USA's FCC raids KFAR 90.9FM half-hour after 'Axis of Good'
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Dawn Gable reports: Knoxville First Amendment Radio KFAR 90.9FM.
has been raided and equipment confiscated only 3o minutes after the
premier of a scheduled weekly 'The Axis of Good' broadcast that
discusses the Venezuelan democratization process and its relevance
at the Latin American and International levels.
Bolivarian Circles International member Jesus Rivas had introduced
his program saying that "many progressive and liberal minded people
ask about the (Venezuelan) process ... reliable information on
topics or interest regarding the process is difficult to obtain in
the United States of America ... especially in English ... so the
radio show in English aimed to discuss all types of alternates with
Venezuelan music."
Jesus Rivas' show, which admittedly has a modest audience, is exactly
the kind of grassroots communication that the current US Bush 2
administration does not want between the citizens of the US and
Venezuela. But, in a curious pretext, US FCC authorities acted
precipitously on a spurious claim that KFAR 90.9FM was interfering
with other frequencies and alleged that the radio station was
broadcasting a higher wattage than permitted.
Radio KFAR has denied the accusation and instead draws attention
to the fact that the raiding order was signed by an FBI operative
known to broadcast personnel and it is possible that the FBI was
monitoring KFAR's broadcast when they decided to take prevent
transmission.
"If the Bush administration wants to 'go Iraq' on Venezuela and
fabricate a war with some made up excuse to invade it to loot the
country from their wealth, they'll need to make sure they can
construe Chavez as an evil dictator with no popular support ...
they do have a lot of media paid PR working on that."
Radio KFAR executives are trying to obtain the return of their
transmission gear back but so there is no information available
from the authorities as to when or if this will happen.
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