Dear Friends,
I keep hearing about the “Fairness Doctrine.” It has been explained to me as being a law regulating what can be said on the airwaves, by the government, to insure ‘fairness’.
Seems to me that this is a natural evolution of the constitution given the course that we have been on for a hundred years or so. That is, the Constitution is evolving; from a document that protected the people from the government, to a document that protects the government from the people.
Seen in this light the ‘Fairness Doctrine’ is only another step down the road to this inevitable evolution. The government would of course be the judge of what is fair. The government would have to set up some form of censor. This agency would have to listen and look for anything that the government deemed unfair. Then would force the offender, under penalty of prison and confiscation of property, real and chattel, to air the opposite view… to be fair. The government would then determine whether the rejoinder was indeed ‘fair’ and whether further sanctions would be necessary.
No need to worry about the foolish First Amendment to the Constitution. It only protects the rights of government to say what it deems is in the public interest. Just like the Second Amendment protects the right of Government to “keep and bear arms.” Not the people, remember, the Constitution is a “Living breathing document.”
Who could be more ‘fair’ than the government to decide what we can or cannot say without a firm rejoinder or perhaps penalty. Governments have always protected the rights of the people, especially when the government also controlled the dissemination of information. That is why the government now says the Constitution is to protect itself from us. We are a threat to government.
Kidding aside, if you still believe that we need a ‘Fairness Doctrine’, you must also believe in this line of reasoning…
Remember, beware the power and precedent you give to government, or a branch thereof, no matter how much you agree with what is being done in your name today, you may not tomorrow…to your horror.
