[EAS] FCC

[Ray Dall]

Perhaps I'm just a stupid deplorable originalist, but in my definition - the FCC is an illegal organization anyway!

Why?

Well, for starters - IT BREACHES THE WHOLE SEPARATION OF POWERS ACT!

They WRITE the laws (Congressional/Legislative)
They DECIDE whether or not you have broken those laws (Judicial)
Then they ENFORCE the penalty of your having broken them (Executive)

They, in one agency, hold the power of all three branches of the Federal Government. 

Understood that they are specifically answer to Congress, so they can indeed write laws, but if you allegedly break those laws, should it be the Judicial branch that decides your guilt or innocence?  And if found guilty, shouldn't the Executive branch then arrest, jail, fine, or otherwise doll out the punishment? 

Of course, I'm not for one moment insinuating that the FCC is the ONLY government agency that breaches the separation of powers act (IRS, EPA, any miriad of other alphabet soups).... simply pointing out the fact that they do.

Wouldn't it be interesting if sometime, somebody that is "found guilty" by them would take it to the Supreme Court of the United States and fight the very constitutionality of the agency itself?

I'll shut up now. I expect I'll be audited by the IRS within the next few days....

> On October 13, 2017 at 10:47 AM Dave Kline <dkline at tvmail.unomaha.edu> wrote:
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> I was having the exact same thoughts as Rod as I read Gary's post.
> Since when does the SECC chair serve at the pleasure of the FCC, and show me, where in the rules, it says that.