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From COVID-19 to Campus Protests: How the Police State Muzzles Free Speech<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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\u201cPoliticians of both parties want to use the power of government to silence their foes. Some in the university community seek to drive it from their campuses. And an entire generation of Americans is being taught that free speech should be curtailed as soon as it makes someone else feel uncomfortable.\u201d\u2014William Ruger, \u201cFree Speech Is Central to Our Dignity as Humans<\/a>\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

The police state does not want citizens who know their rights.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Nor does the police state want citizens prepared to exercise those rights.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This year\u2019s graduates are a prime example of this master class in compliance. Their time in college has been set against a backdrop of crackdowns, lockdowns and permacrises ranging from the government\u2019s authoritarian COVID-19 tactics to its more recent militant response to campus protests.<\/p>\n

Born in the wake of the 9\/11 attacks, these young people have been raised without any expectation of privacy in a technologically-driven, mass surveillance state; educated in schools that teach conformity and compliance; saddled with a debt-ridden economy on the brink of implosion; made vulnerable by the blowback from a\u00a0military empire constantly waging war against shadowy enemies<\/a>; policed by government agents armed to the teeth ready and able to lock down the country at a moment\u2019s notice; and forced to march in lockstep with a government that no longer exists to serve the people but which demands they be obedient slaves or suffer the consequences.<\/p>\n

And now, when they should be empowered to take their rightful place in society as citizens who fully understand and exercise their right to speak truth to power, they are being censored, silenced and shut down.<\/p>\n

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