Early this year in the early phases of the develpoment of the so-called Tea Parties across the US I predicted that they would soon turn out to be nothing but a bunch of defeated and frustrated as well as delusional Republican malcontents drawn from the fringe which has become the mainstream in the Republican Party. The same crowd of the Sarah Palin rallies that spewed racial epithets and threatening to kill the then-candidate Barack Obama. Some are drawn from the Ron Paul fanatics---the self-styled Republican libertarian. The rowdiness and race-baiting that took place in those rallies is now being replicated by the same crowd in the form of chaos and rowdiness in the Town Halls across the nation inspired and orchestrated by the Republican/conservative Talk Radio hosts who preach hate and violence against the Democratic establishment day in and day out. Democrats will have to find a way of fighting back, but within the ambit of the law. They will have to kick these chaotic crowds out of the Town Halls as soon as they are identified. That means Democrats will have to enlist strong-armed men to drag these thugs out. What these Republican thugs are doing is far from being a function of Freedom of Speech. It is in fact an undemocratic act with far-reaching authoritanian implications.