{"id":40933,"date":"2015-11-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/pastors\/preaching\/sermon-illustrations\/president-can-text-everyone-in-us\/"},"modified":"2015-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-11-30T00:00:00","slug":"president-can-text-everyone-in-us","status":"publish","type":"sermon-illustrations","link":"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/pastors\/preaching\/sermon-illustrations\/president-can-text-everyone-in-us\/","title":{"rendered":"The President Can Text Everyone in the U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The President of the U.S. has the power to push text messages to just about every smartphone in America, anytime he deems it necessary. Who knew? The Wireless Emergency Alert (WEA) system was born of President Bush&#39;s frustration with the Federal Emergency Management Agency&#39;s response during Hurricane Katrina, and has morphed since. If you&#39;ve ever received one of these alerts, it was probably about a missing child Amber alert or a severe weather warning.<\/p>\n\n<p>But buried in the documents describing its function is this fact: The President of the United States can mass-message the entire phone-carrying nation at the same time whenever he deems it necessary. Oddly enough, if you do get a presidential emergency alert and you&#39;re on the phone, it won&#39;t show up until after you&#39;ve finished your conversation. 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