Our next speaker, we're very honored to have this gentleman with us again.

He has spoken for us before another brilliant legal mind. We're very, very lucky.

He's an attorney, legal mind. We're very, very lucky. He's an attorney, legal analyst. You've seen him on Fox News.

He is the author of a book that just came out this year, Indispensable Right, Free Speech in an age of rage and he is frequently

frequently cited on the Ron Paul Liberty report ladies and gentlemen Jonathan

Turley. Thank you very much.

It's a great pleasure to be back.

I'm always astonished how many friends I see in this room. You even have

one of my former professors John Merschimer here from University Chicago. I didn't know if this

was an invitation or an intervention.

But it is a great pleasure to talk to you about free speech.

We have only about 30 minutes to go through the history of free speech.

So as Henry the 8th told Anne Berlin,

Fear not, I shall not keep you long. I, the, you know, this is an immense subject.

And I just did complete my book, The Indispensable Right, Free Speech in an Age of Rage.

And the subtitle is an age of rage because it's not our first. And rage is an odd thing. It's been with us since the forming of our republic.

It, the Boston Tea Party was an act of rage.

Our country was born in an act of rage.

We've had what I call rage rhetoric as part of our politics from the outset.

And we've gone through these periods of rage, where rage rhetoric of citizens become state

rage where the government cracks down to silence voices that they

consider to be dangerous or destabilizing.

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