Animal Crackers

Animal Crackers

Tuesday, August 7, 2007

First Amendment does not equal right to an audience

I heard too many peoplecomplain about their first amendment rights being infringed when they were told not to continue in a certain vain in a certain venue. Crude jokes are not welcome in a church or at a funeral. The only exception is very quietly and with someone you know well. You can't yell fire in a theatre and you just can't sell nude magazines just anywhere/ Adult movies have their own room at the rental store. Even if the message is not objectionable, It does not mean I am going to listen. We all have the right and ability to walk away or turn someone off.

No one binds me to listen to a live speaker. There is an off switch and tuner on the TV and radio and there are plenty of pages of the internet to view. You don't have to read my blog if you don't want. I hope to be entertaining and make some good points but all in all, you can still move on and ignore this blog. I also challenge you to do that to all means of entertainment and media sources. There are so many sources for news and entertainment that it is silly and almost stupid not to take advantage of every source you can. Yes this requires money and you won't be able to necessarily able to afford them all or want to pay for them all but you can get alot for very little money. A radio is cheap. One that is a shortwave is not that much more and can be gotten for about the same money. Newspapers and internet access is free at most libraries anymore.

The freedom of speech at least to me, means the freedom to choose which of the million voices to listen to. Somewhere in there, hopefully, is something worth listening to.

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