Free Speech

             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 U.S. Constitution says that everyone that is an American citizen has the right of free speech. You can find censorship almost anywhere around you. It's in music, television, and even literature. I don't believe that it is fair that there be some much censorship in a country that does nothing but promise freedom to all its occupants. It is said that suppression of all of these things helps to prevent the crimes that occur. However even with all of the restrictions, there are still people murdering and stealing. America was founded on freedom. Why should the government censor the motion picture industry, the music industry, or the publishing business? Censorship of music, the Internet, literature and films is unconstitutional because we all have the right to free speech.
             Music is one of the many places where you can find censorship. You would think that by now grown adults, college-educated and reasonably successful in traditional ways, might have adjusted to the fact that "bad words" on the radio, or TV, or movies, or CDs, don't cause young people to rebel like the marauding teens in "Wild in the Streets." All the anecdotes in the world about let down high school students who listen to violent rock/rap lyrics before knocking over a bunch of mailboxes or pulling out a shotgun and killing their classmates can never refute the fact that thousands/millions of people listen to those same lyrics and hear them for what they are. And what are they? Whether serious political or social commentary, or merely shocking and tasteless parody, they are not commanders of violence.
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