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What this is all about is your right to freedom of speech. What made America Great is an independent, vigorous presence. If a jerk burns a flag, america is not threatened. Political speech is the heart of the First Amendment. Theyre expressing their religious beliefs. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of gods children. Captioning provided by the Freedom Forum First Amendment Center Welcome to speaking freely, a weekly conversation about the First Amendment and free expression. Im ken paulson, executive director of the First Amendment center, and this is a special edition of the...

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Is that an urban legend, or is well, thethe thumping is after youveyouve picked the watermelon in the store. Lets say you assume all the watermelons are ripe in the store. Mmhmm. Every one in th bin or on the shelf are ripe. Then you wanna start feeling them. If they have a good sound to em, it means that theyre not overripe, when they have a a flat sound, uh, doesnt have a good ring to it. This has got a nice ring to it. If its got a flat sound, its either overripe, or maybe it has a hollow heart. After the watermelons leave the field, they are taken here to the packing shed, where they are s...

It was all we dont talk about this. It was shocking and sad. And you had a tenyear period of successful books before the censorship kicked in. Wasnt it the 80s that you began to see 1980 waswas yes, yes. But there had been some. I mean, there was a woman who called me after are you there god . Its me margaret. Was published. She just looked me up in the phone book, and she said, are you the one who wrote that book . And i was really excited, and i said, yes. And she called me a communist, and she hung up. So, you know, there we are. Well, your experiences were markedly different from the exper...

And it would depend on what the person said that i might not teach that book again. But they would have to be awfully convincing if id thought which we would hope ahead of time teachers had about appropriateness before they selected the book. I find my bigger problem with teachers is not taking risks, but, you know, its that theyre not taking risks. Not that they are and getting in trouble. Its that theyre censoring before the book ever reaches the child. Im getting teachers saying, well, now, i really cant take that book, because it has a witch on the cover. I really cant take that book, beca...