A member of Campaign for Liberty was removed by police for asking about the Constitutional basis for a national health care program. Unfortunately there was no fists thrown, no swastikas, and no tasers so you probably won’t hear this mentioned by the people who want to frame all opposition to the proposed legislation as extremists.
Your wireless router, even a cordless phone or baby monitor gives the FCC the right to enter your home without a warrant to inspect the device. Wired.com reports on several cases of warrant less “inspections” by the FCC of suspected pirate radio broadcasters. But according to the FCC it doesn’t end there:
“Anything using RF energy — we have the right to inspect it to make sure it is not causing interference,” says FCC spokesman David Fiske. That includes devices like Wi-Fi routers that use unlicensed spectrum, Fiske says.
Lew Rockwell of the Mises Institute commented on Freedom Watch this week that the Federal Reserve is “the central institution of evil” and that is certainly true, but it is not the only one. The very existence of the FCC is an inherent threat to the first amendment and apparently the fourth amendment as well. Even if, and I don’t, you grant the notion that the FCC is needed to manage competing claims to radio frequencies, it is impossible to defend giving the commission this sort of unconstitutional power.
Whatever else the government does, no matter what it claims the goal is and no matter the stated justification, because it curtails human freedom it should be suspect and presumed to be unlawful and unconstitutional. If these libertarian principles had been accepted throughout history, then slavery-an obvious violation of natural rights-and all the evils it has spawned would never have existed here.
