Opinion: Defend the First Amendment

I am disappointed in U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s silence in the wake of this administrations attacks on the Department of Justice, the FBI and the free press.

To allow a president of the United States to brand the free press as “the enemy of the people” should not go unchallenged.

I would hope that the Juneau Empire will register its outrage at this dangerous mindset poisoning our democratic institutions.

I am a Vietnam veteran and a lifelong Bill Egan Democrat who wrote in Murkowski’s name in her last election. What is going on in Washington, D.C. at this time is deeply troubling.

Defend the First Amendment.

Mark A. Steen,

Cordova


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