Hopefully, the free press will prevail

I went to see The Post the other day and it was a good movie and was about the struggle for freedom and how the freedom of a free people is protected.

Justice, Hugo Lafayette Black, from the state of Alabama, wrote the first concurring opinion and started by quoting the First (not the second, third or fourth, etc.) Amendment as follows: The people shall not be deprived or abridged of their right to speak, to write, or to publish their sentiments, and the freedom of the press, as one of the great bulwarks of liberty, shall be inviolable. He continued: "In the First Amendment, the Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to fulfill its essential role in our democracy. The press was to serve the governed, not the governors. The Government's power to censor the press was abolished so that the press would remain forever free to censure the Government."

The governed are us. The governors are those who promulgate the concept of fake news with the governors represented by Trump, the Republicans who support him, the conservative talking heads (The Heritage Foundation), and now the Russians, who castigate the free press with their pejorative brand of "fake news" hoping thereby to stifle thought, true fact, and an informed public in order to protect their power, money, and status.

I believe the press, and hopefully Robert Mueller, will continue or will be able to expose the deception of the governors and I hope it will matter to the people of this country.

John Kloempken

Algonquin