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Speak Your Truth: Don’t Let the Government Criminalize Free Speech
by John W. Whitehead and Nisha Whitehead The Rutherford Institute
“If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.” – George Washington
What the police state wants is a silent, compliant, oblivious citizenry.
What the First Amendment affirms is an engaged citizenry that speaks truth to power using whatever peaceful means are available to us.
Speaking one’s truth doesn’t have to be the same for each person, and that truth doesn’t have to be palatable or pleasant or even factual.
We can be loud.
We can be obnoxious.