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You have finally come full circle with the larger problem. The shooting at VT is an example of the overall much larger problem. This is a copy of an email I sent Fox News.
This is now the last straw that must move the political law makers to amend the
freedom of speech rights in this country. Simply the freedom of speech
amendment should allow only legal expression of verbal speech and visual art.
This is not censorship but the responsibility of our country to allow all forms
as long as the expression falls into what the culture has determined as legal.
Killing is not legal, adultery, assault, prostitution and pornography are
examples of what is not legal etc.
You have the opportunity to make this the headlines and change the moral
compass of this country and the generations to come. This is why we have laws
and this will has and should effect all forms of entertainment and forms of
expression from this point on in our culture. All forms of illegal expression
should be removed from all stores and venues immediately.
This is our necessary action and responsibility to the freedoms that a
democracy should reflect and guard for the protection of all. Please forward
this to the President.
Thanks,
Obewan
We will still have all the freedoms and the protections...the only change is that it must be with the parameters of the written laws now on the books...makes sense to me!
If it's my radio network, my FCC license and my money and you offend me -- you're off the air.
That isn't about your right to free expression. It's about mine.
Nowhere in the First Amendment is there anything about anyone having a right to make me pay to have them offend me, or that I am required provide a forum at my expense for opinions that differ from mine. Go talk to Pat Robertson about your right to preach Satanism on his network, and let me know how it goes.
Don Imus was shown to the street. He can offend anyone he wants to there. Anyone who wants to listen to him can find him there. He still has his rights.
Well..... just what does this amendment say:
"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."
I see no protections....for visual art or expression of images that promote the breaking of our legal written laws....do you?
Obewan