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To: reaganaut1
This is an important moment for us. This is where obama and Hillary are failing the American people for all to see.

It is for occasions just like this that we have The First Amendment. In spite of what the MSM and pop culture may lead you to believe, we do not have The First Amendment as an excuse to be an {expletive}.

We do not have The First Amendment to enable so-called "artists" to burn the Flag, swear in their lyrics, show us urine-soaked crosses, or other "shock art." These are trivial, pitiful self-indulgences by the so-called artist. When you don't have any real talent, you try to generate noteriety via controversy. Here's a hint people, when you feel you need to resort to this kind of thing, that's when you know your "artistic career" such as it is, has jumped the shark.

No, situations like this, when people in power start suggesting censorship, or pre-emptive self-censorship, and start coming after people for expressing ideas... This is why we have The First Amendment. When obama, Hillary, and others start apologizing, start suggesting the producer of some work be investigated... This is what First Amendment guaranteed protection is about.

There is no guarantee you won't be offended by what others do or say. There is no guarantee anyone will care what you do or say. But there is a guarantee that people like obama and Hillary cannot come after you, use the power of their offices to try to suppress and repress ideas.

12 posted on 09/14/2012 5:49:28 AM PDT by ThunderSleeps (Stop obama now! Stop the hussein - insane agenda!)
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To: ThunderSleeps

“There is no guarantee you won’t be offended by what others do or say”


Exactly: I always wondered what the actual law was protecting all the mentally inept easily offended people.

It must be the same law that prohibits racial profiling anyone belonging to a group which has openly declared they want us dead.


21 posted on 09/14/2012 7:09:30 AM PDT by Wurlitzer (Nothing says "ignorance" like Islam!)
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