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On 3/3/06, Loathe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Oh like this is a fucking surprise. > > I'm moving. To mars. Whose with me? > > > -- > Tim Heald > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 703-300-3911 > -----Original Message----- > From: Larry C. Lyons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, March 03, 2006 11:22 AM > To: CF-Community > Subject: americans know more about American Idol and the Simpsons than the > First Amendment > > I'm not sure whether this is sad or pathetic. > http://www.antiwrap.com/?912 > > NOTED WITH INTEREST > > Friday, March 3, 2006; A15 > > If life were a university, Americans would do better majoring in popular > culture than in history, a survey released this week shows. > > The McCormick Tribune Freedom Museum poll found that Americans' > knowledge of television shows such as "The Simpsons" and "American Idol" far > surpasses their familiarity with the First Amendment. > > Only one of the 1,000 adults polled in the telephone survey could name all > five freedoms guaranteed under the First Amendment. Yet more than one in > five (22 percent) could identify all five major characters in Matt > Groening's cartoon family. > > Similarly, only 8 people in 100 could name at least three First Amendment > freedoms. Four in 10 surveyed (40 percent) could name two of the three > judges on the star-making show "American Idol," and one in four (25 percent) > could name all three. > > "These survey results clearly demonstrate that many Americans don't have an > understanding of the freedoms they regularly enjoy," Dave Anderson, the > Chicago museum's executive director, said in a written statement. > > The new museum, which will open its doors in April, wants to help people > understand their constitutional freedoms, especially those protected by the > First Amendment. There is a lot of work to do. > > Survey respondents wrongly said that the First Amendment guarantees rights > to own and raise pets (21 percent), to drive (20 percent) and of women to > vote (36 percent). The first two are not rights at all, and women's suffrage > was not enshrined in the Constitution until ratification of the 19th > Amendment in 1920. > > Grab your pen. The First Amendment guarantees freedom of speech, the press, > and religion, as well as the rights to peacefully assemble and to petition > the government for a redress of grievances. > > The survey was conducted Jan. 20-22 by Synovate, a research firm, and had a > margin of error of plus or minus three percentage points. > > -- Christopher Lee > > -- > Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and > he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion. > > Edmond Burke > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:198723 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
