Louisiana Voice

(Two months from today)

“One-way ticket fellas. Have your affairs in order. Me? I wouldn’t even spill my beer. I’d drop any 10 of you where you stand. Nothing personal. We just eliminate the threat. We don’t care what color you are. We don’t care if you’re left or right. if you show up like this, if We recognize threat…you won’t walk away. That’s not a challenge, fellas. It’s a promise. We don’t want to see your worthless ass, nor do we want to make your mothers cry. You’re the ones threatening, if you show yourselves, aggressively natured and armed in my presence, in my neighborhood, where I work, anywhere close enough to put my family or my fellow citizens in danger. That is where your journey will end. Fast. How fast? 1,450 FPS fast”

—U.S. Rep. Clay Higgins, in a Facebook post, in which he threatened anyone who shows to protest the fatal shooting of Trayford Pellerin by Lafayette police on Aug. 21. Facebook took the post down because of its violent content. [Yet another example of the idiotic mindset of the man who, because of his sheer stupidity, would easily qualify as the worst member of the U.S. Congress were it not for his ineffectiveness. This coward would probably be the first one to run for cover if trouble started. My only question for Higgins is this: where are your hood and sheet?]

“No, I did not remove my post. America is being manipulated into a new era of government control. Your liberty is threatened from within. Welcome to the front lines, ladies and gentlemen. I suggest you get your mind right. I’ll advise when it’s time (to) gear up, mount up, and roll out.”

—“Captain” Clay Higgins, in an even more incendiary response to Facebook’s removal of his post. [Captain? Captain of what? Where did you obtain that rank? In the military, or in your abbreviated law enforcement career? Or was it during your days as a used car salesman? “Gear up, mount up, and roll out”? Can anyone take this Barney Fife moron seriously? Even as he issues overt threats against Black protesters, he says nothing about the presence of White Cajun Militia members in Lafayette on Tuesday. This clown is almost laughable with his false bravado. What civilian, other than a narcissistic, puffed-up buffoon, feels the need to cling to a former rank – especially one no higher than a mere captain, and especially when he was fired from one law enforcement position and forced to resign from another? Truly a legend in his own mind.]

“This is the same man who criticized the use of protective face coverings, yet coronavirus infections continue to spread throughout his congressional district. To put on social media that he would drop 10 protesters if they were open carrying arms was a clear adolescent ploy designed to stoke fear, incite violence, garner social media clicks and raise money for his campaign. In short, this is a clear example of dividing and distracting instead of addressing the real issue,”

—Rep. Cedric Richmond, on Clay Higgins’ lowlife mentality. [At least one member of Louisiana’s congressional delegation had the cajones – and human decency – to call Higgins out on such inflammatory demagoguery. What about the others? Crickets. Steve “Sleazy” Scalise, whom one might think would be somewhat sensitive to such violence-laced rhetoric? Mike Johnson? Ralph Abraham? Garret Graves? Bill Cassidy? And what about John Kennedy, who so loves to pontificate in front of a TV camera or microphone? Cowards, one and all.