We're not looking at a situation of free speech. What we're looking at is anarchy. Dunifer calls airwave rebels like himself the vanguard of a 1990s free speech movement and maintains that regulating the airwaves is unconstitutional. Unlike publishing a newspaper, or creating a World Wide Web site on the Internet, operating a legal radio station requires a government license. Dunifer and his friends would climb into the Berkeley hills at night, unpack their equipment and begin beaming their signal out.
Music ranges from African chants to industrial thrash.
Easy listening it is not. It threatens the relationships of power in this country. What we call democracy in this country is a consensus among the elite. They want people disempowered, alienated from each other. If people can't communicate, they can't organize.