The first what?
Jan. 31st, 2005 07:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
plutherusThe first amendment? Isn't that the one about not having any other gods before me?
OK, I'm officially depressed now. Thanks (a lot) to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
reynard52, for this article. Yeah, yet another news piece about how uneducated our nations high school students are. It could have the headline: More than half of American high school students have no idea what the law is, and no concept of what freedom means other than a word used before killing people.
Some quotes:
It goes "Too far"? Yeah, well, King George thought so, too. (Now there's an irony of a name if I ever heard one!)
A lot of adults think so, too. Before they discovered they could restrict gay rights, republicans used to use a flag burning as a wedge issue to drive stupid people to the polls to vote for them.
President Clinton thought so, too, but fortunately the supreme court disagreed with him.
OK, I'm officially depressed now. Thanks (a lot) to
reynard52, for this article. Yeah, yet another news piece about how uneducated our nations high school students are. It could have the headline: More than half of American high school students have no idea what the law is, and no concept of what freedom means other than a word used before killing people.Some quotes:
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...
It goes "Too far"? Yeah, well, King George thought so, too. (Now there's an irony of a name if I ever heard one!)
Three in four students said flag burning is illegal.
A lot of adults think so, too. Before they discovered they could restrict gay rights, republicans used to use a flag burning as a wedge issue to drive stupid people to the polls to vote for them.
About half the students said the government can restrict any indecent material on the Internet.
President Clinton thought so, too, but fortunately the supreme court disagreed with him.
