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Free speech is worth fighting for.

We do not have free speech to talk about the weather.

Our founders, particularly James Madison,

who drafted the Bill of Rights, understood that our rights are not privileges granted to us by our government.

No, it was understood at the founding that these basic natural rights outlined by Madison were

granted by our Creator and thus no mere mortal could take them away.

And first among these is the First Amendment,

which recognizes that most basic of our natural rights,

the right to express ourselves in any way we wish.

Unfortunately, the US government has not always

been in accord with this sentiment,

and has many times in our history been at war with our freedom of speech.

From the alien and sedition acts at the beginning of our republic,

to Abraham Lincoln's War on speech, to the jailing of anti-war activists during both World War I and two,

the political class is all for free speech unless it is threatening to the political class.

Recently, a new front has been opened in a war on the free speech, and it is one that Americans

must take seriously.

On university campuses across the country, students, both American and foreign guests have

taken to protesting U.S. support for Israel's actions in Gaza where tens of thousands of innocent

civilians have been killed. The political class in the United States is determined to defend

Israel from its critics and has responded to these protests by threatening and blackmailing

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