I believe that the November Gaffe Award should be awarded to Hamilton County Commission Chairman Larry Henry for a strange and curious monologue he delivered while discussing gang violence during the November 16 2011 regular meeting of the Hamilton County Commission.
The Chairman receives high-marks for crazy jumps in logic and reason, red baiting and the promotion of a solution to violent crime that emphasizes a fundamentalist Christian worldview centered on the fictional nuclear family.
Chairman Henry's statements can be heard and verified by listening to the Hamilton County Audio from the 11/16 Regular meeting, beginning at the 58 minute mark.
Chairman Larry Henry:
I can’t help but remember from some old classes I took some years ago when it was talking about socialism and communism and the evolution of socialism to communism and to a perfect utopia, what have you. And our counter-parts in our communist countries and Nikita Khrushchev, he made this statement one time that they, uh, they would take over this country without firing a single shot. In other words, what he meant by that, was that, uh, what would happen in this country and I think we are seeing this happening now, will be a general break down in the family. And when the family breaks down, then everything else follows with it. So, we’re seeing that. And I think that attributes a lot to the violence and the crime and what we have now with our teenagers in some of this gang violence is a break down in the family. We’re seeing that, so I agree with the comments that were made and certainly I think that bringing everybody to the table primarily though is that our leaders in the faith-based organizations to, uh, try and make parents be parents. And I don’t know how you do that. I really don’t. I soul-search myself on that.That's right. The Commies are winning. Never mind huge increases in concentrated poverty, structural unemployment, abysmal public transportation, the purposeful financial starvation of our educational system and the drastic budget cuts to organizations providing essential social services to under-resourced communities. Never mind the easy access city residents have to guns. It's the churches and family values, stupid.