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28th Amendment

by Timbre Wolf - Open-Publishing - Saturday 25 July 2015
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The 28th Amendment

A proposed amendment to the United States Constitution: The Right to Hear (originally proposed by Tommy Smothers).

The people reserve the right to hear, see, or read any (and all) information, regarding their government as well as corporations, from any source whatsoever. Furthermore it shall be illegal for the president, the directors of government agencies, corporations, or any government branch or agency to impede the delivery of such information to the people. It will be illegal to prosecute, or imprison, any source for delivering such necessary information to the people. Additionally any, and all, free press “news” outlets shall be forbidden to present any press release from any government, corporation, special interest group or PAC. The press shall be be required to have a sufficient number of investigative journalists to adequately present real, relevant, and substantial issues regarding, but not limited to, politics, the environment, science and the arts, and constitutional matters.

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  • From Dangerously Funny by David Bianculli

    "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour even ran its own candidate for president, Pat Paulsen, whose tongue-in-cheek campaign was a brilliant deconstruction of the 1968 presidential race. Paulsen had become popular delivering fake editorials on the show, such as the one in support of network censorship ("The Bill of Rights says nothing about Freedom of Hearing," he told viewers, adding, "This, of course, takes a lot of the fun out of Freedom of Speech")."

    Looks like we really owe this gem to Pat Paulsen