Cairo under a dictatorship

To the editor:

I read in Sunday's paper a comment about Cairo, Ill., operating "successfully without government." This person has not observed well because government is being carried out unilaterally, if not successfully, every day under the dictatorship of the current mayor.

The four dissident members of the Cairo City Council however have not been "fiddling while the mayor burns the city's budget." These folks, like our forefathers many years ago when our country was founded, are standing on what's right, what's legal and (just short of dumping tea in the adjoining two rivers) have filed a number of protests and court suits to stop or at least slow down one man's total disregard for state law, the city's ordinances and common courtesy.

The public is invited to attend city council meetings -- come and observe this travesty.

SARAH JANE CLARKE, Olive Branch, Ill.