Whatever happened to free speech?

After watching RTÉ do a hatchet job on anyone who questions the current system of anarchy I thought long and hard about a response. It used to be that if you questioned your wider surroundings you were a conspiracy theorist.

Now the latest slur is that you are a “freeman”, and it is said in such a way that it makes one sound like a complete delinquent or reprobate.

The obvious rebuttal is if it’s such a bad thing to be a “freeman”, then the corollary must be all people are not free? Words have power. In this instance, such power.