“A mayor of a small, unassuming town on the outskirts of Chicago where the median income is $24K per year, has been living the life of a royal as she is deemed by critics to exhibit antics that are both corrupt (meaning, what they consider an overuse of her power) and hilarious to the point where she belongs on a comedy show like ‘Parks and Recreation,” Fox News reports.
“Hilarious” is a curious word to use to describe government corruption and abuse of power.
Lord Acton’s observation that “Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely” is a truism borne out by history. Unless born into a power structure, large criminals start out small and chisel out from experience what they can ultimately get away with. Unchecked, this leads to totalitarianism, something that can only exist when those in power hold a monopoly of violence.
That’s a term Coalition to Stop Gun Violence executive director Josh Hortwitz watered down to “monopoly of force” to make it appear less threatening than “monopoly of violence” as he railed against an individual right to keep and bear arms, and endorsed “German political economist… Max Weber’s axiomatic definition of a state” as justification for citizen disarmament. What he didn’t share was his ideological hero’s complicity in adopting Article 48 into the Weimar constitution, establishing “emergency powers” to bypass Reichstag consent, and allowing Adolf Hitler’s rise to unchallenged power.
Self-styled “Super Mayor” Tiffany Henyard acted out her penchant for small-town dictatorship when she played “Bitch Better Have My Money” at a town meeting and declared, “I’m looking for that Rihanna, that’s what I’m looking for. This is what they told me to tell y’all right here, every single resident, pay me what you owe me…”
And as with Acton’s Law, what started out as someone with a “Criminal Trespass to Vehicles” charge is now able to write half-million dollar checks in violation of the law requiring another signature and to attend village meetings dressed in character as a murderous movie drug lord. So how is it that a town with a surplus has gone to $5+ M in debt during Henyard’s tenure as mayor? How is apparently passing that on to residents in the form of disputed traffic citations upheld, along with locking the elected assessor out of her office and town trustees out of city hall? And what are the options when the police are backing the mayor? (One clue for that – with a median income for citizens of $24K, starting salaries for police being $68K can buy a lot of “loyalty.”)
With that as a backdrop, Henyard’s sitcom “hijinks” worthy of “her own TV show” become less “hilarious” (making it fair to ask what the hell is wrong with that Fox “reporter”), and accusations of using public funds for self-promotion, with village trustees filing a lawsuit complaining she “forged checks by using the Clerk’s stamp on village check without authority, and for failing to or refusing to provide access to village financial records, including credit card statements, and for removing the Clerk’s access to the bank account information without approval,” merits criminal investigation.
Also, no laughing matter was Henyard’s appointment of a convicted sex offender, who had “spent 24 years in prison in Illinois after pleading guilty to taking part in a brutal gang rape and beating [where] he and three other people kidnapped and sexually assaulted two girls, ages 13 and 14,” as a code enforcement officer. (How apt that “Rev.” Michael Pfleger stands with her.)
It’s fair to ask what kind of background check was done on him—and on her, for that matter, especially considering Henyard’s exploitation of citizen disarmament to distract useful idiots and make it appear that she’s all about public safety instead of that monopoly of violence that all tyrants rely on. And that makes it more than fair to ask why she has a three-officer security detail costing taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars.
She “deserves” something. “Her own TV show” is not it.
So far, one attempt to remove Henyard from office by recall has been rebuffed by the courts on technicalities, even though a majority voted for the referendum. Still, and this cannot be overstated, over 1,500 Dolton citizens voted against the recall, leading to the conclusion that some are cronies and related to cronies, others are oblivious, and still others put identity politics above all else.
Henyard knows this and knows how to play it. Rather than dispute the charges against her with evidence that they are politically motivated and wrong, she resorts to the old standby of labeling her critics as “haters.”
As long as identity communities continue to reward corruption with power, they will continue to suffer the consequences that come from blaming others for their own poor choices. Locally, statewide, and nationally. Democrats are counting on that as they shift the blame for the devasting results of their absolute corruption to demand a monopoly of violence, as we see with the state of Illinois focused on disarming good people of their semiautomatic firearms with the blessing of bought-and-paid-for judges.
You have to wonder at what point are gun prohibitionist criminals in power going to push too far.
About David Codrea:
David Codrea is the winner of multiple journalist awards for investigating/defending the RKBA and a long-time gun owner rights advocate who defiantly challenges the folly of citizen disarmament. He blogs at “The War on Guns: Notes from the Resistance,” is a regularly featured contributor to Firearms News, and posts on Twitter: @dcodrea and Facebook.
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