Letter to the editor: WNC Incident a bad example for youth
Letter to the editor:
It was with great sadness that I read the Nevada Appeal report (Oct.6,) “Political Speech Leads to Pushing at Forum”. For many months I’ve tolerated mean, thoughtless tirades by a handful of people opposed to positive change in our capital city community. Everyone is entitled to his opinion, however negative and uninformed it might be.
But when Clarence Southard allegedly physically attacked an invited speaker at a Western Nevada College forum, that was the last straw for me.
Assaulting someone who is peacefully exercising his freedom of speech is shameful.
Southard was identified in the newspaper as a principal in the group opposed to the City Center Project. I am a grandmother, and I have said to my grandchildren what my own grandmother said to me: “Birds of a feather flock
together.”
If Mr. Southard represents the judgment and values of those opposed to moving Carson City into the 21st century, I say leave them all behind. I do not believe one word of what they say, for obviously they have no respect for anyone or anything. What a terrible example for our youth!
Marilee Swirczek
Carson City, NV