Meeting canceled in Delray Beach FL, feisty seniors protest

[RockaFowler]

http://www.wptv.com/dpp/news/region_s_palm_beach_county/delray_beach/meeting-canceled%2C-feisty-seniors-protest-

More than one hundred seniors have been gathering every Tuesday morning at the Delray Beach public library. They discuss politics and current events.

Apparently the heated political debates around the nation has carried over into their meetings and the library has had enough.

During Tuesday's meeting the library director told them to leave and said their meeting is being canceled.

The library says the group has become a nuisance with the arguments over who should be Senator and governor and that some seniors are disruptive and, at times, violent.

[Monique1]

1. Yes,

we seniors can be very dangerous and violent. I can't get up from the floor without support, my movements are much more slower but by gosh I am getting violent and disruptive. This is sad.

[damntexdem]

4. Yeah, and I could hit someone with my cane.

And what someone could do with their walker or wheelchair -- ooh, too dangerous to even think about. ;-)

[Obamanaut]

2. Libraries are for quiet time. nt

[damntexdem]

5. Yes, very, very quiet when there's no one there ...

because the people (often seniors) who have actually USED the library are chased off for being too disruptive.

The library in question handled this very poorly.

[Obamanaut]

6. Perhaps the disruptive seniors were responsible for the library being

empty.

We check out movies from our library. Usually when we go in, there are young people sitting at tables with books, papers, and laptops in front of them; the computers we have there are in use; it is quiet and peaceful, with patrons of all ages going in/out.

Quiet. Peaceful. Well used.

[Malikshah]

3. Having given public lectures down here on topics to many a senior group

I can attest to the occasional lack of civility and mob mentality.

I've never seen such rude behavior by a adults. The things that come out of their mouths at times can be quite vile.
Such is life down here in the Frontier Land of South Florida....

[monmouth]

10. Take a ride up to West Palm. Our library is fabulous dahling and

I don't think any political parties meet there. You would really enjoy it, opened about 18 months ago, very modern and the college kids and professors brag about it all of the time.

[avaistheone1]

7. This link is no longer working

[sixmile]

8. Today's Seniors are yesterdays youth

In other words, not your Grandfather's Grandfather...

[Hannah Bell]

9. that makes me sick. democracy is noisy. libraries are public institutions.

this is what they're for, & one of the few venues still open to this kind of thing.