National Affairs: WHERE FREE SPEECH ENDS

(from Judge Medina's charge to the jury) ". . .These defendants had the right to advocate by peace ful and lawful means any and all changes in the laws and in the Constitution; they had the right to criticize the President of the United States and the Congress; they had the right to assert that World War II, prior to the invasion of Russia by Germany, was an unjust war, an imperialist war and that upon such invasion it became a just war worthy of all material and moral support ; and they had the right publicly to express these views...

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