When The Whip Comes Down

Captain Clay Higgins In Action

Ain't it funny?  Well, not so much funny as aggravating, enraging and annoying.  I'm talking about how speakers of truth seem to always have some higher authority bring the whip down on them. For speaking truth. Damn, son!  We can't have that!  That higher authority always is cloaked in moral and righteous indignation. That's what they call it.  But it's just censorship cloaked in insidious political correctness.  The most recent example of this is the forced resignation of Captain Clay Higgins of the St. Landry Parish Sheriff’s Office in Louisiana.  

An Army veteran and hardened street cop who rarely cracks a smile, Higgins is the star of weekly Crime Stoppers segments that garnered a cult following and are quickly becoming viral thanks to his back-country Cajun drawl, hard one-liners and brutal honesty.  His videos have been, shall we say, without concern for the delicate sensitivities of the perpetual criminals there.  So gung ho against crime and dumb criminals was he that he's been referred to as the "Cajun John Wayne."  Admiringly so.  Like Arizona's Sheriff Joe Arpaio, Cap'n Clay is loved by all but the limp-wristed, pearl-clutching cupcakes on the left.  But after making headlines - and inroads to serious crime reduction - with his tough talking over-the-top Crime Stoppers videos, Sheriff Bobby Guidroz ordered him to tone it down.  We can't demean or offend low life, vicious animals like the Gremlin Gang.  The ACLU may come in and complain.  And the ACLU, along with some other "community advocates" did just that.  So instead of standing up for the law abiding citizens of St. Landry Parrish, and supporting the obvious truths spoken by Captain Clay Higgins, Sheriff Guidroz caved, and came down on the side of political correctness, bully appeasement and cowardice.  

In his resignation news conference, Higgins said, “I would die rather than sacrifice my principles.  I would give my life. I’d leave my wife without a husband, my children without a daddy rather than kneel to the very forces of evil that I have so long stood against.”

That is exactly the kind of steel we need once more in America.  But Saturday, the whip came down on Cap'n Clay.  Damn shame.