Hands off the yard signs!

Let’s join together as Medfield residents in collectively educating our young residents to leave the political and other lawn signs of our fellow residents alone.

I can only imagine that our young residents think that they are engaging in a harmless fun prank when they take lawn signs from other residents. However, what the kids may think is a harmless fun prank is received by the sign owner as an impingement of our most precious American constitutionally protected First Amendment freedom of expression. The act of the kids denying others their cherished freedom is neither fun nor funny for the sign owner. Those owners are likely left feeling an unsettling afront to their freedoms and a sense of disquiet that an unknown neighbor would intentionally hurt them by taking from them.

Let’s collectively help our young Medfield residents practice tolerance and respect for the freedom of others to express whatever political beliefs they may wish.

If any young sign stealers want to have their beliefs expressed, I invite them to submit something to me to post on my blog where their views can be seen by our community.

Maybe if we can help our young residents stop hurting others in Medfield, what civility we accomplish might even spread.