Contempt for constitutional guarantees
Bob Herbert in the New York Times (free registration required) says that the Bush administration has left no doubt about its contempt for a number of our supposedly most cherished constitutional guarantees. He begins...The Constitution? Forget about it. Only about half of America's high school students think newspapers should be allowed to publish freely, without government approval of their stories. And a third say the free speech guarantees of the First Amendment go "too far." This has thrown a lot of noses out of joint. Hodding Carter III, president of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, which financed a two-year study of high school attitudes about First Amendment freedoms, said, "These results are not only disturbing - they are dangerous." But maybe we shouldn't be so hard on the youngsters. After all, they've been set a terrible example by a presidential administration that has left no doubt about its contempt for a number of our supposedly most cherished constitutional guarantees.
posted by Paul Wilczynski @ 7:22 AM
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