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Left and Right Should Unite to Stop Censorship

Left and Right Should Unite to Stop Censorship
A National Park Service ranger points out the larger of two cracks in the Liberty Bell to a family in Philadelphia, on Feb. 21, 2002. Don Murray/Getty Images
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We, a former adviser to President Bill Clinton’s campaign and a former member of the George W. Bush administration, may not agree on many public policy issues. Figuratively speaking, we wear different colored hats. But we have joined together to sound the alarm against censorship.

Viewpoint censorship threatens to destroy the country as it was intended to be—a beacon of freedom of speech, religion, and assembly. The First Amendment protects citizens from the government controlling speech, and the principle of free speech permeates our founding principles.

Lori Roman is the president of the American Constitutional Rights Union.
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