FREEDOM OF SPEECH‏ GONE IN LISBON TOWN COUNCIL MEETINGS

Perhaps a few of you are wondering why I no longer speak, ask questions or make comments at town council meetings.

Maybe more than a few are grateful that I am no longer speaking, asking questions or making comments. For those last, you can now scroll down, this does not pertain to you.

The Town Council recently changed the council rules, again.

Now, if a person would like to speak, ask a question, or make a comment at a council meeting, that person has to meet with the town council, or to be more precise,

Council Chair Fern Larochelle, prior to said council meeting.

Any question or comment must be pertinent to an item on the agenda, and approved by the council. Most councilors straggle in minutes before a meeting, so I feel safe in assuming all allowed topics have to be approved by Mr. Larochelle.

This, my friends, is censorship.

To be censored before being allowed to speak is the loss of  a freedom.

We, the Citizens and Taxpayers of the Town of Lisbon, have lost the privilege of Free Speech.

                               What's next???????????????????

Will we have to ask permission to attend Town Council meetings? 

Will we have to ask permission to attend council and budget workshops?

Dot Fitzgerald

A Very Concerned Lisbon Citizen