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Why weren't the citizens packing the council meeting with torches and pitchforks to make their objection known?

The meeting was probably held when "Dancing With The Stars" was on.

29 posted on 02/27/2013 9:01:24 AM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (Here once the embattled farmers stood... And fired the shot heard round the world.)

No way that this is Constitutional. If you legally own and possess your guns and are not engaged in the commission of a crime, the police have no authority to confiscate your guns no matter what some municipal by-law may say.

30 posted on 02/27/2013 9:20:52 AM PST by littleharbour ("All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree. ~ James Madison)

My city was going to change zoning rules to allow businesses to be mixed with low density single family homes. It would have destroyed the value of the homes (mine included). The business twerps thought they had the city council by the nads. They weren't anticipating a city council meeting filled with angry citizens wall to wall and spilling into the halls and out into the parking lots. We made it abundantly clear that the council would not only turn down the rezoning, but they would pass a ruling that guaranteed that the rezoning would never be allowed. The city council members nearly crapped their collective pants. It was a shoot, shovel, shut up kind of crowd.