Best wishes are great,... We still need funds and equipment (see the wishlist) but best wishes and encouragement and suggestions and resolutions in support of FRSC and all are great too. I feel like I have already posted this message, but thanks again.

As for the earlier topic and exchange, thanks to pathetic for reminding all of us that sometimes what we write isn't taken as intended--as sarcasm tends to read a bit differently without the nudge and funny face that accompany it face-to-face. All of us in radio land are used to that, I suppose, but not necessarily when we sit down to write.

Anyways, yes, FRSC has flown "boldly in the face of the law" and gotten burned, I suppose. The important question might be why we *all* aren't flying in the face of the law these days. Yes, FRSC has taken a confrontational stance against the FCC. We've harassed them at localism hearings, put Michael Powell's picture online 'wearing' one of our Tshirts, printed schedules that say "FUCK THE FCC" on them, had a flashing graphic on our webpage that says "proving FCC incompetence 24/7," etc. etc. Well, the question many ask is, then, did we *want* to get raided?

This raid has only made us better known, brought supporters out of every corner of the world, pissed off a bunch of otherwise middle of the roaders, made revolutionaries out of the radicals and radicalized the progressives.
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So then maybe the question is which is better: to hide your pirate station so well they'll NEVER find you (and neither will any listeners)? To be a fence rider and be a spineless-democrat waffler, changing format and rules and procedures and process depending on the ever shifting rules and norms of social acceptability? Or should we decide as a collective to BE A LEGITIMATE STATION and damn the institutions that tell us we're not?

We are journalists, we are broadcasters, we are reporters just as other radio personalities. more so in fact because we are volunteers who are dedicated to risking a great deal to get this message out while so-called "real" journalists are out there getting paid to regurgitate bullshit. Oh sorry, apparently we aren't legitimate if we use language that has been deemed inappropriate by the very same assholes we're talking about fighting...
There's that sarcasm again (the one that doesn't come out right on indymedia).
I read some corporate media today. Let's take a look: Sunday October 3rd front page of the San Jose Mercury News. (front page on saturday was about teeth bleach)
Arnold is a centrist "green republican." From the Page 2 summary: Chow-Yun Fat prefers China to the US. Here's a sunny headline: "Mexico's industrial manufacturing sector is back and thriving, with hundreds of export assembly plants on the border with Texas." Under "State, Nation, and World" on page three we read that Amy Fisher (yes, *that* Amy Fisher) has a new book out. "National News In Brief" tells each and every reader that the FBI is working hard to make sure that Tempe Arizona will be a safe place for the next pResidential debate, by "contacting as many people as possible, not just Muslims." My favorite example of crappy corporate writing comes on page 8A under, "Campaign in Brief." I can't wait to tell you about it: "Edwards beginning to use tough talk" says that John Edwards is "the democratic candidate known for tossing bouquets instead of barbs. The sunny senator who won over voters with personality and positivity is throwing punches now."
watch out.
I especially like the alliteration. Additionally, we learn from an AP article that Bruce Springsteen believes that seeking truth is patriotic, "he told fans after endorsing Kerry, a democrat." Really? Kerry is a democrat? I had gotten him mixed up with Republicans before, but this informative corporate media story cleared it all up for me.

Oh but I'm not even done. "Palestinians lament infitada" is my favorite slanted headline of the day. There's an informative paragraph on the same page (15A) that says that three allies of Aristide "surrendered to police Saturday after barricading themselves in a radio station for six hours, denying involvment in clashes that have killed at least 14 people... A judge involved in the case said they were detained on weapons charges." Hmmm. me thinks there is more to the story. No mention of how weapons violations could be a possible reason to pursue someone who is barricaded indoors? Is is my own cognitive dissonance (or perhaps lack of imagination?) that makes it seem highly unlikely that the Senate president had a weapons warrant served to him and then barricaded himself in a radio station? It seems to me that the weapons charge is phony to me, as any weapons infraction is likely to have been committed post hostility... but hey, what do I know? Well, thanks to the Mercury News, I know that Maria Schriver has been "Declared Chief Everything Officer (CEO) by AOL" (timelifewarnerturner) because she's such a "general whirlwind of energy." In fact, thanks to the glowing Schwarzenegger-friendly page 21A ('Capitol Beat'), I hear that the groper's 'smoking tent' isn't at fault in the $912,000 flood damage to the capitol. Other glowing praise of the groper: "Showing again he's not afraid to reverse himself, [arnie] signs a bill restoring $... vetoed from the July budget" Well, he is the Veto-Minator, according to the Mercury-News.
Okay, now I'm done.

What I meant to say is, we'll be on the air soon. Stay tuned www.freakradio.org. Thanks.