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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - After warnings, inspections and finally a raid, 90.9 FM is silent.
Knoxville First Amendment Radio, or KFAR (pronounced "kay-far"), was an unapologetic voice of unlicensed "pirate radio" activism, freewheeling conversation, alternative news like "Democracy Now!" and "Free Speech Radio News" and music since 2001.

But Federal Communications Commission agents and U.S. marshals emptied the station's graffiti-decorated trailer - a former crack house on a hilltop near the University of Tennessee - of radio gear Sept. 14. A poster of Che Guevara, the Cuban revolutionary, remains on a control room wall.

All ye who suppose that the First Amendment is applicable to broadcasting, take note.
And journalism which does not have First Amendment protection is inherently elitist and illegitimate.
Why Broadcast Journalism is
Unnecessary and Illegitimate

All ye who suppose that the First Amendment is applicable to broadcasting, take note.

And journalism which does not have First Amendment protection is inherently elitist and illegitimate.

No matter how much you pay for the property, you do not own that property unless you have gotten deed for it from the Government.

And no matter how much you have paid for the equipment you do not own a radio stations unless you have a governmetn issued license for that radio station.

If you don't have an automobile license you can't even drive around shouting out the car window.

Try going to a public place with a bull horn and start making your freedom of speech rant. You're free speech is disturbing the peace.

You do not and have never had a constitutional right to all methods of speech delivery. In fact you can't even print a newspaper and put them in peoples mail boxes unless you buy the postage and have the post office deliver your papers.

You can't use radio bandwith you do not have authority to use, and you can't use mail boxes to deliver your newspaper. If you want to reach people using radio waves you have to get a license. If you want to reach people using a newspaper and their mail boxes you have to buy the stamps and have the government deliver the message.

Using illegal methods of delivery is not free speech. It is criminal theft of property.