Friday, 21 April 2000
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So the patricians in the Senate don't like low power radio? Is anyone surprised? Stay tuned, as we're trying to stay on top of this issue. If you have any interest in seeing our airwaves be ours again, urge your Senate patrician to vote against S.2068.
(Note: this is at least the second time I've noticed Judd Gregg, junior Senator (Rep) of NH, act like a complete toad. Here he's defending the rights of corporations to continue preventing the proper owners of the broadcast spectrum from using it in their own best interests. In the other case I saw him on C-Span recent talking -- along with Dodd of Connecticut -- a load of nonsense about how if you let your kids on the Internet without snooping on everything they do, some pedophile will abduct and molest them. There to complete the circus of absurdity was Donna Rice Hughes, who's certainly the most technically-clueless of all the anti-porn-crusaders, (I'm not against anti-porn crusades, per se, only the ones which stereoptype computer geeks (as perverts) and the ones that advocate violating my civil rights by way of a solution), as well as the guy at AO-hel-L who "liasons with law enforcement," i.e., the guy who calls the cops when you do stuff they don't like. I'm handicapping Judd Gregg as the early favorite for the Monkeyfist Congressional Patrician Doofus of the Year award.)
This is Low Power Radio in Trouble <http://monkeyfist.com/articles/465>