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MIRANDA WILSON
SOMEONE READ HER THE MIRANDA RIGHTS FOR HER FLAGRANT ABUSE OF HIGH STANDARDS!
It’s unfortunate that there may be a need in these times to say that no, we are NOT the enemy of the people. And frankly, we don’t believe that “the people,” at least the vast majority, think that we are.
“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.”
-- First Amendment to the Constitution
Although Thomas Jefferson played no direct role in drafting the Constitution and its Bill of Rights -- he was representing our new country in Paris in 1787 -- his sentiments were strongly expressed in letters to his compatriots in Philadelphia. One letter included his famous quote that “were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.”
Twenty years later, during his second term as president, he would eat those words in another letter, declaring that so many “falsehoods and errors” were being published that someone who never read a newspaper was “better informed” and “near to truth” in his ignorance. Similarly John Adams, who was in Philadelphia for the Constitution’s drafting and who also later favored, “with all my Heart,” adding the Bill of Rights that included the First Amendment, would just a few years later as president oversee the arrest and imprisonment of several editors and publishers of newspapers and journals who favored the tenets of the party of his vice president -- that would be one Thomas Jefferson.
http://medford.wickedlocal.com/news/20180816/editorial-no-press-is-not-your-enemy2:21 pm 8-16-18
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