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Source: James Bovard

It would be the height of folly for Americans to presume they face no peril from entitling the feds to seize boundless power to punish students’ speech.

As long as anyone is sitting in shackles in a federal detention center simply for writing an op-ed, freedom of speech is not safe for anyone in the United States. Will Ozturk’s persecution finally wake up people too confident that “it can never happen here”?