Sunday, December 7, 2008

Fairness Doctrine is Tyranny

"To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical."
-Thomas Jefferson

It might strike someone as unlikely that the founding fathers would have had to deal with topics akin to the mislabeled "fairness doctrine", but indeed they did, and the above is how Thomas Jefferson responded to it.

Radio stations are required to purchase a license from the federal government in order to transmit. Never mind that this is tyrannical in and of itself, the point is, they pay a tax in the form of a license.

They pay this tax with the expectation that they can operate a business. Some of them choose to operate the business of selling political talk. This is the free will choice they make, and they can choose to put any political talk, left, right, center, off the chart or otherwise on the air. But the mislabeled "fairness doctrine" would thwart their free will and dictate that they must propagate ideas that they did not choose.

Our judgment that this is tyranny is confirmed by that of a mind no less than Thomas Jefferson.

The Libertarian ideology utterly opposes the mislabeled "fairness doctrine" and urges you to protect your freedom by joining it.

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