FCC proposing news monitoring–some call this a ‘Big Brother-ish’ tactic
Ukrainian poster (Борис У.)
A reader of this page sent a link to the following report:
FOX News – Feb 20, 2014What on earth is the FCC thinking?
The last thing we need is the government mucking around with news content.
The title of this Big Brother-ish effort by the Federal Communications Commission sounds innocuous enough: “Multi-Market Study of Critical Information Needs.” But it’s a Trojan horse that puts federal officials in the newsroom, precisely where they shouldn’t be.
Don’t take my word for it. The FCC says it wants to examine “the process by which stories are selected,” as well as “perceived station bias” and “perceived responsiveness to underserved populations.”
Perceived station bias? Are you kidding me? Government bureaucrats are going to decide whether a newsroom is being fair? …
The FCC should keep its alternative approaches to itself, as even the posing of these questions carries an intimidation factor. The government has no business meddling in how journalism is practiced. And if George W. Bush’s FCC had tried this, it would be a front-page story. http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/02/20/why-fcc-should-keep-its-nose-out-tv-newsrooms/
Apparently many in the FCC (Federal Communications Commission) do not believe or understand the Constitution of the USA. But then again, other USA government leaders and judges do not seem to do so any more either. Just to refresh the memory of various ones, notice the first, fourth, and tenth amendments to the US Constitution:
1. 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; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
4. The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
10. The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
Having the government getting involved in news content decisions is opposed to the US Constitution. Plus, there is the ‘intimidation’ factor (which also should be protected against and that seems implied also in the third amendment).
Here at COGwriter, I normally do not consult with anyone about what stories to cover. Factors that I use to decide include general relevance, how much I have recently covered the topic, suspected interest to the audience, providing ‘meat in due season,’ Matthew 24:14, etc. Since I do not hold meetings about this, and some posts are made within minutes of seeing a news item (whereas others take hours to write and/or research), if the FCC were to be with me, they would not see how I decided what to post.
That being said, it certainly appears that the USA government is trying to monitor all the communications it possibly can.
Last month, a different reader of this page that sent me a link to another ‘Big Brother’ article wrote the following:
Big Brother is watching – maybe YOU!
Is this an indicator that the “first beast” is about to come on the scene?
My response was:
I have done many posts and even one or two YouTube videos related to this. I believe this is setting the stage for the Beast.
How is this setting the stage for the Beast?
First, what the NSA and FCC have tried to do shows that the type of surveillance that the Bible warned about nearly 2,000 years (Revelation 13:15-18), ago now exists.
Furthermore, all of this related to the NSA has outraged Europe and seriously destroyed continental European trust in the USA (the UK has been working with the USA on much of this and the continental Europeans are outraged about this too). Many Europeans believe this espionage shows that not only does the USA not trust them, that the USA has been misleading them in the war on terror in order to further spy on them.
Various ones in Europe now believe that the USA has been using illegal and unfair surveillance to give the USA economic advantages over Europe.
Basically, because of getting caught with all of this, the USA has already agreed to share its intelligence gathering information with the Germans and other Europeans. The Europeans did not know a lot of this and they are now getting more and more filled in about it and how to do it themselves.
The upcoming Beast power will soon have what it needs to fulfill various prophecies such as the following:
15 He was granted power to give breath to the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak and cause as many as would not worship the image of the beast to be killed. 16 He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, 17 and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man: His number is 666. (Revelation 13:15-18, NKJV)
23 ‘And in the latter end of their kingdom, about the perfecting of the transgressors, stand up doth a king, fierce of face, and understanding hidden things; (Daniel 8:23, Young’s Literal Translation)
It would seem to take computers and other technology to aid in the fulfillment of the above scriptures, as well as various forms cyber-spying/monitoring. And that is something that the USA has been engaged in and that technology is being shared now with the Europeans.
The actual and intended monitoring by government entities in the USA, combined with its accelerating moral decline, does not bode well for the USA, which badly needs national repentance. It also does not bode well for the world as the USA is helping set the stage for the rise of the final European Beast power.
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