Young People Against the 1st Amendment
PNAM is very encouraged to read the findings of the recent Knight Foundation study showing how young people perceive the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. The report shows that many high school students do not see government censorship of newspapers as a bad thing. When told of the exact text of the First Amendment (promising citizens the freedoms of religion, speech, press and assembly), more than one in three high school students said it goes “too far” in the rights it guarantees. Only half of the students said newspapers should be allowed to publish freely without government approval of stories. 17 percent of students said people should not be able to express unpopular views.
PNAM takes this trend as a very promising turn of attitudes for America’s young. With scaling back of the First Amendment, as started by the Ashcroft justice department, and the consolidation of large media conglomerates started with the FCC’s Powell, we can foresee a future when Christian values can become the mainstream in America where Christian radio and TV programming is in the majority. The liberal press must be replaced with a state-run agency to deliver the truth to the American people. It is up to our country’s young people to become open to strict government censorship on behalf of the good of the country.
By limiting free speech in America, we can also better guarantee that a moral majority of Americans will stand by the Bush doctrines of world dominance as described in the President’s recent inauguration address. The Bush Whitehouse is playing the “spreading democracy” party line perfectly in order to set up future invasions of Iran and North Korea. As a result, young people who believe this message also will be more willing to join the military forces needed to establish protectorates around the globe.
