you should brush up on the basics. First off, if you join the United Nations you must agree to conform your laws to those of the United Nations. See US Law: United Nations Participation Act. We have agreed.
next: read united nations document on civil on political liberty and in particular Article 19:
Article 19
1. Everyone shall have the right to hold opinions without interference.
2. Everyone shall have the right to freedom of expression; this right shall include freedom to seek, receive and impart information and ideas of all kinds, regardless of frontiers, either orally, in writing or in print, in the form of art, or through any other media of his choice.
3. The exercise of the rights provided for in paragraph 2 of this article carries with it special duties and responsibilities. It may therefore be subject to certain restrictions, but these shall only be such as are provided by law and are necessary:
1. For respect of the rights or reputations of others;
2. For the protection of national security or of public order (ordre public), or of public health or morals.
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The First Amendment is still in force today except it does not protect anyone from prosecution for various criminal activity such as but not limited to: issuing false alarms, writing false police reports, defacing property with grafitti, slander, conspiracy, &c
the Campaign Finance Reform Act attempted to define Political Discussion as a “soft money” contribution to various political campaigns and to thus make such publications illegal as though they were campaign donations.
SCOTUS denied this, although only by 5-4 vote.
the issue that is currently before us lies in getting political dialog clearly exempted from control
this should not be difficult because the protecting political dialog was part of the original intent of the First Amendment
but getting a clear definition now will be the issue
issuing false alarms, or making false reports, or slander, or vandalism will clearly remain violations
you wouldn’t think we would have trouble seeing what is and is not protected by the First Amendment bu then when you get quibblers into the act you have trouble with every aspect of language
