Read the First Amendment. Then read it again.
“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.”
It was adopted in 1791.
The freedom of the press and of speech has been challenged again an$ Again, starting as early as the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798.
Currently, we have a president who complains that the press is “the enemy of the people,” because he is criticized so much. It is questionable whether he is subject to more criticism than Franklin D. Roosevelt or Richard Nixon.
The phrase “enemy of the people” emanated from the Soviet Union, where people or groups were denounced for their deviance using this phrase.
Here is a cartoon about Trump’s dislike for the press.
Senator Ben Sasse of Nebraska, a Republican, has criticized Trump for violating his oath of office by criticizing freedom of the press. Maybe Steve Bannon will find an extremist to unseat Sasse when he runs again.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Did anyone notice that the cartoonist, Tom Toles, flattened Trump’s head so there’s no room for the brain that is allegedly not there?
I was more impressed with the depiction as a pig . But brainless pig will do.
I disagree, pigs provide us with so much: bacon, ribs, pulled pork, chicharrones, pig’s ear sandwiches from the Big Apple Inn…excuse me, I’ve got to get an early dinner.
Noticed
I thought it looked more like a toilet bowl.
And the cartoonist was too flattering – cartoon Trump is way too articulate: not a “very, very” in sight!
If anyone finds alternate sources for Washington Post articles, cartoons, etc., please post them. They are no longer giving a number of free articles each month.
When I cite the Wash Post I will reprint the article
I hit a pay wall a long time ago!
Thank you.
SOMETIMES (!!) if I Google the headline I can get the same article in a different newspaper.
Same is true for the NYT (sometimes) when my 10 free ones have run out.
Good suggestion, carolmalaysia.
I am not now a subscriber the Washington Post, but the editorial cartoonists are having a wonderfully bizarre time. The “free” press requires money to operate. I am choosing among alternative sources of information. Like many, I am redirecting some contributiions to groups who are helping people wiped out by fires, floods, winds, and selective disregard or insult from the President and officials in D.C, especially in the case of Puerto Rico.
Last night I listened to C-SPAN. I experienced mental whiplash. Steve Bannon was at a Values Voters summit and rallying the audience to elect more to Congress like former chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court and staunch Evangelical Roy Moore.
Bannon said that conservative Catholics and Evangelicals need to collaborate and take control, re-establish values in the Judeo-Christian religion, and stop Muslims. Bannon had a good time, got wild applause, and portrayed Trump as if he is some sort of savior that the nation needs.
Bannon, not less than Trump, seems to be a person who has no moral compass at all. You can see Steve Bannon in action here and check out the larger agenda at “values.com” https://www.c-span.org/video/?435688-1/steve-bannon-addresses-values-voter-summit
Immediately following that coverage, C-SPAN offered up a panel discussion on “The Resistance to Donald Trump.” That panel included
Jamelle Bouie,Chief Correspondent Slate Web Magazine-Politics;
Ezra Levin, Co-Founder Indivisibles;
DeRay McKesson Activist with Black Lives Matter;
Cecile Richards ,President Planned Parenthood Federation of America; and Crisanta Duran, Speaker For The Colorado House Of Representatives.
The speakers had some good points but no solid plan for action other than “resisting” and collaborating in that effort at every level of governance. The audience was polite, the discussion civil. It was not exactly a pep rally but a civil alternative to the Value Summit.
Something else I noticed. When I searched for the links to include in this post., the presentations at the Values Voter Summit came up first and in abundance. I had to look long and hard to find the link below. Just saying–especially since Google thrives on pushed content.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?434255-5/president-trump-resistance&start=1187
A Case for President Trump’s Impeachment – The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/10/impeach-donald-trump-article-one/542841/?utm_source=nl-atlantic-weekly-101317&silverid=MzM0NTY0NzMyNzIyS0
Whereas Donald J. Trump stood beneath American flags on the steps of the United States Capitol on January 20, 2017, placed his hand on a Bible, and spoke these words:
I, Donald John Trump, do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States; and will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States, so help me God.
Whereas the Constitution of the United States reads in part, “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.”
Whereas Trump has responded to news coverage he dislikes by advocating that the freedom of the press be abridged by bureaucrats and legislators; and by calling the press a public enemy and a target of his “drain the swamp” agenda.
For example:
• “It’s frankly disgusting the way the press is able to write whatever they want to write and people should want to look into it.”
• “Network news has become so partisan, distorted and fake that licenses must be challenged and, if appropriate, revoked. Not fair to public!”
• “With all of the Fake News coming out of NBC and the Networks, at what point is it appropriate to challenge their License? Bad for country!”
• “Why Isn’t the Senate Intel Committee looking into the Fake News Networks in OUR country to see why so much of our news is just made up-FAKE!”
• “Drain the Swamp should be changed to Drain the Sewer – it’s actually much worse than anyone ever thought, and it begins with the Fake News!”
• “With all of its phony unnamed sources & highly slanted & even fraudulent reporting, #Fake News is DISTORTING DEMOCRACY in our country!”
• “The FAKE NEWS media (failing @nytimes, @CNN, @NBCNews and many more) is not my enemy, it is the enemy of the American people. SICK!”
Whereas Trump has responded to protected speech he dislikes by calling for a punitive government response and issuing commands to private citizens like a king or tyrant.
For example:
• “It is about time that Roger Goodell of the NFL is finally demanding that all players STAND for our great National Anthem-RESPECT OUR COUNTRY”
• “Why is the NFL getting massive tax breaks while at the same time disrespecting our Anthem, Flag and Country? Change tax law!”
• “The NFL has all sorts of rules and regulations. The only way out for them is to set a rule that you can’t kneel during our National Anthem!”
• “The issue of kneeling has nothing to do with race. It is about respect for our Country, Flag and National Anthem. NFL must respect this!”
• “If a player wants the privilege of making millions of dollars in the NFL,or other leagues, he or she should not be allowed to disrespect”
Whereas the aforementioned statements, individually or in aggregate, establish a clear pattern of failing to defend the Constitution and repeated attacks on its Bill of Rights.
Whereas it is a high crime to violate one’s sworn oath to the supreme law of the land.
Wherefore, Donald John Trump, through flagrant violations of the oath he took before God, country, and flag, warrants impeachment, trial, removal, and public disgrace.
I believe that the President has been using his constitutional rights of freedom of speech to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of this country legally. I also believe that he is a complicated man and enjoys the banter with the press and keeping them off guard. Get rid of them?? Please , he is having too much fun with them and they have no idea how to handle him. He is using them. He is a master at public relations and free publicity. He would never get rid of them if he can use them to distract. He has a pretty good handle on the pulse of the country outside the elite beltway. He knows what fires people up. The newspapers do not.
What Illegal ACTION has Trump engaged in while president? He has tried to work with congress and has found the deep state too powerful and has to enact executive orders to get the country moving.
This is a capitalist republic and so far, it is not fascist or socialist—if he can help it.
What I find disheartening is the DOJ not going after and prosecuting IRS officials, Lois Learner, Hillary and her closest associates, the Clinton Foundation, James Comey, the 2 Past DOJs for contempt of congress and collusion with Bill Clinton, and several state department officials involved in the Banghazi disaster. A special counsel spends millions investigating possible Russian connections to the Trump campaign to keep the Democrates happy. This is the least of our worries! We meddle in other country elections so expect others to do the same to us (just so the votes aren’t changed). We cannot prove illegal voting but we have found many, many thousands of illegal voter registrations. Why aren’t we seeing action for that crime? In the real world—a crime is a crime and it is NOT wiped off the books because of who you are–simply because a year has passed. Right, Harvey?
If the DOJ prosecutes Hillary for using a private email server, it will have to prosecute Ivanka and Jared Kushner too.
“He has tried to work with congress and has found the deep state too powerful and has to enact executive orders to get the country moving.”
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The great dealings we have received from tRump:
—Withdrawing from UNESCO.
—Decertifying the Iran Deal. (Trump continues to isolate the US from our allies around the world)
—Personally works to sabotage our healthcare system
—Sends insulting Tweets to Kim Jong Un and ups the threat of war
__Refusing to send adequate supplies to Puerto Rico (throwing paper towels doesn’t count) and reinstating the Jones Act so that destitute people who can’t access their ATM’s have to pay double for essential items
—Trashes the media when it is critical of his made up ‘facts’ [Not everything is ‘wonderful, the greatest, the biggest…]
—supports Nazi activities within the US
—-can’t speak in sentences and changes his mind regularly on everything. Foreign leaders no longer trust him.
—regularly picks people who are billionaires and people who are totally unfit for their positions. [Tell me what is great about DeVos.]
—biased against anyone who isn’t white male
—works to get tax cuts for the wealthy because he wants more money
—increases money for a bloated military
—wants to increase our nuclear weapons arsenal
—accepts Russian interference in our elections because it got him elected
—non-recognition of climate change and works to destroy the EPA, which is the only agency that works to keep our air, water and total environment livable
Please explain in detail how this is ‘getting our country moving again’. It definitely is moving but in the wrong direction.
I write at a news site, and must have links, so I collect links in a file called WRECKING BALL. YOU RLIST IS A GOOD ONE, and I could add hundreds more…including providing a model for our youth
http://verifiedpolitics.com/trump-just-made-fun-justice-ginsburgs-appearance-physical-health/
and he is denigrating the Constitution and it s guarantee of a free press, with his rants about media
Trump rails against NBC News again, minutes before his interview with FOX News airs – AOL News https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/10/12/trump-rails-against-nbc-news-again-minutes-before-his-interview-with-fox-news-airs/23241005/
The president has been on a tear in recent weeks, amid what has been yet another rough patch for his administration. Private feuds have spilled out into the public and people close to the White House have expressed concern about Trump’s increasingly volatile behavior.
http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-behavior-in-white-house-bob-corker-tillerson-tweets-feuds-2017-10?utm_source=referral&utm_medium=aol
Donald Trump ‘Betrayed First Amendment Values,’ According to Journalism Advocates
BY SAMMY NICKALLS
OCT 13, 2016
Through his “words and actions as a candidate,” Trump “has consistently betrayed First Amendment values,” reads the statement:
“A Trump presidency would represent a threat to press freedom in the United States, but the consequences for the rights of journalists around the world could be far more serious. …Trump has consistently demonstrated a contempt for the role of the press beyond offering publicity to him and advancing his interests. For this reason CPJ is taking the unprecedented step of speaking out now. This is not about picking sides in an election. This is recognizing that a Trump presidency represents a threat to press freedom unknown in modern history.”
http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/news/a49599/donald-trump-betrayed-first-amendment-values-according-to-journalism-advocates/
I’m glad to see the Bill of Rights, especially the First Amendment, being defended so staunchly. Does that intense defense extend to the Second Amendment as well? It seems to me that the Second Amendment is the guarantor of all the rest against government overstepping its authority. Don’t you think so too?
How interesting that Japan has extremely strict gun laws and that there have been no mass killings. Are you sure we need more guns to keep ourselves safe?
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In Japan, citizens are banned from possessing, carrying, selling or buying handguns or rifles. Importing gun parts is also prohibited under the Firearm and Sword Control Law.
Only licensed hunters are allowed to own shotguns, andthe screening process is very strict.
Applicants are required to obtain a license from a local government and undergo background checks by police as well as mental and drug tests at hospitals.
The gun license must be renewed every three years, and applicants are required to again undergo the various tests.
Shotgun owners are also required to store their weapons in a specified locker at their home and report its location to police. Ammunition must be kept in a separate locked safe.
While gun-related incidents are rare in Japan, the country is no stranger to mass murder cases.
In December 2007, a man with a shotgun killed two people at a fitness club and injured six others before committing suicide in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture…
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/06/13/national/crime-legal/what-are-the-chances-of-a-mass-shooting-in-japan/#.WdgJLuMPcHR.gmail
Harlan, I strongly support the arming of a “well regulated militia.” The precise language of the Second Amendment.
Harlan Underhill
Absolutely Harlan the second amendment is of great value. Remind me the next time you have a slave runaway or there is a rebellion on your plantation . I will see if we still have one of the state militias around assist you in your time of need. We could have given that power to the Federal Government but not only did we not trust them with a standing army . We did not trust them with the ability to controll a citizen army. Which they might one day use to either free the slaves or leave us defenseless . Of course that all changed with the war of 1812. And now we do not have state militias . But I’ll keep looking for you.
Now it took two hundred and fifteen + years to come up with a bunch of ideologue morons on the court who could change the meaning of that amendment . You see we have a fine tradition of the sheriff telling you to leave your guns behind.
“A visitor arriving in Wichita, Kansas in 1873, the heart of the Wild West era, would have seen signs declaring, “Leave Your Revolvers At Police Headquarters, and Get a Check.”
So governments have always had the right to regulate even hand guns. You had no second amendment right to bear arms even in the Wild West
But clever they were Obi Wan , they knew they were leading us to the dark-side . So they prevented the people from getting what they really would need to fight an oppressive government. Because if the fascist demagogues aligned with their party ever seriously attacked the first amendment that peashooter Ar15 even modified will do me no good . And they wont let me purchase a cruise missile
Thanks, Joel.
I have been wondering about that runaway slave problem. Not having a gun myself, I will have to call Harlan.
“The Right to Bear Missiles”
If owners of the slave
Had had a Pershing 2
The slaves would all behave
And so would Union too
I was gonna say, Harlan, but Joel stole my thunder. It’s a major deflection on your part to sashay from discussion of 1st Amendment to 2nd– one a foundational national principle, the other an anachronism in serious need of update to reflect abolition of slavery & presence of standing army– just cuz… support one amendment gotta support the next? [or something]
“A well-regulated militia….”
I’m good with the Second Amendment as long as that little disclaimer is duly noted, especially that “well-regulated” part.
“The right to Bear 🐻 arms”
Militias can be regulated
Just their guns can not
Bill of Rights is abrogated
When the guns are sought
Grizzly bear is never sated
By the kids in schools
Hunter needs the latest dated
Guns and other tools
You should read the 2d amendment in its entirety. The Supreme Court held in Heller v. District of Columbia (2008), that the right to keep and bear arms, is both an individual and a collective right. The prefatory clause (militia) does not diminish nor override the main clause (the people).
Charles,
Did you know that Obama wrote the Second Amendment?
Keep it a secret. If Trump finds out, he will want to repeal it.
Meanwhile let the slaughters proceed!
Yes. We know the rights it gives us.
But the folks who wrote this believed in rational behavior, civil culture,dictating its use.
Never could they imagine the internet, fake news, the alt right or video games that celebrate theft, like grand theft auto.
NO forefather imagined that a guns would end up in the hands of looneys who would go to a place where people gather and mow them down.
I doubt that no founding father even imagined mass produced firearms capable of firing several thousand rounds a minute with armor piercing and/or explosive bullets versus the musket that fired a small ball of metal, about 3-rounds a minute, and then muskets weren’t very accurate.
The combat range of a rifled musket during the US Civil War was 300 yards.
An AR15 is capable of 500 to 800-yard kills.
Therefore a musket can shoot about 900 feet while an AR15 can reach as far as 2,400 feet or further.
If we interpret the 2nd Amendment literally like Betsy DeVos interprets the Bible, then the only firearms a citizen should be able to buy were the firearms available in the 18th century when the 2nd Amendment was written.
https://www.wired.com/video/2016/10/musket-vs-ar15-throwdown/
Musket vs. AR-15: How Do They Compare? Watch the video for the comparison and answer.
WOW. Thank you.
Exactly.
Q Yes. We know the rights it gives us.
But the folks who wrote this believed in rational behavior, civil culture,dictating its use.
Never could they imagine the internet, fake news, the alt right or video games that celebrate theft, like grand theft auto.
NO forefather imagined that a guns would end up in the hands of looneys who would go to a place where people gather and mow them down. END Q
The 2d amendment does not give rights to anyone, militia nor private citizen. The right to keep and bear arms, predates the US Constitution. see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_keep_and_bear_arms
I am generally in agreement, that the framers could not have imagined the internet. (So what?)
Mental illness had been around as long as humans. It makes perfect sense that people in 1789, could have imagined that mentally ill persons could obtain firearms.
Our rights and freedoms are inherent. No government gives rights to anyone. Governments are established to protect and secure our rights.
Q that to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, ENDQ (From the Declaration of Independence)
So glad to know that I am endowed by my Creator with the inalienable right to buy the weaponry necessary to blast to bits anyone who threatens me and mine.
“So glad to know that I am endowed by my Creator with the inalienable right to buy the weaponry necessary to blast to bits anyone who threatens me and mine.”
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Why not expand the thought? “You are now endowed by your Creator with the inalienable right to buy the weaponry necessary to blast to bits anyone, anywhere, any time, whenever it strikes you as necessary.” This is not limited to movie theaters, concerts, schools or political protests.
Harlan said: “It seems to me that the Second Amendment is the guarantor of all the rest against government overstepping its authority.” Total nonsense, balderdash, gibberish and a typical NRA straw man talking point. All those guns didn’t stop us from engaging in unnecessary wars of choice. All those guns didn’t stop a duplicitous lying conman and demagogue from becoming president.
Harlan must have watched the Las Vegas massacre with satisfaction. Just a man and his guns, killing innocent strangers.
I like the 3rd Amendment. No quartering soldiers in my apartment. I stand fast by that.
Very unpatriotic of you not to quarter any soldiers in your apartment.
If he’s tall, dark, handsome and wealthy I might reconsider it. Oh, and he also has to be single. (Maybe I’ll put out an application form.)
It doesn’t say anything about nickel and diming.
That’s right. The Constitution says nothing about nickel and diming. That’s why the Department of Education is able to quarter entrepreneurial nickel and dimers in my classroom. Come to think of it, we need to strengthen the 3rd Amendment to include more coins.
And no quartering soldiers in my classroom either. I stand fast by that too. I will deal with the L.A. grizzly problem myself. And no, Harlan, not with the 2nd Amendment. I kill grizzlies with kindness. And bear spray.
“Nickel and Diming”
The coins of the realm
Are nickel and dime
And those at the helm
Are versed in the crime
@Harlan: I find myself in agreement with your point. The 2d amendment is equally important, with the 1st and the other amendments, (excepting only the 18th, which was repealed).
The framers had just been through a revolution, and knew that the free citizens of the new Republic, had the right to keep and bear arms, both collectively (Militias), and individually (the People).
In 1791, many citizens lived on the frontier, the Spanish held Florida, and the British still held Canada. Many Americans needed firearms to hunt game, and there was also the need for self-defense against attacks by Indians.
Today, many of the justifications are anachronistic. Our urban population is not out hunting for venison, and the Spanish are not going to invade south Georgia.
Nevertheless, the people still have the right to self-defense, and with that right comes the concurrent right to keep and bear deadly weapons. Without weapons, the right to self-defense is meaningless.
People also own deadly weapons for target and skeet shooting. People own antique weapons, as collectibles. My uncle even makes his own bullets, and mixes his own gunpowder.
The Supreme Court held in Heller V. District of Columbia, that the right to keep and bear arms, is both an individual and collective right.
May it always be so!
Thomas Jefferson declared that “Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.” And Founding Father John Adams, one of the key drafters of our entire Constitution, declared that “The liberty of the Press is essential to the Security of the State.” Our Founding Fathers put Freedom of the Press right there in the very First Amendment of the Bill of Rights. A Free Press is our republic’s first line of defense against fascism, and that’s why America’s free press is under attack. on two fronts: The attack from the White House is well known and public, but the attack from inside the press is invisible. Thanks to Congress’s failure to enforce antitrust laws, just a handful of large corporations own all the major newspapers, television stations, and radio stations. Pressure from corporate leadership is forcing their news operations to become more and more conservative and less and less critical of threats to our republic.
Read the thoughtful feature story “Covering a free press under siege” in the July 2, 2017, Los Angeles Times. We have much to worry about, and loss of our free press is at the top because without probing reporting we will know nothing about the other important issues other than what Big Brother wants us to know…and to think.
Well I don’t think it was anti trust laws as much as another law I loath Bill Clinton for .
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/34789-democracy-in-peril-twenty-years-of-media-consolidation-under-the-telecommunications-act
And if you notice the source , it is from more independent journalism .
So as I have said many times there is a difference between fake news and editorialized news.. Yes the right does just make things up and they are deplorable
However .
“The reader will understand that I despise these “yellows”; they are utterly without honor, they are vulgar and cruel; and yet, in spite of all their vices, I count them less dangerous to society than the so-called “respectable” papers, which pretend to all the virtues, and set the smug and pious tone for good society — papers like the “New York Tribune” and the “Boston Evening Transcript” and the “Baltimore Sun,” which are read by rich old gentlemen and maiden aunts, and can hardly ever be forced to admit to their columns any new or vital event or opinion. These are “kept” papers, in the strictest sense of the term, and do not have to hustle on the street for money. They serve the pocketbooks of the whole propertied class — which is the meaning of the term “respectability” in the bourgeois world. On the other hand the “yellow” journals, serving their own pocketbooks exclusively, will often print attacks on vested wealth, provided the attacks are startling and sensational, and provided the vested wealth in question is not a heavy advertiser” Upton Sinclair
That did post unexpectedly .
So the question I was going to ask is can we discus, education reform, trade , the Robots , Skills shortages ,foreign affairs , any number of areas and not be leery of even our papers of records .
I do not know what the answer is to solve this . But I would hope the answer is education . One of the reasons education has been under assault k-U for years.
An educated citizenry should be able to dispel with fake news quickly and discern editorializing from news . Of course that implies that there are multiple sources to judge from. To remind you of the Washington Post assault on numerous small Journalistic sites a disturbing assault on free press using unnamed sources by one of our papers of record.
CSPAN’s Wahington Journal had a good segment on the first amendment w/Floyd Abrams yesterday, worth watching:
https://www.c-span.org/video/?435623-3/washington-journal-floyd-abrams-discusses-first-amendment-press-freedom
For those not familiar w/Wash Jnl, it’s a call-in show running 7-10am 365/yr: superhumanly-restrained moderators cover daily news topics, featuring 3 or 4 spokesmen [ranging from reporters to elected reps to authors et al topical experts]– they read snatches of topic-related news coverage from a wide spectrum of publications while moderating phoned-in Q’s from JQPublic, who call in on lines labelled Dem/Rep/Ind [or modified to suit topic, e.g., soliciting folks who are directly involved in topic as victims, professionals, etc]
How sad would it be if impeachment did occur, but thanks to the intervention of Larry Flynt? Imagine an entire country owing thanks to a p*rnographer?!?
I loved this parody. Randy and I are in agreement.
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DESPERATE CHEETO – Randy Rainbow Song Parody
Randy Rainbow
Published on Oct 11, 2017
Trump’s threats against the press are hollow, but not harmless – Chicago Tribune
…It may be tempting to shrug off Trump’s threats as nothing but venting — or to see them as a big slab of red meat to feed his base.
And it may also be tempting to say his fighting words don’t matter much because the worst threats haven’t come to fruition.
But even if Trump can’t really get a network’s broadcast license revoked or libel laws changed, he still can — and does — undermine American values, both here and abroad, when he attacks the press…
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-perspec-media-trump-nbc-first-amendment-1017-20171016-story.html#share=email~story
A Canadian friend sent me this. Had to pass it onward.
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I bought a new Ford F 150 Tri-Flex Fuel Truck from an Arizona dealer. Go
figure, it runs on either hydrogen, gasoline, or E85.
I returned to the dealer yesterday because I couldn’t get the radio to work.
The service technician explained that the radio was voice activated.
‘Nelson’, the technician said to the radio. The radio replied, ‘Ricky or
Willie?’ ‘Willie!’ he continued and ‘On The Road Again’ came from the speakers
Then he said, ‘Ray Charles!’, and in an instant ‘Georgia On My Mind’ replaced
Willie Nelson..
I drove away happy, and for the next few days, every time I’d say,
‘Beethoven’, I’d get beautiful classical music, and if I said, ‘Beatles’, I’d
get one of their awesome songs.
Yesterday, some guy ran a red light and nearly creamed my new truck, but I
swerved in time to avoid him.
I yelled, ‘Ass Hole!’
Immediately the radio responded with, “Ladies and gentlemen, The President of the United States, Donald Trump.”
Damn I love this truck…
Trump’s First Amendment fight emblematic of nationwide problem
…America’s collective ignorance of the workings of the First Amendment cannot be blamed on Mr. Trump. Instead, the studies cited above show that our understanding and faith in the First Amendment has been deteriorating for quite sometime. But when you couple Mr. Trump’s public attacks on free speech and freedom of the press with this ignorance, it is a dangerous and volatile mix that has potential to do real and permanent damage to our liberties.
We must not let it happen.
http://www.toledoblade.com/Opinion/2017/10/13/Trump-s-First-Amendment-fight-emblematic-of-nationwide-problem.html