modems) IMSI to organize crime.
His idea
was suggested in the Reuters report that as mentioned in the news report by CNET
Loaded aired April 12 2010 by Natalie Del Conte, CNET News and confirmed by the article “Mexico
may shut down 25.9 million Cell phones which haven't joined Registry”,
published April 11, 2010 - 11:45pm by MacRonin.
The
legality is easily argued in the United States of America jurisdiction as it is
legal and unlike a wiretap does not require a warrant as is currently the case in
the United States of America. The Obama Administration has argued that
warrantless tracking is permitted because Americans enjoy no “reasonable
expectation of privacy” in their cell phones' [mobile devices] whereabouts.
The U.S.
Department of Justice lawyers argue that “a customer's Fourth Amendment rights
are not violated when the phone company reveals to the Government of the United
States of America State Department its own records” i.e. mobile device placed
and received calls as stated in the article “Feds push for
tracking cell phones”, published February 11, 2010 4:00 AM PST by Declan
McCullagh, CNET News - Politics and Law.
Thus it
is not surprising that the Government of the United States of America has now
caught on to this idea of MRSI and has realized after the failed bombing plot
in New York Time Square by alleged bomb plotter, Faisal Shahzad as stated
in the article “US
lawmakers target pre-paid cell phone anonymity”, published Wednesday
26-05-2010, Yahoo News! (AFP).
As in
Jamaica, it is felt that the registration of Pre-Paid mobile phones, a more
flexible equivalent to our PostPaid phones in Jamaica, were too easily
purchased, requiring no identification and no credit card checks and thus
legislation on the Pre-Paid Mobile Phone industry was long overdue, as
Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer was quoted as saying “this proposal is overdue
because for years terrorists, drug kingpins and gang members have stayed one
step ahead of the law by using prepaid phones that are hard to trace”.
Jamaica’s
problem is a bit more unique, as people are not only able to purchase phones
from any Unregistered Third Party retailer of mobile phones, often cheap
Chinese knock-offs, but also, shockingly, they can get functional SIM cards
from off the street for LIME and Digicel, which is action that is in
contravention to the Telecommunications Act of 2000, which states that Mobile
Phones, Phone Instruments (mobile, fixed line mobile, landline or wired
/wireless modems) IMEI and SIM Cards (mobile, fixed line mobile, landline or
wired /wireless modems) IMSI need to be registered.
But, like
Jamaica, the problems faced by law enforcement with criminals and drug
kingpins, is that “while most Americans use Pre-Paid mobile devices lawfully,
the anonymous nature of these devices gives too much cover to individuals
looking to use them for deviant, dangerous means” as Republican Senator John
Cornyn was quoted as saying.
It seems
that despite all the squabbling over how to deal with the Gulf of Mexico Oil
Spill of the coast of Louisiana, which has at the time of writing this short
commentary, BP (British Petroleum) was finally able to stop as stated in the
article “Oil
well plug 'going as planned'”, published Thursday 27 May 2010, BBC News.
President
Barak Obama recent announcement of a six (6) month moratorium on the granting
of oil prospecting licenses! This is an issue upon which the both sides of the
House on Capitol Hill, Republicans and Democrats in the Government of the
United States of America were able to find common ground, as crime, as in
Mexico and Jamaica, is a problem which the three (3) countries have in common.
BP has since successfully capped the oil well, as stated in the article “BP
installs new cap on oil well”, published Wednesday July 14 2010, BBC News.
That it
took so long for politicians in all three (3) sovereign states to realize that
Telecoms Providers were in effect aiding and abetting the activities of
criminal networks, should strike an odd sounding chime in the minds of many. Politicians
turned a blind eye to regulation of Public Sector companies in the
Telecommunications and Oil Mining Sector and allowed the regulators and these
multi-billion dollar companies to be “in cahoots”.
They are
only now scrambling to regulate them after the baby and the bathwater had long
been thrown out and milk had already been spilt and started to go stale, and
the connection to the lack of proper regulation becomes glaringly obvious. A
lesson to us all as to the power of money and how it corrupts people in power,
a fact self-evident also by the recent actions of lobbyist Jack Abramoff as
parodied in the movie Casino Jack and the
United States of Money (2010).
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