The arrest of students for peacefully voicing their views of the horrific war in Gaza is outrageous.

Police snatching students, and others who are legally in the United States, and locking them up incommunicado in detention camps and foreign gulags without due process mirrors Hitler’s Gestapo and Putin’s KGB.

The right of free speech and to peacefully assemble is the foundation of the First Amendment and the core of our democracy. These guarantees apply to even the most unpopular causes and opinions.

A remarkable Supreme Court case illustrating this point is National Socialist Party of America v. Village of Skokie. On April 27, 1977, Frank Collin, a Neo-Nazi leader, asked David Goldberger, a Jewish lawyer working for the ACLU, to represent him.

Collin wanted First Amendment protection

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