Freedom of what?
Well, crap. It appears that high school students, in general, favor government censorship and think that the First Amendment goes “too far” in the rights it guarantees. Most think flag burning is illegal and that the government has the right to restrict indecent material on the ‘net.
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This slashdotter points out that “Of course they don’t know (about the First Amendment), we don’t allow them to!” Heh. High schools generally grant few rights to their students, so I suppose finding that most of them believe in censorship isn’t that mind-blowing of an observation.
I think at some point in the past I pointed out that our Bill of Rights has a preamble which all the history books leave out, but for the sake of completeness I’m going to just go ahead and paste it in here for the education of all my readers. Enjoy and be amazed, for the Bill of Rights supersedes the powers of our Constitution and cannot be altered legally by the government:
The First 10 Amendments to the
Constitution as Ratified by the States
December 15, 1791
PreambleCongress OF THE United States
begun and held at the City of New York, on Wednesday
the Fourth of March, one thousand seven hundred and eighty nine.THE Conventions of a number of the States having at the time of their adopting the Constitution, expressed a desire, in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added: And as extending the ground of public confidence in the Government, will best insure the beneficent ends of its institution
RESOLVED by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, two thirds of both Houses concurring, that the following Articles be proposed to the Legislatures of the several States, as Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, all or any of which Articles, when ratified by three fourths of the said Legislatures, to be valid to all intents and purposes, as part of the said Constitution; viz.:
ARTICLES in addition to, and Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America, proposed by Congress, and ratified by the Legislatures of the several States, pursuant to the fifth Article of the original Constitution.
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*is thoroughly disgusted*
*goes to blog about it*
You know, I actually took the time out of my wasted, tired life to read that. And it fucking pisses me off.
*looks for a T to whack people with*
Allow me to express some blatant disgust
Pug’s Place today points to an article on Jean’s favorite “funny site” which frankly makes chills run down my spine. This one falls somewhere between “what’s wrong with American education” and “what’s wrong with America.” Either way, it’s ba…
Treat our children like prisoners and watch them make our country a prison.
Yeah. This is crap. evilevilevilevilevilevil.
it’s ok. USA going to hell in handbasket, but so do all nations. let’s all move to Australia.
From the article: “Only half of the students said newspapers should be allowed to publish freely without government approval of stories.”
How much do you believe the news you get in newspapers and TV? Who really believes in the New York Times as a news source anymore? They’re more like an editorial rag now. Look at how they blew Abu Gharib out of proportion.
Then further down: “The results reflected indifference, with almost three in four students saying they took the First Amendment for granted or didn’t know how they felt about it.” And then it says 83% of students think it’s okay to express an unpopular view.
Uh, is anyone else here confused? Are these students anti 1st amendment, indifferent to it, or in favor of it? Further inquiry: How much do you trust CNN to not spin a story with headlines that don’t necessarily reflect the article content or facts? Looks to me like they just wanted to say something like “the kids of tomorrow, the more conservative ones who might vote Republican, are dickwads who don’t know anything.” That’s just me though. I’m not going to Australia; look at the ban they’ve got on guns.
hey, thats a load of bull, cuase im a teenager and every teenager I’ve ever met seen or heard about thinks that freedom of speech is right, and isn’t being pritected anywhere near enough