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Blaring Car Stereos are a kind of bullying

The new law against loud car stereos has elicited protests from the cultural tyrants who will be required to keep their unwanted music to themselves.

Let us examine why they play their public address system stereos at volumes that can be heard a mile away. Contrary to what they tell us, loud music is never played to enjoy the music. It is played because the bullies who play it find it fun to demonstrate their power to indiscriminately abuse others. It thrills them to get away with invading the privacy of people's homes and businesses, degrading property values, destroying the quality of life, and dominating by imposing a culture that they refuse to admit is obviously inferior.

In the wild, Chimpanzees express pecking order by smearing their excrements upon those less able to defend themselves. The players of loud music are chimpanzees in human bodies who defecate their "music" from their car stereos and smear it in the interiors of all our homes. When we the people fight back with a law that limits the volume of their music, they argue in bad faith about their freedom to do whatever they want at the expense of other peoples' rights.

Like public smokers who want the libertine surplus right to light up wherever they feel like they complain, "Stop picking on me and go after more important social problems."

Senate Bill 165 is necessary. We need it because it empowers us, the people, to take back our personal environments and it restores our right to decide for ourselves what kind of music we shall hear in the privacy of our own homes and in our own cars.

Barny Vincelette, Houston

Response:
While I respect Mr. Barny Vincelette’s opinion about excessively loud music, I find his argument to be flawed and offensive. While I understand that music played at ear-drum popping volumes can be disruptive and many times offensive, I feel that you cannot express such a harsh judgment on a “culture” by stating that “…dominating by imposing a culture that they refuse to admit is obviously inferior.” I find that proposal equally as offensive as you, Mr. Barny, find loud music. You have expressed your outrage and anger with loud music. Consider that it might have been wiser to channel your emotions into your appeal to the public and attempt to present a less brash and outrageous argument. Comparing people to poop-throwing chimps and declaring a certain culture to be inferior are forms of bullying as well. Counter-bullying just alienates those people who play loud music even more. Two wrongs don’t make a right. And the wrongs that you have committed are detrimental to gaining support for Senate Bill 165.

Ivan Orsic
Wilmington