Some would die for our freedom
When people explain why they don’t vote, there is a common refrain: “My voice doesn’t matter.”
The Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered for daring to advocate for democracy where there is none. He told the truth, and he paid for it with his life. He did so because he knew the power a single voice can have, and he understood that every voice matters.
Though he is dead, the courage of his message lives on, echoing through the streets, pealing like a great golden bell or the summons of a trumpet.
In our country, we’re lucky. We don’t have to risk our lives to speak our truth — we just have to head to the ballot box.
Tuesday, the entire world will be listening. What do you want to say?
Christina Finocchiaro, Westminster
Seeking radio silence for police
Re: “Radio encryption spreading,” Nov. 4 news story
Encrypting police radio is a no-brainer. It is an officer safety issue, not to mention a privacy issue for victims. Criminals can monitor open police radio transmissions to determine how much time they have to complete their illegal acts and to avoid capture. An individual intent on ambushing officers can use a monitor to set up the ambush. The claim that it would hinder news reporter’s ability to monitor breaking news is ridiculous.
With everybody in the world having a smart phone, I imagine newsrooms are flooded with calls from witnesses, giving reporters heads up on breaking news stories. The comment that it would reduce news organization’s ability to act as watchdogs over police is insulting. And encrypting police radios will have no impact on the public’s oversight.
Officer safety, ability to stop criminals, and victim’s privacy trumps the media’s need for a scoop or public curiosity.
Ed Barthlome, Littleton
Editor’s note: Barthlome is a former police officer.
Exploring Broncos’ options
Not sure whatap wrong with Broncos general manager John Elway but he’s going to have to get rid of Vance Johnson for bad play-calling along with his offensive coach and put in Gary Kubiak as his head coach.
Leroy M. Martinez, Denver
Re: “Broncos can count on Joseph to mess up again,” Nov. 5 Mark Kiszla sports column
Itap possible the local team’s history has spoiled some fans and others, like sports writers, into thinking the team must make the play-offs every year, or itap the end of the world as we know it.
Now one of The Postap writers is advocating — it would appear — that the current head coach be kept — for now — only to insure a disastrous season, thereby moving the team up in the draft.
Itap truly a beautifully inverted logic, that I am glad mostly remains in the world of professional sports, where coaches and players are disposable once their usefulness is determined to be over — by someone who couldn’t play the game in his or her dreams.
Craig Marshall Smith, Highlands Ranch
Make way for wheelchairs
Our friends who use wheelchairs for their mobility find it frustrating, clumsy and sometimes dangerous to have to move alternative mobility options, like scooters and bikes, away from the curb cuts they need to navigate street corners. Please leave them on the grass away from the curb cuts, itap a polite neighborly thing. Thanks.
Dennis Kennedy, Denver
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