Censorship of Televison Advertisiong

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It's a Saturday afternoon and you are sitting in your living room where you just finished watching your favorite episode of Seinfeld. Shortly after the credits a commercial comes on, while watching you noticed it's the Chrysler advertisement that everybody at work has been talking about. The advertisement shows a small fairy flying around waving her wand and magically changing anything she is pointing it at into something nice. As the fairy is flying the new Dodge Magnum is driving by and the fairy starts after the vehicle trying to use her powers on it. The fairy's powers backfires and throws the fairy against a brick wall and then to the ground. A young punk hoodlum walks up with his pit-bull on a chain, pointing and laughing at her while saying, stupid fairy. The fairy looks up and waves her wand at him and poof, the young guy's baggy clothes was changed into, plaid shorts with a polo shirt and a pink sweeter tied around his neck. After the guy looks down at himself he says, "Awa" in a very high pitch voice. A few months later you see the commercial again and you noticed that it has been edited by removing the part of the ad were the young guy says stupid fairy. The next day everybody at work has noticed the change to the ad also. This ad shows that there is censorship on TV. I feel that censorship of controversial television advertisements is an unjust practice, which violates the first amendment in the Constitution. The 1st amendment of the Constitution, states; "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceable to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress or grievances" (The Constitution of the United States of America, 1st Amendment). In the United States of America we have rights that have been put in place to help protect the people and our government from ourselves. One of the most important rights that was put in place was by our founding fathers to help make our nation stronger by speaking our minds without fearing persecution is the freedom of speech. The freedom of speech is the 1st amendment to the Constitution of the United States. As to our rights airing television ads that are controversial, is our one of our rights for being a citizen of the United States of America.

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