There's a way to bring Far-Right broadcasters to heel, but it will take an enormous will of the people. Just as the Sherman Anti-Trust Act has laid dormant for so long since Reagan, it's questionable whether this path will ever be taken. I put forth for your consideration 18 US Code section 1038, False Information and Hoaxes. (B) if seri…
There's a way to bring Far-Right broadcasters to heel, but it will take an enormous will of the people. Just as the Sherman Anti-Trust Act has laid dormant for so long since Reagan, it's questionable whether this path will ever be taken. I put forth for your consideration 18 US Code section 1038, False Information and Hoaxes. (B) if serious bodily injury results, be fined under this title and imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both; and (C) if death results, be fined under this title or imprisoned for any number of years up to life or both. It is now estimated that over 1,000,000 Americans have died from COVID-19 since January 2020. Even now about 1/3 of our citizens haven't yet taken Vaccines because of distorted or false information from the Far-Right or the internet. Part of the problem here is how can your prove someone deliberately didn't take the Vaccine because of the propaganda? In an Article published in the Business Insider by Kelly McLaughlin on Sep. 24, 2021 "AT LEAST 7 CONSERVATIVE RADIO HOSTS AND ANTI-MASK ADVOCATES HAVE DIED FROM COVID-19 AFTER BASHING THE VACCINES." Ms McLaughlin lays out how these seven broadcasters were some of the most rabid anti-vaccine proponents in the country. Some unbelieving onto their last breath. I propose a class action suite naming these individuals; Dick Farrel, Phil Valentine, Marc Bernier, Bob Enyart, Robert David Steele, Caleb Wallace and Pressley Stetts and/or their families and anyone whose family could show a similar situation who wishes to join in, to sue Fox News and each member of the Rupert Murdoch family who is involved in the broadcasting of Fox News and every news presenter where there is audio or video tape evidence of them making claims that would be considered FALSE INFORMATION or a HOAX. Considering the enormity of the results of this propaganda, I think it would be proper and advisable to sue them all for no less than three times the aggregate worth and value of them all in their entirety. Since Rupert Murdoch and Fox News is estimated at around $18-19 billion, adding them all would be significant. It might even be advisable to add in all the Little Foxes broadcasters that have sprung up in the last four years, but I'm sure the lawyers would have a better view on that. Then if the suit is successful, go after all the internet services that don't fully police content before posting it. There's some real gold in that area. I think such a successful suit would go a long way to cleaning up the airways for truth in broadcasting. It has to really hurt before the perpetrators, and those considering it, are dissuaded from continuing their propaganda and the undermining of political discourse that we now must contend with at the risk of the utter collapse of our democracy. The main question here is: who would take up the mantle for such an ambitious crusade? The Department of Justice? A private corporate legal firm who might smell great profit if such a suit was successful. All I know is that it is the right thing to do. However it gets done.
There's a way to bring Far-Right broadcasters to heel, but it will take an enormous will of the people. Just as the Sherman Anti-Trust Act has laid dormant for so long since Reagan, it's questionable whether this path will ever be taken. I put forth for your consideration 18 US Code section 1038, False Information and Hoaxes. (B) if serious bodily injury results, be fined under this title and imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both; and (C) if death results, be fined under this title or imprisoned for any number of years up to life or both. It is now estimated that over 1,000,000 Americans have died from COVID-19 since January 2020. Even now about 1/3 of our citizens haven't yet taken Vaccines because of distorted or false information from the Far-Right or the internet. Part of the problem here is how can your prove someone deliberately didn't take the Vaccine because of the propaganda? In an Article published in the Business Insider by Kelly McLaughlin on Sep. 24, 2021 "AT LEAST 7 CONSERVATIVE RADIO HOSTS AND ANTI-MASK ADVOCATES HAVE DIED FROM COVID-19 AFTER BASHING THE VACCINES." Ms McLaughlin lays out how these seven broadcasters were some of the most rabid anti-vaccine proponents in the country. Some unbelieving onto their last breath. I propose a class action suite naming these individuals; Dick Farrel, Phil Valentine, Marc Bernier, Bob Enyart, Robert David Steele, Caleb Wallace and Pressley Stetts and/or their families and anyone whose family could show a similar situation who wishes to join in, to sue Fox News and each member of the Rupert Murdoch family who is involved in the broadcasting of Fox News and every news presenter where there is audio or video tape evidence of them making claims that would be considered FALSE INFORMATION or a HOAX. Considering the enormity of the results of this propaganda, I think it would be proper and advisable to sue them all for no less than three times the aggregate worth and value of them all in their entirety. Since Rupert Murdoch and Fox News is estimated at around $18-19 billion, adding them all would be significant. It might even be advisable to add in all the Little Foxes broadcasters that have sprung up in the last four years, but I'm sure the lawyers would have a better view on that. Then if the suit is successful, go after all the internet services that don't fully police content before posting it. There's some real gold in that area. I think such a successful suit would go a long way to cleaning up the airways for truth in broadcasting. It has to really hurt before the perpetrators, and those considering it, are dissuaded from continuing their propaganda and the undermining of political discourse that we now must contend with at the risk of the utter collapse of our democracy. The main question here is: who would take up the mantle for such an ambitious crusade? The Department of Justice? A private corporate legal firm who might smell great profit if such a suit was successful. All I know is that it is the right thing to do. However it gets done.