Comcast is wrong to censor political ads from Pelosi’s opponent

The news that Comcast censored Shirley Golub’s [candidate for Nancy Pelosi’s congressional seat] political advertisement is disturbing on its face, and evil to its core.

The Founding Fathers (and, I’d like to think, with the influence of their wives and significant others, our Founding Mothers) of this great country bequeathed us many inalienable rights. It’s hard to prioritize their relative importance, but freedom of the press and freedom of speech are two that are arguably the cornerstones of our democracy and survival as a nation of informed and free citizens. When either of those freedoms is breached, in this case by members of the press, who seek to advance their own agenda by suppressing another’s, then our rights and humanity are diminished. So, too, is our future as a civil society. Historically, the response to the act of censorship by cowardly leaders in other countries, as well as our own, has been civil disobedience, revolution or, unfortunately, public apathy.

If we choose the latter, we risk losing our rights as a free people to a totalitarian government. If we choose the former, we evolve as a species and progress as a nation of people with our freedoms intact. Please, choose wisely.

David Grapka

Altamont

Are the Clintons so desperate for votes that they’ll compromise their beliefs?

I have a question to ask the African-American and open-minded liberal voters who have voted for Sen. Hillary Clinton or former President Bill (the first black president?) Clinton in the past.

Seeing candidate Clinton constantly pandering to the hard-working, undereducated white voters and Bill Clinton making almost all campaign stops in small rural towns, forsaking almost every other part of the electorate, this question arises: As the former lead singer of the Sex Pistols, Johnny Rotten, asked this of the crowd after his final concert — “Did you ever feel as if you’ve been cheated?”

Bill Gutowski

Amsterdam