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Nov. 19, 1998 - Bill Cooper
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Low Power Radio Station Victory
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You're listening to The Hour of the Time, and I'm Pooh.
And I'm Austin.
Oh, I'm getting so many hugs here.
You're listening to the Hour of the Time, and I'm Pooh.
And I'm Austin.
And I'm William Cooper.
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for
which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
I'm sorry, fellas.
I moved back to get you out of the way and I accidentally tripped the CD there.
You want to do it again?
Okay.
Because I screwed it up for you?
Okay.
I'm so sorry.
I apologize.
It's alright.
Are we ready, Ellie?
Yeah.
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
You've never been so much on the radio more than I was once by the radio.
Watch the radio on the waxing flame to make a difference where you go.
Sing the lullaby and the lullaby.
Have the boiling light down below.
Listen to the radio.
Love is on the air tonight and it's on a coast-to-coast lookout.
Well, it's everywhere tonight.
You'd better look it on the epitome.
We'll eat steaks and do our creation.
We'll have a bong coming through.
So if you can't wait for me to get white, we'll get another one for you.
You should never think more of me, because I'm the god of your alley.
You must sound like me to her.
I suppose she likes Rudy fine.
Get those women, come on now, she's not the killer, baby, they're you.
Why did you get your blood on me yesterday night?
I'm not the killer, baby, I'm not the killer, baby.
Why did you get your blood on me yesterday night?
Good evening, ladies and gentlemen.
I think you're going to really enjoy tonight's broadcast.
At least I hope you will.
I know Alan Wiener will at WBCQ.
And I think people all over the world are going to like this broadcast because Jack, the giant killer, has won again.
It's just incredible.
What I'm talking about is low-power FM broadcasting has won again.
You see, once people began to really listen to what I've been telling them over the last, I don't know, seven years or so, they stopped fighting the battle on the wrong grounds and began to challenge jurisdiction, and as soon as they started doing it, they began to win.
You see, when I first started telling people about the true jurisdiction of the federal government and began to get them to stop repeating what they've heard all their life and get a copy of the Constitution and read it, but not just read it, really read it, study it, and then go to the law.
Read it!
Break it down.
Make sure you understand the meaning of the words in the law and not in your community.
Because the meaning is different.
Do the research.
If it says, those made liable under this statute such and such, capital A, are supposed to do this, this, and this, don't assume that you're made liable.
Go to umpity ump.
Statute, capital A, and read it.
Because 99 times out of 100 you'll find that you are not made liable.
And if in there there's a reference to somewhere else, go there!
Don't ever stop until you hit the end of the trail.
And what you will find will amaze you.
You're going to discover that the people who have been hired and trained to enforce the law in your town don't even know what it is.
I'm talking about your sheriff's department and the police.
They don't even know what the law is.
All they know is what they've been told.
They've never got in the books and researched it.
They're just doing their job.
I'm just doing my job.
Yep, just doing my job.
Well, the truth is, they're not.
They were hired to enforce the law.
Not what somebody told them.
Not what they were taught to believe all their life.
Not what some political hack wants them to do.
But enforce the law.
The supreme law of the land is the Constitution for the United States of America.
It grants very, very few, very limited powers to the federal government.
It severely restricts the federal government.
All other powers, all other rights, not specifically delegated to the federal government nor prohibited to the states or to the people, rest with the states and with the people.
It's an incredible document that our Founding Fathers wrote.
It is not out of date.
It is not some old, antique thing that can't understand the complexities or fit in with the complexities of the modern times.
It is a living document.
Living.
Which means if we want to change it, we can, but only according To those specific methods of change which are outlined within the document itself.
The people of this nation have chosen not to change it very much over all of the years of its history.
And what a wise decision that is.
You're going to be amazed at what you're going to hear tonight.
I'm just happy.
You know why?
Because I brought it all about.
Actually, I didn't bring it all about.
The Founding Fathers did.
And up until about a hundred years ago, everybody in this country knew and understood the law and the restrictions upon government.
All I did was rediscover it and tell my audience.
And I did that, folks, way, way back.
Way, way back in one of the first months of 1993.
Actually, I think it was... I began this broadcast May the 4th, 1992, and it was shortly after that that we did the broadcast with Bill Dugan, where I outlined to the world how to properly fight the battle against the Federal Communications Commission so that you can have, own, a low-power FM broadcasting station in your state.
You see, the Constitution only grants power to the federal government for certain specific things.
One of which, the FCC comes under, and it's the only, the only one that it comes under.
It is the power granted to the federal government to regulate interstate and foreign commerce.
Interstate and foreign commerce.
It does not grant to the federal government the power to regulate, entrustate matters of any kind, including commerce.
Including the BATF, for example.
If you wanted to manufacture firearms and ammunition inside your state, and sell it only and totally within your state, not for export to any other state, They have no power to regulate you, or tell you how to do it, or to regulate who you can sell it to, or anything else.
You see, their power only comes under interstate and foreign commerce, and a few other things.
But folks, get a copy of the Constitution and read it.
Article 1, Section 8 is where it spells out most of the limited powers granted to the federal government.
There are a couple of others in other articles, but not many.
The powers are severely limited and restricted only to certain areas, certain jurisdictions, and certain specific things.
And you've got to learn that.
If you don't, you're just always going to be somebody's victim.
And by golly, if you aren't figuring that out yet, you soon will.
Here comes Hudson.
Here comes Hudson.
It's time for you to change this world here for me so I can... You need me, that's what we do.
You know folks, people in this valley, some of them, most of them though, but some of
them, they point up here on this hill and they say there's a nut that lives up there.
you He thinks he doesn't have to file and pay income tax.
Yet these are the same people who can't even find the law that requires them to file and pay income tax.
Never read the Constitution for the United States of America in their life.
In fact, if you want to know the truth, they probably couldn't tell their head from a hole in the ground, if you gave them clues and a map.
And that's the truth.
If you listen, if you pay attention, I have never attempted to steer anyone wrong.
I have always tried to awaken you and put you back on the path to freedom.
To the real law.
To real, lawful, constitutional Republican government as guaranteed to us in Article 4, Section 4 of the Constitution for the United States of America.
Most people don't even know that this is a Republican form of government.
And that not only is it a Republican form of government, but it is guaranteed to us that that is the only kind of government we can or ever will have under the Constitution for the United States of America.
It is not a democracy.
They want you to think that it is, but it's not.
This broadcast, ladies and gentlemen, started it all way back in the early months of 1992.
Just probably, I think about, oh maybe three weeks after we first went on the air on May the 4th, 1992.
Listen carefully.
This is the one that brought us to this point where we are now winning against the FCC.
Thank you.
She's in a lockdown.
I'm here to help you.
So practically, amid the noise and waste, and remember what comfort there may be in
owning a piece thereof.
Avoid quiet and packed persons, unless you are in need of sleep.
Rotate your tires.
Speak glowingly of those greater than yourself, and heed well their advice, even though they be turkeys.
Know what to get, and when.
Consider that two wrongs never make a right, but that three do.
Wherever possible, put people on hold.
Be comforted that in the face of all heredity and disillusionment, and despite the changing fortunes of times, There's always a big feature in computer measurements.
You are the universe, how so I can be here?
Whether you can hear me or not, the universe, nothing but hand in hand.
Remember the padlock.
I strive at all times with bend, fold, spindle and use of it.
Know yourself.
If you need help, call the FBI.
Exercise caution in your daily affairs, especially with those persons closest to you.
That lemon on your neck for instance.
Be assured that a walk through the ocean of Moses' soul would desperately get your feet wet.
Fall not in love, therefore.
It will stick to your face.
Gracefully surrender the things of youth, bird, clean air, casino, Taiwan, and let not the sand of time get in your lungs.
Hire people with hooks.
For a good time, call 606-4311.
Ask for candy.
Take heart amid the deepening gloom, as your dog is finally getting enough cheese.
And reflect that whatever misfortune may be your lot, it could only be worse in Milwaukee.
You are a fluke of the universe.
You have no right to be here.
You have no right to be here.
And whether you can hear it or not, the universe is reacting behind your back.
Therefore, make peace with your God.
Whatever you conceive Him to be, the Harry Ponderer or Count McMuffin.
With all its hopes, dreams, promises and urban renewal, the world continues to deteriorate.
Kick off.
Oh, I love you.
I love that you're beautiful.
To me, you're the best thing.
When you give me the time to do something, you're the best thing.
To me, you're the best thing.
I love that you're beautiful.
To me, you're the best thing.
I love that you're beautiful.
You're the best thing.
Well, Bill, did you give up?
Not at all.
Not even thinking of giving up.
The fight is only beginning.
Well, you heard it, ladies and gentlemen.
I can tell you that that's absolutely true.
This is one man who's made up his mind that he's not going to buckle in to apparent violations under color of law from a government agency of the federal government and in this specific instance the Federal Communications Commission.
The man, well I'll let him introduce himself and tell you what he's been doing and some of his background so that you'll know who you're talking to.
My name is Bill Dugan and I'm owner of Arizona's only Unlicensed, low-power FM radio station.
And I have absolutely no background in broadcasting at all, which is, I think, a plus, because I can't make all the mistakes the broadcasters have made.
I have this rather naive and sensational idea that the airwaves belong to the public, in this sense, for my station at least, and the people should be able to come forth and speak on the radio, uncensored, and that's what my station's all about.
Let's talk a little bit about your background.
My background, I've been in the graphic arts field for 20 years, offset printing, copying.
It has nothing to do with radio at all.
This is something that in my college years, I did a brief stint at a college radio station
and I spoke when I was a teenager.
I had a fancy with radio, but I decided I didn't want to live out of a suitcase all
my life.
I wanted to fix myself somewhere and have a house and have all the things that normal
people want to have.
I didn't want to work in Chicago today, New York City tomorrow.
I didn't want to be dependent upon ratings, which people in radio are.
So I opted out of a career in commercial broadcasting and went on my way for the last 20 years to
just work and be happy.
And then I kind of got back into the broadcasting.
The broadcasting issue itself is kind of a side to the major issue, and that is citizens claiming their rights under the Constitution, and that's what this whole battle is going to be about.
And the broadcasting aspect of the whole scene is just a vehicle for putting this claim forward.
But I'm definitely Dedicated to the radio station.
It's not something I'm going to give up tomorrow.
It's coming back on the air probably within 30 days.
And the fight against the federal government is just beginning.
Just beginning.
Well, what you just stated as your goal is certainly the goal of this radio station.
One of the things that I try to do is wake people up.
Let them know that they're sheeple instead of people.
Oh yeah.
Try to get them back on track.
Claim their rights.
Reclaim their status.
So that we can reclaim our country before we lose it.
And we're rapidly losing it.
Before our listeners get too confused.
You weren't broadcast.
You didn't have anything to do with radio.
And all of a sudden you decided to build a radio station.
All of a sudden I decided to build a radio station.
And dare I say this for fear that it be considered a commercial plug.
But it's literally the radio station that Radio Shack built.
Because I went to my neighborhood store.
And I bought everything I needed to build my own radio station in my backyard.
Well, one of the things we're going to talk about on the show is a mistake that you just made.
You said it might be a commercial plug.
Now, since you've been talking to me for the last few days, why is that a mistake?
Because the crux of this issue has to do with interstate and intrastate commerce and whether the federal government has the authority to regulate a wholly intrastate radio station.
Also previous to this, you and other people like you who dabble in radio and road power stations and things like that, call yourselves traditionally pirate radio, is that right?
I have shied away from the word pirate from the beginning because it definitely has a negative connotation and it is an uphill battle to fight this because in the news media reports on my station, the word pirate is the first thing that pops up and no matter what you do, To try to get them to abandon that term and go after low power FM broadcaster or even unlicensed broadcaster.
I have no problem with that.
They like the word pirate, the media does, because it's catchy.
But I've recently made a discovery about the word pirate and added the legal status of that word.
I've been labeled now a felon.
By everyone who has called me a pirate, and I think I'm going to have some fun with that.
Yes.
Under the Crown Law, which the legal system of this country is based upon, if you do not claim your right, you do not have that right, correct?
So, when you allow these media, newspapers, television, radio, whoever it is that's calling you a pirate radio station operator, when you allow them to do that, you are, in fact, by your passive consent under the law, that's what it's termed, passive consent, in other words, you did not object.
Right.
Therefore, by your passive consent, you're admitting that it's true under the law.
You have to go after these people and sue them for liable slander, whatever applies, because, in effect, they are stating in the newspaper to the community that you are a felon, a criminal under the law, by the use of the term pirate.
And every radio station operator or ham operator out there who uses the term pirate to describe himself or herself is, in effect, ...admitting under the law that they are criminals.
That's very interesting because just last week I had a gentleman call me from right here in Phoenix and he's interested in putting together some sort of a... I don't know exactly if it's a fundraiser or a media event of some sort.
He wasn't really clear for pirate radio broadcasters.
And I blew it out of the water!
I said, no way!
You're going to have to change the name or count me out.
Good.
Because those days are over.
I have to admit, I certainly don't know Not all the answers, but I'm learning at light speed.
Good.
Bill, when you decided to build your station, what did you do?
Well, the first thing I did was that I filed a declaration of intent to let everyone know what I was going to do and what my justification was for doing it.
It's a legal argument.
I didn't go into it in great detail, but I advanced it.
I got it out there.
I wanted everybody to know this station was going to be here, it was going to be on the air, because that was the whole point.
It was a drawing point for the community to come forward and, you know, speak on the radio.
A lot of these, I'll call them low power stations, they operate in the dark, covertly.
They're on an hour here, an hour there.
No one even knows they exist.
I think the majority of the people who engage in this sort of operation do it more for ego than anything else, because they certainly don't have any listeners, unless they actually call their listeners up and tell them they're on the radio.
I didn't operate that way.
I went with as much publicity as I could get.
You were regularly scheduled?
Regularly scheduled, six to roughly ten or eleven nights, six nights a week.
I even filed my declaration of intent with the Federal Communications Commission to let them know that here I am.
So, you sent this Declaration of Intent, not only to the FCC, but to the news media.
News media.
Have you sent it to any state agencies?
No, I don't think I sent it to any state agencies.
Mostly to the media, because I figured the way to get the most publicity would be to go with the media.
Too many state agencies, they would look at it and they wouldn't even know what you're talking about.
They would ignore it.
Because the state, like most people, is really, in some instances, a sheeple, and don't understand the interstate.
They don't know the difference between inter and intra.
Intrastate non-commerce broadcasting could fall under state control if state decided to exercise their 10th Amendment rights.
Correct.
And take control.
But as far as I know, there's no state agency in Arizona that regulates or licenses intrastate non-commercial or non-commerce, non-common carrier radios.
If there's an agency out there, it's very well hidden because I haven't been able to find it.
So, but the important thing is that you sent this declaration of intent to the FCC and you never heard a word from them.
Not a peep.
Not a peep.
Okay, so they did not reply.
And you actually went on the air for how long?
Five months.
Five months.
You were on the air.
No problems.
No problems.
As far as you know, there was no complaints from anybody.
The biggest problem in my mind was that the station was not, in my mind, it was not being as successful as I wanted.
I felt it was being ignored.
Right up until the very last day.
I got a little media coverage here and a little media coverage there, but there wasn't the outpouring of community support that I envisioned, which didn't really bother me.
Being driven by ego somewhat, I decided to keep on going, but then lo and behold, on one night, I mean, all hell broke loose.
So apparently people were listening out there somewhere.
Oh, somebody's always listening.
Someone's always listening, yes.
But the main point is, you broadcasted for five months.
You didn't get any complaints.
No.
As far as you know, nobody made any complaints.
No, and the important point to make here is, technically, there's no complaints that anyone can lodge, because I built this station as methodically as anyone was ever capable.
Because most Americans, you see, being sheeple, believe that the freedom of speech only applies to them.
And if you are not espousing the view that they particularly believe in, then they will complain and they will do everything to shut you down, not realizing that in doing that to you, they are also shutting themselves down.
But the important point is, at least for my argument with the Commission, is that I built this station very clean.
There was no technical interference to any other licensed radio station, and that is a crucial point in my argument.
I stepped on no one, so to speak.
I interfered with no other stations.
I did a frequency search.
I did my own engineering surveys, which kind of amazes a lot of people because there's this aura about radio out here that it's some sort of hallowed or sacred field that only these specialists know how to make it all work.
And it's a nuts and bolts operation, just like a gas station on the corner or a discount store.
You plug in all the parts.
And you fire it up.
There's no mystique there at all.
Anybody can do it if they just use the brains.
So what happened?
Well, along about the middle of March, I received a knock at the door.
And lo and behold, there were two agents from the Federal Communications Commission...
...who were trying to get a hold of him.
The agent was a young man named John.
John!
I'm so sorry, John. I'm so sorry.
And when you opened the door, what happened?
Well, it's just like you see on television.
Here's these two goons in their $300 suits waving their official-looking badges and announcing that they're from the Federal Communications Commission.
And they wanted to talk to me about my radio station.
And the door was slammed in their face.
And the radio station kept right on broadcasting.
Well, that's not what most people do.
I mean, why did you close the door in their face?
Because they had no authority to even be on my property, let alone to demand the inspection of my radio station.
Did they have a warrant?
They had nothing.
I didn't even get a business card.
Nothing.
So they were Federal Communications Commission agents?
So they said.
Who wanted to inspect your radio station, and so they said they didn't show any identification?
Other than this badge, which in the night, in the nighttime hours, could be anything.
Well, of course.
You can go down to Spy Headquarters and buy one of those badges there.
They're obligated to identify themselves and state jurisdiction and state the law that gives them authority.
Did they do that?
They said the CSRs.
They said the CFRs contain their authority to regulate my radio station.
They said, and the person who said this was Mr. John Glenn, who is a field agent from the Douglas, Arizona office of the Federal Communications Commission.
He said, we own the radio airwaves.
All of them.
He said, we own, he used those words, we own the radio airwaves?
He did.
All of them.
And I said, cite the authority for this.
He said, it's in the CFRs, and that's as far as he went with it.
Well, Mr. Glenn, I will tell you on the air, on this broadcast, that you do not own the airwaves.
You are a servant of the people who fall under your jurisdiction, and in fact, under the SEC regulations, the ones that we looked at, you don't have the authority to coerce anyone into doing anything.
And in this country, you have no right to enter anyone's private premises without a warrant.
I mean, that's in the Constitution.
You can request, but you don't have a right.
And you don't own The airways.
You don't own anything except what you paid for with your fraudulent Federal Reserve notes and have at your house.
And statements like that by public service really, really upset me.
I knew it was important not to let these people into the radio station or into my dwelling because if I did that I would have been conferring authority upon them to regulate my radio station.
And this is where most of these Again, they use the word pirate.
If they want to call themselves pirates, let them call themselves pirates.
That's where most of these tinker toy broadcasters screw up, is they invite the FCC in like they think the FCC is really going to be impressed.
I don't know what these people were thinking, but they let them in.
Maybe it's that knock at the door, and it's the intimidation factor.
Well, it's really the sheeple factor.
The sheeple factor.
Most people in their whole life have never had an original thought.
Yes.
They don't understand what's going on, and they're intimidated by the slightest show of authority.
In fact, these men from the FCC were working under what's called the color of law.
And for my listeners, let me explain to you what that means.
We all know that a police officer in most cities wears a blue uniform, and on that blue uniform usually has a badge, usually has on the sleeve what police department he belongs to, and maybe some other accoutrements of the trade of being a police officer.
And we need police officers, because sometimes people don't do what they're supposed to do and hurt other people.
But suppose a man came to your door, dressed in a blue shirt and blue pants, and told you That you had to come with him because he was a police officer.
Now that's what you call operating under the color of law.
The man was not a police officer.
He just wore a blue shirt and blue pants and he told you he was a police officer.
That's the color of law.
Usually when you see someone wearing a uniform like that, you automatically think police officer.
When a man walks up wearing a suit and shows you a badge and says, I'm from the FCC, but shows you no further credentials, doesn't give you the opportunity to check out his credentials, Uh, and, uh, tries to make you do something, uh, which is illegal under the law, which he has no authority to do.
That is operating under the color of law.
Uh, now, I know that you've been doing some research.
Before you even talked to me, and then after you talked to me, you began looking into other areas and doing more research.
What did you find out about the actual jurisdiction of the FCC in your case?
Well, there are two sections of the Communications Act of 1934, which is found in the United States Code, Chapter 47, I believe.
There's two sections in there that are crucial to my argument, and the Commission, as far as I know, has never quoted one of the sections.
The other section, they cite it, but they never quote it.
And I think it's because if they actually quoted it, any reasonably intelligent person would look at this and just roll over laughing, saying, well, you know, they're blowing smoke.
But they are sections 151 and 152.
And section 151 defines the powers and the purpose of the Federal Communications Commission, and that is to regulate interstate and foreign radio transmissions for the purpose of... Oh.
Interstate commerce.
Interstate commerce.
I didn't see where you were going.
It basically states within the law that they are to regulate common carriers.
Common carriers, right.
But the other section that they don't ever quote is section 152, which I think is 152B,
which very explicitly says that the Federal Communications Commission has no authority
at all to regulate wholly interstate radio communications.
In fact, that domain is left to the individual states.
That's correct.
I didn't see where you were going a minute ago, but that's true, because it validates my argument even further, and strangely enough, the Commission strives to use the same argument, and I don't see where they're going with it, but there have been court decisions which say that radio broadcast licensing is commerce.
So there we immediately have interstate and interstate commerce, and the only instances when a federal government Uh, agency can regulate interstate commerce is when that interstate commerce has a significant and adverse impact on interstate commerce.
Now, distilling that all down to what it means and how it affects my radio station, if my radio station were affecting any license, any federally licensed broadcast operation, then the commission would have jurisdiction.
But in my case, they can't make that claim, because my station interferes with nothing.
Where do you live in the state of Arizona?
Where's your studio?
Phoenix, Arizona.
North Phoenix.
And what is the broadcast range of your... Well, I run a half watt into a gain antenna, which gives me one and a half watts in one direction, and I'm still pushing half watts the other three directions.
Gives me a total coverage area two and a half to four miles.
Who puts the bang in the bottle?
A Barbecue Gala!
That's who!
Who puts the wow and the how?
It's the Barbecue Gala!
it's true.
Well folks, you just heard just a little bit of that broadcast.
I mean, that was a long broadcast, and I just played a little bit of it so that you could see what was going on.
Bill Dugan actually was going to attack the FCC in court on the grounds of freedom of speech.
And somebody down in Phoenix, I don't know who it was, told him to call me before he did that.
And he did.
This is when I lived.
I don't remember where I lived.
I think it was Camp Verde or someplace else.
Anyway, not here.
And I did not have a low power FM station at that time.
And I still don't.
It's owned and operated by our charitable trust.
Actually, our children's charitable trust.
And Bill Dugan found our number and called us, called me, and told me his problem.
And I told him, no, don't you dare go against the federal government on the freedom of speech issue because that's not the issue.
You see, Congress really does have the power to regulate interstate and foreign commerce in broadcasting.
They do have some powers and freedom of speech has absolutely nothing to do with it.
You want to attack them on a constitutional issue that they have no jurisdiction over intrastate broadcasting, whether it's commercial or not.
They only have power over intrastate and foreign commerce in broadcasting.
If you're intrastate completely and you're engaged in commerce, that's fine.
If you're interstate or foreign but not engaged in commerce, that's foreign too.
But it is not okay to be interstate and foreign and commercial if you are not licensed.
That is a no-no.
A big no-no.
Well, his broadcast didn't even go three miles from Phoenix.
That's nowhere near any borders.
Near anything as a matter of fact.
And so I asked him to come up and he took a couple of days and came up and spent the night with us and we went over the constitutional issues and the law and the United States Code and the regulations and when he left he was well versed and just before he left is when we did the broadcast and he was well versed in the real points of the law and he went back down there and gave the FCC some really bad big headaches and he did eventually go back on the air. I don't know how long he
stayed on the air after that.
Or if he's still on the air or not. He may still be on the air down there in Phoenix as far as I know.
Because I haven't kept track of him after he went back on the air.
I never communicated with him and he never called me again.
So, I don't know what's happened.
But I do know that we aired this broadcast and I repeated this broadcast at least once or twice a year since 1992.
And I've discussed the issue of jurisdiction, read the Constitution on the air.
We have interviewed everybody and their brother, Lowell Becraft, who is a very well-known and very good attorney.
After some of us had found a study done in the 1950s that was ordered by President Eisenhower, To determine exactly what jurisdiction the federal government had within the states, and they published this big, giant, two-volume set, and we let it be known that this thing existed, well, Lowell Becraft began to research to find out what's this all about, and he confirmed it.
Well, first the United States government proved it in their own study, and then Lowell Becraft confirmed that proof with his own study, and there is No doubt whatsoever about any of it.
The federal government literally is limited in jurisdiction to the Federal District of Columbia, insular possessions, territories, dockyards, ports, land that they have purchased within the states whereupon jurisdiction has been ceded by that state legislature to the federal government.
And nowhere else, literally folks, nowhere else, except in areas that involve Interstate or foreign commerce.
That's it.
Period.
They have some authority over piracy on the high seas.
They have authority over counterfeiting and just some other things that really do not affect people within the states.
On a day-to-day basis, you have absolutely nothing to do with the federal government.
They have nothing to do with you.
And as far as the income tax goes, it's forbidden for the federal government to lay a direct tax upon the people within the states regardless of what you think the 16th Amendment says.
The Supreme Court has ruled that the 16th Amendment did not give Congress any new powers to tax, and ruled that the income tax is in fact an excise tax that can only be levied upon certain excisable activities, the income from which is the measurement of the tax that has to be levied.
Most people are not liable in their wildest dreams.
To file or pay the federal income tax.
And the Form 1040, ladies and gentlemen, if you do the proper research, you'll find that it's for offshore income only.
That's right!
You know, I just have to die laughing when some ignorant boob calls me a criminal because I've done the research and know what the law says.
And they can't even tell me the law that requires them to file and pay income tax, and they do it every April the 15th, right on schedule, without fail.
Sheeple.
Bah!
Not just sheeple.
Stupid sheeple.
Because once you've been told, and you have an opportunity to go and do the research, and not have to do it, and you're still doing it, you cease being a sheeple, and you start being a stupid sheeple.
You've gone over the rim.
Same with broadcasting.
When I first went on the air with this broadcast station, the owner of the local radio stations called me up and he said he was going to have me thrown in jail for the rest of my life and find, I don't know how many thousands of dollars, he named some big giant figure.
And I told him, I asked him why.
He said, because you're not licensed by the FCC.
I said, I don't have to be licensed by the FCC.
I'm a low power, FM, non-commercial, Intrastate Broadcasting Station.
I do not even come under their authority.
By their own regulations and rules.
By the law.
What he was really upset about, folks, is that once I went on the air with this station, he began to lose listeners because he was foisting his own taste in broadcasting upon the community rather than giving them a wide range to choose from or finding out what the community wanted to hear and giving it to them.
Well, I found out what they wanted to hear.
And I gave it to them.
And so they deserted listening to his station in droves.
And we have a huge, tremendous listening audience here who really love this station here in the Round Valley.
And it's just absolutely an incredible thing that people don't understand the law.
That they don't even know where to begin to look.
That they think the Constitution is an outdated old document that doesn't apply anymore.
And it is the foundation of our government.
It is the supreme law of the land.
It is what protects them against tyranny.
And they're afraid to even read it because they think it's too long to read or they can't understand it or something like that.
Think of that, folks.
Written by men back in the 1700s and people who live now in 1998 think that they probably can't understand it if they read it.
That's incredible.
Good news!
Today I received an email from Monty Butterfield of Radio Free Vermont.
And you have to know the story here.
You see, back in September, on the 28th to be exact, Victor J. Tagliaferro of the Federal Communications Commission Compliance and Information Bureau visited Radio Free Vermont to take signal strength measurements.
Mr. Tagliaferro was informed by Monty Butterfield that he was outside of his jurisdiction and that he was not to come onto the property, which he respected because he knew he didn't have the jurisdiction there, didn't have the right.
But he took measurements from public property and noted Radio Free Vermont at 200 millivolts per meter.
He was informed that Radio Free Vermont did not cross state lines and therefore was not under the jurisdiction of the FCC.
And Monty was expecting a notice from the FCC about the visit and the signal strength test.
Which he was fully prepared to contest on jurisdictional grounds.
The FCC has no interstate commerce jurisdiction.
The FCC's jurisdiction is limited to interstate and foreign commerce only.
Radio-free Vermont does not cross state lines, does not interfere with airplanes and marine vessels under federal jurisdiction, or any commercial broadcasting station.
And so Monty didn't wait.
He mounted an opposition right away.
He mounted a lawful Written challenge to the jurisdiction of the FCC, delivered it to the FCC and gave them a time limit in which to answer.
And they didn't.
They can't respond to a jurisdictional challenge because they have no jurisdiction.
That's why they didn't answer.
And so here's what Monty's email was to me today.
That's a great victory.
So today I have received the Certified Return Receipt, let me give you the number of the Return Receipt, for the Notice of Default Cease and Desist Order signed for at the Federal Communications Commission's New England District Office at 1 Battery March Park in Quincy, Massachusetts, Postal Code 02169-7495, which was signed for by Christine Del Vecchio.
It is now official the Federal Communications Commission has defaulted on challenge of its jurisdiction over Radio Free Vermont and has been ordered to immediately cease and desist.
Any further action by the FCC can and will be prosecuted under Title 18 and other applicable title of United States Code and Vermont statutes annotated as criminal actions.
Copies of the Notice of Default in order to cease and desist have been mailed to Senator Jeffords, Senator Leahy, Representative Sanders, Senate Judiciary Committee, House Committee on Commerce, Vermont State Police, Vermont Public Service Board, Rutland County Sheriff's Department, and the Rutland County Clerk's Office, and is being recorded at the Town of Rutland.
In the next few days, time allowing, I will begin to post the documents and other materials to our website, as well as news of the default.
Mr. Cooper, I promised you the scoop.
It's yours.
Very warmest and best regards, Monty James Butterfield, Radio Free Vermont, 96.5 FM, in the great state of Vermont.
When he was discussing this with the clerks in the post office, there was a couple of FBI agents in the post office and they gave him a high five on his victory.
You see folks, they know You don't know.
They respect you if you know and you can adequately and properly challenge them in the law and win.
If not, they will walk all over you, they will trample you in the dust, they will imprison you, and on many occasions, they will even kill you.
Because you're ignorant.
And that's the truth.
Not only that, but here is a newspaper article from the Daily Telegram.
Lenawee, Michigan, August 13, 1998.
When it happened, I covered that story on this broadcast, but many of you may not know it, because we were on WRMI, and many of you could not hear this broadcast then.
FCC beaten in court by unlicensed radio station.
Daily Telegram.
Lenawee, Michigan, August 13, 1998.
By Paul Wetter, staff writer.
Radio broadcasts continue at Radio Free Lenawee after a federal judge in United States District Court in Detroit threw out a government request to shut down the station.
United States District Court Judge Julian Abel Cook, Jr.
dismissed the government's complaint against Reverend Rick Strawcutter.
The Federal Communications Commission, saying the low-power station is illegal, sought confiscation of his broadcasting equipment by the Federal Communications Commission.
It appears to be a victory for us, said Strawcutter's attorney, Patrick M. Edwards of Detroit.
We're very satisfied with the judge's opinion."
Strawcutter said.
Edwards was quick to note that while the case was dismissed, the larger meaning of the opinion needs to be examined.
It has more or less left the situation in a state of flux, Edwards said.
It's not clear what parts of the opinion means.
The federal prosecutor in the case has indicated she will appeal the decision to the United States Court of Appeals in the Sixth Circuit, Edwards said.
The FCC had no comment on the opinion.
I think it's safe to say they were not very happy with the results, Edwards said.
To attempt to get the radio station off the air, the FCC will likely seek an injunction.
But a jurisdictional question must be resolved first, Edwards said.
We want to get to the First Amendment question that the FCC is violating First Amendment rights of micro-broadcasters by refusing to issue licenses to them, Edwards said.
The FCC is doing everything they can to avoid that issue.
On June 16th, a U.S.
District Court judge in California upheld the licensing authority of the FCC and issued an injunction against unlicensed broadcaster Stephen Dunifer that silenced Radio Free Berkeley.
According to court documents, Dunifer argued that the Commission's rules for obtaining a license were unconstitutional and violated his First Amendment rights.
The court rejected the claims.
That's why, folks, I told you that's the wrong argument.
The right argument is jurisdictional and you cannot lose if you present it in the proper manner, using the proper law.
On June 25th, a United States District Court judge in North Dakota rejected constitutional arguments and objections to the FCC's handling of licensing procedures by an unlicensed micro-broadcaster.
In making the decision, the judge cited the Dunifer case as a precedent Edwards said the Dunifer case did not directly take on the First Amendment issue.
We feel confident that if we get to the First Amendment question, we will win, Edwards said.
In the meantime, Strawcutter said he will keep the 95-watt FM station on the air while the legal process continues.
He remains optimistic about his case.
The judge refused to order us off the air and we're encouraged by that, Strawcutter said.
His argument was on jurisdictional issues.
Mark Allen of North Valley Radio 105.1 tells Radio Free Vermont News that he spoke to Strawcutter who claims that the judge said some interesting things along the lines of the government's arguments being without merit and amounting to nothing but smoke and mirrors.
The federal district judge is a former NAACP attorney and he is retired.
Strawcutter's attorney, an atheist by claim, says Strawcutter's God was looking out for him.
The case went to the best judge it possibly could.
The judge is known not to be a rubber stamp for the government.
And since he's retiring, he's got no apple to polish, he knows the check is going to be there anyway.
So that's two recent victories, ladies and gentlemen.
And if you stick to the jurisdictional issue, and if you are operating your radio station, low power, and in the proper manner, and are not engaged in interstate or foreign commerce, You will be okay in the long run if you stick to the real law.
Remember, ladies and gentlemen, the Constitution gives the government the right for interstate and foreign commerce, but does not give them any authority whatsoever over intrastate broadcasting, whether you are engaged in commerce or not.
And for an even bigger revelation, look up the definition of state, United States, etc.
You'll be amazed at what you will find.
And make sure it's the legal definition, not Webster's Collegiate Dictionary.
Good night, folks, and God bless each and every, every, every single one of you.
Listen to the radio.
Love is on the air tonight.
And it's on the coast, the coast, look out.
Love is everywhere tonight.
If I ever let you go, the F will come.
We'll be eight stations to the left in this truck.
We'll have a song coming through.
And don't let your step-mother raise your step-wife until there are words for you.
You, have a dream for her,
make her song, you're not a pure-ow-ee.
I knew my song like things were...
I suppose she likes Rudy fine.
It's true!
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