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Re: Where to Buy a Cellular Phone Jammer?

Steve Sobol (sjsobol@JustThe.net)
Sun, 26 Jun 2005 23:07:29 -0700

Dale Farmer wrote:

> after the root causes of the bad behavior, then by blocking this or
> that object from functioning, or making the object more difficult to
> obtain legally for the ordinary citizen.

So what legitimate reasons are there to use a cell phone jammer? (Note
that I said legitimate, not legal.)

Dale Farmer wrote:

> And here you fall into that common fallacy. 'We can't have these
> people doing this bad behavior that we outlawed. So lets ban one of
> their instrumentalities to stop their bad behavior.' Remember how
> effective those laws against flagrant beeper use in the 80s were at
> stopping the drug dealers? You would be far better served by going
> after the root causes of the bad behavior, then by blocking this or
> that object from functioning, or making the object more difficult to
> obtain legally for the ordinary citizen.

And by the way, the act of jamming is illegal, regardless of which
type of equipment you use.

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