Flippy - I Rant, You Read
Tuesday, February 01, 2005
Idiot of the Day - High School Students
Don’t even tell me that this isn’t frightening: “Yet, when told of the exact text of the First Amendment, more than one in three high-school students said it goes “too far” in the rights it guarantees. Only half of the students said newspapers should be allowed to publish freely without government approval of stories.” —from an article in the Seattle Times
I don’t even know where to begin. Is it because these kids think that everyone is going to believe exactly as they do, so they’ll only be censoring the “wackos”? Or maybe they don’t even bother to think that deeply about the question, figuring that it won’t matter in their lives. Well, kids, listen up! Unless you want to be living in Nazi Germany where everything was censored and “cleansed” (euphemism for genocide), you’d better start believing in the First Amendment. And really, unless the government is sanctioning murder & mayhem, how on earth can anyone go “too far” in guaranteeing people rights?
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