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Congratulations to The Roanoke Times for it's May 11 edirorial entitled "Shameful," the coverage of the recent Moneta town-hall meeting of Rep. Tom Garrett, R-Buckingham Co. I gather the meeting was best described in the partial sentence, "many members of the audience who repeatedly interrupted Garrett to boo, jeer, heckle and generally try to disrupt the proceedings."

The thought immediately came to me, "we reap what we sow." To this observer of the passing scene, I believe such behavior at these meetings can be laid at the feet of Tea Partiers from about four or five years ago. From memory, such persons had a legitimate fear concerning the national debt. They became very forceful and vocal at town hall meetings. But their rudeness and impoliteness was soon brushed aside by the radicals of their persuasion. (In political circles, it's near impossible for moderates not to be pushed aside by radicals -- of whatever party.) And repeating the newspaper's rhetorical question "This is good for democracy how?" We used to say, "I went to a brawl, and a hockey match broke out." Now we just substitute the words "town hall meeting" for "hockey match." Disgusting!

Allied to this behavior we now have the Bully-in-Chief in the White House (occasionally). Excuse my pessimism, but I'm not convinced we will still have a democracy by year 2020, How many years did it take for Adolf Hitler to rise from legitimately chosen Chancellor of Germany to Der Fuehrer?

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