Sarcastic looks now legal offense?

If The Onion had written this, no one would have thought it other than satire. But again, American politics has become indistinguishable from satire:

A few weeks ago, Elmhurst IL city officials ejected a citizen from a public meeting for rolling her eyes, which the city council members deemed a disturbance to the meeting. After consulting with the city attorney, the council this week was upset to find out that eye rolling could in no way be considered a disturbance to a public meeting. After the original incident, the council moved to adopt a concrete definition of public disturbance, commissioning their attorney to develop the definition. The council later stated that they never intended to include eye-rolling in the definition.

But the woman was still ejected.

As the Great November Shakeup approaches ever closer, we'd do well to remember that the Political Class of both parties will do anything to cling to their offices and power.

HT: Michael Silence, via Say Uncle