The United States Imperial Government (USIG) has been especially hell bent on curtailing if not forbidding Americans’ right to free speech. This is an outrage.

Free speech is much more than our inalienable right, one the Founding Fathers were willing to violently fight for. It is part of humankind’s ancient defense against tyranny.

Libertarian Institute co-founder and executive editor Sheldon Richman historicized the abominable attack on free speech:

“…in this century, many welfare-state liberals, Democrats for the most part, gave up on free speech. Their former heroes, such as Supreme Court Justices Hugo Black and William O. Douglas, stopped being heroes. Just recently Barack Obama, John Kerry, Hillary Clinton, and Democratic VP candidate Tim Walz have unambiguously opposed free speech and First Amendment protection on the internet and social media.”

Retired U.S. Marine Corps captain and former State Department official Matthew Hoh has called freedom of speech our “preeminent” right. And it is enshrined within the First Amendment to our founding national document, before our right to bear arms.

As comedian Dave Chappelle put it, “The first amendment is first for a reason. The second amendment is just in case the first one doesn’t work out.”

The anthropologist and primatologist Richard Wrangham argues that human nature exhibits a peace-violence paradox made possible by language. We are capable of extreme tolerance and peaceful cooperation yet also capable of extreme violence and cruelty.

He explains this paradox by observing there are two types of aggression: reactive and proactive. Reactive aggression is emotionally triggered (think bar fight). Proactive aggression is premeditated and predatory (think hunting). Humans, it turns out, evolved to be downgraded for reactive aggression and upgraded for proactive aggression.

Language is the key to this evolutionary trajectory. Many animals can communicate with sound but only humans have language:

“…an integrated [symbolic] system containing a lexicon [vocabulary], several components of grammar, and interfaces to in-put–output systems, possibly with language-specific modifications of their own. And this complexity is not just there for show, but makes possible a remarkable ability: language’s vast expressive power, rapid acquisition by children, and efficient use by adults.”

As Professor Steven Pinker of Harvard continues, with language “humans have evolved an ability to encode information about the causal structure of the world and to share it among themselves. Our hypersociality comes about because information is a particularly good commodity of exchange that makes it worth people’s while to hang out together.”

All languages “conform to a universal design” and humans began speaking with this “Universal Grammar” type of language at least 100,000-200,000 years ago. And there may have been hundreds of thousands or even millions of years during which proto-language was evolving.

Chimpanzees, one of our closest living relative species, lack Universal Grammar language. And that’s why they have something that we humans lack: alpha males. We might like to think of guys like Joe Rogan and Jocko Willink as alpha males, but they are really natural elites. A true alpha is different:

“Most group-living primates, by contrast to humans, have a clear dominance hierarchy enforced by brute fighting ability. Typically, the alpha is a male, but, whatever the sex, the alpha is the one that has physically defeated all challengers.”

Humans don’t have true alphas because we have language. In our deep history, the beta males were able to communicate with each other using language. This made possible gossip, history, conspiracy, and execution:

“The execution hypothesis is purely a scientific explanation, without any ethical implications: it is not intended to suggest that capital punishment nowadays is a social good. Its core claim is nevertheless somewhat unnerving. It proposes that selection against aggressiveness and in favor of greater docility came from execution of the most antisocial individuals.”

Thanks to language, we have the emergence of something that truly makes humans special: coalitionary male selective proactive violence. Chimpanzees band together to kill someone, anyone from another troop, but humans can target specific individuals. This is how we became capable of peace:

“…self-domestication through the selective force of execution was responsible for reducing humans’ reactive aggression from the beginnings of Homo sapiens.”

The rise of the peace-facilitating beta males quite literally is the patriarchy the left is always fretting about, the killing power that makes civilization possible. Next time someone knocks the patriarchy, keep in mind:

“One hundred percent of wild adult female chimpanzees experience regular serious beatings from males. Even among bonobos, whose females are routinely higher-ranking than males, males attack females rather often.”

Coalitionary male selective proactive violence has reduced female-beating (and reactive aggression across the board) in our species. And it didn’t stop with true alphas. Any beta who gained too much power within the coalition, acted too selfishly, or talked about making Zionists register with FARA could fall to the coalitionary sword. A guy even wrote a play about it.

Of course, this language driven killing power also made the state possible, which is how humans can end up with a Caesar or a Stalin. And the state, the apotheosis of proactive aggression, is a much more formidable beast than any alpha chimp. That’s why language and its free use are more important than ever within modern nation states.

Steven Bonnell (stage name “Destiny”) claims, “The Second and the First Amendment have literally nothing to do with one another. The Second Amendment was only drafted to allow states to maintain their own militias after joining the federal government.”

Bonnell is a “liberal firebrand” who recently said he would make fun of any of his fans if they were to be murdered while attending a Donald Trump rally. Per usual, Bonnell’s take is wrong. Putting aside his state militia-propaganda, language is a defensive weapon. To shut us up is to disarm us. It is to make us as vulnerable as female chimpanzees; slaves the state can slaughter at its whim.

If the First Amendment doesn’t work out, may God have mercy on America.