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To: P-Marlowe
07:58:56

This is why we need to question everything the Feds do. Under what constitutional authority does the federal government have to shut this station down if:

 1. The radio signals never cross a state line and

 2. The signal is not interfering with licensed stations that have signals which cross state lines and

 3) the station is not operating for the purpose of making money or otherwise engaging in interstate commerce?

 Just because something has been upheld by the courts doesn't make it constitutional. The courts have become an arm of the oligarchy and the tools of creeping totalitarianism.

I'm a ham, and I really have to agree with this. If the individual state wants to regulate it should be free to do so or not.

If a situation does not enter into an area of federal power outlined in Art. 1 Sec. 8 of the Constitution, it's really none of Fedzilla's business.

52 posted on 04/18/2014 12:37:36 PM PDT by zeugma (Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened - Dr. Seuss (I'll see you again someday Hope))
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To: zeugma
You are a ham, so I assume you have a license. If you don't recognize the authority of the FCC to issue it, then why do you have it? I assume you use frequencies that permit broadcasting around the world, which is certainly across state lines.

You said: >>If a situation does not enter into an area of federal power outlined in Art. 1 Sec. 8 of the Constitution, it's really none of Fedzilla's business. This is the part of the Constitution (Article I, Section 8) that permits the FCC's regulation of the radio spectra: To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;

This is a proper interpretation of the phrase "regulate Commerce...among the several states, and with the Indian Tribes" aka "Commerce Clause." Most applications of the phrase, as used by the present "Fedzilla," are improper, which makes this one of the rare ones that are proper.

54 posted on 04/18/2014 1:26:27 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (H.L. Mencken: "The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.")
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