We are calling on radio station KMJ-AM to alter their programming in order to curtail practices that we believe to be damaging to our social fabric and to civility in public discourse. While we agree the government must protect the rights of free speech we also believe that we, members of this community, have a right to speak out against hate speech.

We are specifically concerned about the 90-plus weekly hours of prime-time programming comprising the shows of Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Mark Levine, Glenn Beck, Inga Barks, Ray Appleton and others.

This kind of unreasoned rhetoric, which KMJ unleashes daily, has been, and can be again, a contributor to actual acts of violence perpetrated by people urged on to extremism by the kind of programming that monopolizes their prime-time air.

As custodian of public air space, KMJ has a responsibility larger than making profit. They have the civic responsibility - at the very least - to not do damage to the society that they are part of, to promote the idea of truthful information, respectful debate and lawful dissent.