 When balanced against the Government 's need to protect the value of the Medal , the plurality said that " the link between the Government 's interest in protecting the integrity of the military honors system and the Act 's restriction on the false claims of liars like respondent has not been shown . " Additionally , Kennedy wrote that ' counter @-@ speech ' was a sufficient solution to the problem : " It is a fair assumption that any true holders of the Medal who had heard of Alvarez 's false claims would have been fully vindicated by the community 's expression of outrage ... Truth needs neither handcuffs nor a badge for its vindication . " 
