Peon on 'The Town Hall Shout Downers'

OK. Here's what I think. I don't think the 'Shout Downers' are Un-American. They have every right to come into the town hall meeting and holler and shout and disrupt, and they also have every right to get arrested for not ceasing their shouting down. Hold on now. Give me a minute to explain.

If you ever watch the teevee machine and see people of the Lefty persuasion come before congress or other policy or political meetings, their intention is to disrupt and they usually pick some opportune point in which to start chanting or shouting out something. Shortly thereafter, security is called and those people are either removed peacefully or forcefully, and sometimes they are carted off to jail.

Sometimes they have sat down in the street or laid down in front a recking ball to stop a demolition. These are disruptive too, but they are not Un-American.

That is protest. These folks at the town halls have every right to protest in this way. They also have the right to go to jail if they do not stop when requested to do so. For some reason though, I have not noticed that any of them are being carted off to jail.

You may hear some of these folks who are participating at town halls, asking questions critical of the policies that President Obama and many in Congress are pursuing and negotiating with respect to health care. They are outraged that they are being negatively attacked by Nancy Pelosi, the media, or any number of others, but those questioners are NOT the ones being criticised at all.

It is 'The Shout Downers', the town hall disruptors who are receiving negative criticism or attacks or whatever you want to call it.

Forceful protest is not Un-American, but it does and should come with some consequence when it comes from the Right, as it does when it comes from the Left.

Don't get me wrong though. I am for health care reform, and I am for a public option. I am also for the right to peaceful, non-violent protest, even it is disruptive, and even if I don't agree with it. I do wish they would stop, but they definitely have the right to do it and so do people on the Left.

And that's all I have to say about that.