Mahalo, Kaiulani for your article that provides examples of monitoring and suppression of free speech in public meetings. Mindful speech and and our own reactions to dissent allows us all to keep our cool.  An authoritative  president of the U.S. who speaks "willy nilly" with no filters and seeks to squelch dissent, and change the narrative for such dissent to his own storyline does not give permission to others in community leadership positions to do the same.