Government Crackdown on Free Speech: Are They Firing Employees for Exercising Their Rights?: "A lawsuit being heard this month will likely define the free speech rights of federal employees and so determine the quality of people who will make up our government.
Here’s the First Amendment, in full: “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.”
Those beautiful words, almost haiku-like, are the sparse poetry of the American democratic experiment. The Founders purposely wrote the First Amendment to read broadly, and not like a snippet of tax code, in order to emphasize that it should encompass everything from shouted religious rantings to eloquent political criticism. Go ahead, reread it aloud at this moment when the government seems to be carving out an exception to it large enough to drive a tank through...."
2 comments:
Good for them.
It really is! We need to stand up for our rights!
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