First Amendment freedoms are most in danger when the government seeks to control thought or to justify its laws for that impermissible end. The right to think is the beginning of freedom, and speech must be protected from the government because speech is the beginning of thought.
The Government may not suppress lawful speech as the means to suppress unlawful speech.
A law imposing criminal penalties on protected speech is a stark example of speech suppression.
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