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by notMick 3031 days ago
Seriously? The only people keeping the first amendment there are the conservatives!

The left are trying to remove it with their various 'hate speech' laws (already done in many countries, say the 'wrong thing' on Facebook in the UK and you have the police coming to arrest you in hours) which can be applied to anything the left simply don't want you to say - and silencing you is fundamental to far left ideology.
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toomanybeersies 3031 days ago
You have Donald Trump trying to undermine the news media, attacking people for expressing their opinions by refusing to stand for the anthem, calling for stripping the citizenship from those who burn the US flag, and wanting a ban on Muslims entering the country.

Attacks on individual liberties are not limited to a particular political ideology.

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akkat 3031 days ago
By "attacking" you mean calling some news fake news and criticizing other people's political statements. Those things are within the law. Jailing people for their political opinion, like they do in UK, China and Iran, is a violation.

Anyone trying to make laws allowing those things would be attacking the first.

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isleyaardvark 3031 days ago
The Trump adminstration was literally exploring changing the First Amendment:

http://theweek.com/speedreads/695695/reince-priebus-admits-t...

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