Free Speech
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.The U.S. Constitution says that everyone that is an American citizen has the right of free speech. You can find censorship almost anywhere around you. It's in music, television, and even literature. I don't believe that it is fair that there be some much censorship in a country that does nothing but promise freedom to all its occupants. It is said that suppression of all of these things helps to prevent the crimes that occur. However even with all of the restrictions, there are still people murdering and stealing. America was founded on freedom. Why should the government censor the motion picture industry, the music industry, or the publishing business? Censorship of music, the Internet, literature and films is unconstitutional because we all have the right to free speech. Music is one of the many places where you can find censorship. You would think that by now grown adults, college-educated and reaso
"Opinion and protest are the life breath of democracy - even when it blows heavy" "America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense, human rights invented America." - Jimmy Carter, 1981 Another place you can find censorship is in the movies and on television. Most entertainment is fiction and rational people (children AND adults) can separate it from reality. Maybe everyone that agrees with censorship should start thinking of the other things that cause violence. If violence on TV is such a problem that it has to be censored, then what about the news? It is just as bad, worse in fact because the stories on it are REAL. Nobody will ever decide to take the news off the air because it is too brutal. Do you really think that it's a coincidence that we have had three sets of multiple shootings at schools in the past five months? Has the news media ever considered that they might be ENCOURAGING such behavior in people that want their 15 minutes of fame, however they can get it? The problem with violence lies deeper then with film or television.
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