Excerpt below taken from: http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/bill_of_rights_transcript.html
“Written and ratified by the
Congress of the United States begun and held at the City of New-York, on
Wednesday the fourth of March, one thousand seven hundred and eighty nine.
Amendment I
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.”
The purpose of posting the above is to make sure we
are reading from the same page. I want you to pay particular attention to the
order of the rights listed in the 1st amendment; religion, speech,
assembly and redress of grievances.
Long ago dictatorships and monarchy’s (which are familial dictatorships)
ruled the world using everything from religion to speech to assembly as an
excuse to crush uprisings in country’s falling apart. Our revolution was fought
and won in an attempt to put government in its place with regard to rights of
the citizenry. Our current President
had attacked every single freedom guaranteed by this amendment. Not so you say? I am over-reacting your say?
Personally I have begun to think this
administration; either by design (doubtful) or by sheer ignorance (most likely)
is following a path to systematically repeal each of our amended rights. Take
for example freedom of religion, as you see above the 1st amendment
states Congress won’t make any laws,
“respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free
exercise thereof”. The prohibition of religious exercise is directly violated
by Obama administration policy, which mandates the purchase of contraception by
religious institutions. According to the Dept of Health and Human Services
website “women will have free
preventive care that includes contraceptive services no matter where she works.
The policy also ensures that if a woman works for religious employers with
objections to providing contraceptive services as part of its health plan, the
religious employer will not be required to provide contraception coverage, but
her insurance company will be required to offer contraceptive care free of
charge.” The policy is a laughable
attempt to pretend that religious organizations won’t be paying (perhaps
indirectly) for contraception. It is no different than pretending that federal
dollars going to Planned Parenthood don’t support abortion services. Simply,
ridiculous. Of course that isn’t the only assault on the 1st
amendment.
President Obama recently upped the ante in his assault
on the freedom of speech, by asking You Tube to specifically review a 14 min
video posted on its website in a search for a policy violation to mask his
intended result which is pulling the video. I won’t go into the reasons behind his desire for removing
the video, that’s for a later post, but we should all be very concerned about
federal government’s direct assault on the freedom of speech. However, as with
other infringement on our rights, this one coincides with another assault.
Over the past two years, the Obama FCC has been
attempting to implement policies that manipulate the Fairness Doctrine, part of
the Communications Act of 1934, to increase liberal radio time, while masking
the bias of liberal media on television as part of one of the two exceptions (“bona
fide news interview, scheduled newscast”) allowed in the law. If anyone can actually watch CNN or NBC
and believe they are “newscast” or bona fide news”, I have a bridge in New York
I would love to sell you.
All of this babbling does have a purpose. I urge all
citizens to ask; why, if not for self-serving purposes, would any President
attack the fundamental rights provided by our Constitution? I can think of no reason. Please let me
know if you can think of one. One of the problems with most, if not all, politicians
is that they quickly forget their job is first to do what is best for our
country.
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