John Kerry Town Hall Meeting
Tuesday, September 18th, 2007
As mentioned in The Drudge Report and shown in videos on CNN and YouTube, a Town Hall Meeting featuring Senator John Kerry at the University of Florida, during which he invited students to “share a dialogue”, turned out to be anything but routine when University of Florida student Andrew Meyer approached the microphone to address the Senator. What ensued was a cause, at the very least, for dismay on all sides. It is reported that Meyer exceeded a time limit imposed on students for asking questions. Meyer was led away by police, restrained, tasered and arrested - the charges being that he disturbed the peace and resisted arrest. If this is the best we can do in having a dialogue with each other, we, as individuals and as a nation, are in very sad shape. It brings to mind a song, “Is This America?” by Eric Gnezda. Our answer? We would hope - on all sides - that we could dialogue better than this. We believe we can. We believe we must.