The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

The definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

A free society is a place where it's safe to be unpopular

We have confused the free with the free and easy.

A society can be no better than the men and women who compose it.

The people currently in charge have forgotten the first principle of an open society, namely that we may be wrong and that there has to be free discussion. That it's possible to be opposed to the policies without being unpatriotic.