is a direct violation of the First Amendment of the Constitution. Yet all across the

country, school library shelves are being stripped of books that certain individuals

and groups deem as unacceptable. Censorship is alive and well in the United

States; its ripple effect on America's students is often as damaging as reading

one of many so-called controversial books. The writer reveals why censorship in

today's schools is both a violation of First Amendment rights, as well as a ploy

for radicals and liberals alike to control the minds of our children.

censorship has to do with forbidding people to express themselves in the manner

best suited to their needs.

The aim of censorship is to restrict thought--that is, to prevent people from thinking "bad" thoughts.

The censors' basic premise is: Some ideas are so dangerous they must be suppressed. Material

ability to think is what makes us human, and our freedom of thought must be preserved at all costs.

"deprave and corrupt those whose minds are open to such immoral influences."

the power and privilege of controlling access to information for society as a whole. Free-speech

non to Pat Robertson--reject the principle of

advocates, on the other hand, believe that people should decide for themselves which books to read,

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