Rick Santelli’s now infamous “rant” on CNBC proves my point.  It was the first sign of hope I’ve seen in months.  And I am not alone (if the 1.7 million hits to CNBC’s website are any indication).  Santelli tapped into a huge and powerful vein of public sentiment   Mary Kate Cary in U.S. News and World Report called Santelli’s opinion, “the elephant in the room.”  (Now there’s an image message-seeking Republicans should be able to relate to.) 

That is what Obama and his Congressional commie comrades fear more than anything else.  It was proven when the President – the leader of the most powerful nation in the world - trotted out his press secretary, the next day, to try to humiliate a hitherto-obscure reporter from a show called “The Squawk Box.”  Americans must not know the truth.  We must not know how many of us are in agreement.  We must not defeat Democrats and elect conservatives in 2010 (and 2012).  And so you can expect the push for the “Fairness Doctrine” (under that name, or something else) to get stronger now, not weaker. 

Our best hope is access to the information we can get from talk radio and other alternative media.  So this is a call to radio station owners, television station owners, managers, producers, writers, on-air talent, bloggers, and alternative media magnates everywhere.  If they try to force the Fairness Doctrine on you, you say no.  You change nothing – not your schedule, not your format, not your programming, not your writing, not your talent – nothing.

Do you think this is extreme?  Consider this: If Congress passed a law that sent African-Americans to the back of the bus again, would they go?  If some administrative agency drafted a regulation that placed Americans with Japanese last names in internment camps, would they go?

Hell, no.  Those laws would be unconstitutional, and the persons affected would make damn sure everyone knew it.  But pass a regulation or law in utter violation of our First Amendment rights, a law intended to shut conservatives up, and we’re expected to roll over.

No.  Not this time.  Not anymore.

You take a page out of the civil rights playbook.  Protest.  Picket.  Storm your representatives’ offices.  Use the legal system.  Go straight to your county or federal courthouse and file for a temporary restraining order, and then a permanent injunction against the enforcement of the law or regulation.  If you are fined, do not pay it.  Make the government defend civil litigation in every city and every state across the country.  The government cannot possibly do this, anymore than it can possibly shut down every single Christian, conservative, right-wing, Republican or Libertarian show and/or station in the country.  More to the point, they won’t want the country to see them try.  If you think Santelli’s rant generated public outrage, imagine how the public would react to footage of government agents coming into your studio or station and forcing you to shut down.  Imagine that happening all over the country.

When blacks marched peacefully through the streets of the south in the 1960s, and they had the water hoses turned on them, and attack dogs unleashed on them, the rest of America saw those governments for what they were.  This government is depending upon our complicity in its takeover.

Not anymore.  This time, we are saying, “No.”