First Amendment rights in trouble

If it doesn't bother you that Donald Trump is shutting down the voices of the protesters, scientists, judges, and the media and ignoring First Amendment Rights to free speech, freedom of the press and the right of people to peacefully assemble, then you better start worrying.

Since taking office, he's put a gag order on the researched facts performed by the EPA scientists; he's belittled the media calling them "fake news" and called for journalists who report on the administration's dishonesty to be fired; he presents lies as truth such as "draining the swamp" when, in reality, he's filled his cabinet with corporatists who will open the door for the corporate takeover of our governmental institutions OR the lie that Mexico is going to pay for his wall; his adoration of Putin who has poisoned and shot his own people for speaking out against him; he's removed white supremacists and neo-Nazi groups from the terror watch list; mocked judges and the judicial system by intimidating our judges saying that it will be a shame if something happens to a judge's reputation with regards to his immigration order; and said that he's going to arrest pipeline protesters with serious jail time or with the threat that if the protester is knocked down and killed by the drilling rigs, no one will be held liable.

In other words, "Big Oil trumps citizen's lives. Depriving citizens of information, facts, and free speech rights leads to a despotic abuse of power. If it lies like a despot and it bullies like a despot, it's a despot.

Len and Joni Lindgren

Elgin