[BC] FCC Seeking Extra Funds to go after Pirates

[Mike McCarthy]

It's the same today.  Nothing has changed.  The FCC is a toothless paper 
tiger for the most part.  The Marshall's are needed to enforce the 
confiscation orders or warrants to enter and search.

This is where the states can really come in to the mix.  As with 
Florida, they can nail the !@#$%^&* and property owners using zoning and 
business ordinances and statutes. The suckers who transmit from their 
homes or religious buildings end up in a bigger mess as the locals can 
then go after them for operating a business out of their house or 
non-profit without a business license or proper zoning The idiots end up 
in courtroom after courtroom pleading their way through the red tape.  
IIRC, that was done to a Miami area idiot who allowed a station to 
transmit from his office building and claiming to not know what was 
going on with that funny thing on the roof.

While it's an unfunded enforcement process foisted upon for the locals, 
I suspect law enforcement has some input on who to bust based on gang 
and/or drug activity.

MM

On 2/15/2012 5:26 PM, Leon D. Zetekoff wrote:
> On 2/15/2012 5:05 PM, Milton Holladay wrote:
>> My recollection is, that, in years past, they took US Marshalls with
>> them and confiscated all the equipment.......
> that's what my dad did way back yonder. they first had to get a warrant froma  judge and that was problematic
>
> leon
>