Army Veteran obviously believes that the freedom of speech is not absolute, as decided in Schenck vs. United States (1919). However I think that T. Jefferson would have disagreed with the interpretation of that case as is evident in this quote. He was warning about the ability of the government to be blinded by power and slip towards tyranny. This is the nature of power. When a government starts deceiving the people in support of their own political or ideological goals, that too is a form of tyranny and must be punished with dissent and sometimes with revolution. We are lucky enough to have an aggressive press corps that keeps our government in the public eye. Being a patriot doesn't mean you support the GOVERNMENT unconditionally, it means you support the CONSTITUTION of the this country unconditionally and the values that it upholds