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When we as a nation are willfully abandoning the 1st why should we care that congress is abandoning the 5th ?


Actually, the Freedom of the Press part of the first is the only thing that has been sacrosanct in the Bill of Rights.

Really, we've abandoned the 9th and 10th almost completely. The 4th has been under assault for ages. The 2nd is being paired back even more with the New Town tragedy.

One day, when most of the amendments have no real weight in our society, then the Freedom of the Press will be extinguished as well.

Americans have let the Federal Government divide us and work themselves into the cracks between us. Lately, the divide has been between the "rich" and the "poor"... voters really lapped that one up.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came...


Its not just the press. We have systematically abandoned almost every clause of the first amendment.




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