The EU Just Declared War on Free Speech in America. It is Time to Fight Back

Jonathan Turley August 19, 2024 1 min read

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Excerpt: Eighty years ago, the U.S. government launched a war bond campaign featuring a painting by artist Norman Rockwell in the struggle against the authoritarian threat from Europe. The picture they chose was Rockwell’s Freedom of Speech depicting a man rising to speak his mind at a local council meeting in Vermont. The image rallied the nation around what Louis Brandeis called our “indispensable right.”

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