Don’t surrender to the noise machine; Villeneuve rules

Published 3:41 pm Thursday, March 24, 2011

In response to Glen Peterson’s letter asking the Redmond Reporter to “Get rid of Villeneuve,” how very like the right wing to want to silence opposing voices.

It’s not enough that they control 90 percent of talk radio and they have an entire TV network, Fox,  promoting their right-wing Republican agenda.  They won’t be happy until they have achieved Karl Rove’s goal of 100 years of Republican rule.

I thought the basis of democracy was freedom of ideas and speech. One voice, one rule is essentially a dictatorship. If Mr. Peterson disagrees with Mr. Villeneuve’s point of view, he can continue to write letters stating his valid points or write his own column. However, he has no right to call for the silencing of another point of view.

The Redmond Reporter should know that there are many of us in their readership that welcome Mr. Villeneuve’s perspective. Please do not surrender to the noise machine.

Michaela Gray, Redmond