We do not do so because we support hateful speech, but because our founders understood that without such protections, the capacityof each individual to express their own views and practice their own faith may be threatened.
There is a longstanding practice in the joint force of maintaining weapons systems in-house rather than sending them back to the original manufacturers for support, but that practice was partially abandoned over the last ten years due to lack ofcapacity in federal facilities as war-related repairs ramped up.