Reply #22: Yuh. OK. I'm sure they are thrilled.

[Zorra]

SANTA CRUZ, Calif. A pirate radio station operating out of Santa Cruz has been silenced.

Yesterday, about a dozen U-S Marshals and agents with the Federal Communications Commission raided the station that called itself "Free Radio Santa Cruz."

Even the mayor of Santa Cruz was on the scene, reminding the crowd that the City Council had passed a resolution supporting the station.

While it was operating, Free Radio Santa Cruz broadcast music, poetry and political views.

http://www.kesq.com/Global/story.asp?S=2369589

Our media is almost fully controlled by wealthy fascists who make FCC rules, and the FCC is controlled by fascists that they have installed in order to enforce the rules that they make.

Michael Powell and the FCC: Giving Away the Marketplace of Ideas
Published on Monday, June 2, 2003 by the Washington Post
by Tom Shales

Unless something dramatic and unexpected occurs to stop it, this is what will happen today in Washington: The Republican chairman of the Republican-dominated Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and his Republican majority will revise long-standing rules on media ownership in ways that will hugely benefit, among others, rich Republicans.

Revising and relaxing the rules that prohibit a single entity from controlling too large a percentage of American media will allow corporations that are already too big to become much, much bigger. Also much more powerful and much more oblivious to the common good.

The proposed changes are such a threat to First Amendment freedoms that even some Republicans on Capitol Hill have been brave enough to oppose them. And yet, a fat lot of good it does. FCC Chairman Michael Powell wants to plow ahead with his deregulation scheme no matter what. It appears he is trying to do more damage than any other chairman in FCC history.

Never mind that a diversity of voices -- voices with the ability to be heard -- is integral to the health and maintenance of a democracy. While Powell and his supporters claim that the existence of dozens, even hundreds, of channels on cable and satellite systems proves there's diversity unbound, Powell's critics note that the diversity is a mere illusion if only five fat companies own all those channels.

http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0602-03.htm

I'm sure that the Jews in Nazi Germany were also thrilled that they got away with being Jewish for so long until the Nazis finally rounded them up.

Just because something is a law does not make it right.