2026-03-17
1 小时 13 分钟So for the last two weeks, you've probably been watching very carefully what's happening in the conflict with Iran.
The United States and Israel are engaged in a joint war against Iran.
And all of us are trying to figure out what's happening there.
But as our attention is diverted outside of our borders,
it 's also worth paying attention to what 's happening here and in the rest of the West that is not directly
connected to this conflict, but still affected by it.
And one of the things you notice is that.
Our country, and certainly Europe and Australia,
New Zealand and Canada, have all clamped down on their own populations in very unusual,
unprecedented ways over the past year, but particularly since this war started two weeks ago.
And that's a familiar phenomenon.
Countries at war tend to become more authoritarian.
It always happens.
But we should be on guard against it.
And one of the ways it is happening in the United States is that free speech is being curtailed,
your inherent God-given right to say what you believe in public.
That's the basis of the United States.
It's the very core of our Bill of Rights, of our founding documents.
It's the reason that we are exceptional in the world.
It's that one thing, our ability to say what we think, because that right comes from God, not the government.