Free Speech
One of the most cherished freedoms, the freedom of speech, originated, like many laws and amendments of the U.S. Constitution, from people being stupid. The original bill requesting “free speech” from a small political group in eastern Philadelphia was found in a church bell-tower with a myriad of other lost historical documents such as the Emancipation Retraction, the Sale of Florida to the Ottoman Empire, and the Communist Californian Union’s Delcaration of Independence). It reveals that the original request was not for free speech but for free beach(es). At the time, the majority of the Atlantic Oceanside property was either owned by the aaristocracy, shipping companies, or crazed homicidal loners. The request for freedom of beaches was most likely the first bill in which property was taken from the rich and made public. However, somewhere in the bureaucracy of the early Union, the bill was altered (most likely by one with connections to a shipping tycoon or an aristocrat) to be “Freedom of Speech”, resulting in the freedom we have today.
Truth of the Day: Pigs never have, cannot, and never will be able to fly without genetic altering and/or being propelled from either a cannon or middle age siege weapon.
