Louisiana Voice

In my 82+ years of living, I have visions etched into my memory of water cannons and police dogs used against civil rights protesters in Alabama, the horrific murders of Emmett Till, James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwermer in Mississippi and the murders of innocent blacks in Concordia Parish, Louisiana.

Invariably, with those civil rights attacks and killings, the perpetrators were either local redneck law enforcement officers with no regard for human life or just your run-of-the mill rednecks bent on killing innocent people.

Never did I imagine in my worst nightmares a scenario in which our own federal government would turn against citizens of this country. All that began to change when police brutally attacked demonstrators at the Democratic national convention in Chicago in 1968 and again in 1970 with the killing of students at Jackson State and Kent State universities.

Today, we are witnessing the daily mental deterioration of an unstable president and his hand-picked collection of Joseph Goebbels/Heinrich Himmler wannabes like Stephen Miller, Tom Homan, Pam Bondi, J.D. Vance, Kristi Noem and Kash Patel.

And make no mistake, they’re not above lying to cover their own asses. Don’t believe me? Just ask yourself if you can recall a single time when any of them have owned up to any mistake or issued a public apology for something that occurred on their watch.

They don’t make mistakes. That’s their top priority: never admit you’re wrong about anything. Frankly, I have a lot of trouble with people who cannot face up to their own responsibilities.

And Noem yesterday, following the completely senseless shooting death of Alex Jeffrey Pretti, saying she was “praying” for him. Like hell she was. That (excuse my candor) heartless bitch most likely doesn’t know the first thing about prayer. This is a woman who admitted she shot a puppy because it would hunt to please her. So now, she’s going to stand at a podium and tell us what went down in the latest murder by ICE agents in Minneapolis? Spare me. I wasn’t there; she wasn’t there. Neither of were eyewitnesses to the homicide.

She claimed, without a shred of evidence to back up her assertion, “This individual who came with weapons and ammunition to stop a law enforcement operation of federal law enforcement officers committed an act of domestic terrorism.”

Here’s another lie by Noem, who apparently loves shooting from the lip: “This looks like a situation where an individual arrived at the scene to inflict maximum damage on individuals and to kill law enforcement.” Yeah, with a CELLPHONE.

But there were plenty of those who were there who have given sworn oaths that Pretti was NOT brandishing a weapon; he was attempting to assist a woman who ICE agents had set up on one of their now-familiar attacks of body-slamming, choke-holds, bear spray and tear gas.

What’s the real reason Minnesota is ground-zero in Trump’s war on America? Simple. There’s an election there this year and the Repugnantcans are so desperate to flip Minnesota, they’re willing to destroy basic freedoms in an entire state.

Oh, you think it’s about that child-care fraud? Think again. Sure, it’s an issue and something that should never have been allowed to occur, especially on such a large scale.

But, as I’ve said here a couple time already, why doesn’t Trump have his Depends in a wad over the welfare fraud next door in Mississippi? That’s easy to answer. Mississippi is already a red state, so there’s no need to go barging in there.

Think ol’ Yam Tits is offended by fraud? Nah. Look at Trump University, a debacle that saw him ordered by the results of a class-action lawsuit to refund $25 million to students he cheated. Want more? Try the Donald J. Trump Foundation which in 2018, was sued because it misused charity funds intended for children suffering from cancer for business and political purposes. Again, the court ordered Trump to refund $2 million and Trump agreed to CEASE OPERATIONS of its foundation as part of the settlement.

Trump has made it his goal to rid Minnesota of all those illegal immigrants. But LET’S LOOK AT THE NUMBERS. Minnesota has a whopping 130,000 undocumented immigrants. Texas, meanwhile has 1.2 million and Florida has 1.6 million. Both Texas and Florida are decidedly red states, so no need to dispatch ICE there, right?

The presence of ICE and Homeland Security is no more about immigration than the invasion of Venezuela was about drugs or the desire to annex Greenland is about national security. It’s a ruse, just like the entirety of this administration.

Want further evidence? In a letter dated Jan. 24 (the same day as the Pretti murder) Bodi wrote a THREE-PAGE LETTER to Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz in which, among other demands, she told Walz if he wanted a return to normalcy, he should “allow the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice to access voter rolls to confirm that Minnesota’s voter registration practices comply with federal law…”

She added, “I am confident that these simple steps will help bring back law an order to Minnesota and improve the lives of Americans.”

We are under siege in this country. The plantation boss of Mar-a-Lardo is going to take every step possible to either assure a Repugnantcan win in the mid-terms or, failing that, attempt to cancel the elections altogether, even if it comes to invoking the Insurrection Act. He is a ruthless, bigoted, despot and the U.S. Constitution means absolutely nothing to him.

It’s up to us to take whatever legal measure necessary to stop this man, whether be the 25^th Amendment or a third impeachment.

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Obviously domestic terrorists

Homeland Security, ICE or Proud Boys? Hard to say.

ICE agents face off against domestic terrorists in Minneapolis

Watch out! He may have a camera!

Doesn’t matter if they are in their underwear and it’s cold! Round ’em up!

Sure look like terrorists to me. The worst of the worst.

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The wife of one of the candidates for sheriff of Jackson Parish has responded to Wednesday’s story in LouisianaVoice by denying that her husband, Cody Cheatwood, “never once” directly received from Jackson Parish Hospital’s pharmacy from which she said medications were taken “without charge” on a regular basis by hospital employees.

Elizabeth Cheatwood, along with her husband, were among four persons arrested in connection with an investigation by State Police into theft, drug distribution and payroll irregularity charges. The other two were hospital pharmacy director Aaron Nash and payroll clerk Vickie Booker.

Mrs. Cheatwood, who worked as human resources director at the hospital, in an email to LouisianaVoice, said her husband had “no way of knowing if I was paying for them (medications) or not. I was getting my husband’s maintenance meds from the pharmacist—blood pressure meds, cholesterol meds, reflux meds. The pharmacist never charged me for them.”

She then dropped something of a bombshell when she said, “As a matter of fact, there were 72 people in total that got their meds without charge. If the pharmacist liked you, he didn’t charge you because his idea was that the hospital wrote off every other bill for employees, so why should we pay for meds?”

She said Cody Cheatwood, who at the time was chief investigator for the sheriff’s office, “was the only person” outside the hospital to be brought into the investigation even though there were many others receiving meds. She said Sheriff Andy Brown “was determined to have Cody brought into this once he realized I was involved.”

As for the 16 counts of possession of a legend drug brought against Cody Cheatwood initially, Mrs. Cheatwood said, “That was Cialis. I got one bottle for Cody. There were 16 unaccounted for. The facilities director (of the hospital) was dating a 20-something-year-old (he was in his 50s) and that’s where the majority of the other 15 bottles went.” The remaining “couple of bottles,” she said, were used by the pharmacist himself to his benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH, also known as an enlarged prostate) “prior to be diagnosed with prostate cancer.”

Months after the matter was more or less settled, she said Nash “called and asked us to come to his house because he needed to talk to us face-to-face. When we got there, he said all he could do was ask us to forgive him and he would explain why he did what he did.  In this meeting he explained that when he went to meet with the undercover officer and the pharmacy board rep, the undercover officer slid a piece of paper to him and told him to sign it. It was basically stating that all 16 bottles of Cialis had gone to Cody. The pharmacist told him he couldn’t sign it because it wasn’t the truth.  He was again told to sign it. Again, he said he couldn’t because it wasn’t accurate.”

She then dropped her second bombshell when she said the undercover officer then asked Nash if he had a daughter enrolled in ULM school of pharmacy. “He (Nash) said he did. Then he was asked how she could be on the clock at JPH when she was at school.  He said at that point he knew they had him because he’d been clocking in his daughter to get hours while she was at school.  He said the undercover officer told him if he did not sign it, he was leaving there and going straight to ULM and his daughter would no longer be enrolled. At that point he signed the document.

“He again asked us to forgive him and said he couldn’t let them ruin his daughter’s life,” she said.

She said the attorney general’s office told her and her husband that “all of Cody’s (charges) would be dropped because it was a bunch of crap. When arraignment day came, it was all dropped except for one malfeasance charge. He said he had to have the approval of the sheriff to drop that last charge and Sheriff Brown refused.”

“Sheriff Brown told him he needed to retire before any arrests were made,” she said. Cheatwood retired from the sheriff’s office December 31, 2014.

From January 2009 to December 2014, the documents claim Booker stole $56,131.38 from the hospital and Mrs. Cheatwood took $99,451.30. Mrs. Cheatwood said the only difference between her and Booker was “I had to pay full restitution up front to avoid jail time. She was given the opportunity to pay over time.”

“I’ve said this too many times to count in the 11 years since this happened,” Elizabeth Cheatwood said. “I did what I did. I never denied it. But let me give you a little of the story as it pertains to my husband, so that it might clarify things. There was never any accusation of him taking money”

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