I over heard a conversation last night in a lounge, between two teenage girls, that really disturbed me. The two were complaining about the unsettling nature of a program they saw on the local public access channel. I was intrigued by the nature of their conversation. It seems that both of the girls felt as though the show was too graphic in nature and gave too much freedom to the producers of that show. How can that be? The idea of "too much freedom" implies that some of their freedom should be taken away. The two students were expressing themselves in a creative and nondestructive way, which should be embraced, not ridiculed. The local access channel has the right to broadcast anything they deem worthwhile.
             Our local access channel should not only be allowed to show what they want, but are granted that right under our nation's constitution. Two hundred years ago several men gathered together and laid down a few things, some inalienable rights, that they felt each person was entitled to. Of these things, they emphasized the importance of the freedom of speech. What's that? We are free to speak? Damn right! Good ol' Ben and Tommy knew what they were doing in that hot Pennsylvanian basement. Now, like it was then, numerous worldly influences surround us daily, leaving our lives open to the opinion of others. Advertisements, public speeches, and even broadcast television all can be taken as an insult to a person's integrity and code of morals. Our founding fathers were looking ahead to the problems that might occur from a nation living in contrast to the controlling monarchy in which they were running from. They were setting a firm and explicit platform for future newspapers, novelists, comedians, television stations; virtually all of the communication professions worldwide.
             Along with the communicational foundations that our country was founded upon, our local access channel is protected by something that we ea...