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Jay Rohr to Editor, W.W. Communications, Inc. Letter, January 23, 1962
C-O-P.Y
Jay Rohr
Prof. Non mises
8716 Maravoss Lane
Baltimore 14, Md.
1-23-62
Editor
W. W. Communications , Inc.
1420 New York Ave.
Washington 5, D.C.
Sir:
It is a source of amazement to me that in a country
whose intellectuals mouth freedom, justice, and free
enterprise, hardly a voice comes out in protest against
either the doings of the unsulting Mr. Newton Minow of
the FCC who wishes to "control" free speech, or against
the Anti-Trust laws which are actually, in fact, destroying
economic freedom.
Whether anyone realizes it or not there is a war on
against independence, private business and capitalism gen-
erally; and the statists within this country and without
are most anxious to hasten this war to its destructive
conclusion at the expense of these great concepts. The
injustices practiced by the FCC and the Anti-Trust law
bearings are those very injustices which have led other
countries into a totalitarian regime. As a compromise
with either of these government instrumentalities into the
private sector of American life, business, and culture can
only stave-off these issues momentarily, these issues,
meanwhile, will have an excellent opportunity to recoup and
return with the impetus of an absolute destructive power
incapable of compromise itself. It may shock some to know
that the authority to enforce these already-written laws
are present and are upon us both in the FCC and the Anti-
Trust laws, and that it is only a matter of time before
some Washington bureaucrat "decides" to enforce them.
Today, the Anti-Trust laws and recent decisions are
assuring businessmen and potential businessmen they haven't
got a chance; they are doomed. Somehow they cannot price
on a level with their competitors, nor above or below them.
They are liable to be called before a committe, to be judged
and sentenced for any one of these practices. who will they
call to the guillotine next?
The Anti-Trust group and the FCC's *courageous* ch amp,
Mr. Minow, both make one important, basic assumption -- that
the consumer on the market and the consumer of television
have no say on the matter at all. The choice is apparent:
either this country wants intellectual freedom and economic
freedom or it does not.
Jan Jay Rohr Rohs
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Jay Rohr to Editor, W.W. Communications, Inc. Letter, January 23, 1962
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01/23/1962