J.A.I.L. News
Journal
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Los
Angeles,
California September
26, 2005
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The New Police State
Terrorism
(By Louisiana J.A.I.L. Lt.JIC Attorney
Hardy Parkerson)
Please note that Parkerson is located in Louisiana, and
that the date of this article is August 19, ten days prior to
Hurricane Katrina's arrival. And let us not forget that five days passed
after the hurricane made landfall before rescue help made its
debut.
And further let us not forget the words of our Founding
Fathers in the Declaration of Independence, "He [King George, III] has erected a
multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our
people, and eat out their substance." "For the transgression of a land many are
the princes [bureaucrats] thereof:..." Prov. 28:2. (i.e., where there is
much government, there lacketh not evil. Someone wrote, "Katrina & Rita --
can you hear me now?"
Attorney Hardy Parkerson
Aug. 19, 2005
The New Police State Terrorism
Take Calcasieu Parish for example. We start off with about a thousand full
time deputies. Then there is the Lake Charles City Police of about three or four
hundred. Then there is the Lake Charles City Marshal police force of about a
hundred. Then there is the Louisiana State Police of thousands. Then there is
the United States Marshal police force. Then there is the Port of Lake Charles
police force, and the Sowela Tech police force, and the McNeese State University
Police force.
Also, now we have the Sabine River Authority police force. Am I missing
any? Oh, yes! There's even the Railroad Police, even in Lake Charles, with cop
uniforms, badges and guns. Then there is the Federal Bureau of Investigation
police, not to mention the I.N.S. Border Patrol police force and the U.S.
Customs Service police force which perform run-of-the-mill police operations
traditionally handled only by local state police forces.
Our Fathers never intended for the Federal Government to conduct an
intrastate-only Criminal Justice System; but that is what is happening right
now, with the United States Attorney's offices handling what has traditionally
been handled only by local state prosecutors and by local state courts
What's more is that a contingent from each of most of the above-named
police forces has gotten together and formed even another giant police force
that they call a "Task Force" and they are literally terrorizing the State of
Louisiana. In making what is a simple arrest of a non-violent defendant, on a
simple drug charge, they arrive en masse and all pull out guns and aim them at
even women and children who are not even criminal suspects.
Further, they depend on the United States Attorneys' offices to prosecute
the alleged cases that they "make". Since the state District Judges refuse to
allow some of these police forces and/or their leader and/or leaders to
"terrorize" certain portions of Calclasieu Parish, such as North Lake Charles,
and refuse to allow the police to dictate whether bond for accused defendants
will even be allowed, and, if so, how much these bonds should be set at, these
police forces and/or their leader and/or leaders have elected to take their
cases not to the local District Attorneys for prosecution, but to take them to
the United States attorneys whose offices are getting bigger and bigger and
bigger.
The traditional Louisiana Criminal Justice System is changing and changing
fast. There is more to it all than this, but this is something to think
about.
Sincerely,
Hardy Parkerson, Atty.
Former Asst. Prof.
Crim. Justice
L.S.U. - Baton Rouge
Now, add to the above confusion of the mish-mash of
government agencies running all over each other, the greatest national
disaster in recorded history with a five-day absence of food, water, and
government leadership to help the victims of Katrina, and you have the
ingredients of an even more serious disaster. -Ron
Branson