Free Speech/Free Press/Free Society By Hank Silverberg It is my humble opinion that the words above are the most important ever written on Earth. The words are direct and concise. Some parts of the U.S. Constitution are ambiguous and open for interpretation, but this part is pretty clear. Our Founding F athers were quite familiar with the suppression of both free speech and religion throughout history. It wasn't just King George III in England in their century. It was also Oliver Cromwell in the 16th Century and the Spanish Inquisition of the 15th Century which provided good examples of what the suppression of ideas and free speech could do, and did do. I am not a constitutional lawyer, but the first word in the First Amendment, "Congress," specifically indicates the concern is about suppression by the Government against free speech by a free people. It does NOT deal with corporations or other private entities, and no court in the United States has ever interpr