Print article Free speech isn’t under attack when people speak out against the use of Nazi symbolism on government-issued license plates. That’s not a sentence one should have to write, but we live in the idiocratic year 2021, when feigned ignorance masquerades as honest journalism and public officials find themselves doing rhetorical goose-steps to defend people who wear their love of Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich like a prized lapel pin. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, let me catch you up. On Friday afternoon, I was at a stoplight in Downtown Anchorage when I spotted a jaw-dropping license plate on the back of the jet-black Hummer in front of me: “3REICH.”