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Here is how
the first amendment appears to the ACLU web page
explaining its position on free speech. (link
here).
"Congress shall make no
law...abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press,
or of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition
the Government for a redress of grievances." - as
quoted by the ACLU
Something in the passage above
is amiss, something has been omitted, something
has been left out ( "..."). For those not
familiar with the text in the original documents, here
it is. See if you can find what is missing from the ACLU's citation of this important first
amendment to the U.S. constitution.
Congress
shall make no law <B>respecting an establishment
of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise
thereof;</B> 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.
It gets
worse. An alert reader points us to a preamble written
by the
ACLU's and explaining the first amendment. We missed it. Here is what the ACLU writes:
"It is
probably no accident that freedom of speech is the
first freedom mentioned in the First
Amendment:"
To
understand the level of deception here, reread the the
first amendment as it is originally written. Most
certainly free speech is not the first freedom mentioned
in the first amendment.
This can be
no accident, no simply omission. There is no
other word for it, the ACLU has lied. We understand the ACLU has its views on
the first amendment - and religion. In And its right to
debate its meaning is guaranteed. That debate, however, ought to be
legitimate and truthful.
Altering the text of the first amendment to suits it ends
- and boldly stating in its own commentary that the
amendment says something it most certainly does
not, is
anything but legitimate. It's downright deceptive. Shame.
We
are not under any illusions the ACLU will change its
website, but in case they do come to their senses, the ACLU
free speech page is cached here.
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