Tomorrow, most people in the United States will be celebrating our Independence Day. However, today should be one of mourning. Today marks the 30th anniversary of the "landmark United States Supreme Court decision that defined the power of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) over "indecent" material as applied to broadcasting" (1) from the case Federal Communications Commission v. Pacifica Foundation. This case revolved around a WBAI-FM broadcast of the recently deceased George Carlin's routine "Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television". A father who had his young son in the care with him was upset that his son heard the broadcast during an afternoon drive in 1973 and alerted the FCC. There had already been other court cases deciding that obscenities were not protected by the First Amendment, but the FCC was seeking the ability to regulate what it considered indecent content which previously had not been tested.