"For the Jaws of Power Are Always Open": A Call to Save Free Speech from Destruction

by Christian E. Sorensen

In current-day America, many of our fellow citizens see the abridgment of free speech as a noble cause, as something that is not only a benign concept, but a moral imperative. Using “policies supported by many Americans… anti-racism, anti-hate speech, anti-falsehoods,” the censors of today promote a form of “valiant censorship” that is harder to combat in our sympathetic culture.

But this “valiant censorship” is neither benign nor moral. In fact, it is exactly what led to the fall of free government in Nazi Germany, Bolshevik and Soviet Russia, Cuba, Maoist China, and North Korea. Will the United States of America join this list, or will its citizens become aware of what is happening around them? Emergency Constitutional overreach, government surveillance, and social humiliation of those with “dangerous” opinions were not unique to these totalitarian states of the 1900s. These exact problems plague the modern world and should be recognized for what they precursors. The emergency erosion of First Amendment liberties is not an isolated event, it is a step. Is any cost great enough to abridge this right?

21 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 1, 2022