Brickbat: I Can't Hear You

Members of the Greene County, Tennessee, Industrial Development Board weren't using microphones. And some of them had their backs turned to people in the audience, so it shouldn't have surprised them when people attending a recent meeting on a wastewater plant kept asking them to speak up. But board members apparently didn't take well to the requests. County Mayor Alan Broyles kept telling them audience to be quiet, and when Eddie Overholt, a member of the audience, asked them again to speak up, Broyles had him arrested for interfering with a public meeting.

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[Fist of Etiquette]

Overholt was one of several people at the meeting who had planned to speak in opposition to a proposed wastewater disposal plant...

I'm sure that had nothing to do with the reason he was forcibly removed from the public meeting.

[JW]

WHAT?

[Bardas Phocas]

I'm pretty sure the lack of microphones was honest oversight.

County Mayor Alan Broyles kept telling them audience to be quiet, and when Eddie Overholt, a member of the audience, asked them again to speak up, Broyles had him arrested for interfering with a public meeting.

Stop! Stop, will you?! Stop that! Stop it! Now, look! No one is to stone anyone until I blow this whistle! Do you understand?! Even, and I want to make this absolutely clear, even if they do say 'Jehovah'.

[UnCivilServant]

"Do we have to have these meetings open to the public?"

"Yes, I'm afraid so."

"Can't we pass an ordinance closing them?"

"No, it's a state law."

"Well, does the public have to be able to hear what we're saying?"

"Come to think of it, there's nothing in the open meetings law that requires us to be properly audible..."

[Rev-Match]

This is the state of red state democracy: elected officials in the service of their corporate paymasters

Right Wing 'Democracy': Pay our salaries, do our bidding, and shut the hell up!

Knock, Knock.... who's there? Why it's the Koch's don't you know.

I made the mistake of reading the comments in the link.

[UnCivilServant]

Well, in blue states, they just declare you a criminal in the dead of night and deny you your rights without cause.

(Oddly, because ignorance is a defense in the text of the 'SAFE' act, I've avoided the commission of a felony by simply not checking to see if my longarms are 'assault' weapons)

[UnCivilServant]

PS, comments sections are generally full of phail.

[Doctor Whom]

But it's completely different when Team Blue does it because of, um, racism or something.

[darius404]

I was all ready to look at the article, until I saw where it was. "Raw Story? Nope nope nope."

[Libertarian]

Well, at least now we know who's serving who.

[Ted S.]

We also wkno who's zoomin' who.

[Almanian!]

All I wanna do is zooma zooma zoom zoom in the boom boom.

[Rich]

Mandatory.

[Matrix]

Just refrain from reading the comments section.

[Swiss Servator, spare a franc?]

Just refrain from reading Raw Story....ever.

[sarcasmic]

Democracy in action.

[BigBacon]

Looks like Mary is pimping her youtube videos in the article's comments section.