Sunday, April 9, 2017

Trump and the Bill of Rights

One of the things that Trump has consistently done since being elected President is show a complete lack of knowledge of what the Bill of Rights protect citizens from.

Case in point, freedom of Speech. A lot of people seem to think that freedom of Speech means that you can attack anyone or anything and not face any consequences. No. Freedom of Speech means that a citizen has the right to say what they want about the government and the people running it. It means that the government and the people running it can't do a damn thing about what the person said.

Now a few months ago, Meryl Streep launched an attack on Trump. His response was to criticize Streep. Which was a violation of Streep's freedom of speech because the government is not suppose to try to curtail the exercising of a citizen's right to freedom of speech.

Another example is when he tweeted his nonsense about SNL not being fair and what about his freedom of speech. Considering that freedom of speech gives people the right to criticize the government and nothing more, his statement was moronic. The President certainly could use it to criticize himself but I find that unlikely.

Next we have his attack on the Press with his continued proclamations that it is fake news. Once again this is a violation of the freedom of the press. The government has no business sitting in judgment of how the Press operates. It also has no business only talking to one outlet as they tend to do with Fox News. Refusing to let networks tape a press conference... that seems like a violation to me.

And now he's trying to uncover the identities of twitter users who are criticizing him. The poor baby. But once again as United States citizens they have the right to criticize him. And as long as they perform their jobs, their views of him and his mediocre job he's doing is irrelevant.

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