John Thune: Reject Orwellian Calls for Broadcast "Fairness"

From its birth, our nation has put a high value on independent thought and freedom of speech. Our Founding Fathers themselves saw their lot as conscientious insurrectionists seeking freedoms they believed were inalienable rights. They understood the importance of permitting freedom of conscience whether it be in the religious, political, or social sphere. Today we continue to fight to preserve these freedoms both here at home and in many dark corners around the world.

Unfortunately, some in Washington DC are reviving an old idea that the government can, and should, regulate the reporting of news, information and ideas. If we take them at their word, they are doing it in the name of "fairness." But if we look deeper, we may see motives not nearly so noble.

For over 150 years our nation understood that freedom of speech was best achieved by keeping the government out of the business of regulating "fairness." Eventually though, a few at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) thought they could do a better job than the system set up by the framers of the Constitution and took fairness-promotion into their own hands. In a 1949 report entitled Report of Editorializing by Broadcast Licensees, federal bureaucrats at the FCC set forth the "Fairness Doctrine" which would govern the use of public airwaves for 30 years. This doctrine, which was promoted by the FCC and never approved by Congress, required broadcast licensees to present "controversial issues" of public importance in an equal and balanced manner.

Rather than promote fairness though, the Fairness Doctrine created a chilling effect among broadcasters when it came to reporting controversial topics. In order to avoid the lash of federal bureaucrats, many broadcasters opted for silence. In the name of promoting "fairness," the FCC squelched free speech and public debate.

What they REALLY want to do is outlaw shouting “Fire” in a burning theatre......the ‘theatre’ being our free way of life!

And they set the fires. But not before cramming the theaters full of special interest groups of their own design to be pulled, pushed and prodded until they ignite. And cry for nanny government to come to the rescue.

The pendulum has finally begun to swing the other direction It's now moving away from irrationality, deception and dishonesty and moving forward into honesty. First it's bowling over the democrat/liberal/left. Picking off the low hanging fruit first. With it's sights set beyond the republican/conservative/right nothing will withstand its building momentum that feeds on all manner of errors, irrationality, criminality, mysticism and deception.

The War of Two Worlds is Upon Us

Up-righting an upside-down anti-civilization where injustice is proclaimed justice. Where the ends justify the means. And voting for the lesser of evils is intended to beget evil.

By making oneself more valuable to other people a person increases their own value. From high risk entrepreneurs and venture-capitalist angels to dishwashers and janitors making themselves valuable to others they increase their worth. When they go shopping for super-computers and groceries they become more valuable to those businesses.

They're all value creators. Probably ninety-nine percent of them don't initiate force, threat of force or fraud against anyone or their property.

Now consider what it is that politicians and bureaucrats do. They create laws and regulations.

There's a reason they call them lawmakers. They churn out laws and regulations like automaker Ford pumps out trucks.

But do we need an assembly line for churning out laws and regulations? The vast majority of which are laws and regulations that themselves legitimize -- via legal authority -- the initiation of force, threat of force and fraud.

As all persons have the inalienable right to use force in self-defense, government has not only a legitimate ethical use of force in self-defense, for over a hundred years congress has assigned government a monopoly on the initiation of force, fraud and coercion.

Lawmakers are always at the ready with new "must have" laws and regulations. Always quick to save the day and spare value producers from running themselves, their free market, and society headlong into destruction.

HA! Who are they trying to fool?!

What is the probability that the value creators and value producers will try to harm their own free market and or its participants? They're averse to the initiation of force and fraud.

So who is being hoodwinked?

Apparently, at least half the population. People fooled into believing the ends justify the means. But what are the ends when the means -- voting for the lesser of evils -- especially when each person thinks their candidate is the lesser evil -- leads to an evil end?

Voting for the lesser of evils always begets evil. The ends don't justify the means. (Think about those two sentences together -- they can't be reconciled.) The ends justify the means only when the ends are intended to be evil. But somehow I don't think voters intend an evil end to come from their vote.

The lawmakers assembly line is a long list of special interest groups lined up on K Street. Stretching throughout the mainstream media and academia.

(Save for talk radio which is becoming mainstream. You know the MSM doesn't like what they're seeing in talk radio and the WWW. )

It's all about politics. Honesty and integrity be damned.

Publicly traded corporations have a fiduciary responsibility to their shareholders to maximize profits. Political expediency has the CEO supporting lawmakers and regulators as well as academics and the MSM that champion laws and regulations that will hinder its competition or give itself special tax consideration and the like, and thus give the corporation an unfair advantage. An advantage born from the irrationality of coercive law/regulation.

The CEO wins and so do the shareholders. The free market loses competition and the net effect is a lower standard of living. It's the opportunity cost. What would the competition in the market have produced had it not been cut off?

The anthropic global warming issue is, in reality, that there is no significant anthropic global warming effect. It's a non-problem.

The real problem is that it's a fabricated problem. An illusion of a problem. A boogieman. Complete with false guilt hopefully being embedded in people's minds. Pack the bags, we're going on a guilt trip.

It's a monstrous waste of capital, energy, time and human resources.

The value producer and value creators advance technology exponentially. This has happened throughout history despite the parasitical elites leeching off the value creators and producers. Now with the technology at the knee curve its effects are much more noticeable. Increasingly effective.

At its core a science/business/free market relationship is one of eliminating errors and irrationality. The opposite of what politicians, bureaucrats and parasitical elites in general do -- they fabricate problems born of irrationality and foist them on the value producers and their free market.

Mark them for future deletion as they are irrational errors that exponentially advancing technology will render obsolete.

Exponential advancing technology is a live wire running throughout science business and the market economy. Eventually arriving at its goal: a definitive free market competition. An upright civilization..

It's the politics of the ends justify the means. Parasitical elites only feel remorse when they get caught. Thus they must protect themselves from having the spotlight of honesty shine on them. Pretty much the same as all criminals.

Even though honesty outlives dishonesty in the long run, most parasitical elites will have leeched off the value producers and be long gone before the value producers realize what really happened. Between the MSM and academics, real history seldom sees the light of day.

That's been changing. Fast!

Quit playing by their rules. The ends don't justify the means. Voting for the lesser of evils always begets evil. Stop enabling parasitical elites.

It's your creativity, productive work and free market that the parasitical elite would perish without your support. You produce more than you consume. They consume way more more than they produce.

Politics is not the solution. Politics is the problem.

Who wants a higher standard of living? A better lifestyle? Begin the transition with voting each and every incumbent out of office. Shine the spotlight of honesty on them like you did with the shamnesty immigration bill. Like what's happening to the global warming hoax.

Value Destroyers
versus
Value Producers

Up- righting an upside-down anti-civilization where injustice is proclaimed justice. Where each day lived brings a person one day closer to unnecessary death. An unnecessary sad day for all value creators. On the other hand, for value destroyers, death is their saving grace. Everyone's. Even their own. Especially their own.

But it's the opposite for value producers. The adjective unnecessary has profound meaning for them.

To be continued...

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