Letters: Jan. 11, 2018

Astounded

It utterly astounds me that the leader of the United States is again attacking one of our most important rights and freedoms - free speech.

For the president to argue that libel laws are too weak, well, let's examine how the change he wants could work locally:

City, county and state officials and employees routinely are criticized by newspapers and residents. Public criticism of them is one of our rights.

Some of those complaints are legitimate and some of them are unfair. However, unfair or not, those government personnel could not successfully go to court and sue to stop such comme...