C'mon people is this decent behavior?

@dawnald (85137)
Shingle Springs, California
September 3, 2009 11:11am CST
A disabled woman getting shouted down at a meeting about health care reform? http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/02/wheelchair-bound-woman-sh_n_275472.html I think if you go to a public meeting, and you can't behave decently, you should be ejected, period. What possible reason was there to behave like this? What the heck is this country coming to?
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• Australia
3 Sep 09
I feel for coming generations. It seems that manners and decency are slowly disappearing from society. When I was younger (Yes, I know, kids hate hearing that!) children behaved in public. Now, you need accident insurance to go shopping in the school holidays. Kids barge past, cut in front of you, walk straight into you because they are either talking to someone behind them or busy texting or something. It can be quite hazardous. Each year, the culprits are older and it is now young adults who do the same. I am thankful these are still in the minority and there are still numerous helpful and considerate people around - but what of the future? I certainly agree that a public speaker should never be howled down. If public meetings turn into a free-for-all, they will disappear and the public won't have a voice. When things like this happen, the meeting should be closed unless order is restored.
@dawnald (85137)
• Shingle Springs, California
3 Sep 09
yeah mom (bored look) we all know how much better things were (eye roll)... But seriously I really do think people were more polite when I was a kid. Now people are so darn impatient. As for this meeting, they should have given the hecklers one warning and then started throwing them out.
• Australia
7 Oct 09
Thank you Dawn - appreciated
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@dawnald (85137)
• Shingle Springs, California
8 Oct 09
:-)
@ANTIQUELADY (36440)
• United States
5 Sep 09
It is in one big , sad mess & i'm afraid it's only going to get worse if possible.
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@dawnald (85137)
• Shingle Springs, California
7 Sep 09
I sincerely hope not...
@jillhill (37353)
• United States
3 Sep 09
It's called having manners....everyone is for themselves these days....and feel free to do whatever they want....I have seen behavior like this in public too....I wonder what happened to the sense of decency?
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@dawnald (85137)
• Shingle Springs, California
3 Sep 09
I don't know, but when you go to a public meeting where a speaker has to be recognized in order to speak, you ought to let them speak and then say your piece when it's your turn.
4 Sep 09
Hi dawnald, I don't understand some peoples' manners, they don't seem to have any respect and disable people gets treated like idiots. But who is the idiot there? Tamara
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@dawnald (85137)
• Shingle Springs, California
4 Sep 09
the morons doing the shouting, I'd say...
@janebeth (2032)
• Philippines
4 Sep 09
oh i am so sorry for the disabled women being shouted that way.. what country is that?? tsskk..
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@dawnald (85137)
• Shingle Springs, California
4 Sep 09
in the US, health care debate...