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As to the FCC, they appear to operate under the commerce clause, that's why you see the pirate stations raising such a fuss if they are careful to design and aim their antennas to not cross state lines, and then still get harassed by the FCC.

But that would be moot if SCOTUS would rule that the First Amendment gives us all--subject only to the variability in our wallets--equal rights to publish our ideas and beliefs. In that view, the FCC license is an unconstitutional promotion of the ideas and beliefs of certain individuals. De facto, the beliefs and attitudes of journalists are promoted, certainly. And that is only benign if the First Amendment is a non sequetur--if, that is, we can trust a secular priesthood of journalists to grant us revealed truth.

--their point is a finite number of freqs in the decent spectrum, or some such nonsense. I'm not a radio engineer, can't say one way or the other if this is true. Someone here no doubt is and can set us straight on that if they see this part of the thread.

I do know more and more folks are going pirate, video as well. That's definetly wallet-oriented. The net is the best, as long as it stays up, and I'm all for radio nets as backup and in addition to. Not holding me breath on the supremes doing their thing past this hesitant "living breathing document" they always stretch around. It's backwards anyway, the laws shouldn't go into effect until AFTER a review if any sort of common sense ruled.

That's one of the two things I would have changed if I had been one of the founders writing and arguing back then, that and the "promote the general welfare'. GEEZ, just that little wiggler has caused HUGE amounts of trouble, I want to go back in time and whack some wigged dudes with the stupid stick on that one..

So, there's only two options, take over a broadcast network, or scare the ones remaining so bad they start to get it "right". Fox kinda sorta is headed in the right direction, but still...... it needs to happen, even if it's 'entertainment" it would still be better than getting PO'ed every night. And it would be far less dangerous..

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