Too Much Freedom. HUH?

Last night on the news came this "LITTLE" report:
I could not believe my ears, but that isn't anything new for me since Bush and his IRON-FIST ruled our country! Carolyn

Survey: High Schools
Leaving First Amendment Behind

45 important words

By MELONY LEAZER mleazer@kentuckynewera.com

Teens' lack of 1st Amendment awareness disturbing

"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."

-- The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

These are 45 words that should be important to every American. Yet, teens in this country hardly know them.

An opinion published in USA Weekend on Saturday gave
a sneak preview into survey findings that revealed the majority of high school students place little value on those rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution, according to a poll from the
John S. And James L. Knight Foundation.

The results are disturbing and frightening.

More than 112,000 students in 544 schools participated in the study.
John Seigenthaler, founder of the nonprofit First Amendment Center, noted some of those findings in his column:

More than two-thirds of students polled take their First Amendment rights for granted or are unsure of how they feel about them.

21 percent said musicians should not be allowed to sing offensive songs.

Nearly three-fourths indicated that burning the American flag should not be allowed.

And more than one-third said newspapers should not be allowed to publish without government approval.

What's next approval of censored mail like the above Nazi censored letter from Philadelphia Pa to Germany during WWII?

Seigenthaler's column didn't ponder reasons why many teens feel this way, although educators suggested that students are not exposed to journalism programs that could teach them about First Amendment values.
It's odd because teens are the Internet generation. They, of all people, should understand the freedom given to them to read the news, listen to music, shop, chat and express themselves via the Internet. Rather,
the survey concludes that students' thoughts represent a setback for democracy, and their attitudes come at a worst time in history.

American troops will deploy to Iraq this year. Some will fight, and others will assist in peacekeeping missions. But if they read what teens think about the First Amendment, our men and womencould become confused as to what they are fighting for. And just as important, teens with negative or indifferent attitudes toward our
freedoms soon will enter adulthood, some of them choosing the military as their career.

What will they fight for then?

As a journalist, I am reminded daily about the freedom of the press.
On this very page in the top left corner, you will always find a portion printed from the Constitution: "Congress shall make no law...abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press..." During my years of reporting, I also was reminded of that freedom by you, the readers,
whenever I wrote something you couldn't bear. Some of you wrote a letter to the editor or picked up the telephone to voice a complaint -- or every once in a while, send a compliment. And that was your freedom
of speech. See how we as Americans have that advantage?
That can't be found everywhere in this world.

Teens, listen up. And I'm speaking to you as both a journalist and a parent. The freedoms given to you didn't come cheap. Men and women died so that you could speak your mind, enjoy music and the arts and
practice what you believe. Without the First Amendment, the press couldn't criticize the government and protestors would be silenced.
You need to know -- and appreciate -- these basic guarantees as much as you do anything else in your life. If you don't, generations to come will not know what it's like to be free.

Melony Leazer is a copy editor for the Kentucky New Era.
Her column runs periodically. She can be reached by
telephone at 887-3241 or by e-mail at mleazer@kentuckynewera.com.

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is wasn't the first time this disturbing news hit
the Media and The Internet...

...............................CLICK HERE TO GO TO

http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org

In 1999 this survey was taken...Click Here and Read THIS! "State of the First Amendment: A survey
of public attitudes 7.02.99" By Paul McMasters

First Amendment ombudsman

Carolyn

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10 March 2003
Bush and Hitler From Ireland's OWN: History

Whenever I equate George Bush with Adolph Hitler many immediately
conclude the comparison is little more than hyperbole with a liberal
sprinkling of exaggeration. You can almost
hear minds slamming shut and rational discourse being terminated, even though the analogy is quite valid in many respects. The degree to which capitalist propaganda has managed to deceive millions as to the quintessence of fascist ideology
in general and Hitler in particular is stupendous and to note as much is to utter an understatement of the first magnitude.
My detractors ignore the obvious fact that I am not talking about gas chambers, mass executions, slave labor camps, or a one-party police state. The US has not arrived at that stage yet. But I am talking about stages which have been attained fully corroborating my thesis that Bush is comparable to Hitler in many critical respects such as the following:

First, Bush, like Hitler confronting the allies prior to WWII, keeps making one demand after another of the Iraqi government and is never satisfied. As each demand is met Bush, like Hitler, moves the bar a little higher fully intent on making it as unreachable as possible while trying to appear as conciliatory as feasible to the world community.

Second, Bush, like Hitler, threatens war if his demands are not met. His attitude is that others will comply with his demands or face military consequences.

Third, just as Hitler used the bogus excuse that Germans were being oppressed in order to justify invasion, Bush is using the bogus excuse that Iraq is hiding weapons of mass destruction. Both are lying because neither has provided proof for his allegations. Click Here To Read This Article In Full

Wow, there are so many pages out there like this one...
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And this one
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This is déjà vu!

"U.S. Encouraged by Vietnam Vote"

Tuesday, February 01, 2005

Take a look at an object rescued from the memory hole. It's a New York Times article from the era of the Vietnam War: Peter Grose, "U.S. Encouraged by Vietnam Vote" (September 4, 1967, p. 2). Its lead paragraphs read:

United States officials were surprised and heartened today at the size of turnout in South Vietnam's presidential election despite a Vietcong terrorist campaign to disrupt the voting.

According to reports from Saigon, 83 per cent of the 5.85 million registered voters cast their ballots yesterday. Many of them risked reprisals threatened by the Vietcong.

Sounds familiar?

Here is an image of the clipping:
Click On It Too See It Larger.

The corporate media's coverage of the January 30, 2005 elections in Iraq bears eerie resemblance to what they said about the September 3, 1967 elections in South Vietnam.

"Demonstration elections" today follow the script developed through Washington's long experience of staging them, down to such details as how to report voter turnouts. Notice that the reported 83% turnout in the 1967 presidential election in South Vietnam very closely matches the 80% turnout that "the American officials hoped for" (Grose, September 4, 1967), just as the estimated turnout figure of 8 million voters in the 2005 elections in Iraq is virtually identical to the "respectable" turnout desired by Washington and dutifully predicted by the Independent [sic] Election Commission of Iraq.

There is a difference between 1967 and 2005, however: the corporate media are cheerleading for Washington now more strenuously than they did in 1967. The New York Times article shown above speaks merely of "a constitutional process." That's a humbler euphemism than wild slogans -- "historic" elections for "freedom" and "democracy"! -- splashed in the post-election coverage of Iraq with abandon.

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Where do soldiers
go when they die?
Do they sail away
across a patriot sky?
Or drift on the
breeze of the lie
That killed them?
(John Cory)

Since Religion played a large part in putting Bush back into the Whitehouse. Click this link to find out more about the various religions and belief systems of the people who inhabit this earth.

George W. Bush Quote: "And America needs a military where
our breast and brightest are proud to serve and proud to stay."
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WAR CRIMINAL n.
A person committing any of various crimes,
such as genocide or the mistreatment of
prisoners of war, committed during a war
and considered in violation of the conventions
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The Words To Un-American

v.1
Didn't know I was un-American
For choosing to give a damn
Or unpatriotic
For daring to take a stand
For what I believe in
Looks like Freedom to me -
Expressions of Liberty
Wanting our American to be
A responsible hegemony

v.2
Didn't know I was a communist
For wanting to share the wealth
It doesn't take an economist
To measure the cost of health
And what I believe in
Looks like heaven to me -
One Human Family
Where everybody's got enough to eat
And something warm to cover their feet

v.3
Didn't know I'd be labeled a terrorist
For daring to speak my mind
It's becoming more precarious
For failing to toe the line
And what I believe in
Sounds like Freedom to me -
Like the Sons of Liberty
In 1773
Dumping 45 tons of tea

v.4
Didn't know I was in the minority
Of people who love the Earth
I hope it becomes a priority
Before it gets any worse
And what I Believe In
Looks like heaven to me -
Where Angels take the shape of the trees
Giving us clean air to breathe
From the rivers to the mountains and seas...

v.5
Didn't know I hated my country
For acknowledging the Truth
This war is despicable profiteering
At the expense of our youth
And what I Believe In
Looks like heaven to me -s
All of humanity
Living as community
In relative harmony

I know it's just a song
But if the whole world sang along
How much longer would it be this way?

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Every daring attempt to make a great change
in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new
possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian.

Idealists foolish enough to throw caution to the
winds have advanced mankind and have enriched the world.
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NEW WORDS

CONSERVODEMS -- the current crop of leaders in the Democratic Party, DNC, DLC

RUMSOAKED -- new name for Rumsfeld

beWjesus n. Slang. Used as an intensive: The bear scared the beWjesus out of us.

More NEW WORDS to come.

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And then, give them your feedback, I did! (below)

ass·hole . A thoroughly contemptible, detestable person.

Although the Bush bunch sure fit the description of Asshole, it seems a little bitty, bit too kind. These "people" (and I do use that term lightly when referring to Bush's regime) in power here in the states, at the moment, are beyond Asshole. They are a contemptible, black-hearted, Machiavellian, nefarious lot and will do anything, and I mean go to any degree or extent to feed their insatiable greed and power. It is an abysmal disgrace there are so many U.S. citizens who are blinded by the RED/RIGHT. But just like so many children, who must learn the hard way, they will learn. We are all going to suffer the bitterness of four more years of pain and four more years of incomprehensible misery. That is why we must keep these reality type messages (i.e. http://filmstripinternational.com/) circulating, it truly will help us get through these dark times. I am putting this link on my page, a page I created to assist in getting the word out that Bush should not be elected to the highest office in the world, now a vain attempt. I was just too naive about the extent of senselessness our nation had acquiesced to. http://www.carolynconnection.com

Thank you,

Carolyn, a blue in Florida

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Fundamentalism. An organized, militant Evangelical movement originating
in the United States in 1920 in opposition to Liberalism and secularism.

Liberalism n. 1. The state or quality of being liberal.
2.a. A political theory founded on the natural goodness of human beings
and the autonomy of the individual and favoring civil and political liberties,
government by law with the consent of the governed, and protection from arbitrary authority.

Secularism n. 1. Religious skepticism or indifference.
2. The view that religious considerations should be excluded
from civil affairs or public education.