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Council member’s concern upset her
I am incensed at Theresa Richardson’s gall in making her recent public comments about the drag show at the Emerald of Siam.
She inserted her personal beliefs into voicing publicly a negative opinion about a legitimate business in Richland. How inappropriate, especially when such opinions are known to lead to violence, which endangers the citizens and businesses of the city she theoretically works to support.
I assume that her opinions about such a show are shaped by the same beliefs that have led to efforts to ban speech, ideas, reproductive rights, health care, books, etc. Those opinions have no place on the City Council or in how it operates.
As a representative of the city, she is obligated to support all our citizens and all our businesses regardless of her own personal beliefs. She has done incredible damage to a Richland business, one that has been a valued part of the city for decades and that puts a great deal of effort into giving back to the community.
She should be ashamed of herself. I look forward to replacing her with someone more open minded, who won’t mindlessly stoke violence by feeding the bigotry that has become far too prevalent.
Peggy Hamilton, Richland
Clean your own house first of all
“Pedophiles, perverts, groomers”— the current pejoratives from people claiming morality as the justification for demanding that everything and everyone be sanitized to their standards. Perhaps these folks should get their own house in order before they start pointing fingers. Seems to me the biggest headlines have been grabbed by priests and other church officials for actually committing those heinous crimes. To make such accusations without proof is reckless, wrong, and — um, did I read something about “bearing false witness’ somewhere?”
Don’t want to see a drag show in your town? Don’t go. It’s that simple. Don’t want your kid to read something in the library or learn something at school? Probably should cloister them at home. Just using lies to rile up a crowd in order to get your way or get elected or re-elected? Get thee off to the theological place of eternal punishment.
Kirk Williamson, Kennewick
Gun lovers are living in fear
Gun lovers live in fear that if they do not have a high-powered murder weapon they can use to kill someone, the “criminals” will rob them of everything they have and then kill them. How are they going to protect themselves if they can’t shoot someone to death?
We live in an uncivilized country. We have more lethal weapons than people. Every day we show the world how important guns are to us. Our God-given 2nd Amendment grants us the right to shoot to death anyone we think might be threatening us. We parade around with our military assault rifles to show people how macho we are. For more than 50 years running, we hold the world record for mass shootings, especially of children. We are Number One and not about to let any other country take that status from us. Unless they can pry our cold dead fingers from our beloved guns.
Edward Rykiel, Richland
Extreme views inflame bigotry
Throughout the country, incidents of hate and intolerance are increasing. Despite our largely conservative populace, I had hoped that the more extreme views experienced in less educated communities were not pervasive here. The vandalizing of the Emerald of Siam combined with the adoption of increasingly restrictive policies governing our schools tells me that is not the case. I fear that the increasing reliance on social media for information has flamed bias and misinformation resulting in “news” and commentary only from sources that promote hate, bigotry, and narrow mindedness.
Linda Powers, Richland
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