Posted on The Washington Times-By By Seton Motley, The Washington Times-On June 17, 2011:
“June 21 marks the six-month anniversary of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) illegally imposing itself on the World Wide Web in order to assert patently absurd “net neutrality” rules.
A half-year later, the FCC still has not filed the order with the Federal Register, which is where all new rules and regulations must go to begin their imposition.
What’s the holdup? There are several possibilities, some or all of which may be why the FCC is so thoroughly slow-playing it. (Please note that it took the FCC less than a month - April 7 to May 6 - to file its wireless data-roaming seizure - so it can get things done when it wants to.)
One possibility for the delay: Two wireless providers - Verizon and Metro PCS - had filed suit to undo FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski’s net neutrality order. Verizon had sought relief in the same U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit that unanimously ruled in April 2010 that the FCC has no net neutrality authority.
The court dismissed the suit, saying the company couldn’t contest the rules until the agency published them. But the court’s docket is moving along and the clock ticking. The longer the chairman drags his feet on the net neutrality order, the less likely it becomes that the court will be able to hear the case. By stalling, the chairman is callously venue-shopping - and ducking a court in which he knows he most likely will lose.
This demonstrates just how proud the FCC must be of the shabby lawyering - and linguistic and intellectual contortions - it has executed to try to re-concoct justification for its second unjustifiable and illegal Internet power grab.
If the FCC thought it had found a newer and better way to assert its alleged authority than the one summarily dismissed last year - authority that Mr. Genachowski admits he doesn’t have - the commission wouldn’t be attempting to duck the court that last time told it to take a flying leap.
The FCC’s newest official excuse for the delay is that it is going through the process of complying with the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA). That pretext was proffered on Wednesday at the National Cable and Telecommunications Association’s Cable Show by FCC General Counsel Austin Schlick.
There’s at least one huge problem with this assertion: The FCC - and every federal department, agency and commission - is supposed to comply with the PRA before it votes to impose a new order, not after. To do so afterward defeats the point of the law.
The intent of the PRA is to minimize the paperwork burden for individuals; small businesses; educational and nonprofit institutions; federal contractors; and state, local and tribal governments; and to prevent the government from imposing new rules and regulations without the feds first executing a thorough assessment of just how much damage to the private sector the rules and regulations would do.
The act states: “With respect to the collection of information and the control of paperwork, each agency shall … assess the information collection burden of proposed legislation affecting the agency … for any proposed collection of information contained in a proposed rule (to be reviewed by the Director under section 3507(d)), provide notice and comment through the notice of proposed rule-making for the proposed rule. … (VISec. 3506. Federal agency responsibilities subsection 4B c2).
In one sentence, the word “proposed” - not “passed” - is used four times with respect to the rule being examined. That only makes sense. It doesn’t help to glean this information if you’ve already voted on the rule.
What if the government votes on an order and then comes to find that it dramatically damages the industry upon which the agency already has dropped the hammer?
Net neutrality is just such an order. A June 2010 New York Law School study found that reclassification of the Internet as a telecom service and subsequent imposition of net neutrality rules would cost the economy at least $62 billion annually over the next five years and eliminate 502,000 jobs. What the FCC ultimately thrust upon us was Internet reclassification and net neutrality in all but name, so these numbers most likely will prove painfully accurate. That’s fantastic news for the economy.
The FCC already has imposed its net neutrality power grab - will it now unimpose it?
Does the federal leviathan ever cede power it has obtained, especially when obtained - as with net neutrality - by hook or by crook?
Umm, no.
- Seton Motley is president of Less Government and the editor-in-chief of StopNetRegulation.org, a publication of the Center for Individual Freedom.”
Source:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/jun/17/fcc-quacks-duck-court-showdown/
Note: The following articles and/or blog posts and video relate to this disturbing issue-You Decide:
I. FCC Commissioner Talks of FCC's Governance of Internet's 'On/Off Ramps'!-Posted on CNSNews.com-By Nicholas Ballasy-On June 13, 2011:
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/fcc-wants-regulate-internets-onoff-ramps
II. Could the Net be killing the planet one web search at a time?-Posted on The Vancouver Sun-By Alex Roslin, For Postmedia News-On June 3, 2011:
http://www.vancouversun.com/business/Could%20killing%20planet%20search%20time/4891461/story.html
III. Organization with Socialist Ties Driving “Net Neutrality” Agenda Inside FCC!-Posted on Judicial Watch-June 2011:
IV. Video: TIME Magazine Asks: ‘Does the Constitution Still Matter?’-Posted on PatriotPost.US-On June 24, 2011:
http://patriotpost.us/perspective/2011/06/24/time-magazine-asks-does-the-constitution-still-matter/
V. George Soros assault on U.S. Constitution: ‘White House officials involved in rewriting nation’s founding document’!-Posted on WND.com-By Aaron Klein-On March 27, 2011:
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=280277
Note: My following blog posts contain numerous articles and/or blog posts and videos that relate to this disturbing issue-You Decide:
The FCC Should Not Interfere With The Internet!
http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/01/13/the-fcc-should-not-interfere-with-the-internet/
Is it important to understand the Marxist assault on the foundations of our system?
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Comments
February 2009 was the deadline for the FCC and the Communications Companys of America to mandate HDTV for all users of Television Nation wide.
The Prowess and excuse given for reasoning was that the US Armed Services needed these airways of UHF / VHF as needful emergency and National Security stations in all event concerning America and the United States as a whole.
Now, for them (FCC) to ascert extreme predjudice against its own people twice in less than 3 years upon the communications of the American Rights of Passage and Privilege to curtail and eventually stop any and all communications from our venues of speaking to one another, all because they are all butt hurt over the idiom of the US Postal Service being dropped from their alleged Retirement funds is against our Constitutional Rights and Privileges as per the Preamble statements and promises.
It violates our rights to Free Speech. Violates and dogs our rights as a Free Society to communicate our thoughts and feelings, suspicions and horrors of and over what our country and its leaders are saying, doing, and effectually performing against our American Right, et al.
It is more than just a matter of FCC -vs- America, its more than a simple slap on the wrist of those empowered to run and control the entity known as the WorldWideWeb and all Internet Providers (ISP's), no dear friends, this is an ALL OUT FRONTAL ASSAULT against ALL our Freedoms. They get this passed and made Law, and we kiss our,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,good bye!
Always in Christ, Always American
Max Simon Uhrig 3
San Tan Valley, AZ