[BC] AM Stations cranking it up on Football Night

[Cowboy]

On Tuesday 02 September 2008 10:15 am, RichardBJohnson at comcast.net wrote:
>  However, It is MY (The birthright of every American) spectrum
>  that they have been licensed to use.

 It was, until that Supreme Court ruling that "takings" are fine if the new
 owner the govt. wishes to give the property to will be paying more
 in taxes than the current owner who doesn't wish to sell.

>  In the days of yore, there was the proviso that they;
>  (1) Operate within the rules;
>  (2) For the public convenience and necessity;
>  (3) In accordance with good standards of engineering practice.
>  
>  Has this changed? Has a Broadcaster now purchased my
>  property to do  whatever they want with it?

 Yep. Pretty much.

>  If so, who did 
>  they purchase it from?

 Congress ! Our elected money grubbers.
 I could be wrong, but didn't McCain have a big part in that ?

>  Certainly if they now own the 
>  "air-waves" then they are trespassing upon my property
>  and I need to have them stop this right away.

 We have an election coming in a few months, but I don't know if
 any candidate for any office is on that train.

 You only have private property anymore, if you're fortunate to live in
 a state that is or has tried to overturn that Supreme Court ruling, but
 that won't apply to the ether, of course, since that's federal.

-- 
Cowboy