Russian communist apparatchiks have a history of throwing ideological adversaries through windows, poisoning opponents’ meals, or ‘disappearing’ them and their loved ones to Siberia’s icy desolation. Here in America, leftists scheme to tear electoral competitors from state ballots, brazenly break duly-passed laws they dislike, assassinate oppositional figures –
And spit on their graves.
Jon Green, Chairman of the Johnson County Board of Supervisors, publicly refused to respect Governor Kim Reynolds’ request that his county’s flags be flown at half-mast, following the assassination of Christian conservative Charlie Kirk.
President Trump also declared American flags should be so situated.
In a Sept. 11 Facebook post, Green purported to “condemn” Kirk’s violent murder by a deranged twenty-something with a transgender ‘partner.’ But in the immediately following sentences, the Democrat supervisor voiced acrimony toward the fallen Christian speaker, strutting a foulness that belied boilerplate pretense.
“But I will not grant Johnson County honors to a man who made it his life’s mission to denigrate so many of the constituents I have sworn an oath to protect, and who did so much to harm not only the marginalized, but also to degrade the fabric of our body politic,” sneered the progressive bureaucrat.
Governor Reynolds rightly blasted the supervisor’s poisonous pronouncement: “It’s disgraceful that a locally-elected official has chosen to put politics above human decency during a time like this.”
“It is small-minded and disgraceful that a leader in our state refuses to honor our American principles of freedom and free speech,” said Iowa Attorney General Brenna Byrd.
Hawkeye State Republican U.S. Rep. Ashley Hinson also denounced him. “This should be universally condemned,” she said. “I can’t believe an elected official — at any level — would celebrate the political assassination of Charlie Kirk.”
And in an X post, the Iowa GOP daubed an accurate “disgusting behavior” portrayal, and challenged the state’s Democrat party and candidates to denounce Greene.
But deplorably, the hostility openly flaunted by the chairman of Johnson County’s board was saluted by at least two fellow Democrat board members. V Fixmer-Oraiz and Mandi Remington joined him in his stomach-turning cavorting for the oddball bleachers.
The posture that small-pond bureaucrats (and judges) are entitled to violate elected superiors’ dictums (and even statutes) not to their personal fancies, is hardly without precedent. Last March, one Iowa sheriff boasted on social media of his intended defiance of American and Iowa laws regarding immigration enforcement, and his refusal to cooperate with national law-upholding agencies. (He subsequently retreated.)
More recently, news accounts have spotlighted guileful educational figures who strive to ‘work around’ – in honest terminology, violate entirely – federal laws regulating tax-supported institutions’ responsibilities. Appropriate sanctions followed.
Supervisor Green’s repulsive exultation at Charlie’s murder may owe to affinity with transgender-paired killer Tyler Robinson. In Green’s online 2022 candidacy page, he boasted: “I’m damned proud of working to change state party rules so those who don’t identify as male or female can run for state party seats without having to mis-identify their gender.”
One of the benefits of American free speech Charlie Kirk advocated is that it identifies bad people. Let them speak openly. That way, good people will know who they are.
