By Mike Smith
5th of July 2011
By now more than 95% of cell phone users in South Africa have registered their SIM cards in compliance with the RICA law.
RICA stands for the Regulation of Interception of Communications Act (and Provision of Communication-Related Information Act). The Law was first Gazetted in 2003, Implemented in July 2009 and the deadline for all SIM card registrations was a week ago 30th of June 2011. Failure to do so would result in your legally bought and paid for SIM card being summarily switched off.
The government, in collaboration with all three cell phone companies, MTN, Vodacom and Cell C, basically forced the people of South Africa to register themselves on a death list and hand over their constitutional right to privacy.
People should realize that not a single government has ever cared for it’s people. If they have, then there would be no reason to have a constitution and a Bill of Rights. The constitution and the Bill of Rights is a reminder to the government what OUR rights are. These rights are what they should protect. That is their job. Nothing else. Interfering with the lives and especially the privacy of its citizens is highly unconstitutional and if a government does so, they should be sacked, en masse. The whole shebang.
But it is quite well known that the government wipes their backsides with our constitution. They are forever scheming new ways to undermine the constitution. We have to be ever vigilant and watch the bastards, because if we do not, they will strip us of all our freedoms.
In South Africa Section 14 of the Bill of Rights in the Constitution of 1996 expressly provide that "everyone has a right to privacy, which includes the right not to have (...) (d) the privacy of their communications infringed".
But all the ANC does is to use another section of the constitution to contradict it (which is also illegal. No part of the constitution can be used to contradict another part.)
Chapter 11 of the Constitution governs this duty and authorize the Police, Defence Force and Intelligence Agencies to assist the State in its security obligations.
So in the name of YOUR safety and security, they say it is OK to spy on everyone’s cell phone conversations, emails, etc…just in case there is a threat to YOUR safety.
The only threat their actually is, is if we notice the incompetence and corruption of the ANC Marxist terrorist scum and decide to vote their useless gravy-train arses out of power.
In reality what has been happening is the following:
In order to register your SIM card and your surf stick SIM, and whatever else…You had to provide a utility bill, such as electricity and water account as proof of residence. You also had to provide a copy of your ID.
So where did all the blacks in the shacks in the townships get utility bills from? They have never registered for, nor paid for water and electricity, ever. The shacks have no street names or proper numbers. The ID documents are false.
So in effect all the dumb Whites with cell phones had to prove their residency whilst the blacks could simply orally give their details (any false address).
Now you can call me paranoid if you like, but surely I cannot be the only one who sees where this is leading to and how a totalitarian government such as the ANC can misuse such a law.
They can legally tap your phone, your sms’s your e-mail, without you knowing about it and all they have to do is suspect you from being a threat to the security of the state. They will know your exact address and your registered SIM card will be traced within 20 metres of where you are phoning or blogging from.
Now the ANC regime has said that they will only use this feature in cases of severe crime. Yeah right. Like in 1999 when they used the NIA to spy on the opposition DA party, even inside parliament and beamed a laser onto the window of the DA’s parliamentary room to listen to conversations. They also broke into DA’s houses and offices and stole something like 17 laptops and other information…All in the name of YOUR safety and security. It only stopped when Lindiwe Sisulu (Minister of Information at the time) personally called off the NIA dogs after Helen Zille had a word with her. The DA is the legally voted for opposition party, imagine what they can do to anybody else?
How would the ANC know how to define “Severe Crime”? What is severe crime in the eyes of the ANC when they deny the killing of thousands of white farmers by black criminals and bury the corruption of the arms deal without a proper investigation? To the ANC the only “Severe Crime” is when you oppose them. Those are the people they want to act against. That is the real reason for RICA;
The ANC is in government to stay in government forever. You can bet your bottom dollar that they will introduce laws to ensure they control all opposition and are never challenged.
You can see how they go about when the introduce laws. It is called the “Salami Tactic”. RICA was first introduced in 2003 and a few sheep bleated, but then it quieted down. Then two years later an amendment was made and some more sheep bleated but then it quieted down again. In the last eight years the RICA law has been amended four times, like slicing a piece off a salami little by little until we are here now where the sheep has handed over their freedom and right to privacy completely.
The ANC feels nothing for the freedom of the people. How they can call themselves “Freedom Fighters” is beyond me. All they ever fought for was to take our freedom away.
RICA is just another step in eroding our freedom away until we have no freedom left and are virtual prisoners. In the end we will be so dumbed down that we will believe we are “free”, simply because the ANC tell us so.
“The ANC loves me this I know,
For the Communist manifesto tells me so…
You and I to them belong
We are dumb and make them strong.
(all together now)
Yes, the ANC loves me!
Yes the ANC loves me!
Yes the ANC loves me!
The Freedom Charter tells me so…”
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Comments
Jamboth said...
Jim Beam said...
@Mike,
There is nothing South African about it. Many countries in Asia have forced people to do this more than 3 years ago. Thailand & Malaysia stated that it was because of mobile phone bombs. Each country has given a different excuse. In Taiwan you need an Alien Resident Certificate just to get a mobile phone plan. They sell top-up cards at the 711 but no SIM without a plan! Its a global issue and nothing South African about it.
When they could not force any longer they came with a new option. 1 hour free mobile phone talk time each month if you buy a pre-registered phone with your internet - dirt cheap. Now that might all be fine and well. Let me tell you how it can be abused.
3 years ago I debated the constitutionality of a law on an Asian forum and 24 hours later the security police called me on my mobile asking about that thread. Point is that globally 'they' are linking your internet movement and mobile phone calls to you.
Youtube and Google is another example where Google Chrome automatically keeps you logged in if you have Youtube open in another tab. They save all your searches. Youtube now wants a phone number they can verify when you open a new account. Match your search's to your home phone number etc. Electronic paper trails.
Here is the bigger problem with South Africa. As long as what your mobile phone has a battery in even turned off the phone can still be tracked via the mobile phone towers. So now we know Jack searches the internet for right wing websites, and last week he spent all his time just outside of Pretoria. From the old SB tactics, they could very easily build a searchable electronic profile for anyone in the country.
They know where you go (phone tracking), what your interests are based on your internet searches and they know where you live. Run a credit check and you know where he works, lives and how much he has in his bank account and who he owes money too.
I see a bigger problem - do you?
There is nothing South African about it. Many countries in Asia have forced people to do this more than 3 years ago. Thailand & Malaysia stated that it was because of mobile phone bombs. Each country has given a different excuse. In Taiwan you need an Alien Resident Certificate just to get a mobile phone plan. They sell top-up cards at the 711 but no SIM without a plan! Its a global issue and nothing South African about it.
When they could not force any longer they came with a new option. 1 hour free mobile phone talk time each month if you buy a pre-registered phone with your internet - dirt cheap. Now that might all be fine and well. Let me tell you how it can be abused.
3 years ago I debated the constitutionality of a law on an Asian forum and 24 hours later the security police called me on my mobile asking about that thread. Point is that globally 'they' are linking your internet movement and mobile phone calls to you.
Youtube and Google is another example where Google Chrome automatically keeps you logged in if you have Youtube open in another tab. They save all your searches. Youtube now wants a phone number they can verify when you open a new account. Match your search's to your home phone number etc. Electronic paper trails.
Here is the bigger problem with South Africa. As long as what your mobile phone has a battery in even turned off the phone can still be tracked via the mobile phone towers. So now we know Jack searches the internet for right wing websites, and last week he spent all his time just outside of Pretoria. From the old SB tactics, they could very easily build a searchable electronic profile for anyone in the country.
They know where you go (phone tracking), what your interests are based on your internet searches and they know where you live. Run a credit check and you know where he works, lives and how much he has in his bank account and who he owes money too.
I see a bigger problem - do you?
Now if the government has your ID, Proof of residence and your registered SIM Card under the RICA law, they will know whether you are male or female. How old you are, where you live in Sandton or Waterkloof Ridge, how many people live at that home…by tapping into your phone and those of the others living at that same address , they will know who is home and who is not. They can even tell how long it will take you to get home from where you currently are.
They can tell whether the parents are away.
They can tell whether the old people or your kids are home alone. They can tell whether your wife is home alone…This is the stuff the East German Stasi only dreamt of.
Now surely white people being violently attacked on a daily basis, cannot be this naïve. Surely, I cannot be the only one who can see through this scam. If the thieving, corrupt ANC government works together with criminal syndicates as we know they do, (Joe Modise, Jackie Selebi, Shabir Shaik, et al, being points in case ), then RICA can and will be used against the citizens of the country.
This law is an abomination and should be scrapped as soon as possible. You cannot trust the ANC with such information. It is the duty of every single South African citizen to resist this law as far as possible.
What I cannot understand is how judges and lawyers never opposed this law. Why do judges and lawyers never oppose any of these criminal laws?