Is the First Amendment actually a danger to American culture?

Question

It seems as though the 60's have overstretched what are acceptable social practices. Is it really ok to shout obscenities at military. Is it ok to promote Hollywood s***s puking on Sunset Blvd? Is it ok to walk around nude. In the 1790's these kinds of people would be reviled and thrown out of the country. If we did that today someone in media or some interest group would scream more freedom of speech. Why is it almost illegal to say Christian things on air? Yet it is ok to trash Christianity all day? Why are racists like Black Panthers promoted? Can the government just tell all the hippies, junkies, s***s, and rascists (white, black, hispanic, arab, chinese, etc.) to take a d**n hike or be put in jail because they violate American culture that was before the 60's from the beginning of our nation.

Answer 1

The shouting of obscenities in most public places is regulated.  I suggest you go stand in the middle of a city park, or in front of the White House, and shout a few.  See who in blue comes to visit you.

Hollywood s***s are promoted so some company CEO and get his bonus.  Both Republicans and Democrats have a hand in this.

OK.  While you're out there shouting obscenities in the park, try doing it nude, just for laughs.

So what if someone screams 'more freedom of speech'  Who does that kill?

Christian things on the air almost illegal, don't make me laugh.  Any evening, go out to your can and turn on the AM radio and then take a drive.  You would be surprised as to how many Christian radio stations there are.  Very few Jew, Muslim and yes it is "OK" (legal) to trash Christians, Jews, Muslims, Atheists, and Moose-doers all day.  (Just don't do it nude in front of the White House)  

Now, putting people in jail for violating so-called American culture (do you mean native-American culture from before the 1460s?) is a bit too big-government, isn't it?  I always thought conservatives were against big-government.  I guess I was wrong.

Most of all, don't confuse "OK" with "Legal".  A person's actions can be legal but not "OK" in the opinion of others, even if it is the opinion of most.  We all have opinions, something recognized by the First Amendment.  We can state our opinions in a legal way and our government gives us plenty of opportunity and the protection to do so.  Just because it is offensive to a conservative, doesn't mean that it should be illegal.    You ain't taken over yet.

Answer 2

only to the extremists on both sides , and i guess you are one of them

Answer 3

Try walking around  Nude and you will be picked up for 'indecent exposure"

You have to look at every side of the equation.  We have an open door policy and like you I don't like people who live in America saying they "hate America"  Our door swings both ways.  My preference is for them to leave the country.

There are those who are Exiled from our country.  And they are exiled for years.  Ask Jessie Jackson about being exiled from America back in the 60s.  Things were bad in the 60s.  

Answer 4

I am the trully salvation of the American Culture.

Answer 5

This freedom is hardly the problem.  Inequity in its application most certainly is.

Answer 6

My bet is you are freakin' glued to your radio from noon-6pm, Monday thru Friday. Take a dinner break and then plop your butt on the couch and zone out to Fox from 8pm-10pm. (All times Eastern.)

Get a lawyer, Sean Hannity is gonna sue you for copyright infringement.

Answer 7

The first amendment is not the problem. The liberal courts are. They are dictating law, allowing the security, health and welfare of Americans to be placed in jeopardy. This was not always the case. At one time the courts upheld laws for our safety and welfare as provided by the Constitution.  

A law is not abridging the first amendment if it is for the security and common welfare of the people.  The preamble to the Constitution says "...We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity,..."

First Amendment case....

Schenck v. United States, 249 U.S. 47 (1919). Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., writing for the Court, suggested that "the question in every case is whether the words used are used in such circumstances and are of such a nature as to create a clear and present danger that they will bring about the substantive evils that Congress has a right to prevent."

As for nudity...It is allowed in some places...Check out Vermont...We have the pleasure (eyesore) of watching saggy old men and their saggy women walk around on our beaches.....

Answer 8

The constitution and its amendments were put into place with a purpose and are as useful today as they were back then. The only thing that is a danger to the American Culture is the American people. Think about it! We are the ones that put ourselves into the situations we are in today and We are the only ones who can get ourselves out. One of the major problems is that some people are willing to get involved and those are the ones making changes. Some changes for the good and some not. The rest are just complaining but not doing anything about it. We all have the right and the acess to the knowledge even more so today with the world wide web than ever.  

Answer 9

Not at all.

It may be a danger to United Statesian culture, but American.... hardly.

Answer 10

The Constitution IS what makes America--America.  Take away a piece of it and you may just as well throw the whole thing away.  Of course these days, thats exactly waht a lot of people wouold like I believe.....

Answer 11

No. it is part of our American spirit and culture. Only the leftist liberals thing it need to go.  

Answer 12

The 1st amendment is the most important amendment.  it only protects us from being persecuted for what we say or believe by the government.  thats it.  not responsible for what people do

Answer 13

Awww Geeez, Archie~!!!

Answer 14

For the record, there is no such thing as having a right to be nude in public, and the Supreme Court has never said that it is a right under the First Amendment. On the contrary, in a case the Court decided 17 years ago, 1991, called Glen's Theatre v. Noble (forgive my memory if I got that wrong), the Court ruled that a state's general ban on public nudity could validly be enforced against private, "adults only" clubs where girls were dancing nude for patrons of the club.

Answer 15

well, people today are over using and abusing the freedom of speech, ect. Before, it is use to express your own thoughts and ideas, but now, people abuse this admendment by saying anything they want, even if it may be inappropriate

Answer 16

No. Its as important as the 2nd Amendment.

The problem is because of political correctness society is not allowed to speak out and say what these people are - nut jobs. ONLY the nut jobs are allowed to speak. Thats why the loudest voices today are the minority - the g**s, the liberals, the nutjobs.

For example:  It used to be a woman who had a kid -and wasn't married, would be ostracized by society. Today that same woman is given baby shower after baby shower and celebrated. Society has payed the price for it. Higher crime rates, a generation of useless kids who will go on to have more moral and value-less kids of there own.

Like it or not, its true.