Monday, June 28, 2010

INTERNATIONAL CONTROL OF GPS?

The White House apparently plans to allow international control of the Global Positioning Satellite System. Can this really be true? Why should we cede our technical knowledge to other nations, especially nations like China that do not share our core democratic principles? Doesn't this also open up the system to possible sabotage occurring at critical times when our military or civilian authorities need the system? The system is currently administered by the US Air Force and is relatively resistant to outside interference. It is true that the US military will soon have a separate system that it will depend on, but the question still remains: Why should we allow other nations to learn our technology? Why do we always give away our technical knowledge? We lose enough by means of espionage and foreign nations reverse engineering our products, so we should not voluntarily give up any technical knowledge of a strategic nature that we don't have to! To remain free we must maintain our technical knowledge edge, or face the prospect of enemy foreign nations catching up to us and maybe even exceeding us in technical capability. Write your congressman and protest this gross idiotic plan by our government!

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