Friday, April 23, 2004
Jeb Bush's State Hangs Pirates : Florida makes operating a pirate radio station a 3rd degree felony. So much for the airwaves being owned by the people. They cloaked it in some nonsense about pirate stations interfering with emrgency broadcasts. It makes me want to puke. Then I got to this great quote. "'They regulate the radio business for a reason,' said Sen. Victor Crist, R-Tampa. 'In the old days, they didn't just hang the captain of the pirate ship. They hang the whole crew.'" Crist was talking about charging the jocks who work at the stations in addition to the owners of the equipment.
