Hello, everybody, and thank you for tuning into the Liberty Report.

With us today, we have Daniel McAdams, our co-host.

Daniel, good to see this morning.

Good morning, Dr. Paul. How are you this morning?

Doing well.

Good.

We're going to be talking about the First Amendment.

We've heard of that.

Sometimes there's a lot of people who forget about it.

But you know, there was a neat little summary of the First Amendment brought to attention by a friend of ours, a Napolitano Justice, Judge Napolitano.

And he reminded us of some dates, which I found fascinating.

You know, it didn't take the Civil War or the First World War or current events to have to, you know, be concerned about

the abuse by big government, centralized government's abuse of the First Amendment. And we always

mention frequently, you know, quite frequently, the way big government works because,

you know, truth becomes treason and an empire lies. The empires are run by treasonous people.

But I think the point that Judge Lepa's point was the sequence. It wasn wasn't the reason it was right in the second

president john adams he's the one that gave us to the anti-sedition acts and of course uh most of that

was repealed by jefferson immediately uh you know after he well after he became president but

so so it was immediate so it must be a

characteristic of human nature there's big people you know the the people at

the beginning they had the anti-federalists and the federalists and there was a

contest over power money and control and what do they have to do if they want to

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