• Hopes she ‘nevah’ hears spot again • Policy already here Hopes she ‘nevah’ hears spot again A Kaua‘i radio station has recently been running a series of commercial spots promoting itself. In the first one, two local-sounding guys are
• Hopes she ‘nevah’ hears spot again
• Policy already here
Hopes she ‘nevah’ hears spot again
A Kaua‘i radio station has recently been running a series of commercial spots promoting itself.
In the first one, two local-sounding guys are talking when the second one reaches over to change the station. Next thing you know, the second guy is getting “cracks” and the first is saying something threatening like, “NEVAH touch a bruddah’s radio.”
The first time I heard it, I smiled at the “Nevah” but flinched at the “cracks.” I didn’t find it funny but I knew others probably did. To each his own I thought at first.
But that was before a dear friend was severely beaten by two thugs. He didn’t provoke the assault. A peace-loving, kindhearted person, he was minding his own business when he was kicked and punched numerous times in his face, ribs and head.
The reason? Hopefully the justice system figures that out.
Apparently, my friend’s case was a random act of violence. At least one other person was assaulted the same early morning and others were verbally accosted elsewhere.
I hope the perpetrators are tried and convicted and receive a sentence that makes sure they never do such an awful thing to another human being.
But until then, whenever I hear that radio spot, I get angry all over again about the senseless beating my friend endured. Running a spot that makes a joke out of violence doesn’t put this station in a very good light. Violence – even virtual violence – is NEVER funny.
I hope someone at that station has the sense to pull this commercial off the air. Once I know I “NEVAH” have to hear it again, maybe I’ll tune back in.
But not until then.
L. Ann Ardyess
Kapa‘a
Policy already here
Janos Samu writes about no-knock paramilitary raids are the solution to the drug problems. However that policy has been in full effect since 1981, when Congress passed the Military Cooperation with Law Enforcement Official Act. In 1989, George Bush Sr. created six regional task forces in the Department of Defense to act as liaisons between police and military agents. A few years later, Congress ordered the Pentagon to make military surplus hardware available to state and local law enforcement… for peacetime use in American neighborhoods, against American citizens. Payments for wrongful death lawsuits cost hundreds of millions of dollars.
The Posse Comitatus Act has already been distorted beyond recognition. While what they’re doing isn’t exactly “unlawful,” it does seem to blur the line between a nation under the rule of law and nation under martial law.
Jay Hunter,
Pittsburgh, PA
