TOWN HALL: A democracy if we can save it

Last week, the Republican Central Committee sponsored a legislative town hall meeting. As our representatives do not come around often, it was welcome. It opened with the Pledge of Allegiance and then a prayer was offered.

After an audience member raised a question, she was silenced. I have attended and participated in many public meetings in my 80 years and have never been silenced.

When she was not silent, and raised objections, she was pulled from her seat and threatened with pepper spray by our sheriff and then dragged out of the room by unidentified men (security, deputies, police or brown shirts?) How proud all you prayerful folks who did not come to her aid!

Do I smell a whiff of the Constitutional Sheriff’s Association in Coeur d’Alene? This is not Iran or Assad’s Syria — it is still democracy if we can save it!

D. OSWALD

Coeur d’Alene