Posted on 11/12/2008 9:05:45 AM PST by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
We need to stop referring to this proposal at “The Fairness Doctrine” and characterize it as The 21st Century Equivalent to Bookburning”.
....Or civil warII in America.
Loss of free speech, Loss of the ability to trust in voting not being corrupted by deliberate design of one party,
Loss of the means of personal and national defense,
Loss of half your income,
Confiscation of your 401k,
US financial laws being negotiated this week to prepare the USA fiscal system to be submitted to the UN?
Proposals to force my daughter to perform service in “poor areas” of our country and around the world?
Religion systematically crushed.
What combination of these, or which gross violation of one, will be the spark?
There truly is a line.
Publish the Declaration of Independence today, listing instead the current transgressions against freedom rather than those of King George, and you will probably be on some watch list.
Think about that.
TV networks don't care because this only applies to radio.
The government didn’t like what Howard Stern was saying but he says it every morning on Sirius. If people are willing to pay why can’t they hear whatever they want?
When we said “free speech”, we didn’t mean for people who disagree. :D
Government decided the airwaves were public by fiat, what stops them from doing the same from the frequencies satellites use? Stroke of a pen,,, executive order,,, satellite under the FCC.
Radio is becoming irrelevant, Satellite, internet, and cable are exploding. They will find a way in very soon. They must be able to control the discourse.
It won't be the government who sues.
it will be NYTIMESWAPOCHICAGOTRIBUNEABCNBCCBSMSNBCCNN
“Could this also be enforced on XM Radio and Sirius?”
I don’t believe so, because it’s not on the general airwaves. You have to subscribe. I would envision Rush, Hannity, Ingraham, Bruce et al to end up there if the FD does go into force.
Any one of these could be the spark that causes the USA to ‘exploit” in violet in-fighting that will end the USA.
How will we find each other to email? It is very scary to me that all means of communication will be cut off to anyone who doesn’t do the liberal jig.
Plus internet conservitve websites can simply do off-shoring bigtime.
As it was previously written, no. But I’ve heard some talk of them using the Interstate Commerce Clause to justify giving themselves jurisdiction over everything (cable, satellite, internet).
But as another poster said, it’s a moot point. Once they get into the business of censoring political speech, we can kiss the First Amendment — and our asses — goodbye. We’ll be crushed. America will cease to be.
My greatest concern is that the Democrats, flush with power, still seething over George Bush's Presidency and misreading the results of a close election as a "mandate" will overreach on a grand scale.
But, unlike the Clinton Administration, these people are true radicals who desire nothing less than the complete transformation of American government and society into the utopian socialist model of their dreams - and our nightmares.
Perhaps they believe that conservatives will stand idly by and let it happen. Some in fact, may. I will not.
Some old radicals i read about in 6th grade wrote this,,
I think they were from Philadelphia??
“But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”
It would be foolish to silence conservatism if the Dems want to stay in power.
Pursuing this avenue will also cause division within. It is the perfect opportunity for a nobody Democrat Congressman, with strong leadership ability, to rise to fame championing “Free Speech”.
Sirius is on the verge of bankruptcy.
In practice that might be true, but in actuallity it applies to both radio and broadcast TV. Why it doesn't appear to apply to TV anymore is that the broadcast networks no longer have what was known as editorial viewpoints, as they once did. Instead they just cover their editorial position under the cloak of "news."
OK. I misunderstood the context. Thanks.
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