“When injustice becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.”
Thomas Jefferson
During a city council meeting in Elmhurst, Illinois, in which a lobbying contract was being discussed, a participant named Darlene Heslop was evicted by the council leaders.
She was thrown out because she was rolling her eyes and sighing.
This banal, harmless gesture made by Ms. Heslop was seized upon as “disorderly conduct” by the city council and they asked the city attorney to determine if it’s possible to put a law on the books that outlaws eye-rolling.
It’s a real story, not a joke.
Now at least—unlike the 18th century French aristocrats they emulate—the city council didn’t order that her disrespectful head be returned in a basket. But with the unmitigated arrogance of America’s public officials being rubbed in our faces all across the country, we are being shown what people in positions of political power really think of the public. By their actions they show that a “government of, by, and for the People” is a quaint notion and nothing more.
Ask yourself: when a government treats its citizens as if they were underlings and ignoramuses and proceeds to make policy and law against the best interests of the general population, is it a government of the people?
From the bottom tier of local politics to the top echelon of national power, the ruling class in this nation has gone completely berserk with a pompous abuse of power and utter scorn of proper dissent. If elected officials can kick you out of a meeting for rolling your eyes, what next?
Now while the American people have far more to be concerned about than this backwater news story, it serves to illustrate what’s gone terribly wrong with government. Just as when a human body has an infectious disease a viral parasite will be found on the microscopic level; when a great nation skates along the edge of disintegration, we need to look at the microcosm of local communities and individual citizens to find what people and what agendas are to blame for the decay. Each one of us needs to be very concerned about what we are doing to protect the few liberties that remain, how to recover what liberties have been taken, and what we are doing to insulate our individual communities from the raging national epidemic of “power rabies.”
While Americans are tragically accepting of pathological arrogance from national politicians, this one small incident brings home the fact that we can run from bad politics and complain about unresponsive politicians, but we cannot hide. If we do not take a stand against unworthy and unfit leadership we will all live to regret it. Already, cities and states are heaping the failure caused by executive mismanagement onto taxpayers, like taxing driveways, closing schools, turning off streetlights, ripping up pavement, etc. It is not enough for any one of us to just roll our eyes and sigh…not if we desire any quality of life or the true American freedom we believe we have.
As far as the Elmhurst story goes, it’s unlikely that the county attorney will commit political suicide by obeying the council’s improper demand. Such a blatant abuse of the system might stir a comatose public to grab their pitchforks and “storm the Bastile”—in Elmhurst, Illinois and every other place that these egalitarian squatters have taken hold of government.
People can see that government is abusing them but what they don’t see is what can be done about it. In posts to follow, we will look at the true underpinnings of our nation’s collapse and what you can do to save America. The truth may surprise you.
Next Post is a follow-up:
When Miss Manners Marries Big Daddy, the Stepchild Citizens Cry
