worried about constitutional rights?

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Registered: 10-26-2003
worried about constitutional rights?
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Mon, 10-06-2008 - 1:45pm

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081006/ap_on_el_pr/palin

"When reporters tried to leave the designated press area and head to where the crowd was seated, an escort would dart out, confront him or her and say, "Can I help you?" and turn the person around, Times staff writer Eileen Schulte wrote on the paper's Web site. When one reporter asked an escort, who would not give her name, why the press wasn't allowed to mingle, she said that in the past, negative things had been written, Schulte reported."

negative things?

just in case you are fuzzy on the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Congress shall make no law . . . abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press.

http://usinfo.state.gov/products/pubs/rightsof/press.htm

"Although a cherished right of the people, freedom of the press is different from other liberties of the people in that it is both individual and institutional. It applies not just to a single person's right to publish ideas, but also to the right of print and broadcast media to express political views and to cover and publish news. A free press is, therefore, one of the foundations of a democratic society, and as Walter Lippmann, the 20th-century American columnist, wrote, "A free press is not a privilege, but an organic necessity in a great society." Indeed, as society has grown increasingly complex, people rely more and more on newspapers, radio, and television to keep abreast with world news, opinion, and political ideas. One sign of the importance of a free press is that when antidemocratic forces take over a country, their first act is often to muzzle the press."

muzzle?

Bea

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Registered: 10-01-2008
Wed, 10-08-2008 - 12:04pm

>>I like my freedom....and I will not vote for any radical=socialist that lead to communist!

It might ease your mind to learn exactly what socialism and communism are, rather than relying on sound byte definitions from paranoid e-mails or shock-jocks. And as for radical? IMO, GWB is a radical. I haven't been happy -- and I do think he has caused some major damage -- but I think our country will survive.

Laura

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Registered: 09-08-2006
Wed, 10-08-2008 - 1:23pm

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I like my freedoms too.

 

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