As Americans, we are proud of our freedoms. The First Amendment states "Congress shall make no law... abridging the freedom of speech." This liberty, however, was challenged by Tipper Gore and her cronies in the mid-1980s with their Parental Advisory labels on albums. Artists no longer have a right to say what they want, and more importantly, we as consumers no longer have a right to buy what we want. Parental Advisory labels on …showed first 75 words of 1051 total…

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