Website restored after public discovered sites were up but being rerouted



Steve Watson

Infowars.com

Oct 7, 2013

Note from Alex Jones: This is part of a criminal pattern of obstruction to tax-payer funded services. As with highway pull-offs being closed to bar views of Mount Rushmore in South Dakota, and boat ramps on the Mississippi being blocked, the system wants to make the shutdown as painful for the American people as possible, as National Park Service rangers have admitted. This is outright criminal because the Amber Alert site is still up, they’re simply blocking it.

The Amber Alert government website has been restored to functionality after internet users pointed out that the website and the system was never really down, and was just made to appear that way by the Department of Justice, possibly as a publicity stunt.

The website, www.amberalert.gov, the government’s child abduction notification system, was “offline” for a week, with anyone trying to access the site seeing the following notice:

Many balked at the notice, suggesting that if Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move website can stay operational, why wouldn’t the Amber Alert website be maintained.

A spokesperson for the DoJ claimed that although the website was down because of the government shutdown, the program itself had not been affected.

“At no point has Amber Alert system been interrupted during shutdown. To prevent confusion, informational DOJ site has been restored,” spokesman Brian Fallon said.

Buzzfeed also quoted a DOJ official as saying:

“Amber alerts are uninterrupted. They get issued by states and counties, which do notifications to media, on twitter, highway signs, etc. The dot-gov site is informational, not the law enforcement tool.”

These announcements led many to ask the question if the system was not down, why bother putting up a misleading notice indicating that it was?

Upon further investigation, some even suggested that the website was never actually down, and was merely redirecting to the announcement.

@freddoso @redsteeze The website is still online, it was just redirected to that .jpg to screw with people. — Jason B. Whitman (@JasonBWhitman) October 7, 2013

Some internet users claimed that if you deleted the suffix ‘unavailable’ from the url in the address bar of the browser, then the site was indeed still accessible.

Follow closely Go to http://t.co/r4HzT66al7 When you get that page..go to URL box… and delete the word "Unavailable" Hit enter — S.M (@redsteeze) October 7, 2013

Some pointed out that EVERY Juvenile Justice program EXCEPT Amber Alert was still up and running.

The insinuation was that someone in the DoJ was instructed to make it APPEAR as if the Amber Alert section of its website was offline, when it wasn’t.

@redsteeze @AceofSpadesHQ The only part of that domain to be deactivated was amber alert. — Paul Blevins (@dssdevl) October 7, 2013

Simple point I'm making.. Site was redirected to an HTML page with a jpeg image saying it's offline when the site is not offline. — S.M (@redsteeze) October 7, 2013

@dssdevl @freddoso @redsteeze @AceofSpadesHQ It's not even on a different server; amberalert dot gov has the same IP as the site that's up. — John Groves (@jfgroves) October 7, 2013

@redsteeze @AceofSpadesHQ @JessicaHeddings If it was truly down you'd get a server error or the like. They simply redirected for appearance. — JB (@DixieDrivenDown) October 7, 2013

OBVIOUSLY THIS SAVES NO MONEY AS THE SITES ARE STILL THERE. THEY ARE SIMPLY PAYING STAFFERS TO DO EXTRA WORK. — SquatchPride69 (@AceofSpadesHQ) October 7, 2013

This begs the question, how many other government websites that have gone offline since the shutdown began are REALLY offline?

@sunnyright @samsteinhp interesting how site isnt actually down anyway, only redirected to a JPEG that says it is. That's a conscious effort — Brock Handsome (@Brock_Handsome2) October 7, 2013

@redsteeze @samsteinhp Because it's a big publicity stunt, like everything Obama said about sequestration. — David Freddoso (@freddoso) October 7, 2013

Is the Obama administration purposefully making it appear that many aspects of the government have gone dark, when in reality the vast majority of federal activity continues unaffected.

The federal government spent extra money to redirect the Amber Alert website to a page saying it was shut down instead of leaving it open. — Levi Elliott (@CapablyInept) October 7, 2013

does the public have the right to know how much of THEIR MONEY the White House spent to reroute website traffic? — SquatchPride69 (@AceofSpadesHQ) October 7, 2013

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Steve Watson is the London based writer and editor for Alex Jones’ Infowars.com, and Prisonplanet.com. He has a Masters Degree in International Relations from the School of Politics at The University of Nottingham, and a Bachelor Of Arts Degree in Literature and Creative Writing from Nottingham Trent University.

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