If I write down my thoughts about how wasteful the government is for example, and they happen to be published on a website, please explain to me how the government can stop me from doing so under my first amendment rights. It is idiotic fools like you who are responsible for Americans having NO respect for congressmen and government.

Once again our law makers have forgotten that the constitution trumps any law they pass. The constitution gives all citizens the right of free speech and freedom of the press. That’s the great thing about rights, you don’t have to ‘deserve’ them. At least that’s how our country was meant to work. Unfortunately, there is no mechanism in our society for defending the constitution and enforcing its primacy upon those who would usurp its authority such as the Supreme Court and our own Congress.

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I’m ready for a fight. Here’s Washington trying to limit the citizenry — again!

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As mentioned above, bloggers are the new media. We break stories, and we’re not inhibited by lap dog policies and unwritten rules to defend and protect bureaucrats. Our only agenda is truth.

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News is news. Free press doesn’t mean you are only the free press if you are paid by Fox News of MSNBC. Citizen journalism, blogging, and major media corporations are all important and should be protected under the first amendment. Graham is OUT TO LUNCH. He is really bothering me lately. I think its time he leaves Washington DC. I would like to make this point though: ALL media is biased. Bloggers are less biased, but just because they do not work for a major corporation does not mean they do not put their own spin on things. That being said: I trust bloggers more than I trust mainstream media, because they tend to say “I am conservative” or “I am liberal” while the mainstream media tries to pretend they aren’t biased. Its obvious!

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Shouldn’t everyone have 1st amendment rights?

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Once upon a time
The newspapers controlled most of the public discourse,and Lo,the writers were REPORTERS with special standing.Celebrities!
Radio and then Television pushed thier way into the news business and ,LO the newspaper reporters were diminished in status.
Now comes the internet,websites VOLKALIZE. LO! We can all become reporters (those who are literate anyway)
We are not on television,but there are legions of us, we are changing the world,little by little. Like ANTS. But enough of us can move a bigger mountain than the biggest Media Star over time.
We are all REPORTERS/COMMENTATORS.
We all demand 1st amedment rights.
We are all allowed to ask questions,of anybody,it is our RIGHT.
People who have secrets and swear to keep silent have their legal obligations,
but all of us have the right to ASK questions.

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No one professional is more free than others. The Bill of Rights was for each American. When I heard the question of bloggers qualifying for “Press Rights” I thought “How ignorant and elitist.”

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First amendment rights extend to every American. Even, or especially those who hold an opinion contrary to my own. Now we hear that Mr. Obama and Mr. Holder want to prosecute Americans for stating in public their negative views about Islam, threatening them with “civil rights” violations. My incredulous question is, “Are they daft?” Have they overlooked the fact that this IS the United States of America?

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EVERYONE has 1st amendment rights. Published or unpublished. The move to license journalists is a way around the 1st amendment and an attempt to control access to information.

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