So much for the first amendment

[Edbert1]

When I was very young I was a member of the ACLU. Until I learned that the high ideals they claim to protect are only applied to members of "approved" groups. Christians, heterosexuals, and gun-owners need not apply.

[Elfie]

Congress should not establish a religion and enforce the legal observation of it by law, nor compel men to worship God in any manner contary to their conscience, or that one sect might obtain a pre-eminence, or two combined together, and establish a religion to which they would compel others to conform (Annals of Congress, Sat Aug 15th, 1789 pages 730 - 731)

That is a summary of the first amendment by James Madison, who is known as the Father of the Constitution.

Reading that, I find it hard to believe that the Founders intended for this young girl to be censored the way she was.

[Elfie]

Originally posted by Sandman
IIRC, the people apologizing and removing cartoons we're not Americans. AFAIK, the rights to free speech and the freedom of the press are more restricted in most countries than they are here in the U.S., including the democratic countries as well.

Sorry, I missed this one earlier Sandman. While the people who apologized and removed the cartoons werent Americans, those who falsely reported the flushing of a Koran at Gitmo were. In the Muslim world the reactions were pretty much the same.