I agree. What I have been saying is that Free Speech means far more than the literal text of the First Amendment and nothing else. Free Speech is a critical cul

I agree. What I have been saying is that Free Speech means far more than the literal text of the First Amendment and nothing else. Free Speech is a critical cultural norm to the maintenance of Democracy. Free Speech means that all people and all institutions hold as important values to not restrict the speech even of those they disagree with. Values such as these do not flow from the Government to the people and culture, but from the people and culture to the Government. If the culture is to disregard free speech for certain forbidden opinions, then that will seep into the Government eventually. I fear that if we continue on the path we have been going down for the last few years, we may lose the Freedom of Speech at the Government level in a generation.