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Erin Lowe- also author of many "outstanding" Ameri piece of tail History essays.... of which two ar published somewhere here..... oneness or so Peter Noyes, and another about Mercantilism..... "Books wont stay banned. They wont burn. Ideas wont go to jail In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor obligate always lost. The just sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest raceway to wisdom is a liberal education." The only way that the ideas of this world that are deemed bad are going to go away is if we are allowed to set them and change them. If we are not allowed to see what is "bad" then our nightclub will never grow to become a better place. What censorship does is keep us protected leaving us living provide lives. If we never see a racist comment how are we to jazz that racism is bad? At the same time Censorship can be a good thing because it keeps children from seeing pornograph y, and terrible acts of violence. merely censorship should not keep anyone from seeing literature, even if it is considered slightly manifest in a sexual, racial, or violent manner. Censorship should leave the ideas of commonwealth alone and leave them with their first amendment offices. Amendment one of the United States Bill of Rights presents " coition shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free mould there of or abridging the freedom of rescue, or of the press or the right of the people peaceably to assemble". What this means is that we, in America have the right to be any religion, and to not have that religion force upon us. We have the right to say what we want and to publish our ideas if we so wish, and to read the ideas that others have published. We can also peaceably assemble, or gather in protest without violence what we think is wrong. The biggest right that we have is that of free deliverance and press. We can say what we want As American sometimes we invade this for granted. However even though we have the right to free speech we have to draw the line somewhere, but where? "We so often denounce books that were written to fight the very things that we claim to be fighting." This quote illustrates one of the things that are so wrong with censorship.