First Amendment Rights?

Question

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances."

Does anybody have an example of a time these rights were violated (not including in school)? And if so, what happened?

I really mean a time when your own personal rights were violated.. be it in your hometown or elsewhere?

Answer 1

While those confined in our prisons have their Constitutional rights restricted "prison walls never-the-less does not separate the Constitution from these prisoners" see, Wolf vs McDonnell. The limited rights afforded prisoners are the 1st, 8th and 14th admendments where applicable, see Sandin vs. Conner. Despite the Supreme Court clearly protecting the Constitutional rights of prisoners those rights are violated daily. There are numerous cases cited where prisoner's right to petition the government for redress of grievances have been violated, i.e. Thaddeus X. vs. Blatter, Dixon vs. Brown, San Fillippo vs. Bon Giovanni, etc. These are cases where the First Amendment rights of individuals were violated. Unfortunately, the cite numbers are omitted, but you can still look them up and they will refer you to more cases.

Answer 2

Let's begin with any religion that allows polygamy or polyandry (like polygamy but multiple husbands). This facet of any religion is illegal throughout the United States.

Look at any of the violence against Civil Rights marchers to see how easy it is to violate the part about the right of the people to peacefully assemble.

There was once a Federal law called the Alien & Sedition Act which made it illegal to speak against the Government.

The Government has given itself the right to not allow certain types of lawsuits against itself, a clear way of stopping a petition for the redress of grievances.

Let me know if you need more.

Answer 3

Free speech zones.



Edit: To way too many ignorant people: Yahoo is private-you dont have free speech rights here! Congress cant restrict it, it says nothing about them forcing you to be able to say whatever you want in a private forum-that would be a violation of Yahoo's rights.

Answer 4

Not including school ... let's see, Larry Flynt and Hustler is probably the best-known one.

God bless Google: http://www.anarchytv.com/speech/cases.html

Answer 5

'Fairness Doctrine'

'Campaign Finance Reform'

Is anybody not outraged that the government proposes to restrict our right to speak about a candidate at some point before an election?

Answer 6

Yahoo all the way. They let their computer software rule these boards without human content.

Answer 7

Yea, so called 'hate speech'

Answer 8

YA - no free speech.