[SkyDancer]

I thought according to the Constitution that the press is off limits to the government; if the government gives it money then the government can dictate news.

[Olog-hai]

The left don’t need no stinkin’ Bill of Rights.

But it is remarkable to see communist constitutions, when they render the same natural rights in “positive” language (remember Obama railing against “negative liberties”?) and with sneaky caveats. Take Article 125 of the USSR constitution, for example:

In conformity with the interests of the working people, and in order to strengthen the socialist system, the citizens of the USSR are guaranteed by law:

1. freedom of speech;
2. freedom of the press;
3. freedom of assembly, including the holding of mass meetings;
4. freedom of street processions and demonstrations.

These civil rights are ensured by placing at the disposal of the working people and their organizations printing presses, stocks of paper, public buildings, the streets, communications facilities and other material requisites for the exercise of these rights.

That’s how people like the late RBG would want the First Amendment rewritten. See how they are no longer natural rights.