Our rights in danger

There is one very worrisome problem we have in the United States, and that is truth or lack thereof. A recent letter claimed that the lies in the current federal administration are as bad as the lies of the last four years. I have been on this planet for over 80 years and, during my adult lifetime, I cannot recall lying at the level it occurred over the last four years.

What I see are people who have achieved power and are depriving those they represent of their rights by the lies and so-called laws they are trying to establish. I am not a party follower, but rather an independent, because I felt that if I was expected to follow the platform of either party, my rights would be impaired.

What some members of Congress are guilty of is following a platform that deprives every one of us, whether we belong to the party in power or not. We see state legislatures, like the one in Arkansas, coming up with bills that restrict freedom and in at least one case, are illegal due to inability to comply with the U.S. Constitution.

Gerrymandering and voting laws that steal voting rights and other such power grabs need to be renounced, but people, through fear, have been lied to and somewhat convinced that all is well. Freedom, to some, has become license, such as the insurrection that occurred at the U.S. Capitol. If you don’t wish to have your freedom taken from you, then you need to resist the fearmongers and power-grabbers in government by voting them out of office. We need more debate and compromise to remove the power aspect of government.

Each of us has rights, and we need to insist from our representatives that these rights, as defined by the U.S. Constitution and Declaration of Independence, be honored and enforced. GEORGE WILKEN Little Rock