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The First Amendment - Online Term Paper

The First Amendment

In the constitution of the United States of America, has given us the right to freedom of speech, but in these days that freedom comes with a censor. Today, musicians are being denied their constitutional right to this freedom. They are being subjected to countless attacks proclaiming that their music is rude, distasteful, vulgar, or just inappropriate. Who deems the lyrical content of the songs to fall into these categories? None other than the United States Government. They have given you the right to say what you want, but only if you do it in a way that they seem fit.
Censorship is not new to society. In fact, it has been around since time began. In ancient time, the government ...

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Lady of the U.S., Tipper Gore, singled out and attacked select music groups, deeming that the music being recorded was unfit for the public to hear. One of the groups many attackies was long time musician, Ozzy Osbourne. Ozzy went through many different attacks for his song, ‘Suicide Solution’, saying that he was in fact, promoting suicide, when in actuality, he was saying that suicide is not a solution.
There have even been bans on Osbourne’s music at radio stations. In New Jersey, a 16 year old boy shot himself to death along with his older brother. The boy was discovered to be carrying a tape of Ozzy Osbourne in his back pocket. Within days of the discovery, a faculty adviser pulled all forms of heavy metal music from the play list at the college station WSOU, claiming that, "….it is only a matter of time before another teen commits suicide and investigators blame the music that the child heard on WSOU."(Michael Collazo, Billboard Magazine, 18 Jun 1988,10).
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Added: 6/26/2006 01:33:39 PM
Category: Government
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