[... oh, ya gotta love it ... the following is lifted entire from page 12 of the
Low Cost Wireless Network How-To - Fear ...]
Excerpt from the
Bill of Rights, Amendment I:
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press..."
Please observe that this does not contain any exceptions along the lines of "
except when certain influential industry groups want to preserve their ability to plunder a public resource such as the RF spectrum for their own profit."
Article 19 of the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights:
"Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers."
Please observe that this does not contain any exceptions along the lines of "
except when the amount of spectrum allocated to public communication has been arbitrarily limited in order to keep individuals and small groups from using it."
16 Am Jur 2d, Sec 177 late 2d, Sec 256:
"The general rule is that an unconstitutional statute, though having the form and name of law, is in reality no law, but is wholly void, and ineffective for any purpose; since unconstitutionality dates from the time of it's enactment, and not merely from the date of the decision so branding it... No one is bound to obey an unconstitutional law, and no courts are bound to enforce it."
Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged:
"There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible to live without breaking laws."
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