Current Events vs. Founding Documents

Entry 14                               Submitted by: Mark Musselman

Current Event

As reported by theGrio on 08/12/2009- (full article available on line)

A new ad campaign by a group advocating for healthier school lunches has stirred up a food fight of sorts in Washington.  Posters placed in a Washington subway station and created by the non-profit Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine show a young girl with a thought bubble containing these words: “President Obama’s daughters get healthy school lunches. Why don’t I?”

The White House has asked the group to take the signs down, saying they violate Malia and Sasha Obama’s privacy. Neither Sasha nor Malia are pictured in the ad.

VS

Free speech verses the executive branch of government.

Founding Document

The Constitution, First Amendment

We the People:

We do not know what the consequences would have been if the group had not complied with the request of the Obama administration. Can we ever take our constitutional rights for granted?