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(Male narrator) Americans, perhaps more than any other people,

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value freedom of public speech,

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speech in the public forum, as it were.

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It was a freedom that was laid down

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by the founding fathers.

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For over 200 years

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it has allowed America's people

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to freely express themselves

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with little government restriction,

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to speak and protest in any suitable public venue,

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to march in the streets,

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to raise their voices in the nation's capital,

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champion unpopular causes.

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To what end?

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Many will say it is the cornerstone of democracy itself.

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Others say that it is the only way

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to discover the truth.

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And still others assert

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that it is a natural right of all human beings

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to speak their minds,

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to freely enter the marketplace of ideas.