Need for Citizen Intelligence Gathering When the SHTF
Jul 25, 2016 21:55:23 GMT -6
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Post by Michigan Swamp Buck on Jul 25, 2016 21:55:23 GMT -6
How will you be able to know what the truth is even with the normal lines of communications open? Local news reports on commercial broadcast TV and radio often ignore certain stories or give inaccurate and scant information. Even what you hear on a scanner may be misinformation, that is if you are even able to hear what is going on. Who can you trust to tell you what you need to know in a crisis situation? Your best bet would be to establish a private network of eyewitnesses to gather the necessary intel you will need to determine what is really going on in your local area. Presently that function is being more or less performed by online social networks like Facebook, but that can and most likely will be censored if Big Brother doesn't want you to know the truth. Then, of course, there is the total communications black out scenario, when all normal communications are defunct.
Here in Michigan I'm lucky to pick up emergency and local police chatter on the normal analog radio frequencies. However, I can only pick up on emergency, fire and some local county and city police communications. The state police have moved their communications frequency and digitally encrypted it, so the old scanners won't pick them up. The best I can do about that is to hear a second hand account from the other agencies or purchase an extremely expensive receiver to listen in. Even if I could listen to the state boys, there is nothing to stop them from further encryption on another frequency that is unavailable to the average citizen. The police have done just that for the DNC conventions and would certainly do that for any extreme situations that might occur in a SHTF scenario. As for the federal government or the military, good luck listening in on those guys.
This makes it necessary to have a team of operatives that can observe and report on any current situation on a two-way frequency that is not used or monitored by the government who would likely report misinformation or blackout the news entirely. You will need to know the location of any action including riots, terror attacks, police or military road blocks, actual level of damage or casualties, live fire fights, etc. This information can be collected and distributed throughout a local network to keep everyone updated on the real information that is being manipulated or kept from the public. What you do with such information is strictly up to you after you receive it, but at least you will be getting first hand accounts from people you can trust.
It is certainly possible that the authorities could get wind of your operation and render your communication frequencies useless by jamming or compromising it, however, there are ways to work around these problems if you have a good intel team. There are a number of methods that could be used to transmit the information outside of two-ways and these should be incorporated into your intelligence operation plans.
Here in Michigan I'm lucky to pick up emergency and local police chatter on the normal analog radio frequencies. However, I can only pick up on emergency, fire and some local county and city police communications. The state police have moved their communications frequency and digitally encrypted it, so the old scanners won't pick them up. The best I can do about that is to hear a second hand account from the other agencies or purchase an extremely expensive receiver to listen in. Even if I could listen to the state boys, there is nothing to stop them from further encryption on another frequency that is unavailable to the average citizen. The police have done just that for the DNC conventions and would certainly do that for any extreme situations that might occur in a SHTF scenario. As for the federal government or the military, good luck listening in on those guys.
This makes it necessary to have a team of operatives that can observe and report on any current situation on a two-way frequency that is not used or monitored by the government who would likely report misinformation or blackout the news entirely. You will need to know the location of any action including riots, terror attacks, police or military road blocks, actual level of damage or casualties, live fire fights, etc. This information can be collected and distributed throughout a local network to keep everyone updated on the real information that is being manipulated or kept from the public. What you do with such information is strictly up to you after you receive it, but at least you will be getting first hand accounts from people you can trust.
It is certainly possible that the authorities could get wind of your operation and render your communication frequencies useless by jamming or compromising it, however, there are ways to work around these problems if you have a good intel team. There are a number of methods that could be used to transmit the information outside of two-ways and these should be incorporated into your intelligence operation plans.
