80 years ago, Congress created the Radio Commission. The advent of television morphed that Bureau into FCC, the Federal Communications Commission. According to the 1927 Congressional Record, the original phrase, "slippery slope," was first coined during the Senate's floor debate about their new agency. The phrase was applied to the potential trenching of our Franchise, our Bill of Rights guarantee.

The newly created Bureau, though unchallenged, would not have passed constitutional muster, sitting atop our First Amendment Right to political speech on the radio. In 1927 the new, pow wow er full mass media, held court at the edge of a precipice, that Senator's oft quoted, "slippery slope." But not to fret, overlapped bandwidth disputes would be slapped out in a timely fashion.

Out of the Radio Act was borne the Fairness Doctrine and a living concept: e quill time. Yet from the outset, the "slippery slope" was slipped in the mix. Disputes about radio access for mass media political speeches would first be heard by the Commissioners; not in Federal District Court, closest to where the unknown socialist candidate's wireless speech was planned.

Our status quo Congress ignores the idea of updating of our broadcast laws, with newly crafted statutes reflecting today's technology, and the Public Interest. They believe, with access fairness, an informed populace won't be choosing them to fan the Arctic caps. Oh well, out of office sinecures won't be missed, throne out yesterday, tomorrow a lobbyist, one constituent left: Mr. Web-soft Money.

(You want them gone - support my son)!

Here is the pristine, fail-safe method for validating our Paramount Right to be an informed electorate; accomplished with unbridled, mass media speeches over our airwaves, delivered by all of our candidates, upon their requests, in clue ding even the publicity quacks, America's Political Idol types, for comic relief, without our broadcasters suffering even one drop of financial dross, that speculative claim of ruble losses, truly unfounded. Free Political Speech on TV is doable. Free at last!

However, this concept of an earmarked, set-aside for candidates' live campaign speeches, given on television, on behalf of an informed electorate, is not a freebe. This "free" airtime, on our airwaves, though in the Public Interest, requires a sponsor. On that score we cannot agree more. The candidates' airtime, to give their political speeches must be paid for.

This constitutional Bill of Rights concept: pre-paid airtime for mass media political speech by candidates for president and congress can be set up in a heart beat, simply arranged with a one line voluntary income tax check-off.

A three-buck Speech Fund write off on your tax form is an airtight check and balance that harnesses the lobbyists, your representative's favorite buds. When political sprechen-zing is free, the dollar power of Mr. Web-soft Money swirls down the drain. Burp. Their glam game is over.

Fixing our politics and campaign finance law requires the obvious: factor out the ducats. The idea of matching funds should be replaced, too, with common sense! But the politishinz controlling Congress won't so quickly pass on their private political poddy dip into our public trough, sew what the heck! Let them have their escargot shtick dreck.

We, the people, are entitled to an income tax check-off for our Speech Fund, to run alongside Mr. Ponzi's campaign matching fund. Free, unmitigated Political Speech is an American entitlement, in the Public Interest!

You, a candidate for president, or Congress, starting out with 240 million dollars parked in Fort Knox-I-Grad, contact the network of your choice, or stations in your district, and affirmatively book your blocks. The broadcaster charges our First Amendment Speech fund for all the ad bucks booked in the time slots selected. Live televised political speech is therefore guaranteed our populace; free, our Public Interest lives!

Without sacrifice, broadcasters get their money, which is exactly the broadcaster's issue! We own the airwaves, and part of their license requires the airtime for our public affairs, in the Public Interest. The broadcasters are entitled to their dollars! Nor do they care or dare to censor our Bill of Rights without sacrifice of license.

We put to practice all the political freedoms our heroes sacrificed their lives for on the beaches of Normandy, and Iwo Jima; and in the orange clad Vietnamese jungles, and before that, in Korea, where the unknown poet, David X. Sharpe wrote, "Hurt, is rustling raveled cassocks, amongst the hunchback hills," and today, in our own times, on all the asphalt roadways rubbing Baghdad's desert slimes.

Today's heroes, our kids in uniform are tragically giving up their lives to protect our Rights. We owe them this protection of their Rights to political mass media speech, by virtue of a piddling $2.00 income tax check-off for our Speech Fund. Could your self-serving Congress be opposed to reel political speech? See them on C-SPAN? Their squawk is unlimited, and free. Bandwidth scarcity, the reason for creating, and the only reason for keeping FCC is history! With FCC gone, we all save money!

People might give extra to our Speech Fund, including George Soros. Your candidate's stand-up speeches could carry a slow scroll at the bottom of the screen, naming additional speech fund supporters, their scrolling order, lotto drawn: This political speech sponsored by your tax check-off dollars, along with donations from Halliburton, Microsoft, Chet and Mel's Auto, IBM, Apple Computer, Pasquale's Pizzeria.

Extra donations cover more unlimited political speeches on television. Candidates pay for balloons and snail mail from their campaign coffins. Live sport events are exempted from speech bumping, but all the sitcoms, movies, and blabberific reruns are First Amendment trumped.

Congress' intent behind our access statute, establishing Affirmative Rights to television for political broadcasting, was to lower the cost of political campaigns while protecting all our First Amendment Rights. Challenged, the Supreme Coats ruled, Burger deciding, mass media broadcast access is an Affirmative Right. The poet prophet has Rights; you, too, dear peer-ship mates, affirmative First Amendment Rights.

George W. Bush does not believe in our Constitution or Bill of Rights. Nor will you find but a few Members of Congress granting your First Amendment Right to stand for their office and present a mass media speech on behalf of your candidacy, by virtue of a Speech Fund tax check-off to cover the cost, or support a pro forma request for a prime time appearance on C-Span, their own unlicensed turf, to state your case for nomination, with inquisitive call-ins from various news bureaus and classrooms of participating stew dense. This guarantee: access for speech; ceding only a limited sliver of their multi channel content is anathema to C-Span.

Can you smell the fascists' bleat, "then anyone can run?" Yet we subscribe to The Bill of Rights, our Founding Father's legacy. In light of our bandwidth breadth, would our Founders hold that mass media political speech ought to be funded via income tax check-off, or knot? Of course they would! Political speech must be accessible to all of us, and free. Candidates should only have to pay for their own confetti.

Congress created "matching funds" to lower the cost, but that became a Ponzi scheme, to further the Congress' gobble at the public trough, lobster cargo for breakfast, all the best for passing Mr. Web-soft Money's test. They moan all their spare time is spent on the phone raising bucks, my dime; or lunching with lobbyists, to garnishee some fresh ducats. Only our richest can run for office; for the rest of us, it's a pass' quest.

Our soldiers, volunteers, were misled into a war we did not need to fight. Our youngsters joined the army, to take down Saddam Hussein because they were fed the lie that Saddam was a 9 / 11 backer, and hard at work on heavy-duty weapons, to wipe out our way of life.

When the war began, embedded reporters interviewed our troops and asked them, why did they volunteer for life threatening duty in Iraq. Many replied they signed up after 9 / 11 to protect our Freedoms.

This coming election will be distinguished. By Election Day, the voting public is likely to firm up the belief we need a total flush out of all the current office holders! People won't choose the least of evils; preferring candidates who are knot from either party, were independent candidates like Cindy Sheehan only out there, making a stand!

Mr. Web-soft Money's tools for doing his business, his lobbyist flock corrupted our incumbent Representatives. Their complacency is fascistic, nothing less; too many, benign participants in the unconstitutional destruction of our Rights, a slope well greased.

Fascist is the "F" in America's Pallah tics, here political correctness. Members of Congress, those of the smoke and mirrors, sneer at this First Amendment Political Speech program. Regardless their duplicities, I owe this Free Speech plan, my presidential ambition, to our soldiers, the damaged, those blown apart in Iraq and Afghanistan, and from years ago, at Normandy, "the boys of Pointe du Hoc," "the men who took the cliffs," their souls departed, to keep our Freedom. I owe them. We all do.

Michael Stephen Levinson

Independent write-in candidate for president.
In the event you can't learn how to write-in my name, you don't deserve to have me.