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Poll: Majority of Americans Want First Amendment Rewritten
« on: October 24, 2019, 05:27:19 pm »
Poll: Majority of Americans Want First Amendment Rewritten

51 percent of Millennials want fines or jail time for 'hate speech'

Collin Anderson - October 24, 2019 5:00 AM

A majority of Americans believe the First Amendment should be rewritten and are willing to crack down on free speech, as well as the press, according to a new poll.

More than 60 percent of Americans agree on restricting speech in some way, while a slim majority, 51 percent, want to see the First Amendment rewritten to "reflect the cultural norms of today." The Campaign for Free Speech, which conducted the survey, said the results "indicate free speech is under more threat than previously believed."

"The findings are frankly extraordinary," executive director Bob Lystad told the Washington Free Beacon. "Our free speech rights and our free press rights have evolved well over 200 years, and people now seem to be rethinking them."

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https://freebeacon.com/issues/poll-majority-of-americans-want-first-amendment-rewritten/
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Re: Poll: Majority of Americans Want First Amendment Rewritten
« Reply #1 on: October 24, 2019, 05:44:09 pm »
This has been brought to you via "public education". The first amendment is a fundamental right that underpins everything. This stupidity is very disturbing.
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Re: Poll: Majority of Americans Want First Amendment Rewritten
« Reply #2 on: October 24, 2019, 05:53:31 pm »
Nanny state.
There are those who want the government to take care of everything.
It looks like that now includes what you can say, where you can say it, and who you can say it to.
I know, we have "shouting fire in a crowded theater" laws now, but we must do what we can to stop the nonsense right there.

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Re: Poll: Majority of Americans Want First Amendment Rewritten
« Reply #3 on: October 24, 2019, 05:54:27 pm »
@corbe

This would be an excellent poll, sir
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Re: Poll: Majority of Americans Want First Amendment Rewritten
« Reply #4 on: October 24, 2019, 05:56:19 pm »
Yet another reminder of the dangers of democracy.
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Re: Poll: Majority of Americans Want First Amendment Rewritten
« Reply #5 on: October 24, 2019, 06:01:27 pm »
The majority of people in Hell want ice water.

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Re: Poll: Majority of Americans Want First Amendment Rewritten
« Reply #6 on: October 24, 2019, 06:24:45 pm »
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...a slim majority, 51 percent, want to see the First Amendment rewritten...

That won't make it happen.

“The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments to this Constitution, or, on the Application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several States, shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments, which, in either Case, shall be valid to all Intents and Purposes, as part of this Constitution, when ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths of the several States, or by Conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other Mode of Ratification may be proposed by the Congress; Provided that no Amendment which may be made prior to the Year One thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any Manner affect the first and fourth Clauses in the Ninth Section of the first Article; and that no State, without its Consent, shall be deprived of its equal Suffrage in the Senate.”
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Re: Poll: Majority of Americans Want First Amendment Rewritten
« Reply #7 on: October 24, 2019, 06:26:46 pm »
The majority of people in Hell want ice water.

Hell and the United States are not democracies. 
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Re: Poll: Majority of Americans Want First Amendment Rewritten
« Reply #8 on: October 24, 2019, 06:37:00 pm »
Mob rule by the majority of uneducated, uninformed, and unintelligent (dumbed down) masses.

Swell. 

But I don't believe the poll.  Just another leftist wet-dream.
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Re: Poll: Majority of Americans Want First Amendment Rewritten
« Reply #9 on: October 24, 2019, 06:49:30 pm »
There was a movie almost made in the thirties called "It Can't Happen Here" based on a Sinclair Lewis novel that had the theme that America was immune to threats from fascism, communism, etc.
 Lewis feared the rise of Huey Long and hoped his novel would stop Long's rise. Hollywood attempted to produce the movie, but it never materialized on the silver screen. Long was assassinated before filming of the novel was started.
The reality is it certainly! can happen here.
Like Reagan said, all it takes is just one generation that doesn't understand what America means and what it means to be an American instead of just a place where you hang your hat.

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Re: Poll: Majority of Americans Want First Amendment Rewritten
« Reply #10 on: October 24, 2019, 06:53:31 pm »
There was a movie almost made in the thirties called "It Can't Happen Here" based on a Sinclair Lewis novel that had the theme that America was immune to threats from fascism, communism, etc.
 Lewis feared the rise of Huey Long and hoped his novel would stop Long's rise. Hollywood attempted to produce the movie, but it never materialized on the silver screen. Long was assassinated before filming of the novel was started.
The reality is it certainly! can happen here.
Like Reagan said, all it takes is just one generation that doesn't understand what America means and what it means to be an American instead of just a place where you hang your hat.

And even if... enough Americans raise their kids to value American traditions and freedoms.... if the leftie PTBs manage to import enough self-serving "new voters", along with those already voting for more freebies.... then everything that our forefathers and family fought and died for over the generations certainly could end up being all for nothing.
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Re: Poll: Majority of Americans Want First Amendment Rewritten
« Reply #11 on: October 24, 2019, 09:26:53 pm »
And even if... enough Americans raise their kids to value American traditions and freedoms.... if the leftie PTBs manage to import enough self-serving "new voters", along with those already voting for more freebies.... then everything that our forefathers and family fought and died for over the generations certainly could end up being all for nothing.
I screwed up the theme of Lewis's novel. The novel was not about the U.S. being invulnerable to being taken over by a fascist dictator.
The novel had a Mussolini-type dictator taking over the U.S. Huey Long was the inspiration, and Lewis's book was a warning about what might happen if somebody like Long took over.

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Re: Poll: Majority of Americans Want First Amendment Rewritten
« Reply #12 on: October 25, 2019, 01:14:39 pm »
Know what this poll is worth?

Just look at article:

80% don’t actually know what the First Amendment really protects.

So those answering the poll do not even know what it is.

Therefore, poll is worthless.
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Re: Poll: Majority of Americans Want First Amendment Rewritten
« Reply #13 on: October 25, 2019, 01:21:57 pm »
Know what this poll is worth?

Just look at article:

80% don’t actually know what the First Amendment really protects.

So those answering the poll do not even know what it is.

Therefore, poll is worthless.
Good point, there.
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Re: Poll: Majority of Americans Want First Amendment Rewritten
« Reply #14 on: October 25, 2019, 02:06:01 pm »
Like Reagan said, all it takes is just one generation that doesn't understand what America means and what it means to be an American instead of just a place where you hang your hat.
Exactly. Thanks to public education and unengaged parents, too many children don't know true history or what it means. They're inculcated with the belief that the USA is nothing special and our Constitution is no better than any other country's rules.
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Re: Poll: Majority of Americans Want First Amendment Rewritten
« Reply #15 on: October 25, 2019, 05:00:56 pm »
Know what this poll is worth?

Just look at article:

80% don’t actually know what the First Amendment really protects.

So those answering the poll do not even know what it is.

Therefore, poll is worthless.

Just as worthless as the polls favoring the elimination of the Electoral College.
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