The article contains some fine points about free speech and speaking truth to power. I don’t necessarily agree with all of the sentiments in it, but finding the truth can be a laborious exercise, one made nearly impossible by roadblocks set up by those whose power is founded in shrouding the truth.
We’ve gotten used to one-way multiculturalism: The world accepts that you can’t open an Episcopal or Congregational church in Jeddah or Riyadh, but every week the Saudis can open radical mosques and madrassahs and pro-Saudi think-tanks in London and Toronto and Dearborn, Mich., and Falls Church, Va. And their global reach extends a little further day by day, inch by inch, in the lengthening shadows, as the lights go out one by one around the world.
The first amendment must be preserved if we are to retain our freedom.
