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To: dontreadthis

Well if First Amendment rights are to be violated, I cannot think of a better group than Journalists to have their a$$ in the slammer.

Journalists have been selling this country down the river for decades and as we can no longer depend upon them to expose the excesses of government at all levels it is poetic justice to see them harassed by the very same gestapo they support.

We know the vast majority of Journalists would love to see us lose our 2nd Amendment rights. Commie loving pukes deserve no better.


15 posted on 06/04/2012 6:37:05 PM PDT by Wurlitzer (Nothing says "ignorance" like Islam!)
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To: Wurlitzer
Well if First Amendment rights are to be violated, I cannot think of a better group than Journalists to have their a$$ in the slammer.

Journalists have been selling this country down the river for decades and as we can no longer depend upon them to expose the excesses of government at all levels it is poetic justice to see them harassed by the very same gestapo they support

We know the vast majority of Journalists would love to see us lose our 2nd Amendment rights. Commie loving pukes deserve no better.

My question is, precisely what the journalists did to arouse the ire of the cop? Because journalists constantly promote the conceit that they have rights apart from, and over and above, the people. But the First Amendment declaration that “Congress shall make no law . . . abridging the freedom of . . . the press” establishes neither a title of nobility nor a priesthood of members of the Associated Press.
Freedom of the press is a right of the people whether or not any given person has bought a printing press yet. You and I have freedom of the press even if we don’t buy a printing press; indeed, we are communicating via a worldwide web which is accessible to far more people than any newspaper reached in the founding era. And I would argue that the fact that the Constitution promotes “the progress of science and the useful arts” means that an internet web site is really just a printing press grown up.

89 posted on 06/05/2012 10:08:52 AM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion (The idea around which “liberalism" coheres is that NOTHING actually matters except PR.)
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