Arsenio Jordan 10/1/2011
I decided to choose freedom of expression as a topic choice for my research paper. I have always felt that we as human beings have been deprived of our right to express ourselves verbally and artistically. In my paper I will discuss an example of freedom of expression being denied. One coming from a news article explaining a political cartoon of Rio's City Manager Hector De La Rosa being pulled down from a building by the city at his request. The political cartoon displayed Hector De La Rosa as the “pied piper” who is then followed by Mayor Jan Vick and council members Constance Boulware and Jack Krebs who were depicted as rats. Apparently the cartoon had been up on a seinor citizen building for a long time and the people were enjoying it. Council women Janith Norman, serves on the senior center's governing board and she spoke to Rio's law firm about the situation.The law firm says “the city had no right to force the center to remove it”. The residents in the area even said they felt like their First Amendment rights were under attack. This is definitely a situation where freedom of expression is being denied.
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