by G E Barr

Created on: January 29, 2009

IT IS THE EVIDENCE OF THINGS UNSEEN

The United States Constitution was written, taking for granted that all men had minds and thought. Human beings within the human realm must at least speak in order to survive independantly. The second amendment guarantees the right to own a gun and use it lawfully. Without the first amendment, the second amendment would endanger this country. If people are oppressed and their right to think and express what they are thinking is hindered, then by nature of human, the gun becomes even more dangerous.

Frankly, the first amendment, with free speech attached ensures a certain amount of sanity. People in this country can write or speak about communism, socialism or any other ism freely. We are free to consider what goes on in the world. We are free to espouse philosophies, so long as the espousing of those philosophies does not hinder another's existance.

The fourth amendment guards against unreasonable searches and seizures. Without freedom of speech, how could anyone advise the Fourth Estate, who then advises the people? And without free speech, the newspapers are even more political, more propagandic and certainly more political. Not politically geared toward the people but to whomever is running things. The newspaper can exist without freedom of speech, as a distinct entity of general information to be dispersed to the masses. But it cannot exist as an instrument of free speech. Opinion and editorials become less invented by the creative mind of an individual and more a regurgitation of acceptable information approved by a government.

Imagine advertisements reduced to factual information only without any type of embellishment. Imagine the loss of revenue and cash flow in this country if the loss of freedom of speech closed down all of the music studios and no more music was made, except copies of perhaps elevator music. Imagine the printing presses shut down for book publishing. Imagine art defined by government in which nothing which might be even abstractly considered delineal being burned.

No more magazines. The internet is for factual, government information only and the average citizen may not view the sights with specific information concerning that government.

Why would you need a right to an attorney, when you've no right to speak in your defense. You see, it is really simple. You didn't go by the rules. You will be punished.

You no longer need to think creatively. Yes, how depressing. We have a pill for that. There is no need for art galleries. The works of history will be housed in a museum. The Museum of the Dead. You may go there and reminisce of a time. But you will not complain. You will not make statements indicative of maladjustment. Lest you find yourself in a straight jacket.

It was the collective voices swelling up and out that garnered so many rights in this country and ensured that so many abuses came to an end.

There is no greater accumulation of words than the first amendment. Forget going to the movies without it.

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