Freedom of speech

A Chicago Tribune editorial was enclosed with another letter I received. Andrei Vishinsky had called upon the United Nations to adopt a criminal statute that would restrict freedom of speech and of the press, and the Tribune went on to say that what we were doing would make an excellent precedent for Vishinsky ... 

I was more amused than disturbed. The First Amendment A better example of freedom of the press could hardly be imagined than this description of legal proceedings as murder, and these suggestions that somehow the Numberg trials abridged freedom of speech and of the press. Were such crackpot notions to be taken seriously We did not think so. 

Most importantly, censorship on the Internet violates one of the principles upon which this country was founded freedom of speech. It is true that some sites present lewd or hateful images and ideas, but this kind of hate speech can be found anywhere, in all kinds of publications and all kinds of media. The Internet Just makes it easier for people to find this information. If someone really wants to commit an act of violence, a website isn t what going to push him or her into committing a hate crime. 

The Supreme Court has repeatedly recognized that freedom of thought is one of the most elementary and important rights inherent in the First Amendment. Without freedom of thought, freedom of speech is moot. You cannot express what you cannot think. Likewise, you can only express what you can think. Chemical manipulation of the brain, therefore, could become the ultimate prior restraint on speech. 

Arms in State Constitutions. UCLA School of Law. Available online. URL http //www.law.ucla.edu/faculty/volokh/2amteach/sources.htm. Updated on July 7, 1999. Collection of texts, cases, and commentaries relating to the Second Amendment, including provisions in state constitutions and bills of rights. An interesting inclusion is state provisions that are grammatically similar to the Second Amendment in that they have an introductory clause, but that they also refer to such provisions as the freedoms of speech and expression. 

Serious mental disorders fundamentally alter one s personality. Evidence from controlled studies demonstrates that antipsychotics can normalize thought processes. Some claim that the involuntary administration of these drugs violates a patient s freedom of speech. In fact, with the onset of a psychotic episode, patients normal mental processes become loose, rambling, illogical, circumstantial, incoherent, and inappropriately concrete and are often characterized by bizarre thought and speech patterns. Delusional ideas may dominate, with or without visual or auditory hallucinations. 

Cultural patterns The largest issues that inform a culture include the treatment of gender, honesty, guilt, freedoms of speech and spiritual values... 

Review the First Amendment right of freedom of speech that permits creators of TV... 

In German history, censorship unfortunately has been more of a rule than an exception. It was introduced by the Catholic Church in the form of the Inquisition. However, it was left to the well-known Austrian statesman Mettemich to perfect the system of suppressing freedom of speech by means of a comprehensive spy and surveillance apparatus. Neither the German Empire nor the Weimar Republic were particularly soft in their dealings with unwelcome literature,1 but the worst reputation was doubtless acquired by the Third Reich, which managed, within the twelve years of its existence, to black-list some 10,000 books. While these books were not burned, they did disappear from the shelves of bookstores, to be banished to library archives.2... 

Now it does not really matter what one thinks of the theses advocated by this group of persons. The fact is that the human right to freedom of speech must be indivisible, as Professor R. Dworkin already put it in Index on Censorship,53 And since none of the cases described here involved any calls to violence, instructions for violent acts, or trivializations of violence - at most, violence is disputed for certain historical events, or portrayed as less than generally usual in other accounts -the harshness with which the German judiciary proceeds against these dissidents is incomprehensible and unjustified. 

As you are aware, countries and cultures vary considerably in the extent to which they tolerate freedom of speech and other forms of behavioral expression. Not surprisingly, this often predicts the extent to which mentally ill patients (however defined) have any say in how they are treated. In some cultures the response to behaviors viewed as different or mentally ill" is to subdue the person through incarceration, restraints, drugs, or some combination of these interventions. In other cultures treatment might include a more collaborative approach in which the patient discusses his or her problems with a counselor or works with a psychiatrist in trying different drugs to see how they work. 

In the United States, activities performed by, or on behalf of, pharmaceutical companies which market relevant products are subject to FDA regulation, whereas activities supported by pharmaceutical companies but delivered by agencies otherwise independent from pharmaceutical industry promotional influences are not. This is so that constraints on advertising and labeling do not restrict freedom of speech of participants in scientific and educational activities, such as dis-... 

Uganda is an absolutely beautiful country, sitting astride the equator. The Ugandans, unlike the Kenyans, enjoy freedom of speech, freedom of religion and a lively, free and critical press. The devastation of the civil war which ousted the maniac, Idi Amin, is being rapidly repaired. 

The third innovation concerns the notion of indirectness. Indirectness pertained to a kind of despotism operating through influence , compatible with a public sphere and freedom of speech and association. Indirect despotism can develop in a democratic or free society when social classes (constituted by honours or nobility, by economic and financial power, by religious prejudices, and by ignorance) hold an unequal power to influence the law. Condorcet listed modern classes such as financiers and bankers along with traditional classes such as clergy and the military and. 

Polanyi thought science reached into the unknown along a series of what he called growing points, each point the place where the most productive discoveries were being made. Alerted by their network of scientific publications and professional friendships—by the complete openness of their communication, an absolute and vital freedom of speech—scientists rushed to work at just those points where their particular talents would bring them the maximum emotional and intellectual return on their investment of effort and thought. 

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