Hello, everybody, and thank you for tuning into the Liberty Report. Dr. Paul is out today, so I will do one of my

briefings on a topic. Today, I'd like to talk a little bit about Marco Rubio, the Secretary of State,

and also about speech, and also about Secretary Rubio's war on speech.

You will recall the deportations or attempted deportations of several students that we've talked about here in the past over the past couple of months.

The revocation of student visas, hundreds of them, Rubio himself bragged about revoking these student visas,

upending people's lives, people who weren't convicted of any crime, nor were they charged of a crime,

many of whom's only crime was protesting on college campuses exercising one of our most cherished

rights and freedoms, the freedom of speech and the freedom of expression. And again,

you don't have to like what people are expressing to understand the value of freedom of expression.

And people say, well, they're foreigners, they're students, they're here from overseas.

They have no rights of free speech.

Well, of course, we've talked about this before as well.

I would recommend you read Judge Andrew Bolitano's work, including a recent article we have up

today.

The freedoms enshrined in our Bill of Rights are not granted by government.

We can say that's over and over again, and people still don't seem to get it.

They are the recognition of the state of nature that exists and an adherence by the United

States government to this state of nature, which is that man is endowed with these rights,

not by government, but by nature, their creator, or whatever you believe in that particular

case. But they are the state of nature. And so therefore, absolutely, when someone comes here

and peacefully exercises any of these rights, they are certainly

allowed to by our Constitution. The government can't restrict them. Nevertheless, Rubia has

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