Posted on 11/26/2017 9:32:21 AM PST by ColdOne
There is no equivalency between the constitutional issue of interstate commerce regulation of uniformly driving on the right side of the road versus the patently unconstitutional acts of regulating free speech and creating the FCC which are acts of tyranny.
Stop supporting federal tyranny. Makes you part of the problem.
What is that from?
From Star Trek TOS “The Return of the Archons”.
The whole net neutrality thing has been confusing but this clarifies that Soto’s types want it and that clarifies the entire issue.
I agree with you. If the left is really for it, it’s not good for the rest of us. Take it back to the way it was before net neutrality.
These “protests” are a crime: threatening a Federal official. Lock them all up.
FCC has a good and constitutional function, namely, management of the radio spectrum, a finite natural resource. That included regulation of wired systems also, to prevent spectral pollution and interference with others’ radio systems. But I agree, the FCC has NO constituional role in regulating free speech, that which “Congress shall make no law” infringing.
Where does the Constitution give the feds power over “a finite natural resource”?
Wouldn’t developing a uniform standard of allocating EM spectrum for communication uses, fall under Congress’ Article I Section 8 enumerated power to set standards?
Which clause in Article I Section 8 gives the feds power to “set standards”?
“Net neutrality activists left signs at Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai’s house Saturday, telling his children that their father was an “evil” man who “murdered” democracy.”
And what exactly does ANYTHING the FCC decides, that is within it’s own purview to decide, have to do with “democracy”? The honest answer is zip, zilch, nada.
The FCC is a Progressive’s power center - rule by an elite, and not a “democratic” institution in the least. It was created in the mass exodus of and abdication of “democratic” legislative powers of Congress, led by Marxists and Progressives with the part willing part grudging acceptance by some Republicans (who now seem unwilling to tear it down when it should be torn down).
As for the yard protests on the FCC chairman’s lawn: It is part of parcel of the political indoctrination of children by the Progressives and Marxists - what they want is relayed as “democratic” when it has nothing at all to do with democracy, and what they oppose is not democratic, even when it was a democratic process that provided it. To them - “we like it” equals democratic and “we don’t like it” equals not democratic.
When the choice is between a free and open Internet unhindered by government regulation and so-called Net Neutrality — which amounts to heavy-handed government regulation including rate regulation, content regulation, and increased taxes — the choice is simple for those who value liberty.
To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures;
I would imagine that the last part of the clause would provide reasonable authority to Congress to establish the manner by which the electromagnetic spectrum is divided and assigned to public and private interests.
Much like determining the standard by which commercial aircraft should operate within the USA, and associated safety regulations (e.g. making sure tall radio towers/water towers are properly marked/painted for visibility during the day or night) I think it is well within the federal purview to establish a standard across the United States.
Now it's reasonable to debate how Congress goes about doing that. Currently we have the FCC which probably does some things that are consistent with the Congress' enumerated powers.
Where the FCC oversteps their authority, I think most conservatives, myself included, would support reigning them in.
How do YOU propose to keep the states and individuals within states from interfering with one another's radio transmissions? Without some kind of Federal-level law, New York could just decide that it owns the entire 40 meter band (for example), preventing anyone else stateside (and much of the world) from using it.
Are you ignorant of the Constitution and Supreme Court case law, and want to stay that way? Or are you genuinely seeking knowledge?
Yep!
Other than to protect the states from foreign invasion, the federal government was created by the Constitution to ensure U.S. sovereignty, create a sound monetary system, and minimize disruption in free commerce between the states.
It's a stretch to say that fixing the standard of weights and measures is equivalent to assigning the electromagnetic spectrum to public and private interests or is equivalent to the standard by which commercial aircraft should operate within the USA, and associated safety regulations. Weights and measures is a monetary issue whereas the electromagnetic spectrum is a communications issue and airlines a travel issue.
Whereas the Constitution gives the feds power to regulate certain monetary issues, it does not give the feds expressed or outright power to control and regulate communications and interstate travel.
To carry out its constitutional functions, the feds could reasonably reserve to itself by law a NECESSARY AND PROPER range of the electromagnetic spectrum. You don't need the friggin' $388 billion FCC bureaucratic beast to do that. And I see no constitutional justification for the feds to meddle in the non-governmental range of the electromagnetic spectrum.
The FCC is unconstitutional and should be dismantled.
We on the Right need to quit defending and start working to dismantle, the unconstitutional 80% portion of the $4 trillion federal government.
Issues between states is what the Constitution created federal courts for.
Read my post #37, then try to ask an actual intelligent question.
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