Traditional American political values always presumed that the best government was the one closest to the people. The reason for this is that government close to the people would be more easily controlled and influenced by the citizens, whose lives the elected officials effected.
To keep elected officials under control, i.e. ensuring the people's interests, especially when it came to taxes, the citizens would directly, i.e face-to-face, confront their neighbors, the elected officials. It was not uncommon for American citizens to picket and harass the elected official at their homes to demand explanation or a retraction, especially when it came to taxes. Remember the elected officials are the citizens' neighbors and essentially their employees. In many cases to make sure the elected official understood where the people stood, the citizens, i.e. the people, would not be beyond giving a good spanking or whipping to the elected official, or even burning the wayward elected official's house down (for those who doubt me, an excellent book, The Patriots, detail many such instances).
Although it sure would feel good and would be well deserved by our elected officials, I am not suggesting extreme actions against the Lake County Council members who voted for a 33% increase in our income tax as our 2007 holiday present.
Nonetheless, there should be no opposition to any jurisdiction arresting Councilman Will Smith on general principles. Since he is a convicted felon, a low-life criminal, one can be sure that he has committed many more crimes for which he has not been convicted. So a little more time in jail, especially on Friday, can only equalize the scale of justice. The only reason he is at the Council voting is the deal he has made with the "mayors" to get a job when he returns from the Federal penitentiary. (Maybe he is in line to help Mayor Rudy Clay's son take pictures for an additional $25,000 per year. It is true that picture taking is back-breaking work and Rudy is in line for the best dressed mayor award with the mayor of Detroit. G-d help us all.)
It is going to be a very, very sad day for Lake County when the one man, Fran DuPey, serving in an elected position in Lake County Government retires. The only person with guts in that whole building is Commissioner DuPey. I have said that from my first writing about NWI, over ten years ago, and amazingly it still holds true. She is the only Democrat to have taken a consistent anti-tax increase and pro-effective government commitment, even when this required opposing members of her own party, e.g. the northern mayors. No one in Lake County political circles has the "fortitude" to even hold a candle to her. All those Lake County male politicians, and the female ones too, are so fake, I can assure you they take "fake hormones" to make sure they are not mistaken for dead.
There are two things all the citizens of Lake County must to do to keep our honor as Americans. First, attend todays (12/28/07) meeting of the Lake County Council (at 4:00 p.m.) and stop them from overriding the veto of the Lake County Commissioners (by any means). If we have over a thousand people show up, that will tell them what we think and what we are about to do (say, take away their paycheck at the next election), it will actually scare them and they will have to take more hormones.
Second, if they get away with voting for the income tax, start picketing their homes, their work, and everywhere they go, include their supporters, such as the Mayors of the three northern cities. In that process, make sure that no one is re-elected. Show the Lake County Democratic Party that this is a Party vote and if the Party votes for it, you as a voter, and a true American, will make the Party pay in Lake County in the next election.
This is the only way we will get any change in Lake County. Alternatively south County needs to succeed from the united County.
