Do you believe our freedom of speech is in jeopardy?

Our Founding Fathers knew that once our freedom of speech fell, all our other rights would fall like dominoes. They wrote: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech...."



Peter Kirsanow, National Review Online, believes our attention given to the Fairness Doctrine proposed by some in congress is urgent: "Imposition of some form of the Fairness Doctrine likely will be one of the Democrats' agenda items for the first 100 days of the new administration."



Newsmax: "You can burn the flag, put four-letter-word bumper stickers on your car, commit lewd acts on-stage, play profane rap music loudly on your car radio, produce, rent and distribute the most disgusting filth in broad daylight and on the Internet in plain view of minors and even use taxpayer dollars to depict Jesus suspended in bodily waste."



"But when it comes to shutting down conservative thoughts and opinions, now that they have grabbed the reins of power, liberals are making control over the content of speech a top priority!"



If you are liberal, conservative, Democrat or Republican, you should be concerned about preserving our right to freedom of speech, because that is the first, most basic right awarded us by our Founding Fathers to preserve all our other freedom.

Do you believe our freedom of speech is in jeopardy?
Yes the fairness doctrine scares me! As a matter of fact I am sending letters and emails to our politicians to ask them to vote against it. Those who only listen to the main stream media only hear the liberal side to every issue- they have even admitted (finally) that they were in the tank for Obama. Chris Matthews even said he considers it his job to make Obama's presidency a success.
It may be in jeopardy as well as the whole constitution. Some people want all references to the word God taken out of all government documents. Now that we wil soon have a democratic president as well as a democratic house and congress, with no checks and balance, who knows what will happen. Apparently that is what the majority wants, so now they will get it. Do you believe our freedom of speech is in jeopardy?
Freedom of speech is only beneficial in a moral society. Our society is presently morally crippled. Even our news media had changed their mission from informing the public to swaying public opinion. Nobody even knows what the truth is anymore. Our democracy will die without valid information.
The "Fairness Doctrine" is simply unworkable in this post-primetime tv age, and Obama is not interested in pushing it. There are now far too many media outlets to attempt to impose such a thing today. It's just a red herring for conservatives howl about.Do you believe our freedom of speech is in jeopardy?
absoultely - people can speak FOR gay marriage but heaven forbid someone speak AGAINST it. someone who is against it it evil and hateful and all these other things however should someone call homosexuality a devient behaviour - they would be castrated straight away.
You and others are here voicing differing opinions. So no, it is not in jeopardy.
you are assuming you have freedom of speech.
Can you say Fairness Doctrine
Yes! and i`m afraid it will get worse now that we have obama. But when good people don`t speak up, bad things happen
It is a real concern. There is dis information ("The economy is strong.""There is no recession."), high treason (Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld), control of the press (America 44th as rated by Reporters without Borders in the category Freedom of the Press, 1980 the news was distributed by over 150 INDEPENDENT outlets, 2008 5 major corporations control 96% of all news), militarized police (America Police State? Time), martial law and mercenaries fighting in Iraq.



When the DEMOCRATIC National Convention sets up a "Free Speech Zone" you can rest assured that your country is in deep do do.
Speech has already taken a severe beating, Hate Crimes make thoughts and opinions a crime as if what ever crime being committed wasn't already illegal. Our colleges now have free speech zones, people lose their jobs over opinions and most people don't even see it coming.



They think as long as it's the other guy's liberty taken away it's ok. I say if it can happen to one side of the ideological spectrum, it can happen to all.



I don't believe that there are even 10% of the population that have ever even read the US Constitution. They don't teach about it in school anymore, they just loosely gloss over it. Pretty sad that the document that has given liberty to so many people over the years will end up no more than a museum relic.



Those who forget their history are destined to repeat it.
I am neither liberal nor conservative, nor am I a Democrat or a Republican. I am an individual who votes for the person of my choice according to the convictions of my heart. This is based on the information ascertained about each candidate from as many sources as possible. Since we can not rely on the Media, as it is predominately owned operated and controlled by the wealthy world power brokers, we must rely somewhat on our "Gut Instincts".



I still believe that America is One Nation, Under God, and that there are enough true believers, praying for the democratic processes of our land and liberty, to keep corruption from over-running our Government totally. True, there are many flaws and faults within our system, but I still believe we live in the Greatest Nation on this planet.



I do not fear that we will loose our "Freedom of Speech", any sooner than we loose all our rights as a Free and Sovereign nation, and that could only happen AFTER the FIGHT!
Political correctness, spawned by liberalism, has nearly destroyed freedom of speech. Just yesterday a BBC anchor was fired for telling a dispatcher to not send a "turbanned person" to pick up her 14 year old daughter, because the daughter was afraid of the turban. The dispatcher took it as racism and released the tape to the media - the outrage from misinformed public led to her firing. Howard Stern lost his job with an innocent comment. The next 4 years will be even worse - with the Left spinning any opposing viewpoints to be racist.
I think the cause of the problem is no one is for sure if Obama who has the power to change the leadership at the F.C.C. will actually want the Fairness Doctrine to be imposed. I suspect he might, which is one of a long list of things that bother me about him. The problem is no one is really sure yet.



I also believe it would be politically stupid for him to impose because whether or not someone is liberal, conservative, both, or moderate- no one believes in the government's power to limit free speech. I could be wrong, but would not liberal radio station programs have to balance their programming with conservative voices. I know from listening to Air-America although I am staunch conservative that they do not want this to happen nor vice versa because people cling to three things to define their American ideals: 1-Their Bible 2-Their Guns 3-Their voices. If we as citizens do not take charge of our country, accept responsibility that we are the only ones who can prevent our government from becoming tyrannical, then all hope is lost.
Who will enforce such a law? BTW, would FOXNews be introuble if the liberal news networks (MSNBC, CNN, ABC, etc) had a conservative view point brought to the table? After all, FOXNews is always at the top of the ratings simply because no other network offers a conservative viewpoint to balance out the liberals, so a lot of the conservatives watch FOX. I don't support a "fairness" doctrine. What I would support would be a "truth" doctrine. By that I mean, all the networks have to report the truth (period). Perhaps all news networks should have an hour long Ombudsman show to correct all the errors their reporters have given in the last 24 hrs to be shown around 7 o'clock when people are still up watching the news.