Recent AMBER ALERT recv'd on phone

I do believe the Amber Alert notifications have gone beyond anything it was designed for. 
I do not like it on my phone and wish to remove this service, if you want to call it that.  Does anyone know how to do this.  I understand ATT customers also recv'd the Amber Alert.  It is bad enough that I have government digging into my pocket all the time. I do not need them blasting notices to me on my private phone.  Verizon, can you please keep them off my phone or at least give me the option of disabling this service.  I will look for a phone service that will allow me to do this if Verizon doesn't get on the ball.  Its bad enough they let the government have all our phone records, now we have to listen to them give us warnings, wanted or not.

I bet it made ya wonder if some Aliens were coming).  Well, when we had all those Flood Warnings going up My Dads work phone which is Just a regular Verizon phone Went off and my two Razr's Went off and when you get three phone going off at the same time it's Wake up Shaker!  So i can just imagine the Noise all of those phones made at the same time..  
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