Trying to relate today’s press with the freedom of the press idea prompted joejolly to visit America’s First Amendment to its Constitution. And joejolly saw several things that neocons may not like. Of course disliking the whole Constitution has made it into the press via, “it ain’t nothing but a goddam piece of paper” but here we can see one specific idea to address. But first lets listen to some of the words of America’s First Amendment to its Constitution. This comes by way of Wikipedia[long may Wikipedia live].
The First Amendment(Amendment I) to the United States Constitutionis part of the Bill of Rights. The amendment prohibits the making of any law respecting an establishment of religion, impeding the free exercise of religion, abridging the freedom of speech, infringing on the freedom of the press, interfering with the right to peaceably assembleor prohibiting the petitioning for a governmental redress of grievances.[...]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
Specific No. 1 – Interfering With The Right To Peaceably Assemble?
From the website of globalresearch.ca comes this post:
Bush’s police suppress Sept. 15 press conference
While the momentum for the Sept. 15 Peace/Impeachment demonstration grows, the Bush Administration is going to extraordinary lengths to suppress the mobilizing for this mass demonstration.
Less than 18 hours ago, National Park Service Police turned a September 15 Press Conference, held in front of the White House, into a chaotic scene. On the pretext that there was no permit for a three foot long folding table that the media placed their microphones on, the police intervened in the middle of the press conference to announce that it was an unpermitted activity. Three people were arrested and are still being held in jail. They include Adam Kokesh, an Iraq war veteran; Tina Richards of Grassroots America; and Ian Thompson an ANSWER Coalition organizer.
The Parks Police even rode a horse directly into the crowd of reporters and shocked onlookers. The National Parks Police is an agency in the Interior Department whose Secretary is a member of George W. Bush’s cabinet. In recent weeks September 15 organizers have been fined more than $30,000 for putting up posters promoting the September 15 March on Washington.[...]
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=6702
Apparently there is a lesson to be learned here. When the neocons are after the second largest oil reserves known to man – don’t mess with them. Sure it cost America trillions of dollars, six thousands lives of American soldiers and hundreds of thousands of lives of Iraq civilians but that is a small price to pay when neocons are doing their favorite pastime – wars – in search of enriching the all-ready rich.
And if “nobody don’t like it” – remember what Bush’s Vice President said: Mr. Bush(the President) could start a nuclear war without getting anybody’s approval. And Mr. Bush has now moved up a notch in America’s approval category. That means Americans have moved down a notch in that same category. Inside America, it’s all relative. Outside America approval is still in flux.
[The Global Research web site now has a neocon ad in a webpage sidebar. That reminded joejolly of his experience with Capital Hill Blue during the last Presidential Campaign four years ago. But Global Research does not seem to be inviting visiting posts from others. Still - will there now be pressure on Global Research to remove the post concerning the Bush Administration? Interesting question.]
[Remember when the neocons were last campaigning and the words CIVIL WAR came up? The Constitution addresses that kind of threat. The press, however, quickly changed the meaning of those words to "intra-party squabbling". And so the threat was defused. The neocons, due to their behavior, have needed to change the meaning of several English words and phrases in order to make them "palatable" at the Christian dinner table.]
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