The sticker reads: Your conversation is being monitored by the U.S. government courtesy of the US Patriot Act of 2001. Sec. 216 of which permits all phone calls to be recorded without a warrant or notification. For more information, visit www.crimethinc.com
That is outstanding!
ha! excellent.
and the best/worst part is, the sticker’s written in simple, honest direct language. no nutjob conspiracy slogans or rhetoric. just the truth.
sad, sad, sad.
Makes me want to get some of these printed. Though I can’t remember the last time I remember noticing a pay phone.
It is a lie. These phones are not tapped. I am a payphone tech and I know that these phones are not monitored by ANYONE! ask anyone who deals in drugs if they have ever been caught by payphone monitoring.
Randy - thanks for the comment and for pointing that out. I’m sure that most phones are not actively wire tapped. I also would like to point out that I’m not a conspiracy theorist in any way shape or form, and think that life has a lot simpler explanations for things than most crackpots come up with.
However, I also believe that AT&T worked with the NSA to create a system for them to carry out the warrant-less wiretaps - this much has been proven. The case the Electronic Frontier Foundation brought against AT&T over this is going to court to find out if it was illegal or not.
As far as this sticker campaign goes, the point was to raise awareness about this issue more than it was to say that any particular phone was actually tapped.
And I think most dealers have switched to pre-pay cell phones.
I think that they really meant taped. See; there is a piece of tape with the word tape mis-spelled on it. Sorry, no consipiracy here, move along.
Regardless of whether that phone is actually tapped, Big Brother is watching. Certainly this entire communication may raise some sort of pinkish flag on the radar.
Hooray for the First Amendment. It’s the first one that we lost as the Constitution got amended.
If a tree fell down in the woods, and there was no one around for miles. Could the government still be hear the sound?
hehe - gaR