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Tina wrote:
Does anyone know if it's legal to interfere with nav sat reception? It
would be interesting to know, for example. if there were known outages
when the president was at his father's estate in Maine.

In the US, it is illegal to deliberately cause interference to any
radio service.

However, the the US government is not bound by this.

Actually, it is in a theoretical sense. Otherwise the US would be a
police
state.

The topic is interference with radio services.

*And* the legality thereof.
Premise: It is illegal to deliberately cause interference to any radio
service.
Premise: The US government is bound by its own laws.
Conclusion: The US government cannot legally cause interference to any radio
service.

Your statement: The US government is not bound by this [the law that states
that it is illegal to cause interference].

OK. Either the law was written to give tacit government approval to cause
interference, or the US government can violate its own laws. I do not know
the exact law regarding interefernce, and don't know whether or not the law
explicity grants the rights of interference to the government, I presumed
case B.


In practice, however, the citizens seem to turn a blind eye to the
practice
of the government violating its own laws. See Gitmo.

Gitmo has nothing to do with radio services.

But it has EVERYTHING to do with the government's violating its own laws.
Gitmo was used as an example of our blind eye in the name of "National
Security." My point is that the government starts small. (Violating laws
that noone really cares/knows about). But by doing so, the citizens of the
country are slowly giving up liberties. It sets a dangerous precedent and
allows the country to follow a VERY slippery slope.


Generally, all governmental organizations follow FCC rules,
allocations,
etc. or there would be chaos.

But, if the magic words "National Security" are invoked, all bets are
off.


This, IMHO, is bull****. Not your statement, but the fact that "National
Security" can call off the rule of law unilaterally. If *I* as a citizen
were to kill someone and claim "National Security," the cops would laugh
at
me all to way to the jail g

There is no FCC rule against killing someone.

What does it matter? You've stated that there are magic words (namely:
National Security) that cause all bets to be off. Replace "kill someone"
with "interfere with radio services" if it makes you happy.