Dear Mr. Limbaugh,

Here I am again, mouth hanging open, as I still try to swallow the denial of your bid to buy an NFL team.  Where is the ACLU?  They should be incensed to hear of such absolute prejudice.  If, in fact, you actually made the statements you are accused of, does this give you any less right to own a football franchise?  Let us play the devils advocate for a minute and determine that you said some very unsavory things.  Did Al Sharpton not personally involve himself in some less than honorable behaviors in the past?  And was Jesse Jackson without his own skeletons in the closet?  Yet there they are enjoying the courtesies of the media, broadcasting their opinions, no matter how rude and unacceptable I may find them.  What an atrocity.  Does our society no longer recognize the rights our constitution provides, like freedom of speech?  Do you not have a right to purchase something in this country even if your opinion is poorly accepted?  As a matter of fact, if every individual that has shared a controversial opinion were no longer allowed to purchase ball teams and other such high profile items than I find it hard to imagine any of these items would be owned at all.   Do the American people not recognize that these very prejudices are what provide the ability for a government to monitor and slowly remove every right we now consider inalienable.  Maybe if I share my opinion that I am entirely opposed to abortion, Price Chopper will have a right to ban me from shopping as it is not a popular way to think according to their other customers.  Oh, we laugh and say that is ridiculously radical but is it?  If you can be denied the right to purchase based on your verbal opinions, why would I be fool enough to believe that these same rules cannot be applied to me.  Are we so far removed from reality that we have forgotten the black Americans that were not allowed to enter certain restaurants?  Have we forgotten that the entire race of Jewish people was nearly annihilated from this planet?  Have women forgotten that they were viewed as sub-human with no rights in this country?  Would the women that fought so hard to have a voice be supportive of our silence in providing these freedoms for _/*All*/_ Americans...even when they do not fit in with the more accepted points of view?  Do we not realize that when our voice is removed we become slaves, not free men and women?  When your freedom of speech is punished, it opens the door for my freedom of speech to be punished.  If a person of your high profile is publicly ostracized and denied rights based on what you may have said it sets fear in the hearts of Americans everywhere.  We begin to question just how far we can take our right to an opinion.  We begin to live in fear and become more silent in our beliefs.  Beware, Silence will not protect us!  If we stop speaking the truth we will be defeated; and if we don't stand together we will allow our own rights to be taken one at a time.   If you agree with this please share it with everyone you think of!  If you don't agree, thank God you live in America and have the right to your opinion...at least for now!  Rush Limbaugh has a right to own a football team as much as I have a right to buy a magazine at the store, as long as I have acquired it honestly.  He has been denied that right with no fair trial, only allegations from others that have less than reputable backgrounds themselves, and media that in most cases does not seem to remember that they are supposed to be providing America with a fair, truthful and objective view of the news.
Always,
Kimberly Logue