"Bakelite Man" wrote in message
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Why is it that all the nuts, screwballs, anti-semites and
quasi-religious mental patients always seem to gravitate to
the broadcast medium of shortwave radio...?

I mean, there has to be a (semi-rational ?) reason for this.

Is there?



What's a better way to reach the 0.01%ers? Sure, you could cover most of
the country with TV, but imagine the costs. The true believers aren't
inconvienced by the annoyances of SW, and it's cheap.

The Ezra Pound situation is a little different. Ezra wasn't paying for
time, he worked for the Italian Fascist government. Also, shortwave radio
was a higher profile medium, back then.

It would have been cool if there were about a dozen domestic SW broadcasters
about 35 years ago.We would have something like "Radio Free Dope" "The Fight
the Pigs Show" and "Communism is Neat".

I can only imagine the pain of a whole generation of kooks, deprived of SW
radio.

Frank Dresser

"Bakelite Man" wrote in message
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Why is it that all the nuts, screwballs, anti-semites and
quasi-religious mental patients always seem to gravitate to
the broadcast medium of shortwave radio...?

I mean, there has to be a (semi-rational ?) reason for this.

Is there?



What's a better way to reach the 0.01%ers? Sure, you could cover most of
the country with TV, but imagine the costs. The true believers aren't
inconvienced by the annoyances of SW, and it's cheap.

The Ezra Pound situation is a little different. Ezra wasn't paying for
time, he worked for the Italian Fascist government. Also, shortwave radio
was a higher profile medium, back then.

It would have been cool if there were about a dozen domestic SW broadcasters
about 35 years ago.We would have something like "Radio Free Dope" "The Fight
the Pigs Show" and "Communism is Neat".

I can only imagine the pain of a whole generation of kooks, deprived of SW
radio.

Frank Dresser


Frank,

Do you know if any of crazy Ezra's broadcasts survive?


--
Col. I.P. Yurin
Commissariat of Internal Security

Stakhanovite
Order of Lenin (1937)
Hero of Socialist Labor (1939)

"I. P. Yurin" wrote in message
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Frank,

Do you know if any of crazy Ezra's broadcasts survive?


--
Col. I.P. Yurin

There should be hours of the stuff in the National Archives or someplace
like that. Recording was done on aluminum backed acetate disks back then.
The Feds were anticipating prosecuting Pound, the Tokyo Roses, etc. I can't
imigane they'd throw any of that stuff out. But I'm not aware of anyplace
it's publicly availible.

Frank Dresser

Interesting Anderson beat all the FCC, child endangerment, and attempted
murder charges. I wonder what happened to the police officer with the 15
year old girlfriend, sounds like something was hushed
No excuse for Anderson but why wasn't that deputy officer reprimanded or
also sent to the monkey crapper for child endangerment or possible statutory
rape !!
............Hmmm

-Rev.RP Jones


"Ulis Fleming" wrote in message
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According to an AP article, Steve Anderson gets 15 years jail time for
weapons charges.

Full article at:
http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pb...12/APN/3091210
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Ulis
http://www.RadioIntel.com