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>>The property in question being the national broadcast spectrum...it's owners are every American,democrat or republican, gay or straight,rich or poor,Christian,Jew,Muslim, or any other faith,AARP or high school graduate.

Sounds like socialism to me: "we all own it..."

Nonsense. As Neal Boortz said, “public ownership of the airwaves is an idea created by politicians for no purpose other than to legitimize government control."

Amen.

Nonsense. As Neal Boortz said, “public ownership of the airwaves is an idea created by politicians for no purpose other than to legitimize government control."

I can't agree. The radio frequency spectrum is a finite resource. I believe the only way to prevent absolute chaos in the use of frequencies is some kind of control. If anyone and everyone could broadcast a TV signal on, for example, the frequency known as Channel 2 of the VHF television band, all of the signals would interfere with one another.

Do you want every guy with a transmitter transmitting on police or fire communications frequencies?

Even satellite transmissions are made over discrete frequencies. If you spent $500 million putting up a satellite, would you want any jackass in the world to use its capabilities?