Does the government have the right or power to suppress dissent in wartime? peacetime? why or why not?
do you think the united states would have risked losing world war i had it not passed the espionage and sedition acts and taken other steps to suppress dissent? why or why not?

the lachish letters were written by hoshaiah, a military officer stationed possibly in mareshah,   and sent to yaush, possibly the commanding officer at lachish.

the series of letters were written in carbon ink in ancient hebrew on clay ostraca, shortly before lachish fell to the babylonian army of king nebuchadnezzar in 588/6 bc during the reign of zedekiah, king of judah.