After spending some times at Bally's to condition myself and get ready for the 8 miles Dallas YMCA Turkey Trot coming up on Thanksgiving day, I got home, flipped on the TV in hope of catching the tail end of Monday night football. Didn't find it but instead stumbled across the tail end of the October 16th City of Carrollton council meeting where Herb Weidinger was bashing Carrollton resident Paul Kramer just because he exercised his first amendment right and was at a protest. Last time I checked, I thought this country of ours was a constitutional republic where people have the constitutional right peaceably to assemble. I found myself in agreement with councilman Tim Hayden, who said basically that the article itself said nothing about what Paul Kramer did or didn't do that was so bad. I guess Paul committed the unforgivable sin of disagreeing with mayor Becky Miller and her band of dictators. What was even more astonishing was the fact that my own place 3 council member, Pat Malone, seconded the motion by Herb Weidinger to remove Kramer's name from the resolutions to appoint people to the various boards and commissions. I guess it really opened my eyes about the person who represents me on the council. A point on diversity: a room full of people who are all looking different but think alike isn't diversity. But that wasn't it. The most frustrating thing was the way mayor Becky Miller was running the meeting. I mean for a kid coming from a third world country like Vietnam, I now after fourteen years residing in this great land, have come to learn the basics of Robert's Rules of Order. I mean it's not rocket science, just having attended enough meetings, you should get the hang of it. And it's not too much to ask, if you are going to be mayor, I would at least pick up some materials to read, or point my browser to Google and do my homework so I won't embarrass the entire city of some 116,000 people for electing a mayor who has no idea how to conduct a meeting. If we could find a way to put that video segment on YouTube, we would have a great laugh sharing it with all other folks, especially the Young Republicans around the 50 states. But I have to be careful since the dictators are also very petty.