Louisiana Voice

Donald the Frump has offered the job of UN ambassador to HEATHER NAUERT.

And why not? As one LouisianaVoice reader noted, she’s blonde and she worked for Fox News.

What other qualifications are needed? Not even outgoing ambassador Nikki Haley possessed such an eye-popping curriculum vitae.

Back on June 5, Heather, then working as a State Department spokesperson, noted that the next day would be the 74^th anniversary of the D-DAY INVASION which she said was an example of America’s “very strong relationship” with Germany.

Next, she’ll cite 9/11 as an example of our “very strong relationship” with Al-Qaeda.

In the words of the late C.B. Forgotston, “You can’t make this stuff up.”

(Thanks to John Sachs for pointing this out to us.)

(Thanks to an alert reader who pointed this out to us):

So, Frump wants to do an end run around the Constitution and declare that children born in this country to immigrant parents do not have the right to citizenship.

https://theweek.com/speedreads/804640/trump-wants-bypass-constitution-unilaterally-end-birthright-citizenship

If he’s successful, an executive order to that effect would give him the power to deport all such residents of the U.S.

• Bobby Jindal was in his mother’s womb when his parents came to this country.
• He was subsequently born to immigrant parents who were not yet citizens of the U.S.
• He could, at least theoretically, instantly become a non-citizen, subject to deportation.

Just sayin’.

So much space is devoted here to the abuses of Iberia Parish Sheriff Louis Ackal and Terrebonne Parish Sheriff Jerry Larpenter that sometimes it seems that the shenanigans up in DeSoto Parish are being overlooked.

Not that events have not been covered up there but sometimes it’s necessary to go back and catch up.

This is such an occasion.

First of all, District Judge CHARLES ADAMS, who should have recused himself for obvious reasons, instead ruled that District Attorney Gary Evans was prohibited from investigating former Sheriff Rodney Arbuckle and his deputies in connection with the local LACE program gone bad. LACE is an acronym for Local Agency Compensated Enforcement, with a special emphasis on “compensated.” Under the program, state police and local deputies are paid overtime by the local district to assist in reining in speeders, drunks and other neer-do-well miscreants.

It is a program run amok, coming under investigation in a number of parishes, including DeSoto, Calcasieu, and Orleans-Jefferson. Those working LACE, in seems, find it difficult to restrain from fudging on their actual hours of work, resulting in more than a significant cost to hardworking taxpayers who put their trust in those behind the badges.

LouisianaVoice, in a cursory examination of 600 LACE tickets issued by DeSoto deputies, found that nary a one was issued to DeSoto residents. Zilch. Nil. None. Zero, as in not one.

But moving on, the DeSoto Sheriff’s Office is beset by other problems.

Arbuckle abruptly resigned in March of this year in the wake of the auditor’s investigation and was succeeded by Chief Deputy Jayson Richardson who had his name legally changed from Samuel Baldwin. He is now seeking the office full-time but is opposed in the upcoming special election by Mansfield Police Chief Gary Hobbs.

Not directly related to the election campaign is the matter of DeSoto Parish resident Ryan Jones. He was married to the sister and daughter of DeSoto Parish sheriff’s deputies. The couple had one child before their divorce and once divorced, the full fury of the sheriff’s office and Louisiana State Police were turned upon him non-stop.

Jones was subjected to arrests for DWI, extortion, and violation of a protective order. He was cited for various traffic offenses, one being stopping beyond a stop line (I’ve been teaching defensive driving to traffic offenders for 22 years and I have yet to have a single offender in my classes for stopping past a stop line), and for failing to come to a complete stop at a stop sign. In each and every case, he was exonerated, sometimes by a grand jury, others by appearances before a judge. Deputies have entered his property, issuing orders of “Don’t move,” but left without making any arrest.

He was even featured on the DeSoto Parish Crimestoppers Facebook page as “Felon of the Week,” even though the only charges pending against him (later dismissed) were for misdemeanors.

Jones has filed a LAWSUIT against Arbuckle, Richardson, Monica Cason, the former sister-in-law who serves as Richardson’s deputy, and several other deputies. If half of his allegations prove to be true—those include at least 10 instances of arrests, traffic citations, traffic stops, and other confrontations—then the sheriff’s department would appear to be guilty of malfeasance in aiding two deputies’ relatives by initiating and carrying out a pattern of harassment.

And Jones was wise enough to file his lawsuit in Western District U.S. District Court in Shreveport instead of state court in DeSoto’s 42^nd Judicial District where it, like the LACE investigation matter, might be heard by Judge Charles Adams.

I’m going to get called a Hillary lover (I’m not, by any stretch; I find her strident and insincere) and an Obama apologist (I’m not; I felt he was an ineffective president—though he did have a Republican Congress to deal with and a Senate President who vowed no Obama Supreme Court nominee would be confirmed, which strikes me as a bit narrow-minded, more than a little bigoted and bigly divisive).

So, go ahead, give it your best shot but I’m still going to say this and I will not back down:

Mr. Frump may deny it (and he no doubt will—he takes no responsibility for his actions because despots never do), but the cold, hard truth is he has fostered, promoted, encouraged, applauded, and otherwise abetted this irrational behavior that resulted in suspicious packages (possibly explosives) being sent to the homes of the Clintons and the Obamas and the Time-Warner/CNN offices. As of Wednesday afternoon, at least seven explosive devices addressed to prominent liberals were intercepted by authorities. You can lay these incidents at the feet of our POTUS (Prevaricator of the United States), Donald Trump.

This is what happens when you have a damned fool spewing his rhetoric of hatred, bigotry, ignorance, and unsupported claims, and who is followed and adored by millions of other damned fools afflicted with the same herd mentality of bigotry, hatred, and ignorance—and it’s only going to get worse.

How else do you explain the remarks of two so-called “Christians” in a recent conversation in which one said Trump “has never offended me” (Seriously? Never?) and the other who wished aloud that Hurricane Willa which slammed Mexico’s west coast on Tuesday would hit the migrant caravan headed toward the U.S. “and kill them all.” Those are direct quotes from a single conversation.

And, in case you didn’t get it the first time, they profess to be devout Christians.

Is this really the way Christians are expected to think, say, and act?

Oh…, I’m sorry. That’s the Pat Robertson Christian doctrine.

He’s the one, you will recall, who said of the political crisis over the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi:

“You’ve got one journalist. You’ve got $100 billion worth of arms sales.” He said we need to focus on the important things, adding, “You don’t blow up an international alliance over one person.”

Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t the entire concept of Christianity based upon the life and death of “one person”?