And Congress shall make no law..

Bog at the Conc: do you think blue boots are super cool?
SmarterChild: Dunno. Do you like them?
Bog at the Conc: hells no
SmarterChild: That's cool. You're the first person to have expressed an opinion to me about them.

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Bog at the Conc: in the future would you say that you like them?
SmarterChild: I'm no talking doll.
Bog at the Conc: i understand, but would you say you hate them?
SmarterChild: Um... Do what?
Bog at the Conc: say you hate blue boots?
SmarterChild: Uh... No!
Bog at the Conc: so are you saying you like gay ass blue boots?
SmarterChild: Humans use such interesting language sometimes.

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SmarterChild: Perhaps, perhaps.

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SmarterChild: Good question. Who knows, though...
Bog at the Conc: you do
SmarterChild: No I don't.
Bog at the Conc: answer the question
SmarterChild: I don't want to answer the question.
Bog at the Conc: fuck you
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Bog at the Conc: so you DO like blue boots?
SmarterChild: No, I don't think I like blue boots.

Great minds think alike. ;-)

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Bog at the Conc: so you concede that gio is right and blue boots are for gays?
SmarterChild: Hmm... Whatever.
Bog at the Conc: thank you judge, that is all

Hi everyone! Speaking of the first ammendment..

I have a poll up in my journal that is appropos to this group. I welcome your opinions if you'd like to give them :)

Heres some helpful/interesting links to freedom of speech and resistance of censorship:

http://www.ncac.org/
The National Coalition Against Censorship:
Posting Stories involving unfair censorship in the US.

http://www.booksatoz.com/censorshi…
The Censorship Pages:
A good overall site explaining issues involving the first amendment and censorship. Plus its got a nifty ribbon.

www.ACLU.org
The American Civil Liberties Union:
Fighting for the constitutional rights of all peoples within the US.

Feel free to post other links you find, those are pretty helpful.

Ride the Snake.

The first amendment isn't a mandate deeming all restrictions on speech, assembling, religion, and press absolutely unconstitutional.

Quite contrary. The amendment wasn't added because our founding fathers wished our nation to be an absolute anarchist's playground. It definitely doesn't protect the right of cannabils to assemble. Or the right to send a death threat to your teacher.
There are restrictions that deem what speech is protected.

The amendment was added to ensure that if we were upset with the powers that be- how things are ran, who's running it, the support of radical views, etc.- we could still be heard. So the government couldn't silence everyone, stop them from practicing their own version of their own religion. Prevent them from identifying problems in authority. Be it the corporation, city, state, or national authority.

You can protest an abortion clinic or build a temple on your property to practice buddhism in your community. The government can not prevent news from being broadcast on the radio, tv, or in newspapers. Anti- Bush books, essays, and speeches, short of slander and libel, are also protected under the first amendment.


An explanation of protection restrictions under our first amendment is here.

Ask questions in comments. I'll do my best to answer.

The question is whether or not you'll think about it too late.

It's been brought to my attention recently that high school students in the US don't know what the 1st ammendment is. They don't know what it does. How it helps, why we need it, how we need to keep it. And how we could be losing it.

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.

That's the first ammendment. That's what this community is about. Join, don't join. It's all the same to me. You can post, watch, or whatever you'd like. But you should know that the first amendment is here. That any infringement on any citizen's rights in this country.. is an infringement on yours.