In our Philippine History, women aren't allowed to confront the government because they're women..When the Americans came to our country, they created the Commonwealth government and the freedom of speech was granted..Women can now confront the government..That's part of the reason why Gloria M. Arroyo became the present Philippine president..
2007-05-27 03:32:31
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answered by -CaItLiN.. 1
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It's easier to give examples of the absence or limitation of free speech.
"A celebrated legal case in 1734-1735 involved John Peter Zenger, a New York newspaper printer that was taken to court and charged for seditious libel and assailed the corrupt royal governor of New York. His lawyer Andrew Hamilton defended him well, and was made famous for his speech “truth cannot be libel”. This court case paved the freedom of press in America to be adapted in the constitution." ("Censorship in the USA", Wikipedia)
"...When compared with the suppression of anarchy every other question sinks into insignificance. The anarchist is the enemy of humanity, the enemy of all mankind, and his is a deeper degree of criminality than any other. No immigrant is allowed to come to our shores if he is an anarchist; and no paper published here or abroad should be permitted circulation in this country if it propagates anarchist opinions." (Theodore Roosevelt, 1908)
The First Red Scare against Anarchists and Socialists, the Palm Raids.
In 1920 the Socialist Eugene V. Debs ran again as Persidential candidate, but this time while incarcerated for speaking out against American involvement in World War I.
"The Office of Censorship, an emergency wartime agency, heavily censored reporting during World War II. On December 19, 1941 Roosevelt signed Executive Order 8985, which established the Office of Censorship and conferred on its director the power to censor international communications in "his absolute discretion." Byron Price was selected as the Director of Censorship. However, the censorship was not limited to reporting. "Every letter that crossed international or U.S. territorial borders from December 1941 to August 1945 was subject to being opened and scoured for details."
The Second Red Scare under McCarthy.
Under the Invention Secrecy Act of 1951 and the Atomic Energy Act of 1956, patents may be withheld and kept secret on grounds of national security.
The case Brandenburg v. Ohio (1969) found that the US government could restrict free speech only if it was "likely to incite imminent lawless action".
The failed attempt by Nixon and his "plumbers" to prevent the publication of the Pentagon Papers during the Vietnam War.
In 1997, Congress voted unanimously to add an amendment to a Department of Defense spending bill forbidding the distribution of instructions that teach "the making or use of an explosive, a destructive device, or a weapon of mass destruction" if those instructions are intended to assist in the actual building and use of such a device.
Howard Stern.
The Patriot Act.
In January of 1991, a few weeks before the U.S.-led UN invasion of Iraq during the presidency of George H. W. Bush, Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney had the Pentagon issue a ban on media coverage of returning war casualties.[
2007-05-27 04:20:09
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answered by Erik Van Thienen 7
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Confidentially to Adam, above: If you think you have to be dumb to express your freedom of speech (out of fear, I presume?) then you don't have it to begin with.
Freedom is not only NOT free, it requires constant sacrifice and vigilance and a willingness to stand up and fight for it. It's only a right when you've earned it; otherwise it's just a privilege doled out to the few at the whim of a despotic government.
2007-05-27 08:55:34
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answered by Lone Gunman 3
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Well, we have the freedom of speech, and one example is Miss Rosa Parks who spoke up for herself on the bus one day by not letting a white man sit in her seat (she was a African American). We are women, and we have the right of Freedom of Speech. We are equals. We are not stupid, and at least now we can vote and speak up for ourselves. (don't let the name fool you, I'm on my dad's computer!)
2007-05-27 05:44:44
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answered by harrypotterfan74 2
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You have the right to free speech as long as you're not dumb enough to actually try it.
2007-05-27 03:44:57
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answered by Anonymous
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