In recent days and weeks politicians and ordinary citizens have tried to organize meetings for the purpose of informing the public on important issues. These meeting are also to give the public a place to join in the discussion, to ask questions, to present their own ideas and viewpoints in a civil and orderly forum.
Rather than joining these meetings and becoming productive participants in the discussion, a large number of people have instead decided that no discussion should occur. These citizens have shown up to meetings with intent to do nothing but disrupt and shout down any practical dialogue that may occur. Those who show up for the purpose of engaging in this form of dissent make claim that they have the right to do so under their first amendment rights of free speech.
