[PEN-L] These kids today, what's wrong with; adults too

2005-02-11 Thread Charles Brown
There were no First Amendment speech or press ( or any 1st Amendment,I believe)cases before the U.S. Supreme Court until 1919, 128 years after the passage of the Bill of Rights. Probably for the history of the existence of the Bill of Rights, most _adult_ Americans have _not_ had even the high sc

Re: [PEN-L] These kids today, what's wrong with

2005-02-10 Thread michael a. lebowitz
One of my first papers in university was based on a survey (pretty small sample) of high school students (my old Passaic NJ high school) getting their views on the paraphrased 1st Amendment. Same basic results, same basic conclusions (I think my title was something like Yesterday's Ideals, Tomo

[PEN-L] These kids today, what's wrong with

2005-02-10 Thread Carl Remick
Generation Red, White And Gray If the children are the future, we're screwed. By Alexander Zaitchik Last week was a busy one on the creeping-fascism index. So busy, in fact, that I finally accepted there is even such a thing as a creeping-fascism index. Over the past few years, I've held fast to a