Post by Deleted on Apr 7, 2017 17:08:44 GMT
The 1st Amendment to the U.S.Constitution
Perhaps the most succinct intertwining of essential rights ever written, it says:
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.
Shall we spend a moment undressing the several meanings within?
Congress. Oh no. Them? They are a disaster. But that's what we're stuck with;
Law Respecting the Establishment of Religion or Prohibiting the Free Exercise Thereof. That means that Congress cannot pass a law that "respects", let's say, "Christianity" or any other religion... i.e., Congress cannot make this a "Christian Nation". And Congress cannot prevent we individuals from the belief of our choice, selecting from the 40,000 religions known to exist or "none", meaning no belief at all;
Abridging the Freedom of Speech Establishing speech as an individual liberty, acknowledging our right to say anything we freely choose to say. To preserve this right we need to say things as frequently as possible;
Or Freedom of the Press is a freedom similar to free speech but extends it to a mass scale by referring to the technical medium employed to publish speech to a large audience. For this purpose the Gutenberg Printing Press was used as the example of a publishing medium but we have developed mass media including the Public Address System, the Radio Station, the Television Station, and the Internet, each of which is a form of "press";
The Right of People Peaceably to Assemble Acknowledges that a group of us can congregate in non-violent assembly and be allowed to do so, free from harassment or arrest;
Petition the Government for Redress of Grievances Means that our grievances toward the government must, upon petition (request) be redressed in the sense that a wound is redressed.
To summarize and review let us speak in more convenient terms:
Every right delineated above is an INDIVIDUAL LIBERTY. It is easy to see many ways in which the government has intruded upon these rights. For the moment I will speak only about "freedom of press".
The false notion that "press credentials" are required to witness and gather information at an ongoing news event is a lie structured to inhibit news gathering.
Our radio stations are "printing presses of the air" and we are Constitutionally authorized under Amendment One to operate them as a means of disseminating our speech. This comes to a clash with the FCC which places our operations into a very confined "free speech zone" (part 15).
We look forward to thoughts and experiences you might care to add to the discussion.
Perhaps the most succinct intertwining of essential rights ever written, it says:
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.
Shall we spend a moment undressing the several meanings within?
Congress. Oh no. Them? They are a disaster. But that's what we're stuck with;
Law Respecting the Establishment of Religion or Prohibiting the Free Exercise Thereof. That means that Congress cannot pass a law that "respects", let's say, "Christianity" or any other religion... i.e., Congress cannot make this a "Christian Nation". And Congress cannot prevent we individuals from the belief of our choice, selecting from the 40,000 religions known to exist or "none", meaning no belief at all;
Abridging the Freedom of Speech Establishing speech as an individual liberty, acknowledging our right to say anything we freely choose to say. To preserve this right we need to say things as frequently as possible;
Or Freedom of the Press is a freedom similar to free speech but extends it to a mass scale by referring to the technical medium employed to publish speech to a large audience. For this purpose the Gutenberg Printing Press was used as the example of a publishing medium but we have developed mass media including the Public Address System, the Radio Station, the Television Station, and the Internet, each of which is a form of "press";
The Right of People Peaceably to Assemble Acknowledges that a group of us can congregate in non-violent assembly and be allowed to do so, free from harassment or arrest;
Petition the Government for Redress of Grievances Means that our grievances toward the government must, upon petition (request) be redressed in the sense that a wound is redressed.
To summarize and review let us speak in more convenient terms:
Every right delineated above is an INDIVIDUAL LIBERTY. It is easy to see many ways in which the government has intruded upon these rights. For the moment I will speak only about "freedom of press".
The false notion that "press credentials" are required to witness and gather information at an ongoing news event is a lie structured to inhibit news gathering.
Our radio stations are "printing presses of the air" and we are Constitutionally authorized under Amendment One to operate them as a means of disseminating our speech. This comes to a clash with the FCC which places our operations into a very confined "free speech zone" (part 15).
We look forward to thoughts and experiences you might care to add to the discussion.