I would also like to express my concern for

I would also like to express my concern for Mr. Lane’s failure to deal in the truth. He said that the budget which was proposed would have resulted in a “100 percent” tax increase if it hadn’t been cut by the supervisors. We were fortunate that Supervisor Hubert Gilkey arrived to correct Mr. Lane’s misstatement. He assured us that the tax increase would not have been an impossible one to meet, as Mr. Lane had maintained. He also said that not all of the budget needs would have had to have been met by a land tax increase, as Supervisor Lane had led us to believe.

Mr. Lane referred to us in newspaper interviews as “a bunch of kids having fun.” If this is the way Mr. Lane views a statement of concern from his constituents, then I wonder what Mr. Lane is doing in a position in which he is expected to listen to the people he represents. If he thinks we were out there just to have fun, then he didn’t listen to us, and I don’t feel he will ever listen to our arguments or to any arguments for things he’s against.

While I’m writing, I’d also like to address Robert W. East ham and Becky Burke who wrote letters to the editor in the May 23 paper. You complain about how the situation at the high school was handled by the administration. You ask why the administrators and school board members didn’t do something to stop the demonstration. I ask you to think. Think. What would you have done? Perhaps you would have called the police. Maybe you wanted force used. Perhaps you wanted guns used if the students refused to come back inside. Guns probably would have ended the sit-in but I imagine classes might have been disturbed in the process. Rappahannock isn’t Kent State...or Russia. This is supposed to be the land of free speech and free assembly. Perhaps you should read the Bill of Rights. There’s a strange one included in that list-the right to peaceably assemble. And it doesn’t say everyone but school students.

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