Daines surpressed free speech – Billings Gazette

Respect is difficult when, He's our president and should be respected, is the substance of many letters I've read in The Gazette. Unlike those writers, I cannot respect a person who is a liar, an egomaniac and incompetent; who intentionally fills his cabinet with bigots and incompetents. Then there are the issues of taxes and business dealings. When a person speaks and has the quality of sounding like a whiny little twit, that's difficult to respect.

There are those who can respect immoral persons, even presidents and I have little respect for those who can, like Max Lenington, who wrote scandalous emails on the taxpayer's dime or Sen. Daines, who, as a party lackey, suppressed a First Amendment free-speech right in a body where free speech should be the norm. Daines, without a thought, accepted arcane Rule 19 which, time and again, has not been enforced when senators previously had routinely violated that same rule.

Free speech works both ways. It allows you to speak out on an issue, like Editor Darrell Ehrlick did and it allows a response if a person take umbrage to someone's free speech. Daines, on the other hand, did not respond to an issue but squelched a person's First Amendment free-speech right.

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Daines surpressed free speech - Billings Gazette