Video of Marines arm broken.

[Thomas B]

Have you seen the video?

He had security take him out and break his arm for simply bringing up israel.

How do you feel about this. What if someone were to talk about israel in town hall, how would you feel? Would you send security ? Or would you let them speak their constitutional rights of freedom of speech?

Also, what are most Churches in Estes Like, do they support israel? Or do they have different opinions? If you don’t know, it is OK.

Thanks for being cool about the late night messages. I just saw the video on X.

Godspeed & God bless you

Jesus is Lord.

[Gary Hall]

I watched it. Violence is always disturbing. In the news report, he was protesting the war in Iran. THe clip is incomplete, so it's hard to see how it developed and whether there was an option to de-escalate it without it turning into a fight. 

There are ways to protest what one chooses to protest, without it turning to a fighting encounter, and I always suggest those methods.

I have enormous respect for our servicemen and servicewomen, including the police officers who were called upon to end the event. And so I hope all calm down and I hope the Marine chooses paths to express his feelings that can be heard without resulting violence. 

In our Board Room, if they speak at the proper time for comment, they can comment on any topic they want, for a limited time. If they begin to lose decorum and shout and scream or use profanity, they would be breaking our policy, and I'd ask them to moderate their method of delivery. If they antagonize any of the other audience members, I'd ask them to direct their comments only to the Board. If they are unable to control themselves in their permitted time within those policy parameters, we would ask them to sit or leave.

As far as I can tell, most of the churches in Estes are very dedicated to being supportive of their respective congregations, and they mostly all seem to be very good community members who will help anyone in need. Which is what I would encourage a local church to be. As far as any political commentary, I don't have any idea, but I'd encourage you to contact any or all of them with questions. There's several pages in the EP News each week, I think, that are devoted to religion and philosophy, you might glean a lot from those pages as to what they espouse, but it mostly looks like "love thy neighbor" patterns to me. 

Thanks, Thomas. 

Gary M. Hall

Mayor of the Town of Estes Park

Cell 970-744-9052

Email: gh...@estes.org

[Thomas B]

"we would ask them to sit or leave.” 

Would you agree multiple cops carrying the person out is a bit much? Not matter what they have to say? And then break their arm in the process.

God bless