# Political Violence Seeks to Intimidate People from Expressing Their Freedoms by Gregory LoGerfo > Speaking for the United States, LoGerfo said: "We emphatically support freedom of speech. The people who are conducting these far-left attacks, they're seeking to intimidate people from expressing their freedoms. And that's something they're doing through acts of violence, and that's what we're trying to get at." > **— Gregory LoGerfo**, *Results from the Ministerial on the Resurgence of Political Terrorism, July 2026* ## Sources and Context - **Source dossier:** [[research/Ministerial on the Resurgence of Political Terrorism|Ministerial on the Resurgence of Political Terrorism]]. - **Direct publication or recording:** [briefing transcript](https://smallwarsjournal.com/2026/10/12/results-from-the-ministerial-on-the-resurgence-of-political-terrorism/). - **Editorial form:** The Reminder preserves the prepared contiguous quotation; punctuation and spoken disfluency treatment are recorded in the candidate map when applicable. - **Context and treatment:** The editorial frame resolves "we" to the United States. LoGerfo identifies free speech as the protected value, violent attackers as the actors, intimidation as their mechanism, suppressed expression as the consequence, and violence rather than viewpoint as the enforcement target; [briefing transcript](https://smallwarsjournal.com/2026/10/12/results-from-the-ministerial-on-the-resurgence-of-political-terrorism/), Q&A on material-support laws. Direct contiguous passage with a spoken false start removed. ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/Simple Reminders|Simple Reminders]] - **Collection:** [[collections/Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and the Intelligence Environment|Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and the Intelligence Environment]] - **Collection:** [[collections/American|American Culture Collection]] - **Article:** [[articles/The Coming Market for Civilian Spycraft|The Coming Market for Civilian Spycraft]] - **Article:** [[articles/Reframing Antisemitism as a National Security Threat|Reframing Antisemitism as a National Security Threat]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Gregory LoGerfo|Gregory LoGerfo]] - [[wiki/Constitutional Power|Constitutional Power]] - [[wiki/Ministerial on the Resurgence of Political Terrorism|Ministerial on the Resurgence of Political Terrorism]] ## Share on Social Media ``` Speaking for the United States, LoGerfo said: "We emphatically support freedom of speech. The people who are conducting these far-left attacks, they're seeking to intimidate people from expressing their freedoms. And that's something they're doing through acts of violence, and that's what we're trying to get at." — Gregory LoGerfo, Results from the Ministerial on the Resurgence of Political Terrorism, July 2026 https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-gregory-logerfo-political-violence-seeks-to-intimidate-people-from-expressing-their-freedoms ```