What’s so hard about the First Amendment?

I would have thought that the most understood and accepted amendment to the Constitution would be the First Amendment. After all, how hard is it to grasp what freedom of speech means? Put simply, it means you can express yourself and your point of view without being silenced by someone else. Seems simple, right? Well, apparently the folks over at IO9 have only the most strained grasp of what our natural right to freedom of speech is all about.

The first thing we need to understand about freedom of speech, as it was laid out by our founding fathers, is that it is implicitly designed to cover the speech we hate the most. If it wasn’t there would be no reason to acknowledge it in an amendment. Those words should remind us that there is no need to protect a right that we can all agree with – so the intent was to cover ALL speech – particularly the speech we despise.

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Stop thinking R and D and start thinking Free or Less Free

As so often seems to be the case, we find ourselves again wrestling with things that our founding fathers warned us about. In their day, they referred to them as “Factions”, but we know them as political parties. However, buying into our political parties in the same way that we root for our favorite football or baseball team is inherently self defeating.

The Robert April Program – Jan 29, 2013

Feel free to enjoy the latest Robert April Program below! There is some good news. As of yesterday, you can now access The Robert April Program via iTunes. As time goes on, we will be submitting the show to as many access options as possible, so stay tuned!

Thursday, 31 January 2013 18:24 Written by Robert April 0 Comments

The Robert April Program – Tonight!

That’s right folks, another episode of The Robert April Program will be on LIVE tonight at 6PM Pacific Time! Join us over at MIXLR for the live show. Once the show is done, it will be available here on the site and I should have the iTunes link up and running by the end of the week. Todays show will cover the hottest news of the day and how it effects your rights and the political landscape.