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"The First Amendment to the US Constitution states, "Congress shall make no law prohibiting the free exercise of religion or abridging the freedom of speech or of the press." Dr. Benjamin Rush, MD, who was a signatory to the Declaration of Independence and physician to George Washington, urged Congress to add the words, "or abridging the right of citizens to secure medical treatment from doctors of their own choice." He pleaded, "Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution, the time will come when medicine will organize into an undercover dictatorship. ..." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.) "Before the Net, the only people who really had freedom of speech were those who owned or controlled the mass media and the printing presses. Now the big corporations are even trying to buy out the Internet, our last vestige of free speech. The government is threatening to use "terrorism" as an excuse to censor it! Personal-care product companies are also major players in the media industry, and of course they would be none too happy if the healing power of the raw diet ever caught on. Who would need drugs? Who would buy Coca-Cola?" - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"I have a dream every one of us uses the freedom of speech and we unite in this noble cause." "Mr. Schaller, thank you very much for sharing your vision with us." 12. FIGHTING DRUGS AND FINDING ALTERNATIVES (3): A WORD ABOUT HEART DISEASE AND CANCER It would be a promising experiment to take all the major diseases and causes for death, which are in existence today and compare the drug treatment with that of alternative treatments. One would be surprised. Truth and nothing but truth is that some multi-billion drugs and their "treatments" don't heal at all. One could call that fraud, yes." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

"Supposedly to protest the beating, but also as a way of eradicating tourism," she says, unsure whether she should even be discussing this. freedom of speech is still approached with uncertainty in this fledgling democracy. According to Volcere, opposition supporters say the threat of burning the forest is just a smear tactic by the government and they would never dream of destroying their arboreal heritage. An accidental 1990 forest fire in nearby Fond Ferdinand wiped out wide swaths of forest that will take hundreds of years to recover." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"There is no freedom of speech or freedom of expression in the world when it comes to health. Like it was in Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia, if a person says something that the government, in its supreme infinite wisdom, deems detrimental to society, that person will be severely ridiculed, debunked, discredited, attacked, and in many cases persecuted and prosecuted beyond the wildest imaginations of even 15 the most ardent conspiracy theorists. Therefore, this disclaimer must be put forth. It is irrelevant if I believe these words." - Kevin Trudeau, More Natural Cures Revealed: Previously Censored Brand Name Products That Cure Disease (Get the book.)

"It was as if everyone had forgotten that we live in a democracy with freedom of speech and other basic rights. Pfizer could have chosen to fire me regardless—and take the fight when I filed a civil suit, but they chose not to do that. There was something Pfizer might have been really nervous about. Two weeks prior to my invitation to Capitol Hill, I informed Pfizer that I had provided truthful information to the FBI, the FDA's Enforcement Division and the New York State Attorney's office, based on internal Pfizer documents. Now, if they did something to me they might violate U.S." - Peter Rost, The Whistleblower: Confessions of a Healthcare Hitman (Get the book.)

"With the emergence of modernist consciousness comes the liberal ideals of religious freedom, gender equality, democracy, freedom of speech and press, and the equality of all persons before the law. And even though the modern world has yet to deliver these "dignities" in a fair and universal distribution to all citizens, it was through the rise of modernist culture that these rights and freedoms were originally conceived as achievable ideals. But perhaps the greatest gift of modernist consciousness was the emergence of science and the scientific worldview." - Steve McIntosh, Integral Consciousness and the Future of Evolution (Get the book.)

"Might not one of the causes be the fact that we take lively, curious, energetic children, eager to make contact with the world and to learn about it, stick them in barren classrooms with teachers who on the whole neither like nor respect nor understand nor trust them, restrict their freedom of speech and movement to a degree that would be judge excessive and inhuman even in a maximum security prison, and that their teachers themselves could not and would not tolerate?" - Fred A. Baughman, Jr., M.D. and Craig Hovey, The ADHD Fraud: How Psychiatry Makes "Patients" of Normal Children (Get the book.)

"First, we need to learn to exercise and protect our health freedoms with the same vigor we use to protect our freedom of speech and freedom, of religion as discussed in chapter 4. Then, we need to take this new-found understanding of the information around us and start learning the natural health solutions that are available to all of us, starting with chapters 5 and 6 of Natural Health Solutions. Chapter 4: Health Freedom Where's the health freedom in this "free" society? America is supposed to be a country that values freedom." - Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.)

"Accustomed to hearing phrases such as "freedom of religion," "freedom of speech," and "the free market," we recognize that each refers to a set of activities free from interference by the coercive apparatus of the state. Should we similarly possess "freedom to be sick," "freedom to make ourselves sick," "freedom to treat ourselves," "freedom to obtain medical care on our own terms," and so forth?" - Thomas Szasz, The Medicalization of Everyday Life: Selected Essays (Get the book.)

"Efforts are already underway by Internet cable and phone companies like AT&T and Verizon, which take their marching orders from the Bilderberg cartel, to suppress freedom of speech on the Internet. Legislation is currently before Congress on this issue. We must preserve Internet neutrality; it is a vital freedom. Otherwise, elite companies will charge money for preferential internet use, denying equal Internet access to many citizens. This will undermine free speech on the Internet, placing large companies in control of Internet content." - Byron J. Richards, Fight for Your Health: Exposing the FDA's Betrayal of America (Get the book.)

"Defenders of freedom of speech on the Internet are even more voluble than critics of media censorship, so there's a long way to go in finding a sensible balanced approach. There's also enormous reluctance among the vast majority of decent people to become involved in this debate. While parents worry about what children are seeing on TV and what they may encounter on the Internet, the fear of being thought prudish or ultra-right-wing holds most of them back from speaking up in public." - Sue Palmer, Toxic Childhood: How the Modern World is Damaging Our Children and What We Can Do About it (Get the book.)

"Examining a range of eighteenth-century newspapers and their publishers, including Benjamin Franklin, Troy told the court that "Colonial Americans plainly viewed the freedom of speech as protecting far more than just political speech." He did not dwell on one countervailing fact: That this lack of distinction between commercial and public speech was likely because most Colonial newspapers were primarily vehicles for advertising, hardly the impartial beacons that modern papers are expected to be." - Greg Critser, Generation Rx: How Prescription Drugs are Altering American Lives, Minds, and Bodies (Get the book.)

"I will attack anyone who tries to suppress my freedom of speech. I will attack anyone who tries to slander or defame me. I know the drug companies are spending tens of millions of dollars trying to put negative PR against me and trying to get people to stop buying and reading my book. They cannot succeed. Over five million people now have purchased the book. Virtually everywhere I go people come up to me, hug me, and thank me for the information in the book." - Kevin Trudeau, More Natural Cures Revealed: Previously Censored Brand Name Products That Cure Disease (Get the book.)

"The best way to accomplish that is to ban nutritional supplements, censor freedom of speech about health and nutrition, and attack and discredit alternative therapies that give people a choice. That's the goal of the FDA, the drug companies, and various so-called "quack skeptics" who operate with the sole purpose of censoring anything that doesn't conform to conventional medical protocols. Unlock your freedom with the internet What is the number one tool for defending health freedom and expanding our freedoms? It's the internet." - Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.) "They did include what I think is the most important amendment, however: the First Amendment. freedom of speech. Without that, you wouldn't even be able to read this information right now, and you would be living under a regime of complete tyranny with no chance of ever learning the truth." - Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.)

"Marketers justify direct appeals to children as an education in "street smarts," as an expression of freedom of speech, and as good for the American economy. Advertising expenditures for foods marketed directly to children can only be estimated, but two researchers, Susan Linn, the author of Consuming Kids, and Juliet B. Schor, author of Born to Buy, guess that marketers spend about $15 billion a year to promote all products aimed at children, with about half that much spent to promote food products." - Marion Nestle, What to Eat (Get the book.)

"We value religious freedom and freedom of speech, but what about health freedom? What about the freedom to choose whatever health practitioner you think will do the most good in improving your level of health? What about the freedom to learn information about natural solutions for health problems—things that can help you heal without causing harm?" - Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.)

"These big conglomerates should be forced to divest themselves of media companies because that's not the idea that the framers had about the freedom of speech and freedom of the press." A Conversation on the Bridge with John Raatz John Raatz (www.thevisioneeringgroup.com) is a partner in Awakened Media, a company founded to distribute conscious media projects with an emphasis on mind, body, and soul. As founder and president of The Visioneering Group, John is a skilled and experienced communicator, strate- gist, musician, teacher, and entrepreneur." - David H. Rippe, Jared Rosen, The Flip: Turn Your World Around (Get the book.)

"They also both benefit from freedom of speech, which is the ally of those who seek change, and the enemy of those who seek to maintain control. Pornography is nothing more or less than freedom of speech applied to the sexual realm. It is the freedom to challenge the sexual status quo. And sexual heresy should have the same legal protection as political heresy. This protection is especially important to women, whose sexuality has been controlled by censorship through the centuries. 2, Legitimizing pornography would protect women sex workers, who are stigmatized by our society." - The Disinformation Company, Everything You Know Is Wrong: The Disinformation Guide to Secrets and Lies (Get the book.)

"See separation of church and state.) freedom of speech The right to speak without censorship or restraint by the government. freedom of speech is protected by the First Amendment to the Constitution. (See clear and present danger and shout "Fire!" in a crowded theater.) freedom of the press The right to circulate opinions in print without censorship by the government. Americans enjoy freedom of the press under the First Amendment to the Constitution. friend of the court An individual or group interested in influencing the outcome of a lawsuit but not an actual party to the suit." - James Trefil, Joseph F. Kett, and E. D. Hirsch, The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know (Get the book.)

"The intent is to put a product or service that competes with the favored special interest off the market, or to reach its quotas, or to punish a company for exercising freedom of speech, or to gain publicity for the USPS. STEP 4 - A threatening correspondence is mailed to the target company's chief operating officer or statutory agent, which outlines the intended prosecution by the USPS and demands that the company sign a "consent decree," which will put the product off the market and likely the company out of business." - Kevin Trudeau, Natural Cures They Don't Want You to Know About (Get the book.)

"See separation of church and state.) freedom of speech The right to speak without censorship or restraint by the government. freedom of speech is protected by the First Amendment to the Constitution. (See clear and present danger and shout "Fire!" in a crowded theater.) friend of the court An individual or group interested in influencing the outcome of a lawsuit but not an actual party to the suit. The statement presented to the court is an amicus curiae brief; amicus curiae is Latin for "friend of the court." gay rights The movement for civil rights for homosexuals. Gerrymander." - E. D. Hirsch, The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy (Get the book.)

"See separation of church and state.) freedom of speech The right to speak without censorship or restraint by the government. freedom of speech is protected by the First Amendment to the Constitution. (See clear and present danger and shout "Fire!" in a crowded theater.) freedom of the press The right to circulate opinions in print without censorship by the government. Americans enjoy freedom of the press under the First Amendment to the Constitution. friend of the court An individual or group interested in influencing the outcome of a lawsuit but not an actual party to the suit." - E. D. Hirsch, Joseph F. Kett, James Trefil, The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know (Get the book.)

"What I argue for is freedom of speech, a woman's right to choose, and the validity of WHAT I ARGUE FOR IS freedom of speech, A WOMAN'S RIGHT women's sexual contracts. TO CHOOSE, AND THE VALIDITY OF WOMEN'S SEXUAL CONTRACTS. But, first, some history. The politically correct definition derives largely from the 1983 Minneapolis Anti-Pornography Ordinance drafted by Catharine MacKinnon and Andrea Dworkin. After failing to eliminate "adult" shops through zoning, the city of Minneapolis turned to these radical feminists for assistance." - The Disinformation Company, Everything You Know Is Wrong: The Disinformation Guide to Secrets and Lies (Get the book.)

"United States (1919) The Court unanimously held that limits on freedom of speech during World War I did not violate the First Amendment—if the speech in question represented a "clear and present danger." That famous doctrine of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, which approved the arrest of a draft resister for handing out pamphlets to soldiers in wartime, became an important standard for interpreting the First Amendment. But in subsequent cases of this period, the Court added that the mere "bad tendency" of speech to cause danger could be grounds for censorship. National Labor Relations Board v." - The New York Times, The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge: A Desk Reference for the Curious Mind (Get the book.) "In this case, also brought against a Jehovah's Witness, the Court recognized that refusing to salute the flag did not violate anyone's rights, and that the First Amendment protected the "right of silence" as well as freedom of speech. KorematSU V. United States (1944) President Franklin D. Roosevelt's executive order No. 9066, which approved the evacuation and internment of 120,000 Japanese-Americans on the West Coast during World War II, was upheld on the grounds of "military necessity" in this ruling. The Court was reluctant to interfere with executive authority in time of national emergency." - The New York Times, The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge: A Desk Reference for the Curious Mind (Get the book.) "In that year, the Court declared: "[W]e may and do assume that freedom of speech and of the press—which are protected by the First Amendment from abridgment by Congress—are among the fundamental personal rights and 'liberties' protected by the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment from impairment by the states." That incorporation subsequently extended to the religion guarantees and various rights of the criminally accused. Amendments to the Constitution The first 10 amendments, known collectively as the Bill of Rights, were adopted in 1791." - The New York Times, The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge: A Desk Reference for the Curious Mind (Get the book.) "Amendment I 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. The religion clauses of the First Amendment reflected widespread antagonism toward official support for religion. As colonists, Americans had resented compulsory taxes levied on behalf of the Church of England, despite the fact that the settlers belonged to a variety of sects." - The New York Times, The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge: A Desk Reference for the Curious Mind (Get the book.)

"Yet, seven years after the First Amendment became part of the Constitution, Congress passed a law very clearly abridging the freedom of speech. This was the Sedition Act of 1798, passed under John Adams's administration, at a time when Irishmen and Frenchmen in the United States were looked on as dangerous revolutionaries because of the recent French Revolution and the Irish rebellions." - Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present (Get the book.)

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