foy@aero.ARPA (Richard Foy) (03/21/86)
In article <1048@whuxl.UUCP> orb@whuxl.UUCP (SEVENER) writes: > >What most disappoints me personally is the many "libertarians" >on the net who seem totally unwilling to support civil liberties >when it comes down to the crunch. That should be informative. > I wonder how the "libertarians" would feel about the following approach to Free Speech. Some one such as Sevener or his opponents makes a video tape wherein he disucsses his political views. He buys a cheep power amplifier. He sets his VCR to Channel 3 or 4, which ever carries Monday night football. During the ads on the football game, he plays his tape out through his VCR, amplifier, and antenna. A reaonable number of the TV viewers in his vicinity would see his political pitch instead of the commercial. Clearly this is illegal and the FCC would soon be after him. But would not the "libertarian" approach to government say that he should be allowed to make such a broadcast without interference from the government. Richard Foy, Redondo Beach, CA The opinions I have expressed are the result of many years in the school of hard knocks. Thus they are my own.