tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51550634447831369112024-03-12T18:13:22.820-05:00Resistance<strong>Resistance: "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. .." Hosea 4:6
Resist the injustice. Get Informed.
**Injustice Resistance Movement of Louisiana**</strong>Joseph LeSieurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00184598229377794888noreply@blogger.comBlogger42125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5155063444783136911.post-27485185869842367402023-06-29T17:51:00.001-05:002023-06-29T18:02:18.618-05:00 The Rigours of DEFEAT 2023 (mid-year)<h3 style="text-align: left;"> <span style="color: #0b5394;"><i>Too Late Now, generations are now indoctrinated educationally, with formerly impoverished families having degrees at dual levels, raising children with high achieving intelligence; genetically predisposed to excel.<br /></i></span></h3><h1 style="text-align: left;">Too late to kill affirmative action, it's in the 'system' now! <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvmgUgCceVBuEP1mAzxaLkX2t2ZkTv15TkeVSVVg_Kb3iFWpf-E8OH1gZJ5nYZXRrMuMAzljstIwLla9R0MTzWiNxGsYAWLMa8UAokSsp01reSFEqiZJrIa5pVa7_6ys6_TGFszJZHnriQWPuexghJFOoiwvCL2ua90bDFpmN8iJFKDzcQ8yu0S0FFo6A/s602/Screenshot%202022-06-28%20at%2022-08-43%20Microsoft%20Word%20-%20SCOTUS%20reply-formatted%20-%2020220624162116239_SCOTUS%20reply-FINAL.pdf.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="479" data-original-width="602" height="159" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvmgUgCceVBuEP1mAzxaLkX2t2ZkTv15TkeVSVVg_Kb3iFWpf-E8OH1gZJ5nYZXRrMuMAzljstIwLla9R0MTzWiNxGsYAWLMa8UAokSsp01reSFEqiZJrIa5pVa7_6ys6_TGFszJZHnriQWPuexghJFOoiwvCL2ua90bDFpmN8iJFKDzcQ8yu0S0FFo6A/w200-h159/Screenshot%202022-06-28%20at%2022-08-43%20Microsoft%20Word%20-%20SCOTUS%20reply-formatted%20-%2020220624162116239_SCOTUS%20reply-FINAL.pdf.png" width="200" /></a></div><br />The rigours of actions taken in other matters of importance, signify that white supremacist ideology must be curtailed. </h1><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">If affirmative action is not necessary, why are the 70's era desegregation 'private' schools still a part of society? Consider the recent ruling against states attempts to fundamentally 'gerrymander' federal elections as states rights.</span></h2><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Further, in Louisiana two gubernatorial candidates instrumental in denying 'equal representation' in Congress, for another two years is evidentiary of the continued maintenance of a supremacist society. </span></h2><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Jeff Landry</span></h2><div class="article__section article__section_type_text utility__text">
<h3>AG wants narrow definition of Black</h3> </div>
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<p>As the midterm elections approached, part of the argument that drew
national attention to both cases was the standard of “blackness” or who
gets to identify as “Black.” </p> </div>
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<p>In “Robinson v Ardoin,” Attorney General Jeff Landry argues for a
narrower definition of "Black" and how that "definition" can be used in
Section 2 Voting Rights cases. </p> </div>
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<p>In court <a href="https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCOURTS-lamd-3_22-cv-00211/pdf/USCOURTS-lamd-3_22-cv-00211-2.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">documents</a>, Landry advocates the use of what he calls "DOJ Black," namely, "those who are 'Black' and those who are 'Black and White.'"</p> </div>
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<p>“Our argument to the court is anyone who checks black should be
identified as black in terms of drawing a new map,” Evans said. “The
argument of the Secretary of State and the Attorney General is that it’s
too broad of a definition that you cannot be considered black unless
that is your only race.”</p><div class="article__section article__section_type_text utility__text">
<h3 style="text-align: left;"> WWL Legal Analyst and Gambit Columnist Clancy DuBos</h3><p>“Louisiana had a law at one time that said if you were 1/32nd African
blood, you were classified by the state as Black,” WWL Legal Analyst
and Gambit Columnist Clancy DuBos said. “That law was on the books to
enforce the strict racial segregation and frankly the oppression of
anyone who remotely could be Black.” </p> </div>
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<p>These were more commonly known as the "One Drop Rule.” While
terminology like Mulatto, Quadroon and Octoroon has evolved, the
definition is woven into American history. What follows is a social
construct, used in a way to restrict access to anything including
political power, home ownership, education, and movie theaters. </p> </div>
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<p>“It was designed to preserve the White hegemony and the White power
structure that has been in place and now they're trying to flip that
around but basically for the same reason,” DuBos said. “There are many
people going back generations, especially here in New Orleans and the
Cajun parishes, who not only identify as black but who have been
identified as black going back to their birth records.” </p> </div>
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<p>Given that history, it can be hard for multiracial Americans to fall along one "color line." </p><p>DuBos said power is the name of the game. </p>
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<p>“We have a situation where 33% of Louisiana's voting age population
is identified on state records and they identify themselves as Black.
Under this ruling, that could go down to 25 or maybe 20 percent.”</p><p><a href="https://www.wwltv.com/article/news/local/identity-politics-redefining-blackness-louisiana/289-0bb99b46-85b9-4799-ae8a-6c348be928e9?fbclid=IwAR1L2gldVqqOOGR2QtkF_FeZvTd1RSjECN79pZO7sSOLZ0yojeTDeTRWs5A" target="_blank">Identity Politics Redefining Blackness in Louisiana</a> </p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Another early announced Louisiana gubernatorial candidate Senator Sharon Hewitt <i>boondoggled and filibustered while AG Landry filed an emergency-order with Justice Alito</i></span><br /></h2><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='322' height='268' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dx6AWK3QYEAndbzBB-Xm2QupVSJNrFajGkZ2vkhB4_8LO3rVqGhslQusU2qWHjL1RKI-YiNkmNGl-P-jQNLtw' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><h2 style="text-align: left;"><i style="color: #0b5394;">Senator Cleo Fields harangued in legislative committee for legislators to follow the federal court's direction and create a second minority-majority congressional district. </i></h2><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Now comes loan-forgiveness.</b></span><i><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b> <br /></b></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b> </b></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Nothing is changed however. The people who owe the most money are mostly poor. The present day Republican Party, seeks to slow down any advancement any way it can.</b></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b> </b></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b> </b></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Including student loans. </b></span> </i><br /></div> </div> </div><h4 style="text-align: left;"> </h4> </div><h3 style="text-align: left;"></h3><div class="blogger-post-footer">The Resistance is On! Over & Out.</div>Joseph LeSieurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00184598229377794888noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5155063444783136911.post-85010662086995060272023-01-30T19:38:00.003-06:002023-01-30T22:33:43.143-06:00The Present Danger DoJ v. D.O.C. of Louisiana <p></p><h3 style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The Culture of Policing </h3><h3 style="clear: both; text-align: center;">(Correction Officers)</h3><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1564046/download" target="_blank">In the letter to the Governor</a> Honorable John Bel Edwards</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">"and that these violations are pursuant to a pattern and practice of resistance </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> to the full enjoyment of incarcerated persons’ constitutional rights. Specifically, we have
reasonable cause to believe that LDOC routinely violates the constitutional rights of people in its
custody by incarcerating them past their legal release date." </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='432' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dz8wLZXfnENjjnpjQ2j5nEbkzQJTC3Rzej07cX9YW1OmfRHohZc1zLB1u7V0sPBFvapxHAXqK3MkaTwWaryuA' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">The truth of the matter is the young people and all others in 'correctional facilities' in the state of Louisiana, are in attendance of 'schools of pugilistic survival', with many returning to society mean as all hell. </span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: xx-large; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dwyRJliNVHgPo-Nk_ulVVlzl7g1ekYRJNcfGlKUv1ALPwpwBBj7Ip7T4Z_tuUZ1Vil6afRsBKPUoPmrG7NvoQ' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">The inside of a facility directly violates all sorts of human rights, allowing inhumane treatment in battles to merely stay alive. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixYs_1o2B4r6xSoo6zuGyHkPBcFubi9le-iFPFLjfKLO9LQ0X6g29P8pD9KQCX25KMwzAbzxGaO6BMNGL7Fc9EVVS2i5i2ih18yw_my_4aznfIFqiw3SLVgGeNc393VFG80_t6jgV5hXVNbs_Zw0Ulnb5ynBsEisjbNHmFoYmEsKbH0w5OWJDSiANC/s529/Web%20capture_30-1-2023_165422_www.justice.gov.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="445" data-original-width="529" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixYs_1o2B4r6xSoo6zuGyHkPBcFubi9le-iFPFLjfKLO9LQ0X6g29P8pD9KQCX25KMwzAbzxGaO6BMNGL7Fc9EVVS2i5i2ih18yw_my_4aznfIFqiw3SLVgGeNc393VFG80_t6jgV5hXVNbs_Zw0Ulnb5ynBsEisjbNHmFoYmEsKbH0w5OWJDSiANC/s320/Web%20capture_30-1-2023_165422_www.justice.gov.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size: large;">Every U. S. Attorney's office<br /> in Louisiana is listed, here. As Dr. King had to make LBJ, by Johnson's own admission; we must do what forced legislation to be passed to bring forth the 1964 Civil Rights Act. The people of Louisiana in every jurisdiction must act to bring about the necessary change to the "Louisiana Department of Corrections", which operates under limited oversight, as was attested to during state legislative committee hearings surrounding the frenzied state police beating death of Mr. Ronald Greene in 2019. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">And not only that, not a few of the inmates under DOC incarceration are under excessive sentences, a further violation of "cruel and unusual punishment" besides 14th Amendment violations.</span></div><h3 style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Every Louisiana U. S. Attorney should be written to by every citizen affected by D.O.C.'s handling of incarcerated persons, no matter where they are being held. Excessive sentences must be revisited. The time is now.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/2XPPKvIJM3A" width="320" youtube-src-id="2XPPKvIJM3A"></iframe></div></span></h3><div><span style="font-size: large;">Corrections officers are turning a blind-eye to embattled violent conditions. Some inmates contend the officers are part of the intense fights, inside prisons. Once released, the community has to deal with the violent state of mind, which has developed behind bars. From the carjackings in New Orleans to the killings in Bastrop, many can be tracked back to "no correction in correctional centers", but perfecting the modus operandi. </span></div><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">It is evident that mass-demonstrations are required in parishes where DOC prisoners are housed. </span></h2><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">Incarceration is big business for private correction companies. </span></h2><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1564036/download" target="_blank">Impact of over detentions</a><br /> <p></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">The Resistance is On! Over & Out.</div>Joseph LeSieurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00184598229377794888noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5155063444783136911.post-23546242933821190952021-10-16T03:58:00.000-05:002021-10-16T03:58:10.431-05:00WholeSale Letting Them off the hook:Punishing the Unconnected<b></b><h4 style="height: 0px; text-align: left;">Severe Punishment for the politically unconnected. </h4><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>If you break protocol, not maintaining the blue line; an announcement is 'leaked' that in 45 days you'll be let go, for speaking up in a law enforcement case involving a chase, that ended in death for the suspect.</i></span></div><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Pure Banana Republic-ism at its most resounding. </i></span></h3><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjF0napH36P7tLZLkwkxMYTnaviea66KMKG-HPgSyokD-hiUTlRHYPXTMFAwGRRe0iHN4g_jC2_Zgql6W6gibJlEe5PFxqgg-f_wRo5qUQkFTlJxziMVo4am50iCe05vh0v7gfdhtZEtrg/s978/a+SouthernU.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="708" data-original-width="978" height="145" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjF0napH36P7tLZLkwkxMYTnaviea66KMKG-HPgSyokD-hiUTlRHYPXTMFAwGRRe0iHN4g_jC2_Zgql6W6gibJlEe5PFxqgg-f_wRo5qUQkFTlJxziMVo4am50iCe05vh0v7gfdhtZEtrg/w200-h145/a+SouthernU.jpg" width="200" /></a><i><span style="font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5Dpoq1N2AVLQfIDwnezCdZKxjZRRoCUnW7si66DEdKA_uYffEwaR8aL1Tw4krMUNCO3bcb1Dv6bq2K7CeSwTHD2hWuoxAvrTxXLMpOPGzWVsVeUwP-RUnqd4x380l55nlvb1yKtKJP9E/s1500/Ferguson1Time.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="985" data-original-width="1500" height="131" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5Dpoq1N2AVLQfIDwnezCdZKxjZRRoCUnW7si66DEdKA_uYffEwaR8aL1Tw4krMUNCO3bcb1Dv6bq2K7CeSwTHD2hWuoxAvrTxXLMpOPGzWVsVeUwP-RUnqd4x380l55nlvb1yKtKJP9E/w200-h131/Ferguson1Time.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>All the while the Louisiana State Legislature on a Committee meeting this week began its discussions on the so-called "Critical Race Theory", which reasonings against proper historical teachings are Klan inspired directives. Where we are now societally is way beyond Jim Crowism. <b>Louisiana State Police, the U. S. Attorney's Office-La. Western District, District Attorneys and other elected officials are purposefully destroying their credibility.</b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-3na1yNOxkBNYFu0L-FqYY3uNwY9TFM9Sp2yUE4Sb7yr6HbsZnyXW5T3QUjRr2GSnwGkoLc2lXoyswJvIAJDrJFUqc_9EJhSuVT1RJqSLsdHSIFpeQ9RxAfa4JIx7CqI6eB7WxHYEkS4/s300/FergusonGassed.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="209" data-original-width="300" height="141" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-3na1yNOxkBNYFu0L-FqYY3uNwY9TFM9Sp2yUE4Sb7yr6HbsZnyXW5T3QUjRr2GSnwGkoLc2lXoyswJvIAJDrJFUqc_9EJhSuVT1RJqSLsdHSIFpeQ9RxAfa4JIx7CqI6eB7WxHYEkS4/w200-h141/FergusonGassed.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>Everyone is culpable, especially the ones that are committing malfeasance in office, by not doing their elected jobs. What is the use in taking a sworn oath and not adhering to it.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='268' height='223' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dz7lD4CvmYbOJYXQQwjN0qxXv9aRVRSX99AC16DCwwg1UYTccwsQF72-49lI-CTGEC4DyE4CM55LDfucMKF4w' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div></span></i></div><h1 style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">Can you not hear the Bell Tolling for the tragic loss of lives in Northeast Louisiana and lately in Livingston, Ascension & East Baton Rouge.</span></i></h1><div><i><span style="font-size: large;">The young lives lost to gun violence during the Summer and since, is due to "the culture of violence" in every area including law enforcement. The eighteen year old former Richwood High football player life was taken in June. </span></i></div><div><i><span style="font-size: large;">Ten year old Labron Robinson's life was taken in Bastrop, La., July 4 and since then, others as well.</span></i></div><div><i><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Because of </b>the lack of confidence in police stemming from excessive force involved instances, young people are taking matters into their own hands. Because of the law-enforcement beatings, older black citizens are thinking twice before calling the law.</span></i></div><div><i><span style="font-size: large;">"Police Culture" is evident in the aftermath handling of two prominent excessive force incidents in Northeast Louisiana and one other in custody death.</span></i></div><div><i><span style="font-size: large;">The Special Litigation Section of the Civil Rights Division of the U. S. Department of Justice must become involved in the current ongoings.</span></i></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">The Resistance is On! Over & Out.</div>Joseph LeSieurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00184598229377794888noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5155063444783136911.post-35294233938276268692020-08-13T20:37:00.004-05:002020-08-16T23:06:17.549-05:00Louisiana's Dark Past is still Haunting the Present<p> <span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><i>Just the other day a man from Shreveport, Louisiana; Fair Wayne Bryant's life sentence was up held by the Louisiana State Supreme Court.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><i>The Habitual Offender law in Louisiana <a href="https://www.nola.com/opinions/james_gill/article_ffc15e8c-d811-11ea-af6b-2341f681bc5c.html">is cruel and unusual punishment</a> in antiquated dixie legalism. </i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><i>The habitual offender law must be repealed. </i></span></p><h1 class="headline">He was sentenced to life for trying to steal hedge clippers. Only one justice objected.</h1><h1 class="headline"> When the latest abomination from the state Supreme Court cried out
for a rebuke from the voice of reason and compassion, retired judge
Calvin Johnson, inevitably, was there to provide it.</h1><p>“Forget it
(the law) for a second,” Johnson said. “Just the inhumanity. Just the
inhumanity of it. It just takes your breath away.”</p><h1 class="headline">Johnson's
retirement as chief judge of the Orleans Parish Criminal District Court
in 2008 left him with greater freedom to campaign against the mindless
cruelties of the system he witnessed from the inside. </h1><h1 class="headline">He has been tireless in that cause and now laments the fate of Fair
Wayne Bryant, whose wildly disproportionate sentence of life in prison
failed to stir a sense of decency in any Supreme Court justice, save its
chief, Bernette Johnson. </h1><span style="font-size: x-large;">To be Clear, <i>this Louisiana aberation is in direct violation of the Sixth, Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments of the United States Constitution. </i></span><div><span style="font-family: serif; font-size: 23.4px; left: 180px; top: 656.948px; transform: scaleX(1.00338);"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: serif; font-size: 23.4px; left: 180px; top: 656.948px; transform: scaleX(1.00338);">[from the Chief Justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court's Dissent]</span></div><div><span style="font-family: serif; font-size: 23.4px; left: 180px; top: 656.948px; transform: scaleX(1.00338);">"In </span><span style="font-family: serif; font-size: 23.4px; left: 206.208px; top: 656.948px; transform: scaleX(1.00467);">the years following Reconstruction, </span><span style="font-family: serif; font-size: 23.4px; left: 548.41px; top: 656.948px; transform: scaleX(1.0065);">southern states criminalized </span><span style="font-family: serif; font-size: 23.4px; left: 817.416px; top: 656.948px; transform: scaleX(1.00017);">rec</span><span style="font-family: serif; font-size: 23.4px; left: 845.824px; top: 656.948px; transform: scaleX(1.00446);">ently</span><span style="font-family: serif; font-size: 23.4px; left: 892.413px; top: 656.948px;">-</span><span style="font-family: serif; font-size: 23.4px; left: 120.002px; top: 710.557px; transform: scaleX(1.00236);">emancipated Afric</span><span style="font-family: serif; font-size: 23.4px; left: 293.794px; top: 710.557px; transform: scaleX(1.00432);">an American citizens </span><span style="font-family: serif; font-size: 23.4px; left: 498.404px; top: 710.557px; transform: scaleX(1.00024);">by </span><span style="font-family: serif; font-size: 23.4px; left: 528.215px; top: 710.557px; transform: scaleX(1.0042);">introducing extreme sentences for</span><span style="font-family: serif; font-size: 23.4px; left: 847.204px; top: 710.557px; transform: scaleX(1.00289);"> petty </span><span style="font-family: serif; font-size: 23.4px; left: 120.026px; top: 764.354px; transform: scaleX(1.02309);">theft associated with poverty.</span><span style="font-family: serif; font-size: 23.4px; left: 400.217px; top: 764.354px; transform: scaleX(0.913111);"> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: serif; font-size: 23.4px; left: 400.217px; top: 764.354px; transform: scaleX(0.913111);"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: serif; font-size: 23.4px; left: 400.217px; top: 764.354px; transform: scaleX(0.913111);"> The</span><span style="font-family: serif; font-size: 23.4px; left: 444.233px; top: 764.354px; transform: scaleX(1.01303);">se measures enabled southern states to continue </span><span style="font-family: serif; font-size: 23.4px; left: 120.026px; top: 817.963px; transform: scaleX(0.994867);">using forced-labor (as punishment for a crime) by African Americans even after the </span><span style="font-family: serif; font-size: 23.4px; left: 120.026px; top: 871.573px; transform: scaleX(1.00404);">passa</span><span style="font-family: serif; font-size: 23.4px; left: 170.617px; top: 871.573px; transform: scaleX(1.00804);">ge of the Thirteenth Amendment. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: serif; font-size: 23.4px; left: 491.828px; top: 871.573px; transform: scaleX(0.998765);">Known </span><span style="font-family: serif; font-size: 23.4px; left: 567.036px; top: 871.573px; transform: scaleX(1.01362);">in some places a</span><span style="font-family: serif; font-size: 23.4px; left: 722.833px; top: 871.573px; transform: scaleX(1.01132);">s “Pig Laws”</span><span style="font-family: serif; font-size: 23.4px; left: 847.625px; top: 871.573px; transform: scaleX(1.02006);">, they </span><span style="font-family: serif; font-size: 23.4px; left: 120.026px; top: 925.369px; transform: scaleX(0.999576);">replaced </span><span style="font-family: serif; font-size: 23.4px; left: 210.818px; top: 925.369px; transform: scaleX(0.998963);">the Black Codes that were prevalent afte</span><span style="font-family: serif; font-size: 23.4px; left: 624.623px; top: 925.369px; transform: scaleX(1.00583);">r the Civil War ended. </span><span style="font-family: serif; font-size: 23.4px; left: 867.834px; top: 925.369px; transform: scaleX(0.960187);">See </span><span style="font-family: serif; font-size: 23.4px; left: 120px; top: 978.948px; transform: scaleX(1.01629);">generally</span><span style="font-family: serif; font-size: 23.4px; left: 208.405px; top: 978.948px; transform: scaleX(0.980048);">, Douglas A. 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They </span><span style="font-family: serif; font-size: 23.4px; left: 120.002px; top: 1139.96px; transform: scaleX(1.00933);">target</span><span style="font-family: serif; font-size: 23.4px; left: 173.191px; top: 1139.96px; transform: scaleX(1.00416);">ed </span><span style="font-family: serif; font-size: 23.4px; left: 200.592px; top: 1139.96px; transform: scaleX(0.989536);">actions such as stealing cattle and swine</span><span style="font-family: serif; font-size: 23.4px; left: 572.184px; top: 1139.96px; transform: scaleX(0.997206);">—considered </span><span style="font-family: serif; font-size: 23.4px; left: 701.773px; top: 1139.96px; transform: scaleX(0.998813);">stereotypical </span><span style="font-family: serif; font-size: 23.4px; left: 826.565px; top: 1139.96px; transform: scaleX(0.991937);">“negro” </span><span style="font-family: serif; font-size: 23.4px; left: 119.956px; top: 1193.57px; transform: scaleX(1.00001);">behavior</span><span style="font-family: serif; font-size: 23.4px; left: 201.762px; top: 1193.57px; transform: scaleX(0.987788);">—by lowering </span><span style="font-family: serif; font-size: 23.4px; left: 341.554px; top: 1193.57px; transform: scaleX(0.986034);">the threshold </span><span style="font-family: serif; font-size: 23.4px; left: 467.352px; top: 1193.57px; transform: scaleX(1.00839);">for what</span><span style="font-family: serif; font-size: 23.4px; left: 544.97px; top: 1193.57px; transform: scaleX(0.983688);"> constituted a crime and </span><span style="font-family: serif; font-size: 23.4px; left: 770.359px; top: 1193.57px; transform: scaleX(0.987774);">increasing the </span><span style="font-family: serif; font-size: 23.4px; left: 119.956px; top: 1247.36px; transform: scaleX(0.99713);">severity of its</span><span style="font-family: serif; font-size: 23.4px; left: 247.158px; top: 1247.36px; transform: scaleX(0.994842);"> punishment</span><span style="font-family: serif; font-size: 23.4px; left: 361.771px; top: 1247.36px; transform: scaleX(0.996);">." </span><span style="font-family: serif; font-size: 23.4px; left: 373.378px; top: 1247.36px; transform: scaleX(0.9996);">Id</span><span style="font-family: serif; font-size: 23.4px; left: 392.987px; top: 1247.36px; transform: scaleX(0.978);"></span></div><div><span style="font-family: serif; font-size: 23.4px; left: 373.378px; top: 1247.36px; transform: scaleX(0.9996);"><a href="https://www.lasc.org/Opinions/2020/20-0077.KO.bjj.dis.pdf">Chief Justice Bernette Johnson's dissent.</a> <br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: serif; font-size: 23.4px; left: 373.378px; top: 1247.36px; transform: scaleX(0.9996);"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMwv9nVfSYMZMogUP2VZYsvQO6R-rC-CzfJSP_g0_jou5cW-lmLf48W26Z9C48pZZPcGlFgw0HejukKQpMbRgTTtzRfpD8c_VsfXzl6sMJuTYotnz80QDO1_wBTrl7QBqiDdg1nw_62Dw/s750/5cdc664bc0a3b.image.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="678" data-original-width="750" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMwv9nVfSYMZMogUP2VZYsvQO6R-rC-CzfJSP_g0_jou5cW-lmLf48W26Z9C48pZZPcGlFgw0HejukKQpMbRgTTtzRfpD8c_VsfXzl6sMJuTYotnz80QDO1_wBTrl7QBqiDdg1nw_62Dw/s640/5cdc664bc0a3b.image.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: serif; font-size: 23.4px; left: 373.378px; top: 1247.36px; transform: scaleX(0.9996);">Every Attorney in Louisiana should be seeking to change this evil-law from a most treacherously current past. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: serif; font-size: 23.4px; left: 373.378px; top: 1247.36px; transform: scaleX(0.9996);"><i>The Louisiana Legislative delegation, <a href="https://house.louisiana.gov/H_Reps/H_Reps_Caucus_LLBC">the Louisiana Legislative Black Caucus</a> and the Governor should now prioritize ridding the State of Louisiana of this legacy. </i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: serif; font-size: 23.4px; left: 373.378px; top: 1247.36px; transform: scaleX(0.9996);"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: serif; font-size: 23.4px; left: 373.378px; top: 1247.36px; transform: scaleX(0.9996);"><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: lora, "libre baskerville", georgia, serif; font-size: 21px;">A rebuke from the voice of reason and compassion, </span></span><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: lora, "libre baskerville", georgia, serif; font-size: 21px;">“Forget it (the law) for a second,” Retired Judge <b>Calvin Johnson</b> said. “Just the inhumanity. Just the inhumanity of it. It just takes your breath away.”</span></div><div><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: lora, "libre baskerville", georgia, serif; font-size: 21px;"><br /></span></div><div><span face="" style="color: #333333; font-family: lora, "libre baskerville", georgia, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 21px;"><b><i>So in this Age of correcting past wrongs to Black Americans, in the same state of black inequities, disproportionate #nCoViD19 (Coronavirus) statistics in Blacks statewide; in a City in a Parish where a Confederate Statue stands in front of the District Court:</i></b></span></span></div><div><span face="" style="color: #333333; font-family: lora, "libre baskerville", georgia, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 21px;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></span></div><div><span face="" style="color: #333333; font-family: lora, "libre baskerville", georgia, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 21px;"><b><i>Get this business straight.</i></b></span></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">The Resistance is On! Over & Out.</div>Joseph LeSieurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00184598229377794888noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5155063444783136911.post-9206334331596083622019-10-14T18:50:00.002-05:002019-10-14T20:53:12.464-05:00All The Rules have changed!! He Said It, you can't<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">The Trumpian Era, although coming to a drastic close has indelibly repositioned the discourse in American society & in the political arena. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Just the other night in Minneapolis, the President of the United States made a crass statement concerning the former President's posterior, being kissed by the current Democratic Candidate. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">As usual the current commander-in-chief, was deflecting and already in overdrive, because of his own Benghazi, called Ukraine. A question should be asked, did he actually, first, shut the troops down, and then on today 12 October 2019 and pulled all the troops out of Northern Syria. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">This, in light of the continued nuanced support of personages, individuals, groups and others; the most obviously contradictory is American-born-blacks, and even more so young-American-born-blacks. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">The government (the state), "this-supremacist-oligarchal-rule" has its criminal-style control everywhere. If you speak against the present-system, you can expect to be mishandled. When your time comes, I pray you are fearless. Someone has to remain fearless. The thing to remember is <em><u>government of the people by the people. </u></em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><em><u>Government will return to the people: </u>And the People shalt not forget who the oligarchs were, remember their names. Their subterfuge is their heritage against this Democracy. Against this democratic-republic. </em></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: large;"><em><u>Humiliating our troops</u></em> the commander-in-chief has now 14 October withdrew all remaining forces from the Syrian-Turkey border, forcing the Kurdish people to make alliances with Assad, Putin & Rouhani. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: large;">So now, Twitter - (<span style="color: red;">NYSE: TWTR</span><span style="color: black;">) is protecting the current-president against any <em><u>speech</u></em> critical to the level of current deviousness expressed by Donald J. Trump. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;">This </span></span><br />
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Really, it is not a necessity, that I <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/tweet?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#tweet</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/jack?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@jack</a>. For the fourteen (14) days the rules violation are on this feed; There will be no tweets from <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/louisianablackg?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#louisianablackg</a>. However, questions, will be corresponded via info@twitter.com, as adherence was accomplished as per <a href="https://twitter.com/TwiterSafety?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@twitersafety</a>;</div>
— Louisiana Black GOP (@LouisianaBlackG) <a href="https://twitter.com/LouisianaBlackG/status/1183531544734044160?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 13, 2019</a></blockquote>
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And/or <a href="https://twitter.com/TwitterSupport?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TwitterSupport</a>. What, exactly, was the problem? The scientific anatomical terminology? The description of the statement the candidate made in <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Minneapolis?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Minneapolis</a>? Was it the supporter's name mentioned? Or, was it the term, formerly on the census-form, in my lifetime? <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Analytics?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Analytics</a>?<br />
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<script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script> <span style="font-size: large;">This is what President Donald J. Trump said In Minneapolis</span><br />
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... the president of the united states of america: joe biden "was only a good vice president because he understood how to kiss barack obama's ass."<a href="https://t.co/ydVo5bPnzt">pic.twitter.com/ydVo5bPnzt</a></div>
— fake nick ramsey (@nick_ramsey) <a href="https://twitter.com/nick_ramsey/status/1182466273130831884?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 11, 2019</a></blockquote>
<script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script> <span style="font-size: large;">This brought the disruption eruption <span style="font-size: small;">(1 of the others Candace Owens)</span></span> <br />
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You “<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Liking?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Liking</a>” this foolishness! Stop It! The bounds are overstepped. An <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ISIS?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ISIS</a> car-bomb exploded in a <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Syriantown?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Syriantown</a>, yesterday. Iran has offered to mediate! Money was sent to, protect-OIL, while troops who are <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/firedUpon?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#firedUpon</a> are told to stand-down! When they come home, what then!?</div>
— Louisiana Black GOP (@LouisianaBlackG) <a href="https://twitter.com/LouisianaBlackG/status/1183054337297309698?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 12, 2019</a> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I would imagine, this is the infamous tweet that disturbed, so greatly. But I guarantee you, I am more disturbed about, the degeneracy of this Administration. </span></div>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">The Resistance is On! Over & Out.</div>Joseph LeSieurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00184598229377794888noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5155063444783136911.post-84115166415210677622019-05-31T10:06:00.000-05:002019-05-31T11:24:35.102-05:00So This<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">So, This.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: large;">Without doubt, America must admit it is Now a White Supremacist state of the union.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: large;">When the Congress of the United States of America is afraid of the leader of the "free-world", and that leader can attend and speak at the United States Air Force Academy and congratulate, shake-hands with 1000 freshly minted Wing-Men and Women; we might as well be in Adolf Hitler's 1936, pre-WWII, consolidation of Power and prowess.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: large;">The president of the United States, has a press secretary of Arkansas descent, of which Little Rock is known for its governor-then blocking the door of integration all those many decades-ago. Furthermore, whose father is a Christian-minister of some sort; of which, ultra-conservative-religionist of the white-supremacist genre still to this day burn-crosses ritualistically in Arkansas and rural northwest Louisiana, among other places.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: large;">The nation called America, should no longer fool itself in to believing it is a democracy, or the republic for which it stands. Especially so, when a Louisiana Legislator, cites the "preamble of the constitution" - Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness as the proponency of "six-week fetal-heartbeat Life" as a means to deny abortion to rape or incest of forced-sex birthings. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: large;">Annually, the Bayou Knights of the Ku Klux Klan meet in Smackover, Arkansas during Labor Day Weekend. In 2006, two rallies occurred, the other in Harrison, Arkansas. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: large;">To those who would say this is not reality, think again. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: large;">This is not to say, that Louisiana is without its own versions of the same supremacist ideology, and the notions that it is confined to men only. It is not so, and Black-folk should not fool themselves in to believing such, especially in the present. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: large;">The KKK meets also in Louisiana as well, and will recruit anyone, to continue its devices of White-Supremacists control. Specifically, in this time, under the guise of morality, or false-morality. And so, it is in this environment, the twisted words of an environmental-scorched-earth political prowess, that A Louisiana Legislator would invoke a womanizers-tweets as the reasoning behind supporting her legislation. The President has galvanized his support in the white electorate, by pushing ideologies that will be pushed to the extreme, by those who wish to return to another time.</span></div>
<br /><div class="blogger-post-footer">The Resistance is On! Over & Out.</div>Joseph LeSieurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00184598229377794888noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5155063444783136911.post-15294898835527975052018-10-06T13:50:00.001-05:002018-10-06T13:50:22.252-05:00This IS how you WANT it to BE<span style="font-size: large;">This how you want it to be. </span><br />
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(Continuation of Fri., Oct. 5, 2018 Legislative Day) Cal. #1127, Brett M. Kavanaugh, of Maryland, to be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the US. A vote on confirmation of the Kavanaugh nomination is expected between 3:30 PM & 5:30 PM Saturday, Oct. 6 .</div>
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A<span style="font-size: large;">nd we don't really mind. As long as you know, the emboldeness of your emboldened response to liberty & justice and peace & tranquility in this present society is averted!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The poor citizens of America, out in front of the United States Supreme Court and other governmental offices, do not realize how this will all end.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The Anarchists have not yet even arrived. #Anonymous and other such groups have not co-opted the current trenders of protest agaimst the government's shake of late.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Who will be ready for the chaos, that is about to ensue?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">With this current ill-responsive action in the judiciary, including the extended apparatuses doom is evident. The refrain amongst the civil-disobedients sprung from #Ferguson & #MikeBrown. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The level of the #injusticesToCome is manacled to the #TrayvonMartin debacle. Or, Baton Rouge's reeling yet from the aftermath of #AltonSterling, where the police-state over-reach manifested in cointelpro tactics. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Senator John Cornyn of Texas, speaking of mob-rule, this very Kavanaugh confirmation vote-countdown is in disarray as Order is being requested from the Senate Chair from the Sargeant-at-arms in the #SenateGallery. (1340hrsCST)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Mr. Cornyn of Texas is greatly aware of his state's violations of the '65 Voting Rights Act. FLAGRANT VIOLATION OF A COURT-RULING. And not to forget the "bones of Negroes in Sugarland".</span><br />
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IS THIS THE FUTURE WHICH WE ALL MUST ENDURE?</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Is this the future that we must now endure in this America as it is Now.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><b> AN UNSTABLE MARKET PREDICATED BY THE U. S. GOVERNMENT</b></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> <b><i><u>IT IS ONLY THE BEGINNING</u></i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">All of<i> the current nonsensical actions of every entity of government is outlandish and absurdly destructive to every area of society.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>In the state and nation.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><i>The Nation is absolutely on the rocks. <b>As I am writing, John Bolton is to be the new National Security Advisor. The General McMasters is out as </b>National Security Advisor.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><i>The President also lost a strategic attorney, John Dowd this day. As #theTrumpFallOut continues to affect the american people; the administration's are either being thrown-out or they themselves are bailing-out of a sinking ship. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><i>The notion, that low birthrates in america is the culprit for U. S. retail insecurity, Does anyone recall, the end-of-the-year congressional, executive branch back and forth. All the way in to 2018 concerns about a #governmentShutdown. An unstable government, economy and street angst in the United States of America.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>In Louisiana the legislature, following the nod by the national trend of federal mechinations, is steadily creating a chasm of no return. Such lies and evil deceptions on every level. The <a href="http://www.legis.la.gov/" target="_blank">Louisiana Legislature</a> is currently in its Regular Session. <a href="https://www.blogger.com/"></a></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><i>Following the current trend of the Republican ideology, the <a href="http://www.legis.la.gov/legis/BillInfo.aspx?&i=233911" target="_blank">Health and Welfare Committee</a> of the Louisiana Legislature considered a Bill, an approved it to be heard on the floor of the <a href="http://house.louisiana.gov/H_Sched/Hse_MeetingSchedule.aspx" target="_blank">Louisiana House of Representatives</a> . The same Bill was attempted in a Special Session earlier this month, but was not approved by the same Committee. </i></b></span><br />
The <i>legislation would attempt to determine, who is really eligible for Louisiana Medicaid. Another bill seeks to require recipients to work or perform community service to receive medicaid. </i><br />
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<i>The problem with all of this, is that the majority impoverished population of Louisiana becomes a Medicaid recipient after they have become ill and a licensed Louisiana physician deems the impoverished person, can't be treated unless they are granted medicaid benefits. </i><br />
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<i>The legislation if approved will determine eligiblity by state income tax records. Records for which will more than likely not be obtainable. The chronically poor are not income-tax filers, plus many will just preferencialy defer to death, and the emergency room forcibly by a relative or loved one.</i><br />
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<i>In either way, this is insanity.</i><div class="blogger-post-footer">The Resistance is On! Over & Out.</div>Joseph LeSieurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00184598229377794888noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5155063444783136911.post-72041683518877230812017-10-30T22:23:00.003-05:002017-10-30T22:23:28.529-05:00It Just Will Not STOP ~ NO PLACE IS SAFE Murder Everywhere<em><span style="font-size: large;">Dateline Grambling, Louisiana higher education's Black on Black murder. </span></em><br />
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<em><span style="font-size: large;">And, of course there has been killing on campuses before, in the United States. </span></em><br />
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<em><span style="font-size: large;">Sandy Hook Elementary, Virginia Tech, Columbine in Colorado & never to forget, "four dead in Ohio, that summer in Ohio, four dead in Ohio; we got to get down to it, Soldiers are cutting us down . .. . . ." so the Isley Brothers sang! Concerning Kent State University in the song Neil Young wrote. </span></em><br />
<em><span style="font-size: large;">And that was 1970 in a Vietnam War Protest, when national guard soldiers opened fire on protestors--S T U D E N T S.</span></em><br />
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<em><span style="font-size: large;">And 10 days later police opened fire on S T U D E N T S at Jackson State College in Mississippi killing 2 (two) and wounding twelve (12). </span></em><br />
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<em><span style="font-size: large;">And then, in 1971 two S T U D E N T S were killed on Southern A & M College (Southern University) CAMPUS.</span></em><br />
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<em><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://therougecollection.net/therouge/today-is-the-43rd-anniversary-of-southern-university-massacre-where-denver-smith-leonard-brown-were-killed-2/" target="_blank">Denver Smith and Leonard Brown</a> were shotgunned down on Southern campus, by police.</span></em><br />
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<em><span style="font-size: large;">So, that murder has become routine in American's minds everywhere. Murder. Routine? It was homecoming in Grambling, and a decision had to be made, if the festivities would go on as previously planned. </span></em><br />
<em><span style="font-size: large;">One female student, thought it crazy that everything would continue and move-on she said, "as if nothing had happened. However, the pep rally became a peace walk, complete with the University President.</span></em><br />
<em><span style="font-size: large;">But the fact remains, this was Black on black crime at an institution of higher learning.</span></em><br />
<em><span style="font-size: large;">In Nearby Monroe, one black man murdered two people in two different areas of town. Two days before and drive-by shooting wounded an individual, just blocks away. Routine? </span></em><br />
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Yet <span style="font-size: large;">What bothers me even more is In-Custody Deaths</span></h3>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have good information a person is being set-up to be murdered while in police custody. Though the <a href="https://www.theroot.com/malcolm-shabazz-on-formula-for-a-public-assassination-1790896383" target="_blank">Marked Man</a> is not a Malcolm Shabazz, the grandson of Malcolm X; he is the grandson of civil rights workers of the 50's and 80's. And so, the gene is there! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">By being in the wrong-place at the "right time"; he is in the routinely frequent position to be "murdered while in Custody or incarceration". </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Coupled with the murderous atmosphere in the astros right now, the victim has been warned and instructed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><em><strong>There will be a request sent to the United States Department of Justice </strong>Civil Rights Division's Regional "Peacekeepers"- CRS to dispatch at its earliest agents and officials to intervene in this community. Though some cities in North Louisiana have convened sessions, meetings and community oriented deployments, the death-quotient, continues spiraling. </em></span></div>
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<em><span style="font-size: large;">In November of 2015, a young black man died while incarcerated in a Morehouse Parish facility. And so, now in 2017 another person will have an attempt on his life in November, if not before.</span></em></div>
<div class="blogger-post-footer">The Resistance is On! Over & Out.</div>Joseph LeSieurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00184598229377794888noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5155063444783136911.post-9120063003463718522016-06-02T13:49:00.000-05:002016-06-06T11:25:40.866-05:00Louisiana Justice Denied:Injustice Instilled<h2>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Recently, when Piyush (Bobby) Jindal left the State Governor's Office, he awarded raises to "some" state workers on his way out-of-office, leaving Louisiana in a (3) three-billion dollar deficit, shortfall or; before the government could operate, billions had to be cut.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">As part, of Louisiana's quest to "<a href="http://thejusticeweneed.blogspot.com/2016/05/continued-criminalizationof-louisianas.html" target="_blank">get every dime</a>", it has in operation the Office of Debt Recovery. As the state Office of Motor Vehicles, continues to strike its blow, for any "hours" of mandatory insurance default, you may lose your driving privileges and registration as a matter of penalty. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>Now, the legislature is set for final passa</i>ge of a Bill to allow installment payments on such OMV debts, to<i> be place on the Governor's desk for his signature. Although, the bill will be up again for debate on the Senate floor when it reconvenes on Friday 3 June 2016, a question is begged; WHY IS THE STATE OF LOUISIANA, PREPARING TO INSTITUTE A DEBTORS PRISON? <a href="http://www.legis.la.gov/legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1003295" target="_blank">Senate Bill 387 by Cortez</a></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>AND, WHY ISN'T BOBBY JINDAL BEING PROSECUTED?</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.legis.la.gov/legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1008120" target="_blank">The Installment Plan Bill </a> creates a method of securing debt owed by folks, who are already dying from heart, cancer and other disease, because they can't afford a decent diet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Poor and fixed income people are made, "illegal" as a matter of fact. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Former Governor Bobby Jindal sho<i>uld be tried under "Honest Services" violations. </i></span><i style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">It is in the best interest of the State of Louisiana's citizens, that something be done to "clarify" that an illegal act was committed by the former governor. </span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">When the Jindal Administration, the Division of Administration, allocated "raises" as he left the Governor's Office, it was injustice against the "people of the state". </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">It is in the best interest of the State of Louisiana's citizens, that something be done to "clarify" that an illegal act was committed by the former governor. </span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">The "Honest Services" involves a "defendant's act had the intent to defraud by depriving a victim of his right of honest services" </span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #494949; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.16px; line-height: 20.672px;">A "fiduciary" duty exists whenever one [person] [entity] places special trust and confidence in another person–the fiduciary–in reliance that the fiduciary will exercise [his] [her] discretion and expertise with the utmost honesty and forthrightness in the interests of the [person] [entity], such that the [person] [entity] relaxes the care and vigilance that [he] [she] [it] would ordinarily exercise, and the fiduciary knowingly accepts that special trust and confidence and thereafter undertakes to act on behalf of the other [person] [entity] based on such reliance.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #494949; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.16px; line-height: 20.672px;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #494949; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; line-height: 20.672px;">Since the Louisiana government, will not do anything, about this indiscretion. what remedy does the people have? </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; line-height: 20.672px;">Who will Intervene? The Attorney General? </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20.672px;">Or, must a private citizen file suit in the proper jurisdiction, to secure such remedy in respect to such injustices being instilled in future generations? And, furthermore; the new law concerning Office of Debt Recovery, the Attorney General's office, Department of Public Safety & Motor Vehicles, and Treasury are in this mix. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20.672px;">In accordance with the, proposed procedures "the so-called office of debt recovery, will utilized 'support enforcement' will utilize 'financial institute data match' to track down monies 'owned' or accessible for this 'collaborative' to seize accounts.</span></span><br />
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<a href="http://www.houmatoday.com/article/20160513/wire/160519826" target="_blank">What Relief?</a></div>
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Sen. Page Cortez, R-Lafayette, was not so sure and echoed critics' concerns about an unfair collection process. He suggested the OMV may improperly accuse drivers of having not paid fines when the drivers' didn't receive collection letters, had already sold the vehicles listed with expired insurance or were registered in other states where they've moved.</div>
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"My contention is that I think we're having a case of judge, jury (and) executioner with the constituents' money without them even potentially knowing that they were even being brought to trial," the committee chair said Thursday.</div>
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Cortez pushed for an improved system as he presented a proposal to require that all notices of final debt include the total amount owed and all of a driver's payment options.</div>
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Rep. Denise Marcelle, R-Baton Rouge, said her House-backed bill would provide some of those payment options by creating installment plans for drivers to pay outstanding fines. The proposal would not negate debts, but allow drivers to become licensed while they work to repay their violations. </div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.lba.org/files/DataMatchforFinancialInstitutionsAct399.pdf" target="_blank">ACT 399-Creating Office of Debt Recovery</a>. June 2013</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">The provisions of the Act relevant to banking deal with the creation of a financial institution data match
system to assist the ODR and Department in collecting delinquent state tax and non-tax debt. Although
LBA does not like the idea of additional requirements for banks to police their customers, we recognized
early on that this legislation had widespread support, especially in light of the state’s budget woes and
constant search for new revenues. It has been widely reported that this Act could result in $200 million in
new state revenues over five years. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">We also were told by the Department that without a data match
system to efficiently find and collect unpaid debts, other potentially more burdensome methods would be
pursued. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">For instance, the Department has told us that in recent years they have significantly increased
the amount of paper levies they send to banks in a geographic area where they believe a debtor may have
an account. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">These are basically fishing expeditions with the hope of finding a debtor account. As a
result, banks waste time responding to these levies even when they do not have that debtor as a customer. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">The Department indicated that the number of paper levies generated would likely continue to greatly
increase without data match in place because the Department was looking at technology to reduce time
and expense while greatly increasing the volume of levies produced. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">In addition to philosophical concerns and concerns with the alternative collection procedures being
contemplated by the Department, LBA had concerns with the initial language proposed in the bill and we
wanted to ensure that the data match program, if passed into law, would be conducted in the same manner
as is currently being done for the collection of past due child support. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">For many years, state law (in
accordance with a federal mandate) has required financial institutions to conduct data match with the
Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) to assist in the payment of child support
obligations. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Although LBA does not like the idea of additional requirements for banks to police their customers, we recognized early on that this legislation had widespread support, especially in light of the state’s budget woes and constant search for new revenues.</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Made to be criminals. Bank accounts policed. Yet the former governor, gets away with defrauding the state. </span></div>
<div class="blogger-post-footer">The Resistance is On! Over & Out.</div>Joseph LeSieurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00184598229377794888noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5155063444783136911.post-88967129522084445052015-03-11T03:19:00.002-05:002015-03-11T12:13:41.469-05:00Listening to the Drum Major's Rhythm<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en">
Need a shot of inspiration? Listen to John Lewis's talk of <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/resistance?src=hash">#resistance</a> & <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/history?src=hash">#history</a> making <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CivilRights?src=hash">#CivilRights</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Selma50?src=hash">#Selma50</a>
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— Evelyn Encalada G. (@professor_evy) <a href="https://twitter.com/professor_evy/status/575498299949604864">March 11, 2015 </a></blockquote>
<span style="font-size: large;">While in Selma for the 50th year Jubilee it was evident that this year was different. Everyone was expectant. The President of the United States was scheduled to speak. However, we would find, there was a one-two punch.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We were waiting in line to be screened by security, just to get a little closer to hear the President. We had walked the bridge the day before. It was definitely something other than just us, on that bridge. It wasn't the day of the enactment. Even so, the air was electric. I felt healthier, rejuvenated and enlivened. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">After returning, from Selma for Worship the next day, the press was manifested in my bones. The following day, announcements began to come of racism exposed once gain in our Nation. A "biracial" man was killed in Madison, Wisconsin by a police officer. Across the country in Norman, Oklahoma a fraternity group ranted a racist chant, from its bus. Our Society, was shocked. Again. Congressman John Lewis, had spoken on Saturday the 7th of March about those tribulation days of February to March of 1965.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Malcolm X, had come to Selma, while Dr. King was in jail, to lend his moral support. He was assassinated after leaving from Selma, shortly after. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">With, all that happening after leaving from Selma, and hearing the President say, the battle is not over. And after hearing a Congresswoman and Congressman say the same thing another way, I realized nothing has changed sufficiently in the hearts of America's people. The News in Alabama, said the KKK dropped leaflets in Selma. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Several City Officials in Ferguson, Missouri resigned. The State Supreme Court there, took over the municipal court. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">If Dr. King was here, he'd might say, "Where do we go from Here". He would talk about the unfinished business. He would talk about police brutality and poverty.</span><br />
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">The Resistance is On! Over & Out.</div>Joseph LeSieurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00184598229377794888noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5155063444783136911.post-89079142899306684352014-12-19T02:50:00.000-06:002014-12-19T02:50:28.539-06:00The Blessing of Deliverance One Way or Another<em><span style="font-size: large;">A lot of who we are is, what we do. </span></em><br />
<em><span style="font-size: large;">What we do is what is most remembered. </span></em><br />
<em><span style="font-size: large;">Even to the last thing, that is done. </span></em><br />
<em><span style="font-size: large;">But, the whole of life is what is mostly considered, by the reasonable. </span></em><br />
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<em><span style="font-size: large;">However, there are times when a quintessential event occurs and the person that exits from the event becomes "an enrichly different persona". "What vehement desire", may cause a miscalculated circumstance to evolve. Yet, many know, that this Brother fought tooth and nail to obtain a different outcome for his son. This Brother, come out of Dallas in 2006 to do this battle. And, remained in Jena, until his untimely death. </span></em><br />
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<a href="https://twitter.com/BrotherJesse">@BrotherJesse</a> <a href="http://t.co/kGWUMosspc">http://t.co/kGWUMosspc</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/DericMuhammad">@DericMuhammad</a> Services Sat. Dec.20 @ Goodpine School,Jena 1pm for Marcus Jones <a href="http://t.co/3BGKY5X6nI">pic.twitter.com/3BGKY5X6nI</a><br />
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The deliverance that must come for American society, must come shortly. Time is running out fast. One can become caught up in the indecency of our world's stereotypical discriminatory prejudices and step-out against it, and never feel fulfilled until change is evidenced. When the vultures came to pick the prey's bones, Marcus lashed out, and exposed a lot of skullduggery, during the time of the "6".<br />
Some didn't understand his stance. He never, was for "the political shenanigans of the powers-at-be".<br />
Several incidents, elicited the culmination of the would be "Jena Movement". Indivdually, persons in the "6's" affair were targeted, in every way imaginable.<br />
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Marcus Jones lived out the remainder of his life, under threat and "backlash"<br />
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When the "government" began its process to "glass over" the underlying, racial strife in the town, without seeking long lasting solute, Jones withdrew. <br />
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After the "soul's son", incident in nearby Monroe,<a href="http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/crime/2009/01/15/callebs.mychal.bell.jena.cnn.html" target="_blank"> Jones</a> further distanced himself from the mainstream malarchy and focused on what would really make a difference in the current streams of thought.<br />
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In his last thoughts, Marcus was dismayed at the police killings of black men, particularly youth, inclusive of Tamir Rice. When both Grand Juries in Ferguson and New York's Staten Island, yeilded no indictments, he was disheartened by the events. In two of the last text messages from Mr. Jones, he said, "Seem like we just can't win" in reference to the Mike Brown Grand Jury decision.<br />
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The December 3rd text message said "They just let another Cop off " in reference to the Eric Garner Grand Jury decision in New York City's Staten Island.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">With the recent deaths of Black youth and the standing up for those youngers' lost lives: particularly the fathers; Marcus Jones was the prototype. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Raw emotion, vehement desire and consistent activism. It was a last stand for the survival of this soul's son. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">On the other day, Marcus met with tragedy. In a very freak accident, Jones fell to his death off the bed of a Pickup truck to be struck by another truck.</span><br />
Rest in the privilege of deliverance from this present evil world.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;"><strong>December 14, 2014</strong></span><br />
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<b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;">LaSalle Parish –</span></b><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: xx-small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Late yesterday afternoon, a single vehicle crash involving a pedestrian killed a man from Jena, LA.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: xx-small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Troopers responded to the crash around 5:41 p.m., which occurred on LA Hwy 8 near Jena. The crash involved a 2007 Chevrolet pickup, driven by Brittany N. Walker (W/F 22 yrs) of Jena and a pedestrian, identified as Marcus W. Jones (B/M 43 yrs). The Chevrolet was eastbound on LA Hwy 8 when Walker observed an object (later determined to be Jones) in the roadway. Walker attempted to avoid striking Jones by steering right, but was not successful. The Chevrolet struck Jones in the upper torso.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: xx-small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Prior to the crash, Jones was lying down in the eastbound lane and was wearing a black jacket and black pants.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: xx-small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">While Troopers were investigating the crash, a friend of Jones arrived on the scene. The friend informed Troopers that, prior to this crash, Jones had been riding in the bed of his truck, standing and holding down wooden pallets. Once the friend arrived at their destination, he realized that Jones was no longer in the bed of the truck and was attempting to locate him when he came upon this crash scene.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: xx-small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Routine toxicology tests are pending. The crash remains under investigation.</span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: xx-small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Although the condition of the pedestrian at the time of the crash remains unknown, Troopers would like to remind the public of the following: when walking near a roadway, always make yourself visible to drivers by wearing bright/light colored clothing and reflective materials. Pedestrians that are walking at night should try to carry a flashlight for added safety. A person should always walk on a sidewalk, but if there is not a sidewalk available, you should always walk on the shoulder or if no shoulder is available, as close to the roadway edge facing traffic.</span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: xx-small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Troop E Troopers have investigated 48 fatal crashes in 2014, resulting in 60 fatalities.</span><br />
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<b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><u><span style="color: #002060; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;">www.facebook.com/LouisianaStatePolice</span></u></b><div class="blogger-post-footer">The Resistance is On! Over & Out.</div>Joseph LeSieurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00184598229377794888noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5155063444783136911.post-6131333722499063512014-10-11T17:49:00.001-05:002014-10-11T17:49:10.986-05:00The government's expected RIOTS in FergusonOctober Brews Still<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ofbUK85bnwY"> Barack Obama speaking of quiet riots</a> at Hampton University just before the election for President, takes on another meaning through the lens of Michael Brown's death at, what is the offspring of a now well known antiquated police system.<br />
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The "quiet riots" for which he spake are materializing, inch by inch. The seemingly spike in Police killings of black men, is seen as what has the possible solutions, soon to come to pass. Police brutality is a part of the culture of law enforcement.<br />
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Black rage, a product of the american capitalist system of deprivation and impoverishment of a "worker class"; to perform the mundane task of a disposable society for the "ruling class", is what's behind the Police State tactics recently utilized in St. Louis' Ferguson.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The aftermath of Ferguson's August debacle is evident day by day. There is a group of young folk, who are gutwrenchingly disturbed by the vulgar killing of Mike Brown and the subsequent inconsistency of the judicial/prosecutorial/law enforcement policies.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Even, the executive branch of the state of Missouri is culpable in the looming fiasco. Whether it is 2014 or 2015, this festering sore has boiled over.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">It is such, that; direct intervention is needed now. The highest area of government is necessitated for the proper outcome of the injustices. A congressional intervention or even presidential intervention are cast aside in lieu of the U. S. Attorney General's involvement. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">As nothing, definitive has been the outcome of DoJ's investigation of the Trayvon Martin murder-(it is a fact it is murder because GZ has consistently been in incidents) to this very day. So, it is the assumption of the 20-somethings and the 30-somethings; that the Mike Brown outcome will be, just as destructively deceptive. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">And, so now the "Quiet Riots" Barack Obama, talked about at Hampton, before the election of 2008 has matured, and the "babies" of the subsequent generation, "the Lost Voices" are speaking, loudly!! Everso Loudly!!</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.ustream.tv/channel/10061179">St. Louis' Ferguson,11Oct14 1748hrs</a><div class="blogger-post-footer">The Resistance is On! Over & Out.</div>Joseph LeSieurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00184598229377794888noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5155063444783136911.post-18952542170603430872012-11-17T19:30:00.000-06:002012-12-20T10:28:11.412-06:00The Rigours of Defeat:-2013<div class="col1">
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La. tells HHS it won't run insurance exchange</h1>
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Published: Wednesday, November 14, 2012 at 9:12 p.m. </div>
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Gov. Bobby Jindal's administration sent formal notification Wednesday to federal officials that Louisiana won't create its own health insurance market as provided by the national health care overhaul.<br />
Health and Hospitals Secretary Bruce Greenstein mailed a seven-page letter telling the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that Louisiana will leave it to the federal government to run the state's health insurance exchange.<br />
The letter also outlined the Jindal administration's continuing opposition to the entire law, which was upheld by the Supreme Court earlier this year.<br />
"The State of Louisiana has repeatedly stated that the law has severe legal problems, is bad policy and is unworkable. Those beliefs remain unchanged," Greenstein wrote to HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius.<br />
The exchanges, scheduled to launch in January 2014, will allow people and small businesses to shop for private coverage from a range of competing insurers. They are supposed to be ready to begin enrolling people in October 2013.<br />
Jindal, a Republican who is considered a possible White House contender, has sought repeal of President Barack Obama's signature health care law, calling it an inappropriate expansion of the federal government and a burdensome expense for the state and businesses.<br />
In his letter, Greenstein revisited those complaints, laying out pages of point-by-point criticism. He called the health care law unjust taxation, said it will undermine the private health care marketplace and claimed it will weaken job creation at private businesses.<br />
"The full extent of damage the (health care law) causes to small businesses, the nation's economy and the American health care system will only be revealed with time," Greenstein wrote. "The State of Louisiana has no interest in being a party to this failure by implementing a state based exchange."<br />
He said the health insurance exchanges have unrealistic deadlines and unclear regulations.<br />
The exchanges are supposed to be set up with federal money and then sustained through taxes and fees on the insurance products.<br />
State Sen. Karen Carter Peterson, the head of the Louisiana Democratic Party, tried unsuccessfully to get the state to run its own exchange. She said it doesn't make sense for the state to opt out of creating its own system that fits its local markets, instead of using a one-size-fits-all model.<br />
Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon, a Republican who supports the concept of an exchange though not the Obama health law, echoed similar concerns Wednesday about using an exchange model not created specifically with Louisiana in mind.<br />
"When the feds build the exchange, they will build it according to their political agenda and that gives me concern as a person who would not have voted for what I consider to be a program headed in the direction of national health care," Donelon said.<br />
But he noted the decision of whether Louisiana would run its own health insurance exchange was not his, but Jindal's choice.<br />
Louisiana, which was one of 26 states that unsuccessfully sued to throw out the health revamp, earlier had decided to let federal officials run the high-risk pools for people who have pre-existing medical conditions and can't afford the costs of private insurance plans.<br />
Before the presidential election, Jindal also said he won't let Louisiana participate in another part of the Obama health care law, refusing to expand the state's Medicaid coverage to give more people health insurance.<br />
Since Obama's re-election victory, the governor hasn't responded to questions about whether he'll change his stance now that efforts to repeal the national health care overhaul are expected to go nowhere.</div>
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<span class="entry-title">Study: Income inequality continues to
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Study: Gap between rich and poor in Louisiana continues to
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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- The gap between Louisiana's rich and poor has grown
wider over the last three decades, with the poverty-ridden state having among
the highest rates of income inequality in the nation, according to a new study
released Thursday.
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The richest 5 percent of households in Louisiana have average incomes more
than 14 times larger than the bottom 20 percent of households, according to data
from two Washington, D.C.-based think tanks, the Center on Budget and Policy
Priorities and the Economic Policy Institute.
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The groups advocate for low- to moderate-income families.
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Louisiana has the sixth-widest gap in the country. States with higher income
disparity, the study says, are New Mexico, Arizona, California, Georgia and New
York.
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Average household income for the poorest 20 percent of households in
Louisiana grew less than 10 percent since the 1970s, compared to 62 percent for
the richest 20 percent in the state, according to the report.
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Jan Moller leads the Louisiana Budget Project, the state arm of the Center on
Budget and Policy Priorities. He says he hopes the report is a "wake-up call to
legislators and policymakers" as Gov. Bobby Jindal intends to push a revamp of
Louisiana's tax code in the next regular legislative session.<br />
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Jindal: Obama re-election won't change path in Louisiana</h3>
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<span class="RACopyBody">BATON ROUGE (AP) — Republican Gov. Bobby Jindal is congratulating President Barack Obama for his re-election victory, while saying that won't change his course in Louisiana.</span><br />
<span class="RACopyBody">Jindal issued a statement that said, "Here in Louisiana, we will continue to do what we have always done, and that means standing up for our people and doing what we think is right no matter who is president."</span><br />
<span class="RACopyBody">Louisiana's governor campaigned across the country for unsuccessful GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney, who Jindal also congratulated for running a "strong race."</span><br />
<span class="RACopyBody">Jindal didn't comment on what the election results mean for the future of the Republican Party, saying there's plenty of time to do that later.</span></div>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">The Resistance is On! Over & Out.</div>Joseph LeSieurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00184598229377794888noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5155063444783136911.post-50338785753075803532011-10-24T15:37:00.007-05:002011-10-24T16:44:45.693-05:00The Rigours of Defeat: Worse Case Scenario<span id="yui_3_2_0_15_131948721050273" style="font-family:garamond,new york,times,serif;"><span id="yui_3_2_0_15_131948721050272">2011<span style="font-style: italic;" id="yui_3_2_0_15_131948721050281"><span style="font-weight: bold;" id="yui_3_2_0_15_131948721050280"> No Better!? 2012 Worse! ~ Unless!</span></span></span></span>~ <a href="http://la1justice.tripod.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/replynov4.pdf">Joint Motion all must reply</a><br /><br /><blockquote> <h2>Former officer clears last criminal charge</h2> <div class="datetime">Oct. 22, 2011, 1:15 p.m. CDT</div> <div class="source">AP</div> <div class="story"> <div id="Main"> <p>WINNFIELD, La. (AP) — Winn Parish prosecutors have dropped a malfeasance charge against a former Winnfield policeman in the death of a man who was shocked with a stun gun, and former officer Scott Nugent has agreed not to seek reinstatement or back pay.</p> <p>Nugent's attorney, George Higgins, told The Town Talk (http://townta.lk/pQrixs) about the agreement Friday.</p> <p>A jury acquitted Nugent last year of manslaughter in the death of Baron "Scooter" Pikes, who died in 2008 after being shocked eight times.</p> <p>Higgins says the case is finally over.</p> <p>However, there's still a wrongful death lawsuit in federal court against Nugent and city officials. They asked Judge Dee D. Drell in September to dismiss it.</p> <p>Latrina D. Thomas, the mother of Pikes' young son, has until Nov. 4 to file her response.</p></div></div></blockquote><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">**all parties in the case in the Western District are required to reply by Nov. 4**</span></span> LeSieur<br /><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></span><h2><br /></h2><h2>Landrieu chastises Jindal for grant rejection</h2> <div class="datetime">Oct. 19, 2011, 5:55 p.m. CDT</div> <div class="source">AP</div> <div class="story"> <div id="Main"> <p>BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu said Wednesday she is "disappointed and concerned" that Gov. Bobby Jindal's administration refused to apply for a federal grant that could have brought $60 million in early childhood education funding to Louisiana.</p> <p>Landrieu, a Democrat, said education experts across the state spent months working on a grant application to the Obama administration for the money earmarked to help low-income and disadvantaged children. She noted that one-third of children in Louisiana under the age of 5 live in poverty.</p> <p>"Your decision not to even compete for these funds is one that will have a negative impact on thousands of children in our state," Landrieu wrote to Jindal, a Republican. "I hope your reasons for failing to apply for these funds are strong enough to justify these consequences."</p> <p>The Jindal administration announced Tuesday that it would not seek the grant money, saying that the state's system for early childhood education is inefficient and mired in bureaucracy and that the grant wouldn't help address children's needs because it is one-time money for ongoing programs.</p> <p>In response to Landrieu's letter, Jindal spokesman Kyle Plotkin said three state departments "completed a thorough analysis of this grant and determined that it is the exact opposite approach our state should take to help our kids."</p> <p>"We need to streamline the governance structure, funding streams and quality standards in our early childhood system — and the grant would only make things worse by reducing flexibility and adding more micromanagement and regulatory obstacles," Plotkin said in a statement.</p> <p>Landrieu said the decision is puzzling, and she asked Jindal to give her more details about how it was reached.</p> <p>"I hope you will respond in some detail given the broad parameters and flexibility of this grant and the fact that nearly all the states have applied for the grant, making Louisiana the minority," the senator wrote.</p></div></div><br /><br /><span bg="" style=";font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:180%;color:black;" ><b>Jones: Tough times ahead in the capitol </b></span> <br /> <span style=";font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:85%;" ><span style=";font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:85%;" >Outgoing District 17 Representative reflects on her tenure, offers advice for her successor</span> </span><p><span style=";font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:85%;" ><span style=";font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:85%;color:gray;" >10/21/11</span><br /><b><i>Robert K. Wright </i></b><br /></span></p><p> </p><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"> <tbody> <tr> <td><img alt="" src="http://www.blogger.com/partners/352/images/news/ACF7C9F.jpg" border="1" /></td></tr><br /></tbody><caption align="bottom"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:78%;" >Rosalind Jones</span></caption></table><span style=";font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:85%;" ><span style=";font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:85%;" >As election day approaches, candidates are making final pleas to voters for the House District 17 seat. The seat is currently held by Rosalind Jones, who has been in office since 2008. She announced earlier <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyU2afARilh7NwShJsIKh2POoDO8jwesf494IcqYcnIzXl7j1nVEu0ywQl6LmhAnFn8NP_TZ7-GNi7kFybLVi1Yzih7-VjBm7uOlZcGUV2hXkRLU0ixMS0rtkUBg7_nvegrQZIX-8rhJc/s1600/Roz1.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 132px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyU2afARilh7NwShJsIKh2POoDO8jwesf494IcqYcnIzXl7j1nVEu0ywQl6LmhAnFn8NP_TZ7-GNi7kFybLVi1Yzih7-VjBm7uOlZcGUV2hXkRLU0ixMS0rtkUBg7_nvegrQZIX-8rhJc/s320/Roz1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5667162249051318194" border="0" /></a>this year that she would not seek re-election. On Saturday, four candidates, Otis Chisley, Marcus Hunter, Brenda Shelling, and Billye Burns, are lining up for her seat. However, Jones said that the job they are applying for is not all fun and games. </span></span><p><span style=";font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:85%;" ><span style=";font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:85%;" >Jones, who is a practicing attorney, said that she spent a lot of time away from her Monroe practice while in Baton Rouge during legislative sessions. Although legislators are compensated for their duties, she said that she lost money every year. </span></span></p><p><span style=";font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:85%;" ><span style=";font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:85%;" >“You lose money every year. Because I wanted to stay close to the capitol, my entire per diem was used for room and board, not to mention gas and upkeep on my car,” she said. </span></span></p><p><span style=";font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:85%;" ><span style=";font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:85%;" >Jones said that she was initially not prepared for the amount of time she would be away. </span></span></p><p><span style=";font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:85%;" ><span style=";font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:85%;" >“It’s a full time job. I had misconceptions about the post. Even with dad (Charles Jones), I knew he had both roles as a lawyer and a legislator. But I was overwhelmed a little at the time I spent away from home,” she said. </span></span></p><p><span style=";font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:85%;" ><span style=";font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:85%;" >So if being a public official costs so much, why did she do it? </span></span></p><p><span style=";font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:85%;" ><span style=";font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:85%;" >“It was a wonderful opportunity to make a difference. I wouldn’t trade my experience for nothing in the world,” she said. </span></span></p><p><span style=";font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:85%;" ><span style=";font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:85%;" >Jones said that the candidate who win’s Saturday’s election needs to be ready to hit the ground running. The ‘hitting the ground running’ idea’ has been a major focus of Hunter and Shelling. Hunter has lawyer experience and Shelling has many years of experience as an elected official. </span></span></p><p><span style=";font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:85%;" ><span style=";font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:85%;" >But what is necessary to be successful in Baton Rouge? Jones said that being a lawyer, contrary to popular disbelief, matters in the legislature. </span></span></p><p><span style=";font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:85%;" ><span style=";font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:85%;" >“Practicing lawyers understand implications of the law in real life settings. People who aren’t lawyers don’t share the same perspective. It’s not as easy as calling in a staff to get briefed on what’s going on. Your legislative staff is great, but they are not practitioners. Because I was a practicing lawyer, I felt more comfortable knowing how to read the bills that came before me,” she said. </span></span></p><p><span style=";font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:85%;" ><span style=";font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:85%;" >Endorsing Hunter </span></span></p><p><span style=";font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:85%;" ><span style=";font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:85%;" >This week, Jones sent out an official endorsement letter for Marcus Hunter to succeed her seat in the house. She is aware of the recent lawsuit filed against Hunter by Fourth Judicial District Attorney Jerry Jones. Hunter landed in court testifying that he did not live in the district he qualified for. </span></span></p><p><span style=";font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:85%;" ><span style=";font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:85%;" >“I gave Marcus my word long before his residency came under question that I would support his bid for election. I am a woman of my word. Your word means a lot in this world. However, he needs to fix what needs to be fixed before he is sworn in as a House member, for any member of the House can challenge his residency,” Jones advised. </span></span></p><p><span style=";font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:85%;" ><span style=";font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:85%;" >She said despite his residency dilemma, she believes he is the most qualified person to hold the seat in District 17 on the ‘sure base of ability.’ </span></span></p><p><span style=";font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:85%;" ><span style=";font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:85%;" >Tough times ahead </span></span></p><p><span style=";font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:85%;" ><span style=";font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:85%;" >Jones said that whomever wins the election, they should be prepared to face a different House of Representatives unlike that of hers, her father, or that of former representative Willie Hunter. </span></span></p><p><span style=";font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:85%;" ><span style=";font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:85%;" >“This new House will be very different from what my dad and Willie Hunter experienced. We’re entering a new phase in Louisiana politics,” she said. </span></span></p><p><span style=";font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:85%;" ><span style=";font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:85%;" >Jones said that the legislature is nearing a majority republican presence (60/40) and that it is important for any democrat to be ready to fight for what they were sent there to accomplish. </span></span></p><p><span style=";font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:85%;" ><span style=";font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:85%;" >“They (majority republican legislature) don’t really need one democratic vote to get done what they set out to do. New members of the House will find it tough as a democrat. That’s why its extremely important that we have someone in the seat that knows the rules, how to read a bill, amend it, or kill it if necessary. That person needs to be able to get in there and fight for District 17,” Jones advised. </span></span></p><p><span style=";font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:85%;" ><span style=";font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:85%;" >Refusing to sell her soul </span></span></p><p><span style=";font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:85%;" ><span style=";font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:85%;" >Jones said that she did not get to accomplish everything she set out to do. She said that there remains a lot of work in District 17. </span></span></p><p><span style=";font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:85%;" ><span style=";font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:85%;" >“I could have brought back home more money and more opportunities for my district, but I refused to sacrifice my independence for a perceived benefit. Whomever wins the election, I would encourage them to not sell their soul to the governor for a cookie. Be independent. I could vote my conscious and explain to the body (House) why some policies were wrong, even if that meant my home base would not get the pennies the governor was handing out,” she said. </span></span></p><p><span style=";font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:85%;" ><span style=";font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:85%;" >Novice candidates </span></span></p><p><span style=";font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:85%;" ><span style=";font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:85%;" >Jones said that she thinks that novice politicans can still serve, if they are willing to learn the rules and play by the rules. </span></span></p><p><span style=";font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:85%;" ><span style=";font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:85%;" >“I think everyone should have the opportunity to serve and once they get there they will find that there is a political process they must learn quickly,” she said. </span></span></p><p><span style=";font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:85%;" ><span style=";font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:85%;" >Although Hunter is her choice for District 17, of the four, only Shelling has served in an elected capacity. For the novice candidates, Jones said that all who consider the post should be willing to learn the rules and procedures and operate within those rules. </span></span></p><p><span style=";font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:85%;" ><span style=";font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:85%;" >“If you don’t know how to amend or kill a bill, you’re useless. There are a lot of rules and customs you have to operate within. What most novice politicians perceive is that they will go down there and make changes, but they have to come in and operate within the established rules,” she said. </span></span></p><p><span style=";font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:85%;" ><span style=";font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:85%;" >Jones said that she has enjoyed her experience in the state legislature and will continue to serve her district in other capacities as they present themselves. “With the support of my colleagues, friends, and constitutents, I rose from a freshman legislator to the Chair of the House Judiciary Committee in only three years. During this term, we have addressed education issues, criminal justice reform, and economic development within the district. Most importantly, we have created a second majority minority representative district in Northeast Louisiana to give a voice to those citizens who have been silenced in years past. Alas, there is more work to be done,” she wrote in a letter this week. </span></span></p><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;">**A Run-off in the 17th is imminent. Burns-Hunter**<br /></span></span><br />The State of Louisiana Justice in HealthCare, Criminal & Civil Actions, Education is dismal. The Conservative legislature doesn't have any thing to do with it. It is again, the racism. <span style="font-style: italic;">If the present activity continues, gross miscarriages of Human Rights will prevail, the public-at-large will outcry, as they are presently. The courts are arrogant in its deficiency to expend "justice". Poor, indigent defendants are at the mercy of an in fact disparaged system.<br /><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Louisiana Public Defender Board </span>is allowing defendants to be summarily defended with only the "constitutional guarantee" being afforded. <span style="font-size:100%;">A defendant in the 4th JDC, represented by a public defender, was told to "just plea"; whether his former lawyer had secured a lesser sentencing "deal" with the DA's office didn't matter. <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">This is not defense. This is perfunctory. </span></span></span></span><br /></span><div class="blogger-post-footer">The Resistance is On! Over & Out.</div>Joseph LeSieurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00184598229377794888noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5155063444783136911.post-10715014952383972102011-10-01T09:43:00.004-05:002011-10-01T15:14:22.032-05:00Reciprocity:~Re-Jena'd<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLWtMymHuV_nwGJVTECc3fwf0U9qVyYePb09WE-FYWVPVV0U4VJd-ihBp40fX6mCVRK3dLXrORCltdf0eayxEOrKnPxGUalvd5EMgfc7zqj9lJpjPE3QxYEKmdHVoS3QHOhamkIQ8wYLU/s1600/jena-crowd2x-large.jpg"><img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 212px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLWtMymHuV_nwGJVTECc3fwf0U9qVyYePb09WE-FYWVPVV0U4VJd-ihBp40fX6mCVRK3dLXrORCltdf0eayxEOrKnPxGUalvd5EMgfc7zqj9lJpjPE3QxYEKmdHVoS3QHOhamkIQ8wYLU/s320/jena-crowd2x-large.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5658538279250006226" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:100%;">R<span style="font-size:130%;">eciprocit<span style="font-style: italic;">y. Re-Jena'd! All of this time which has transpired, has left many in Jena, dejected an floundering. It is, however; the responsibility of the Civil Rights apparatus to "educate" the residue that remains in such a place as Jena, what they must watch for, in the ensuing years. September 20th 2012, will mark [5] five years since the Great March of 2007. That event, began with grassroot activist. Some believe it ended, with a plea deal. If that were true, the "Jena Boys" who are young men now, would not be interested in a "capitalist pig's" pretentious involvement as a so-called production rep. <span style="font-size:100%;">However, at midnight on September 19th 2012, the "people" of the Twenty-First 21st Century re-initiation of the Civil Rights Movement in America, will gather in Jena, Louisiana.<br /><span style="font-size:85%;">The operatives of 2007, are still alive. Some are behind bars! Some of trying, to just, make it! Some are lying , exaggerating and capitalizing on the Move of 2007. We the people caught rides, in the middle of the night, when things were challenging and demanding. Threats were made in '07, '08 thru '11. Lead grassroot activist were diminished. Stranger than strange occurred. </span><br /></span></span></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEnY2oN4xu3lce9BOIOda_rEDwk8pSJ3ZFIsfhwl5ekOfPNU_esaogBMmgAgsXXqtLXK9zDXFWc8nmVwZLtnLOoSZkR0VCdXm8T6cunfhJybpMMG7zL4gs_qx608vbw4JhlBzbhE0USoA/s1600/Brian.jpg"><img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEnY2oN4xu3lce9BOIOda_rEDwk8pSJ3ZFIsfhwl5ekOfPNU_esaogBMmgAgsXXqtLXK9zDXFWc8nmVwZLtnLOoSZkR0VCdXm8T6cunfhJybpMMG7zL4gs_qx608vbw4JhlBzbhE0USoA/s320/Brian.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5658567208474393730" border="0" /></a><a href="http://www.vnnforum.com/showthread.php?t=110199">Richard Barrett Died.<br /></a> As for <span style="font-style: italic;">the other man in this picture, that is another story. Maybe to be told at a later date. First, Jena must be "<span style="font-size:130%;">Re-Jena'd". <span style="font-size:100%;">I've heard many a activist say, we'll give you another Jena. Well, the "thing" that occurred was orchestrated, systematically at a certain point in each stage.</span></span></span> At this very moment, we're in an other critical point. You see, 2oo7's Movement was a flashpoint, and we're there again. So, here we go. Brother Activist & Sister Advocate.<div class="blogger-post-footer">The Resistance is On! Over & Out.</div>Joseph LeSieurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00184598229377794888noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5155063444783136911.post-45300336175876550532011-06-24T02:45:00.003-05:002011-06-24T03:52:07.549-05:00Now!! It Should Be Evident<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5wLsVmQ0RpvXPX-NmmZBYQZDw0Mq4w-1l8YYtOLr2lIbRuL_b-qVkD09sGwqJMdJrheukmMOcJQ3QsiNzUHiyQ36-CVK4EKyk6g6GEES7cG33QW3H1QXKfPGvDaaK5O703YG3HFyJlWs/s1600/nelson%252Bcourthouse%252B062211.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 234px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5wLsVmQ0RpvXPX-NmmZBYQZDw0Mq4w-1l8YYtOLr2lIbRuL_b-qVkD09sGwqJMdJrheukmMOcJQ3QsiNzUHiyQ36-CVK4EKyk6g6GEES7cG33QW3H1QXKfPGvDaaK5O703YG3HFyJlWs/s320/nelson%252Bcourthouse%252B062211.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5621689996436838674" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Now, it should be evident, that if an FBI agent comes to talk to you; that you should remain silent and request to be magistrated. Of course, you risk the possibility of being charged with Obstruction of Justice, by not answering their convoluted questions.<br />What really gets, me however; is that all of this is going on "under the color of law" while a sitting United States Attorney in Washington D.C., looks on with seeming approval.<br /><br />This same, Eric Holder was called to D.C. while dealing with a wrongful conviction case in this same Louisiana!!<br /></span></span><ul class="plain-list"><li class="bold">By <a title="Send an email to BILL LODGE" href="mailto:blodge@theadvocate.com">BILL LODGE</a> </li><li class="italic">Advocate staff writer </li><li>Published: Jun 22, 2011</li></ul><br /><p>There is no reason to suggest undercover FBI agents entrapped former New Roads Mayor Tommy Nelson during a sting operation that resulted in his indictment on racketeering and wire fraud charges, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.</p> <p>Defense attorneys Page A. Pate, of Atlanta, and Michael A. Fiser, of Baton Rouge, argued that agents posing as corrupt sanitation service officials unfairly pushed bribes toward Nelson after he agreed their service would benefit city residents.</p> <p>The garbage can cleaning service was known as Cifer 5000.</p> <p>Earlier Tuesday, Pate and Fiser rested their defense of Nelson.</p> <p>Chief U.S. District Judge Ralph E. Tyson dismissed the jury of five women and seven men for the rest of the day. The judge ordered all to return to his Baton Rouge courtroom Wednesday morning for final arguments in the nearly three-week trial.</p> <p>Pate and Fiser asked that jurors be told Wednesday that they could acquit Nelson if they believed he had been entrapped.</p> <p>The judge chose not to include that statement in the instructions he will give the jury on Wednesday.</p> <p>Pate called one witness Tuesday — former FBI Special Agent Darin McAllister — who awaits sentencing in an unrelated criminal case in Nashville.</p> <p>McAllister was convicted in December on 15 counts of wire fraud, involving $1.2 million in borrowed bank funds and three counts of false statements in his 2009 bankruptcy proceedings.</p> <p>Jurors were not told of McAllister’s felony conviction. They were told that he no longer works for the FBI and is not employed.</p> <p>“Yes, Mr. Nelson thought the Cifer 5000 was a good idea for his city,” McAllister testified during questioning by Pate.</p> <p>Pate said one of the benefits undercover agents pushed toward Nelson was a free hunting trip.</p> <p>“He did not take a hunting trip, did he?” asked Pate.</p> <p>“No,” replied McAllister.</p> <p>Pate then asked whether McAllister offered Nelson a silent partnership in the sanitation service and suggested it could be worth as much as $2 million.</p> <p>“Yes,” replied McAllister.</p> <p>Other FBI agents testified earlier in the trial that Nelson accepted the silent partnership.</p> <p>Nelson, who lost a bid for re-election after he was indicted last year, is alleged to have accepted more than $22,000 in cash and other bribes from government investigators who posed as officials of Cifer 5000.</p> <p>He did not testify.</p> <p>FBI agents testified that Nelson received the $22,000 in return for his pledge to help the company obtain municipal business. Nelson, FBI agents testified, also received the money and other gifts in return for letters of support he wrote on behalf of Cifer 5000 to the EPA and Dallas residents he believed were Cifer investors.</p> <p>Nelson believed those letters could mean as much as $4 million in federal grants and $3 million in new infusions of investor cash for Cifer, FBI agents testified.</p> <p>FBI agents detained Nelson in May 2010 after the agents made video and audio recordings of Nelson’s acceptance of an alleged $5,000 cash bribe from an undercover FBI operative in the parking lot of a Starbucks Coffee shop in Gonzales.</p> <p>FBI Special Agent Tonja Sablatura testified early in the trial that Nelson immediately surrendered the envelope containing that cash. She said Nelson then confessed that he had accepted bribes.</p> <p>Assistant U.S. Attorneys Michael J. Jefferson, M. Patricia Jones and Corey R. Amundson played recorded telephone conversations in which Nelson could be heard asking for money.</p> <p>In one conversation, Nelson demanded a $10,000 payment from one of the men posing as corrupt businessmen. In another, he bragged that he had received more money from other companies.</p> <p>Cifer 5000 was a fictitious company used by the FBI in a sting known as Operation Blighted Officials.</p> <p>Six other municipal officials in three other Baton Rouge-area cities also were indicted last year.</p> <p>Former Port Allen City Councilman Johnny L. Johnson Sr. pleaded guilty to racketeering and bribery charges. Johnson has not yet been sentenced by Tyson.</p> <p>Former White Castle Mayor Maurice Brown was convicted March 3 on felony charges. He has not yet been sentenced by U.S. District Judge Brian A. Jackson.</p> <p>White Castle Police Chief Mario Brown, brother of Maurice Brown, was acquitted on all counts in the same trial.</p> <p>Port Allen Mayor Derek Lewis and Port Allen Police Chief Fred Smith are scheduled for trial July 25 in Jackson’s court.</p> <p>St. Gabriel Mayor George L. Grace is scheduled for trial Jan. 23 in Tyson’s court.</p><br /><div class="wnSectionTitle">BREAKING NEWS</div><h3>Jury: Nelson guilty on all counts</h3><em class="wnDate">Posted: Jun 22, 2011 2:44 PM CDT </em><noscript>Wednesday, June 22, 2011 3:44 PM EST</noscript><em class="wnDate">Updated: Jun 22, 2011 3:43 PM CDT</em> <noscript>Wednesday, June 22, 2011 4:43 PM EST</noscript><div id="WNStoryByline"><span id="WNStoryDateline">BATON ROUGE, LA (WAFB) - </span><p>Former New Roads Mayor has been found guilty on all seven charges against him.</p><p>The jury deliberated for just over an hour before returning the verdict.</p><p>Nelson was found guilty of racketeering, wire fraud, making false statements and four counts of interstate commerce.</p><p>Defense attorney Paige Pate filed a motion for Judge Tyson to reconsider entrapment, but it was denied. Tyson instructed jurors to throw out entrapment and to not consider it.<br /><br />Nelson was accused of taking bribes from undercover agents promoting a fake garbage can cleaning business. /end-WAFB story/jl</p><div><strong><em><span style="">Fissured & Fractured Judicial Process</span></em></strong><br /></div></div><a href="http://www.wafb.com/story/14958076/jury-gets-nelson-corruption-case">The Nelson Matter</a> is forged in a "lacadaisical" nonchalant approach by the "civil rights" apparatus in Louisiana in particular, and America in general.<br /><br /><em>An action was anticipated with the forging of a recommendation arising out of the last <span style="font-weight: bold;">state <a href="http://la1justice.tripod.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/resolution_black_elected_officials1.pdf"> Convention of the NAACP</a> </span>. It is, as if the clientelle of an uncivil america; think that they can just walk in to court and everything is going to be fair. Without certain justice seeking appartuses involved, the pushers of paper will get the same results. The Six, would not be in the position there in now without those apparatuses in play in 2007.<br /><br />Victoria Gosserand</em> stands <em>trial</em> in the death of Terri Parker in a car accident days before Christmas last year. Judge Alvin Batiste set the <em>trial</em> for July 11, 2011. <span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">I still think it strange that Tommy Nelson wasn't indicted until after comments were made concerning the case of vehicular homicide of Terri Parker on a New Roads thoroughfare. </span></span><br /><br />It should be stated the Louisiana Middle District US Atty, Donald Cazayoux and Gosserand Defense Attorney Rob Marionneaux are both former legislative co-horts. Can, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Justice be Served in the Parker death under these circumstances. </span> Should not Eric Holder, send a D. C., civil rights-justice department attorney AND a DOJ special prosecutor for the Gosserand matter. IT IS NOW EVIDENT, COMPLICITY IS A FACT OF LIFE IN THE JURISPRUDENCE IN AMERICA & Louisiana. <span style="font-style: italic;"><br /><br />What federal operative is busy enticing you or yours to commit corruption? </span><br /><a href="http://la1justice.tripod.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/entrap.pdf"> The Post-trial</a> battle immediately ensued with the 22 June motion filed in the Middle District has already begun.<br /><br />"Prior to trial, the defense tendered a proposed Fifth Circuit patter instruction to the court<br />on the issue of entrapment. At the charge conference, the prosecutor objected to the instruction<br />urging that Mr. Nelson had not made a prima facie case warranting an entrapment instruction."<br /><br />Where is Bobbi Bernstein, when you really need her?<div class="blogger-post-footer">The Resistance is On! Over & Out.</div>Joseph LeSieurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00184598229377794888noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5155063444783136911.post-59652106828132144842011-06-11T12:03:00.002-05:002011-06-11T12:43:29.822-05:00The Louisiana We Know:SO WELL!!<iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/fIapZDAa_WE?rel=0" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="510" width="640"></iframe><br /><br /><a href="http://commonwealthfreemoralsociety.wordpress.com/the-justice-we-need/the-state-of-justice/to-be-clear-not-one-of-us-heard-justin-use-any-slur-or-say-anything-that-justified-mychal-bell-attacking-justin-nor-did-any-of-us-see-justin-do-anything-that-would-cause-mychal-to-react/">So Long to Justice</a>!<br /><br /><a href="http://commonwealthfreemoralsociety.wordpress.com/">Commonwealth's desire for a</a> free moral society fizzling fast. When the final actionaries <a href="http://commonwealthfreemoralsociety.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/motion-of-5.pdf">seized control</a> of the "final five" justice was no longer a pre-requisite. Out the window went the mechinations of the Mauffray Court & other pacifications. Now, one by one the principal participating personages, of Jena are systematically being picked off, one by one!<br /><br />Others, however have continued to pimp, prostitute and capitalize on the "movement that was Jena" in 2007, labelled the 21st Century rejuvenation of Mass Protest. Well, since then we've had some serious marches to occur. However, <span style="font-weight: bold;">EVERYone<a href="http://commonwealthfreemoralsociety.wordpress.com/jenas-unfinished-business/"> Should</a></span><a href="http://commonwealthfreemoralsociety.wordpress.com/jenas-unfinished-business/"> read,</a> Sammy Franklin's article on the Jumping Frogs. You may get a better understanding of what's going on!!<br /><br />In Jena, some of the princpals have been in the "crazy house", alienated and suspiciously targeted with stranger than life scenarios. <a href="http://commonwealthfreemoralsociety.wordpress.com/jenas-unfinished-business/jumping-frogs/">You wonder</a> WHY the Tpartiers, supremacist, neo-cons, Republicans and conservatives are jumping up and down? The took advice from ground zero. The Jena Experience has been attempted to be 'scrubbed clean', but no such washings can undo, the facts. To, top it off; employment of every wicked device has been accomplished.<br /><br />Some of these "principal players" in the Jena Experience, have the slightest clue as to why, things are happening the way they are! <br /><br />The Louisiana Machine is rolling <a href="http://www.facebook.com/prophet.joseph/posts/104077446353398"> Lead Vehicle</a> in the Republican attempt to oust Obama!<br /><br /><a href="http://www.facebook.com/prophet.joseph/posts/218592524827639">HOWEVER</a>, it is official, 2012:September:Jena:Year5-BACK!!<div class="blogger-post-footer">The Resistance is On! Over & Out.</div>Joseph LeSieurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00184598229377794888noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5155063444783136911.post-88694679241029078992010-10-29T19:41:00.008-05:002010-10-30T13:03:49.368-05:00Who Says, Nobody Cares?!! -Death of a Nation From the bottum up!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyh_LVh1AmtaMFvgPUhunBpaYdNffOph7yfGx5jdIU6iLhvwjA-ctQGMy18XyQS94hM4vypNNf5l-WGSjtr5fd1eOBkcy62li007Ew74cLeZ4GiRuxj-3XnfYGdCZbCt_rHsowoSt5xlY/s1600/Kayshon.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 198px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyh_LVh1AmtaMFvgPUhunBpaYdNffOph7yfGx5jdIU6iLhvwjA-ctQGMy18XyQS94hM4vypNNf5l-WGSjtr5fd1eOBkcy62li007Ew74cLeZ4GiRuxj-3XnfYGdCZbCt_rHsowoSt5xlY/s200/Kayshon.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5533896665724317810" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:180%;">Some things are just meant to happen the way they do.<span style="font-size:130%;"><br />However, </span></span></span><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-size:130%;">the day to day horrors of society, tend to wear away at the heart of things.<br /></span></span><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br />Who say's nobody cares? When Chris Nevils said, he wanted to see a fair jury - he knew what he was talking about. Now it must be seen if the prosecutor, will appeal the verdict on the very grounds, that he laid.<br /><br />Today, October 29th 2010; Scott Nugent was found not guilty in the death of Baron "Scooter" Pikes. What's strange though, in Shreveport another officer was laid to rest, killed on duty.<br /><br />The tasing-death of Pikes occurred on Martin Luther King Day -weekend. And in this cruelest climate, Nugent's actions were vindicated on Halloween weekend. Both, incidents happened on a Friday. What will be, in the final analysis the understanding of what has, now become history. It is a familiar history.<br /><br />A history, our children should not have to live in the twenty-first century. Well, we were already escalating our efforts to secure a brighter future for a tomorrow, which may never come. But we must "occupy until he comes." An awakening, will occur. All were so caught up in two senate candidates, slinging vulgar mud. The tea partiers, and the such like. Musing about a South Mississippi Democrat divulging he didn't vote for the POTUS, but for McCain.<br /><br />We, who live in Dixie, call them dixiecrats. Whose so surprised. Maybe the non-know-it-alls of the varied "punditates". But we know! If we wake up one morning and can't recognize the state of affairs.<br /><br />We Shouldn't be shocked surprised or<br />dismayed. We Should realize that time has caught<br />up with us. America -the south, all of America has got to come to grips with itself. Fast!</span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNFH2nGg1e5SvFvqob6gLQm7s30etl49LDmPCp0ZcWF0cY2w9s1wJ0XajNBCj-39Ud85SuOY9rXhQIJoDGZHp8_4m3y2IQQppqJZ-Sali5BnqZdbrhwm-E4Em294whTRoxgfAw-7uM2CM/s1600/20091227_a1towersmall1227.jpg"><img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 142px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNFH2nGg1e5SvFvqob6gLQm7s30etl49LDmPCp0ZcWF0cY2w9s1wJ0XajNBCj-39Ud85SuOY9rXhQIJoDGZHp8_4m3y2IQQppqJZ-Sali5BnqZdbrhwm-E4Em294whTRoxgfAw-7uM2CM/s200/20091227_a1towersmall1227.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5533638296388630114" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyh_LVh1AmtaMFvgPUhunBpaYdNffOph7yfGx5jdIU6iLhvwjA-ctQGMy18XyQS94hM4vypNNf5l-WGSjtr5fd1eOBkcy62li007Ew74cLeZ4GiRuxj-3XnfYGdCZbCt_rHsowoSt5xlY/s1600/Kayshon.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 198px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyh_LVh1AmtaMFvgPUhunBpaYdNffOph7yfGx5jdIU6iLhvwjA-ctQGMy18XyQS94hM4vypNNf5l-WGSjtr5fd1eOBkcy62li007Ew74cLeZ4GiRuxj-3XnfYGdCZbCt_rHsowoSt5xlY/s200/Kayshon.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5533896665724317810" border="0" /></a><br />Well. Deliver us, from this task master. How is it so insisted upon, that we must accept, less than what is normal. Just because the powerful and the rich, exact prowess over the poor and impoverished; a reckoning day is coming. And who will be surprise, shocked or dismayed at its outcome.<br /><br />Us people are destroyed, from a lack of Knowledge. And collusions with the very people, who destroy us. We, ain't gwine whistle dixie no mo'. Go 'head though "Whistle It" 'cause its yo' dixie too!<br /><br /><h1>Former police officer found not guilty in Taser death trial in Winnfield</h1> <span id="gslshowAuthImg" class="gslAutUserPhoto"></span> <p class="ratingbyline">By Bret H. McCormick • bmccormick@thetowntalk.com • October 30, 2010</p><br /><p><span class="pp"></span>WINNFIELD -- Scott Nugent waited nearly three years for his manslaughter trial to begin.<span class="aa"></span></p><p><span class="pp"></span>Then, he waited about three weeks from the trial's start until closing arguments on Friday.<span class="aa"></span></p> <p><span class="pp"></span>So, what were an additional three hours?<span class="aa"></span></p> <h3>One of Nugent's attorneys, George</h3> <p><span class="pp"></span>Higgins of Pineville, said the three-hour wait Friday afternoon while the jury deliberated was "gut-wrenching," but the jury returned with the two words Nugent wanted to hear: not guilty.<span class="aa"></span></p> <p><span class="pp"></span>Nugent was a 21-year-old officer with the Winnfield Police Department on Jan. 17, 2008, when he arrested 21-year-old Barron "Scooter" Pikes (also known in Winnfield as Barron Collins Jr.). Pikes died in police custody, and Nugent was accused of causing the death by using excessive force -- specifically a Taser eight or nine times.<span class="aa"></span></p> <p><span class="pp"></span>The incident between Nugent, who is white, and Pikes, who was black, caused racial tensions in the town of approximately 5,700 people, and those tensions were evident following Friday's verdict.<span class="aa"></span></p> <p><span class="pp"></span>Several audible gasps were heard from friends and family members of Pikes' when the verdict was read, while Nugent began crying and shaking his head in relief.<span class="aa"></span></p> <p><span class="pp"></span>Pikes' family members said the verdict would not be received well by members of Winnfield's black community.<span class="aa"></span></p> <p><span class="pp"></span>"When it all boils down to it, the whole community is going to be outraged," said Nicole Collins, Pikes' cousin.<span class="aa"></span></p> <p><span class="pp"></span>"The community is not going to be pleased by this verdict," Pikes' stepmother, Kayshon Collins, added.<span class="aa"></span></p> <p><span class="pp"></span>Nugent and his team, however, were ecstatic at the news.<span class="aa"></span></p> <p><span class="pp"></span>Nugent's family was released from the courtroom before anyone else and was unavailable for comment. However, Higgins couldn't hide his joy.<span class="aa"></span></p> <p><span class="pp"></span>"We're thrilled that Scott was found not guilty," said Higgins, one of Nugent's three attorneys. "We're thrilled because we always thought Scott wasn't guilty."<span class="aa"></span></p> <p><span class="pp"></span>Higgins said he also was happy for one of his fellow Pineville attorneys, Phillip Terrell, who also worked to defend Nugent.<span class="aa"></span></p> <p><span class="pp"></span>"I know that this victory was especially meaningful for Phillip Terrell," Higgins said. "There is no bigger supporter of the police."<span class="aa"></span></p><p><span class="pp"></span>Terrell and Jerry Glas, a New Orleans attorney who specializes in Taser cases, both were unavailable for comment following the verdict.<span class="aa"></span></p> <div id="__gelement_1" class="gel-content"><p><span class="storyphotocaption"></span><span class="storyphotocredit"><br /></span></p></div><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">*lesieur</span><span style="font-size:78%;"><br /></span><p><span class="storyphotocaption">Members of Barron “Scooter” Pikes’s family, including his stepmother Kayshon Collins (front center) and sister Lashanta Jackson (far right), exit the Winn Parish Courthouse Friday afternoon following the not guilty verdict in the manslaughter trial of former Winnfield cop Scott Nugent. Nugent was accused of using a Taser on Pikes on Jan. 17, 2008, and causing his death.</span> <span class="storyphotocredit">(Bret H. McCormick)</span></p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyh_LVh1AmtaMFvgPUhunBpaYdNffOph7yfGx5jdIU6iLhvwjA-ctQGMy18XyQS94hM4vypNNf5l-WGSjtr5fd1eOBkcy62li007Ew74cLeZ4GiRuxj-3XnfYGdCZbCt_rHsowoSt5xlY/s1600/Kayshon.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 198px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyh_LVh1AmtaMFvgPUhunBpaYdNffOph7yfGx5jdIU6iLhvwjA-ctQGMy18XyQS94hM4vypNNf5l-WGSjtr5fd1eOBkcy62li007Ew74cLeZ4GiRuxj-3XnfYGdCZbCt_rHsowoSt5xlY/s200/Kayshon.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5533896665724317810" border="0" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer">The Resistance is On! Over & Out.</div>Joseph LeSieurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00184598229377794888noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5155063444783136911.post-5174623082751573722010-06-05T20:19:00.004-05:002010-06-18T21:08:22.444-05:00Louisiana:-Still Denying Justice!?? Oil Well Blowout called Apocalyptic & Apoplectic | And we still don't get it!<strong>Louisiana is this your KINGDOM COME!!</strong><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7eotlTKiecN8NRPBeZYC6H_B9TPNZUzSV5OM9t-C17AvFNA4TO0vqjqAInMMOtX4qCMtDumn29F4bklCvaihhrdec-p7LVvZZLMmdFPQkUlaAm84akpTZjo5Kw8u6ed4Ogl76fMkJTjM/s1600/slick-landfall.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 226px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7eotlTKiecN8NRPBeZYC6H_B9TPNZUzSV5OM9t-C17AvFNA4TO0vqjqAInMMOtX4qCMtDumn29F4bklCvaihhrdec-p7LVvZZLMmdFPQkUlaAm84akpTZjo5Kw8u6ed4Ogl76fMkJTjM/s320/slick-landfall.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5479440592805354434" border="0" /></a><br />The second moral virtue that comes from grace, as the fruit out of the tree, and ripens in the sunshine of confirmation is justice. <i>Justice is a virtue that will give to everyone what belongs to him.<br /></i><h4><span class="mw-headline">The court respects the rights of all before God</span></h4> <p>"Enlightened by prudence, justice supernatural foremost respects the rights of God. Indefeasible owner of everything, God has the right to any and everything, hence the cult inside and outside of man and society. Here, Justice is manifested by the virtue of religion, which includes worship, prayer, sacrifice, hope and the faithful fulfillment of precepts relating to the direct worship of the Creator ."</p><h4><span class="mw-headline">It respects the rights of the next</span></h4> <p>"It respects the rights of the neighbor, rich or poor, weak or strong, lower or higher. </p> <ul><li>To her the world must end the exploitation of man by man, the murder of children, slavery, <strong>despotism</strong> brutal, which weighed on all peoples before the redemption, and which still hangs over all foreign nations the benefits of the Gospel. </li><li>It teaches man to respect himself, his soul and his rights, his body and his family, his life, his death and to his grave. </li><li>She tells him, finally, to respect the creatures in the governing justly, that is to say according to their <strong>end</strong>, In a spirit of dependence, as a property of others with fear, as to account for the use he has made. </li></ul> <p>Imagine what would happen to the world under the dominion of supernatural justice!<br /></p><br /><a href="http://blog.al.com/live/2010/05/gulf_coast_get_ready_for_the_s.html">Apoplectic & Apocalyptic</a><br /><strong>Coastal tent cities are about to rise to house the workers and contractors minimizing the damage, while barge-like floating hotels for a total of about 800 workers are being readied at three locations off Louisiana. Sand banks and barriers are being built. But the consensus around the Gulf Coast is turning more <em>apoplectic and apocalyptic</em>. This is, people are starting to say, a generational event -- tragic to this generation, potentially crippling to the next.<br /></strong><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">On Thursday June 3rd Louisiana's Legislature offered HCR 214 directed to Ken Salazar the Secretary of the Interior. Rep. Ernest Wooton took to the podium on the floor of the Louisiana House & assailed the Obama Administration. How dreadful.!. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrXMqmj-bqPo0G4WQYbO7VT4uYALfmP3uEkdtgggOw2od4ss9JRshD2mXSM4QBDWQhkv4XFaqHf8eZG78CxDzi4Qv_zMj_H3_wEIoePgEQFxcKFHMvxujjP-Se2r0KVjZ0cwQltRBptn8/s1600/flag.jpg"><img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 110px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrXMqmj-bqPo0G4WQYbO7VT4uYALfmP3uEkdtgggOw2od4ss9JRshD2mXSM4QBDWQhkv4XFaqHf8eZG78CxDzi4Qv_zMj_H3_wEIoePgEQFxcKFHMvxujjP-Se2r0KVjZ0cwQltRBptn8/s200/flag.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5479446845776282738" border="0" /></a>Wooton said two years ago he [President Obama] could do anything. There is a lot of hate fomenting in state legislatures. A very heated debate ensued in Senate Committee Judiciary C, on HB617-</span></span>Requiring at least twenty percent of recipients of cash [welfare] assistance to be drug tested prior to receiving benefits. <span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><br />But Louisiana, still doesn't get it! Wooton even said the President should stay up in D.C.!! So, <span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">an oil man from Texas allowed the regulations on oil production to become lax. <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">And now, a Hawaiian is saying, stop all drilling until we fix the regulating arm of gov't, stopping all drilling. While Pelicans are drenched in blood, I mean oil. Or, bloody looking oil. <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">This is the link of Wooton going off. <a href="http://house.louisiana.gov/H_Video/WM/2010/June_2010/0603_10_Day38_2010RS.asx"> His comment's are behind Rep. Dove's explanation of the Resolution. </a></span></span></span><a href="http://house.louisiana.gov/H_Video/WM/2010/June_2010/0603_10_Day38_2010RS.asx"><br /></a></span><br />This <span style="font-size:130%;">is the kind of rhetoric that is fueling the "militia militancy" against Obama. An oil-producer, in a mad-rush for profit, split the earth, changed drill bits; disregarded a blowout preventer and charged straight ahead into the abyss.<br /><object height="385" width="640"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/XOTENmmK-Y4&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/XOTENmmK-Y4&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="385" width="640"></embed></object><br />?What is the correlation to this drilling & the recent earthquakes in the Caribbean & Central/South American Region?<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Is any one realizing this is a green President. And this type of fiasco is this man's worse nightmare. Imagine that, toxic oil pollution in an endangered ecological wetland. And now, it's hurricane season. Yet still, who are they fooling. Haiti proved the WORLD let lone the USA are ill-prepared for catastrophe. It is especially so, one behind the other!! '09 Financial debacle. '10 Haiti Earthquake April 2010 Oilwell Blowout.<br /><br />Come on People. Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi & all total 13 states had filed suit against Healthcare. Somebody's sure 'nough gonna need it now!! </span></span><br /><br /><object height="385" width="640"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/gW8q-ziUOwg&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/gW8q-ziUOwg&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="385" width="640"></embed></object><br /><br /><h1>USF researchers find new underwater plume from gulf oil spill</h1> <blockquote> </blockquote> <p>By <a href="http://www.tampabay.com/writers/craig-pittman">Craig Pittman</a> and <a href="http://www.tampabay.com/writers/katie-sanders">Katie Sanders</a>, Times Staff Writers<br />In Print: Friday, May 28, 2010<br /></p><br /><p>The sight of an oil slick spreading across the surface of the Gulf of Mexico is bad enough. But now scientists from the University of South Florida have found signs that a 6-mile-wide plume of invisible oil is snaking beneath the surface, in the deepest recesses of the gulf.</p> <p>The thickest concentration, they found, was more than 2 miles beneath the surface — a mile deeper than where the Deepwater Horizon well has been spewing oil for the past month — and about 20 miles northeast of the collapsed rig.</p> <p>The plume of dissolved oil stretched 6 miles down, said David Hollander, a USF chemical oceanographer and lead investigator for the project. This is the second oil plume to be discovered by scientists, and it marks the first time such plumes have been detected after a spill, Hollander said. He compared them to streams of lava flowing out of an undersea volcano.</p> <p>While the fudgelike goo coating Louisiana's marshes is getting lots of television coverage, the two undersea plumes show damage is also occurring where no one can see it: deep in the gulf, miles from land, where marine life has always been abundant and yet largely unobserved.</p> <p>The USF research vessel <i>Weatherbird II </i>was dispatched Saturday to take samples in the DeSoto Canyon, a deep valley that cuts through the continental shelf south of the Florida Panhandle. In the canyon, an upwelling of nutrient-rich water means far more fish and other species swim there. </p> <p>The scientists' big concern, Hollander said, is whether the oil they found is concentrated enough to be toxic to marine life. It could affect the whole food chain, he said.</p> <p>The canyon area is a popular destination for local fishing boats, said Bob Spaeth, owner of Madeira Beach Seafood, the area's largest seafood house and home dock for many longline boats, because "it is pristine. It has great habitat.'' </p> <p>The fishermen are willing to make the day-and-a-half journey because they know they will catch bluefin tuna, swordfish, king mackerel and grouper, Spaeth said. If toxic levels of oil have contaminated the fish there, Spaeth said, "that's a disaster.''</p> <p>The fish are not the only potential deep-sea victims of the spill. It could affect everything from the 10-foot-long giant tube worms rooted to the floor of the gulf to the sea turtles, sharks, whales and dolphins that spend their lives far from shore, say the experts.</p> <p>"I would be worried about every marine species that swam through that plume," said John Williams, executive director of the Southern Shrimp Alliance, based in Tarpon Springs. </p> <p>Currently federal officials have closed about 22 percent of the gulf to both commercial and recreational fishing. USF College of Marine Sciences Dean William Hogarth promised that if the area where the plume was found wasn't already covered by that ban, it will be by today.</p> <p>A big question is where the plume will go next. It could continue spreading until it gets onto the continental shelf and is pushed close to shore. Another USF oceanographer, Robert Weisberg, warned congressional representatives this week that if subsurface oil gets lifted onto the shelf it could reach west Florida's wetlands and beaches, which he called "a very serious concern."</p> <p>There is no ongoing government monitoring program for what's going on in the gulf, Weisberg said. The USF voyage cost $850,000 — funded by the state — and at this point there is no money for a follow-up trip.</p> <p>The USF ship, scheduled to return today, went out after scientists from several universities working aboard the research vessel <i>Pelican</i> told the <i>New York Times</i> of finding plumes of oil 3 miles wide and 10 miles long beneath the gulf's surface. That plume was spreading southwest of the rig. </p> <p>Computer models run by Weisberg had predicted the location of the southwestern plume found by the <i>Pelican</i>, Hollander said. Weisberg's model also suggested there could be a similar plume headed northeast, he said, so that's where the USF ship went.</p> <p>The scientists aboard the ship — some from USF, some from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Research Institute in St. Petersburg — discovered the plume on Tuesday. What's not known is the role that chemical dispersants play in the plume. BP has been spraying the dispersants both on the surface slick and directly on the gushing wellhead in the deep ocean, something never before attempted. The dispersants, being used in unprecedented quantities, are supposed to spread the oil so it will evaporate and degrade more quickly. That could be what has created the plumes, Hollander said.</p> <p>The concern is that the dispersants are simply holding the oil below the surface, where it is harder to clean. So far, tests by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency have found no signs that the dispersants are harmful to sea life, but the EPA has ordered BP to look for a less toxic version.</p> <p>Once the <i>Weatherbird II</i> returns to port, scientists will conduct further tests to determine whether the plume is made of weathered oil droplets or oil linked to dispersants, Hollander said. </p> <p>The one piece of good news: Tests conducted by the <i>Weatherbird II </i>between the loop current and the Florida coast showed clean water, no weathered oil on the surface and no sign of oil beneath the waves. But that doesn't mean it will stay that way. </p> <p>Rowan Gould, acting director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, has predicted the spill "will affect fish and wildlife resources … for years to come, if not decades."</p> <p><i>Times staff writers Stephen Nohlgren and Alex Leary contributed to this report.</i></p><br />[Last modified: May 28, 2010 06:51 AM]<br /><br /><a style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 102, 153); font-size: 10px;" onmouseover="this.style.color='#E8B900'; this.getElementsByTagName('img')[0].src='http://license.icopyright.net/images/icopy-g.gif';" title="Main menu of all reuse options" onmouseout="this.style.color='#336699'; this.getElementsByTagName('img')[0].src='http://license.icopyright.net/images/icopy-w.gif';" onclick="icx_openLicenseWindow(this.href); return false;" href="http://license.icopyright.net/3.8618?icx_id=1098093" target="_blank"><img alt="[Get Copyright Permissions]" src="http://license.icopyright.net/images/icopy-w.gif" align="left" border="0" height="25" width="27" /> Click here for reuse options! </a><br />Copyright 2010 St. Petersburg Times <a href="http://www.tampabay.com/news/environment/water/usf-researchers-confirm-massive-underwater-plume-from-gulf-oil-spill/1098093">Story</a><br /><h1>New, giant sea oil plume seen in Gulf stretching toward Mobile Bay</h1> <h4>By <a href="http://connect.al.com/user/bamaap/index.html">The Associated Press</a></h4> <h5>May 27, 2010, 12:10PM</h5><br /><p>NEW ORLEANS -- Marine scientists have discovered a massive new plume of what they believe to be oil deep beneath the Gulf of Mexico, stretching 22 miles from the leaking wellhead northeast toward Mobile Bay, Alabama.</p> <p>The discovery by researchers on the University of South Florida College of Marine Science's Weatherbird II vessel is the second significant undersea plume recorded since the Deepwater Horizon exploded on April 20.</p> <p>The thick plume was detected just beneath the surface down to about 3,300 feet, and is more than 6 miles wide, said David Hollander, associate professor of chemical oceanography at the school.</p> <p>While the researchers used Mobile Bay as a reference point, the area they are exploring is the DeSoto Canyon, which one researcher described as an "abyss" that falls off from the Florida shelf due south of the Florida-Alabama state line.</p> <p>The canyon begins more than 100 miles off the Alabama coast with depths of more than 5,000 feet.<br /></p> <p>Hollander said the team detected the thickest amount of hydrocarbons, likely from the oil spewing from the blown out well, at about 1,300 feet in the same spot on two separate days this week.</p> <p>The discovery was important, he said, because it confirmed that the substance found in the water was not naturally occurring and that the plume was at its highest concentration in deeper waters. The researchers will use further testing to determine whether the hydrocarbons they found are the result of dispersants or the emulsification of oil as it traveled away from the well.</p> <p>The first such plume detected by scientists stretched from the well southwest toward the open sea, but this new undersea oil cloud is headed miles inland into shallower waters where many fish and other species reproduce.</p> <p>The researchers say they are worried these undersea plumes may are the result of the unprecedented use of chemical dispersants to break up the oil a mile undersea at the site of the leak.</p> <p>Hollander said the oil they detected has dissolved into the water, and is no longer visible, leading to fears from researchers that the toxicity from the oil and dispersants could pose a big danger to fish larvae and filter feeders such as sperm whales.</p> <p>"There are two elements to it," Hollander said. "The plume reaching waters on the continental shelf could have a toxic effect on fish larvae, and we also may see a long-term response as it cascades up the food web."</p> <p><i><b>(Associated Press Writers Jason Dearen and Matthew Brown authored this report, which was clarified by the Press-Register at 12:47 to better state the location of the undersea oil.)<br /></b></i></p><a href="http://blog.al.com/live/2010/05/new_oil_plume_alabama_oil_spill.html"> More Oil 100 miles off Alabama Coast in 5000 ft CANYON</a><br /><br /><object height="385" width="480"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/XnwaHAOt8e0&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/XnwaHAOt8e0&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="385" width="480"></embed></object><div class="blogger-post-footer">The Resistance is On! Over & Out.</div>Joseph LeSieurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00184598229377794888noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5155063444783136911.post-28622993104853890712010-03-04T21:03:00.004-06:002010-03-17T21:34:33.129-05:00Justice Denied:-Still in Louisiana<span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:100%;">The indigent defense system is steadily falling apart </span></span><span style="font-size:100%;">& the Louisiana Legislature has still failed to launch, an initial action to revamp the judicial process in the state of Louisiana. In particular Louisiana's 4th Judicial District has indigent defense attorneys, who are typically lax in their representation of impoverished defendants. <a href="http://www.lapdb.org/2009DistrictAnnualReport/District%204.pdf"> </a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.lapdb.org/2009DistrictAnnualReport/District%204.pdf">Public Defender Office-La. 4th JDC</a> is currently covering a case involving three defendants, one of which has federal charges. Already, two of the defendants are lanquishing in the system, because of maneuvering by the federal defendant.<br /><br />In New Orleans <a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/L/LA_NEW_ORLEANS_PUBLIC_DEFENDERS_LAOL-?SITE=KFDMTV&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">public defenders</a> are to the point of possibly not taking on any new cases.<br /><br />Should this not be the final signal, of the impending doom of the collapsing judicial process in Louisiana.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.innocencecommission-nc.gov/commissioners.htm"><strong>North Carolina </strong></a></span>has a commission in force that looks in to criminal convictions for possible mistakes even after all post-conviction remedies are exhausted! The Commission, </span>considers claims of innocence from convicts or anyone else with pertinent information. It has reviewed hundreds of claims by prisoners and brought only three to a hearing.<br /><br />If the commission agrees that a claim has merit, it refers cases to a three-judge panel, which has happened only once except for a recent case, [<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-terzano/another-exoneration-demon_b_486185.html">Gregory Taylor</a>] and the argument in the other case was rejected.<br /><br /><h1>BR man charged in corruption case</h1> <div id="sidebar" class="floated"><br /><br /> By <a title="Send an email to BILL LODGE" href="mailto:banderson@theadvocate.com">BILL LODGE</a><br />Advocate staff writer </div><!--//--> Published: Mar 17, 2010<br /><br /><p>Robert L. Stevens is the 10th person charged in the continuing federal investigation of corruption in Baton Rouge city and state district courts.</p> <p>Each of the prior nine defendants has pleaded guilty to one or more felony counts. To date, none has been scheduled for sentencing.</p> <p>Stevens, 61, of Baton Rouge, was charged Tuesday with conspiracy in aid of racketeering. That charge was filed in a bill of information by Assistant U.S. Attorneys M. Patricia Jones and Corey R. Amundson after Stevens waived his right to have the case sent to a grand jury.</p> <p>“We’re not aware of any job that Stevens has right now or what (type of work) he did in the past,” U.S. Attorney David R. Dugas said.</p> <p>Stevens is accused of soliciting and obtaining “cash and other things of value from individuals with criminal and traffic matters pending” in Baton Rouge City Court, the bill of information states.</p> <p>In return for those bribes, the bill of information alleges, defendants were promised their charges “would be dismissed, reduced, or otherwise ‘fixed.’ ”</p> <p>Stevens participated in the conspiracy in 2008 and for at least the first nine months of 2009, prosecutors said in their charge.</p> <p>In April and May 2009, Stevens is alleged to have had multiple telephone conversations with Flitcher Bell, who was at that time a senior city prosecutor.</p> <p>Bell pleaded guilty in the case late last year after prosecutors announced the continuing investigation, dubbed Operation Illegal Motion.</p> <p>Thus far, the investigation also has produced convictions against two former Baton Rouge police officers, the former chief investigator for the local public defender’s office, several people outside the court system, and several former state and city court employees.</p> <p>The charge against Stevens carries a possible five-year prison term and fine of $250,000.</p><div class="blogger-post-footer">The Resistance is On! Over & Out.</div>Joseph LeSieurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00184598229377794888noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5155063444783136911.post-69531431586610298352010-02-15T15:51:00.007-06:002010-02-15T16:59:36.099-06:00Louisiana's Disarrayed Justice continuum ad infinitum<h3><span>Woman from Pointe Coupee Parish not guilty on first DWI </span></h3> <script type="text/javascript">var addthis_share = { templates: { twitter: '{{title}} {{url}} @WBRZ #batonrouge' } } var addthis_config = { data_use_flash: false } </script> <p class="byline">By Chris Nakamoto<br />Source: WBRZ<br />Updated: February 3, 2010 5:47 PM</p>Woman from Pointe Coupee Parish not guilty on first DWI By Chris Nakamoto<br />Source: <a href="http://www.wbrz.com/news/woman-from-pointe-coupee-parish-not-guilty-on-first-dwi/">WBRZ</a> <a href="http://www.wafb.com/global/Category.asp?C=151146&clipId=&topVideoCatNo=89761&topVideoCatNoB=92715&topVideoCatNoC=151875&topVideoCatNoD=89780&topVideoCatNoE=89943&clipId=4537640&autostart=true">WAFB</a><br /><br /><h3>Officials postpone deadly crash grand jury trial<em class="wnDate"></em></h3><h3><em class="wnDate"> <script type="text/javascript">wnRenderDate('Thursday, February 11, 2010 7:12 PM EST', '', true</script>Feb 11, 2010 </em><br /></h3>It took ten minutes for Judge Alex Wall to find 23-year-old Victoria Gosserand "not guilty" of first offense DWI in Baton Rouge.<br /><br />In a separate case of DWI in Pointe Coupee Parish, Gosserand faces more serious charges. Investigators say she was three times over the legal limit when she caused a crash that killed 23-year-old Terri Parker and injured vehicle's driver.<br /><br />Even though the first case doesn't involve Parker's family, they were in court to seek justice.<br /><br />"If the courts would have taken care of the first DWI, she wouldn't have gotten the second DWI," Parker's mother, Debra Cushionberry said.<br /><br />In court, the Baton Rouge police officer who pulled her over told a packed courtroom that after he arrested her, the smell of alcohol was so strong he had to crack a window in his police unit.<br /><br />The executive director for Mothers Against Drunk Driving told News 2 she was concerned there wasn't enough evidence to convict Gosserand.<br /><br />"We're not always winners," Donna Tate said. "The details of every case are different. In this case, there was not an opportunity to have a field sobriety test done because of the defendant's refusal and no blood alcohol test."<br /><br />A grand jury in Pointe Coupee Parish will decide next week whether to formally charge Gosserand for the crash in New Roads.<br /><br /><div id="WNStoryHeader"> <h3>Officials postpone deadly crash grand jury trial</h3><em class="wnDate">Posted: <script type="text/javascript">wnRenderDate('Thursday, February 11, 2010 7:12 PM EST', '', true); </script> Feb 11, 2010 6:12 PM CST </em><noscript></noscript><!--//--><em class="wnDate">Updated: <script type="text/javascript">wnRenderDate('Friday, February 12, 2010 6:36 PM EST', '', true); </script> Feb 12, 2010 5:36 PM CST <noscript></noscript></em><!--END wnDate--></div><!--END WNStoryHeader--> <div id="WNStoryRelatedBox" class="wnRight" wncollapse="true"><!--DISPLAY SIZE 20: Featured Video - Col 3--> <div id="WNDS20" class="wnDS20 wnDSContainer-standard"> <div class="wnDSHeader"><p>By David Spunt - <a href="http://www.wafb.com/Global/story.asp?S=11307273">bio</a> | <a href="mailto:dspunt@wafb.com">email</a></p> <p>NEW ROADS, LA (WAFB) - A grand jury trial in New Roads scheduled for Friday was postponed after two judges have openly recused themselves from the case of a deadly crash involving a woman who failed a field sobriety test.</p> <p>District Attorney Ricky Ward said Judge James Best and William DuPont have recused themselves. According to a source, DuPont said he has already been assigned a civil lawsuit in the matter. Best admitted he recused himself.</p> <p>"It is much too personal to me to preside over this case, as my son was a classmate of both Victoria Gosserand and Kyle Riviere," Best said. "It would put me in an awkward position."</p> <p>Ward said the case will be reassigned to either Judge Robin Free or Alvin Batiste. He expects the grand jury to hear evidence either next week or the following week.</p> <p>Teri Parker's father says he is upset about the delay.</p> <p>"I'm frustrated because my daughter has been taken from me and it's made me feel like nothing has been done about it," said John Parker.</p> <p>Two days before Christmas, Teri Parker, 23, was killed as she drove home from work. Police have charged Tori Gosserand, 23, in the case. Records show Gosserand had a .30 blood alcohol level at the time of the accident. In Louisiana, the legal limit is .08. Kyle Riviere was riding with Teri Parker. He survived the crash. <a href="http://www.wafb.com/Global/story.asp?S=11973585">Story-wafb.com</a><br /></p></div></div></div><span></span><br /><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span><b><span style="color: rgb(1, 5, 57);font-size:16;" >Officers cleared in Monroe shooting</span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(1, 5, 57);"><span> </span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span><b><span style="color: rgb(1, 5, 57);font-size:9;" >MICHELLE BATES, <i>Editor</i></span></b></span></p><br />February 11, 2010<br />Officers cleared in Monroe shooting<br />MICHELLE BATES, Editor<br /><br />The two officers involved in the shooting death of Bernard Monroe Sr. have been cleared.<br /><br />Late Thursday afternoon, the Claiborne Parish Grand Jury handed down a no true bill, which means no criminal charges will be filed against former Homer Police Officers Tim Cox and Joseph Henry, in a case that turned the community of Homer upside down.<br /><br />When the results were handed down, the only officer that might have faced criminal charges was Cox. According to the report filed with the Claiborne Parish Clerk of Court, Cox could have faced a charge of first degree murder, second degree murder, manslaughter or negligent homicide.<br /><br />According to Assistant Attorney General John Sinquefield, the grand jury met two full days and worked overtime on the case. The 12 member jury heard 21 witnesses, including 12 civilians, meaning non law enforcement witnesses. They reviewed dozens of items of evidence and returned the no true bill, he said.<br /><br />“I think they did a very thorough, very complete investigation involving the death of Mr. Monroe,” Sinquefield said. “They did a very good job in reviewing the evidence. All the witnesses, all the police personnel, and all the governmental officials in Homer cooperated 100 percent with us in our investigation, and on behalf of the attorney general’s office, we’d like to thank all these people.”<br /><br />He extended his thanks to Second Judicial District Judge Jenifer Clason, Claiborne Parish Sheriff Ken Bailey, Homer Police Chief Russell Mills and all the police jury personnel for their full cooperation and accommodations during the grand jury proceedings – held at the Claiborne Parish Police Jury Complex in Homer.<br /><br />“Judge Clason was very helpful and available, and took our report and showed us every courtesy of the court, and we’d like to thank her,” he said.<br /><br />Rob Moore, of the Moore Law Firm in Arcadia, the attorney representing Henry, said his client is glad it’s over.<br /><br />“We’re just relieved that it’s over,” Moore said. “Joey loves this town and wishes the best for Homer.”<br /><br />Henry declined comment on the matter at this time, as did Homer Police Chief Russell Mills. Mills declined comment under the advisement of Town Attorney Jim Colvin, pending a civil suit.<br /><br />Attorney Morris Dees, of the Southern Poverty Law Center in Alabama, representing the Monroe family, said they are disappointed in the outcome of this incident.<br /><br />“They are extremely disappointed that no indictment was returned,” he said, “and they intend to file a civil lawsuit in the near future with the opportunity for a jury to hear the factual determination in the death of Mr. Monroe – something that did not take place with the grand jury.”<br /><br />Dees indicated that a suit will be filed within the next 10 days as of Friday, February 5.<br /><br />Bernard Monroe Sr., 73, was shot and killed by Cox on Friday, February 20, 2009, at his home. He was transported to Homer Memorial Hospital with multiple gunshot wounds. He later passed away at the hospital.<br /><br />According to police, they were pursuing Monroe’s son, Shawn, on foot, and the chase ended at his residence where Monroe allegedly engaged the two officers with a loaded handgun. Witnesses at the scene say he did not have a gun, but rather a sports drink bottle.<br /><br />The Rev. Willie Young, president of the Claiborne Chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), said the members of his organization were disappointed in the outcome.<br /><br />“We’re disappointed, and we have to accept the results whether I like them or not,” he said. “You live in the real world and there’s two sides to every story.”<br /><br />He said they prepared themselves for the outcome either way, and it was time to move forward.<br /><br />“The grand jury has spoken and we move on from here,” Young said.<br /><br />The tragedy has spurred unrest and many questions by members of the community from all sides. The U.S. Department of Justice, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the ACLU and the Louisiana State Police have investigated the case from several different aspects, including any possible civil rights violations as well as the investigation into the incident itself.<br /><br />The Rev. Al Sharpton was in Homer last year saying that he would not rest until justice was done for Monroe. The NAACP also conducted its own investigation just weeks after the incident.<br /><br /><br /><br /><h1>Ex-officer's attorneys: Taser not cause of death</h1> <span id="gslshowAuthImg" class="gslAutUserPhoto"></span> <p class="ratingbyline"><a href="mailto:rmorgan@thetowntalk.com">Robert Morgan</a> • rmorgan@thetowntalk.com • February 11, 2010</p><br /><p><span class="pp"></span>Defense attorneys for former Winnfield Police Officer Scott Nugent said they plan to contest claims that a Taser stun-gun caused the death of Baron "Scooter" Pikes in 2008.<span class="aa"></span></p> <div id="__gelement_1" class="gel-content"> <div id="GPage1" class="gel-pane gpagediv"><p><span class="pp"></span>Nugent had been set for trial on a manslaughter charge Feb. 9, but the date was postponed until June 14 by state Judge John Joyce.</p> <p>Nugent is accused of causing Pike's death while he was in Winnfield police custody by shocking him nine times with a Taser.</p> <p>Pineville attorneys George Higgins and Phillip Terrell said the defense will challenge the science the prosecution intends to introduce.</p> <p>Despite a finding by Winn Parish Coroner Randolph Williams that Pikes died as a result of the Taser shocks, Higgins said, "We contend that a Taser cannot cause the death of a human being."</p> <p>"The Taser is a non-lethal weapon. That's precisely why it's used," he said.</p> <p>Terrell said a report from forensic pathologist Joel Carney of Lafayette declares that the cause of death is "inconclusive."</p> <p>Carney, who examined the body the day after Pikes died, issued a report saying Pikes had sickle cell anemia and an enlarged heart, either or both of which could have contributed to his death, according to portions cited by Terrell.</p> <p>The report does not cite the Taser incident as a cause of death, he said.</p> <p>Taser darts only go under the skin and cannot impact internal organs, the attorneys said.</p> <p>"As we've contended from the beginning, Scott Nugent did not cause the death of the deceased," Higgins said.<span class="aa"></span></p></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">The Resistance is On! Over & Out.</div>Joseph LeSieurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00184598229377794888noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5155063444783136911.post-1729490572744176012010-01-12T12:26:00.013-06:002010-01-23T14:55:25.111-06:00The Disarray of Louisiana Justice<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZH8XHsDn0durDLeuLbH2xxbXMHCLPV-W0ZHP6aYgXtMxjUczAjSEzutcOpsp3qtn0FmwCrmxhPbgc2jJqk_HFaWxycSa9r6zuQ89wvrjRC7akIZWAYc1Zi0FA5aUijgdSeZkQCYel42Y/s1600-h/New+South.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 200px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 18px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5425959596909721490" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZH8XHsDn0durDLeuLbH2xxbXMHCLPV-W0ZHP6aYgXtMxjUczAjSEzutcOpsp3qtn0FmwCrmxhPbgc2jJqk_HFaWxycSa9r6zuQ89wvrjRC7akIZWAYc1Zi0FA5aUijgdSeZkQCYel42Y/s200/New+South.jpg" /></a><br /><a href="http://la1justice.tripod.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/hcsr-1.pdf">Legislative action needed</a>.<br /><a href="http://www.wafb9.com/Global/story.asp?S=11750790">Gosserand</a>|<a href="http://www.wafb.com/Global/story.asp?S=11862194">Ricky Ward,Parker,La.AG</a>|<a href="http://www.ksla.com/Global/story.asp?S=11751816">Kevin MacDonald-DA</a>| <a href="http://www.madd.org/chapter/2200_10917">MADD-Louisiana</a><br />|<a href="http://www.2theadvocate.com/news/80390497.html">2thead-Victoria Jean Gosserand</a>| <a href="http://www1.wbrz.com/player/?video_id=1307&zone=1&categories=1">D'Aguila-Rose Parker-Donna Tate</a>| <a href="http://www1.wbrz.com/news/victims-family-asks-district-attorney-to-recuse-himself/">Family asks DA to recuse himself</a>|<a href="http://www.rickywardda.com/victims.htm">Pointe Coupee Victims Assistance</a> <strong><em>Will Justice Prevail in New Roads, La.</em></strong><br /><br />The disarray of justice in Louisiana, has now manifested itself in a physical form. Its affects have in effect placed the judicial process in further jeopardy. Not only has Jelpi Picou, formerly with the Capital Appeals Project; siphoned at least $100k from a state-funded program, the Legislature has still not convened any committee(s); joint or sub, to research or gain needed information on the current debacling circumstances.<br /><br />To begin with, increasing the public's confidence in the system; which, in turn would aid in decreasing the 2009 spike in crime in some areas. Recent events of youth violence is approaching epidemic. <em>Citizens in one NE La. Legislative district are preparing a citizen optioned covert operated response to end the spike.</em><br /><br />All the while, in federal court a state legislator's brother began trial on Hobbs Act violations. Although, no one has been nominated yet, the US Atty for the same district has tendered his resignation,effective on MLK day. A US Supreme Court decision is holding back a trial of the same individual on other charges in which a DA is also involved.<br /><br />Not to mention, the state AG has taken on a 2009 police killing in Claiborne parish, for which no dates have been set. A Jan 2009 taser-death "stun-drive" case is scheduled to begin February 9th 2010 in a rural parish. In July '09 a Colfax man was killed by police. And the Calcasieu parish public defender system is back in court for a repeat. But now with, the recent upheavels in the 19th JDC-PDO and the recent revelations of case fixings for pay, it should be evident the system needs a thorough going over.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0W8ycmKJbgMtSV1VkQNEDyFEJkI_oUvw9rC5M4MFo5lKN8Df6zdyr7w4Unm3pBb70COBQOeHyHcvbi40fk1KNO3sArm0eD1pSlrYBHFIgk2bb0Th_GAvD9F3TbEGYKfMymy1Hou19_5g/s1600-h/Roz.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 150px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 104px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5425955093409102338" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0W8ycmKJbgMtSV1VkQNEDyFEJkI_oUvw9rC5M4MFo5lKN8Df6zdyr7w4Unm3pBb70COBQOeHyHcvbi40fk1KNO3sArm0eD1pSlrYBHFIgk2bb0Th_GAvD9F3TbEGYKfMymy1Hou19_5g/s200/Roz.jpg" /></a><br />Does any body really care.<br />The current United States Attorney General was involved in a wrongful conviction case at the time he was nominated by the POTUS. That case, subsequently settled with the exoneree receiving millions. But there are others, who are trapped in this jurisprudence gone awry. Beyond the personal objectives and agendas, there is still opportunity to begin the real work of evolving into a better position. There is no giving up in this fight. All the signs are there to let the sighted know, what must be done. As citizens. May the parties in position respond to this appeal.<br /><br />In a 2008 <a href="http://la1justice.tripod.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/bishop_george_resolution.pdf">resolution</a>, the Louisiana Legislature's LLBC was requested to convene hearings on the justice apparatus in the state. The then chairman of the LLBC agreed. A house concurrent study resolution was authorized, and nothing has come to fruition.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhcy80R2mNoGyuOAwO0Q-sT8SqkMkmkuTRjeZMjKBZPC56bqyQgJSXTMvzsBfiZyXw0QSUoiq6YJVu0LEJxBkU8plkFB7p4g9hwgq5IxkFExGHQd5gWqFEXfdffxj6gCHDHvQbv37zelU/s1600-h/leg+agenda+measures+042308.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 140px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 104px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5425960400252770226" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhcy80R2mNoGyuOAwO0Q-sT8SqkMkmkuTRjeZMjKBZPC56bqyQgJSXTMvzsBfiZyXw0QSUoiq6YJVu0LEJxBkU8plkFB7p4g9hwgq5IxkFExGHQd5gWqFEXfdffxj6gCHDHvQbv37zelU/s200/leg+agenda+measures+042308.jpg" /></a> 2010 is here. Yet it is not too late, to do the right thing. Although, there is a new chairwoman, who will take this endeavor on?<br /><br />Someone has to make a move! It has to happen, now. Are you the one?<div class="blogger-post-footer">The Resistance is On! Over & Out.</div>Joseph LeSieurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00184598229377794888noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5155063444783136911.post-78505681256765742222009-10-25T21:58:00.004-05:002009-11-04T22:37:17.190-06:00Justears! Louisiana Backwater<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwjZCn7OWIsXcDQuXBSA2nRdHPcn6KCakOos9Q71tL6Pn1Ms64r5w2kSMpAbTSBGCVoVoAi90uOvJ7Ds9isfuo3ov1vJG35L2sZSJJ6xdcS_AAIKHMGcI3mbC7eT1Vils6pz1HoleEWBI/s1600-h/justears.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 173px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwjZCn7OWIsXcDQuXBSA2nRdHPcn6KCakOos9Q71tL6Pn1Ms64r5w2kSMpAbTSBGCVoVoAi90uOvJ7Ds9isfuo3ov1vJG35L2sZSJJ6xdcS_AAIKHMGcI3mbC7eT1Vils6pz1HoleEWBI/s320/justears.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5396738659018280930" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:130%;"> <a href="http://www.savecoalition.org/pdfs/Civil_RIghts_Injunctions.pdf"><strong>Injunctive Relief Needed in present court systems</strong></a> | <a href="http://www.gothamgazette.com/article/issueoftheweek/20090420/200/2887"><strong>Failed Justice</strong></a> | <a href="http://appellateproject.org/attorneys.htm"><strong>Louisiana Appellate Project</strong></a> | <a href="http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=474594"><strong>'08 La. Legis. House Concurrent Study Resolution [HCSR-1] approved - no action taken</strong></a><br /><br />[<a href="http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=8988253"> JP resigns</a>] Several accounts</span> have been made relating to a justice of the peace in south Louisiana. Some who retold the story state the JP denied a marriage license to the couple. Not true.<br /><br />The state official refused to perform the ceremony. The two individuals have now filed suit for civil rights violations in the federal courts. Great.<br /><br />This could be a perfect storm to make the state's highest court do it's job. In forcing the high court to act, it could very well alter the face of the system, finally. The new chief justice, has a few things to prove in her role. The civil rights suit has nothing to do with actions of the judiciary commission. The commission, is already however wanting to get around it's efficacy. A spokesperson from the judicial administrators office told a national news outlet, the process could take as much as a year. However, the chairman of the commission can cause the body to act, sooner than later if it so desires.<br /><br />The commission's legal counsel, should already have begun compiling her information to present to the commission, on how the JP's defense may seek to defend him. Truly, the inner workings of the process is hard to unravel. Within the process, the commission's legal counsel will advise the commission on the possible routes the JP's defense may take. The office of disciplinary counsel will make the formal accusatory declaration to the JP. That person is the interim special counsel.<br /><br />The former <a href="http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2009/09/no_ethics_review_board_hires_l.html">special counsel</a> left the commission last year. In 1994, he went to work for the judiciary commission where his primary responsibility was to investigate complaints against judges and hand recommendations for discipline to the commission, a panel of three citizens, three judges and three lawyers appointed by the state Supreme Court. Once the commission settles on a sanction, it's the special counsel's job to persuade the justices to adopt the recommendation.<br /><br />If, in the function of his office, a state official violates the law it is malfeasance. If, under the color of law an official violates the law and denies a person civil rights the public integrity section of the justice department can pursue criminal charges.<br /><br />The Public Integrity Section oversees the federal effort to combat corruption through the prosecution of elected and appointed public officials at all levels of government. The Section has exclusive jurisdiction over allegations of criminal misconduct on the part of federal judges and also monitors the investigation and prosecution of election and conflict of interest crimes. <strong>Section attorneys prosecute selected cases against federal, state, and local officials,</strong> and are available as a source of advice and expertise to other prosecutors and investigators. Since 1978, the Section has supervised the administration of the Independent Counsel provisions of the Ethics in Government Act.<br /><br />And what if prior state attorney's general were indeed aware of a JP's violative interpretation of their elected office? Who is now liable? The State? Is the state in need of expertise and advice from federal sources? Recusals of local US Attorneys are also a part of the public integrity sections operation. Would the state supreme court be found deficient? Would other areas of the state's judicial apparatus be subject to purview? Perhaps.<br /><br />On, another note; the state's director of indigent defense, functioning under Act 307 passed by the 2007 regular session has admitted to media the system is broken. The Judiciary has the role of making sure proper judicial process is carried forth. Indigent defendants are routinely wrongly convicted through ineffective assistance of counsel. Is it unimaginable, the mere refusal to honor an officially obtained license from a clerk of court could evolve in to a full scale re-aligning of the system?<br /><br />The Special Litigation Section of the Civil Rights Division of the US Department of Justice, recently finished an investigation into the Orleans Parish Prison. <a href="http://www.usdoj.gov/crt/split/documents/parish_findlet.pdf">Released</a> 9-11-09 it outlined deficiencies with the facilities operation. The final paragraph says in part - "We are obligated to advise you that, in the event that we are unable to reach a resolution regarding our concerns, the Attorney General may initiate a lawsuit pursuant to CRlP A to correct deficiencies of the kind identified in this letter"... .. .. .. . . .<div class="blogger-post-footer">The Resistance is On! Over & Out.</div>Joseph LeSieurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00184598229377794888noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5155063444783136911.post-34851503871080114582009-07-30T18:32:00.005-05:002009-08-01T22:31:00.977-05:00Memphis to MassachusettsIt is Not a time to be silent! <strong>America is a Police-State. <a href="http://www.iraq-war.ru/article/160931">Martin</a>|<a href="http://www.memphisdailynews.com/editorial/Article.aspx?id=43986">Memphis</a>|<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=cQtLQo-dkXgC&lpg=PA133&ots=MC-DrGMFNW&dq=Memphis%2C%20Martin%20%26%20Profiling&pg=PR11#v=onepage&q=&f=false">& Profiling.</a></strong> If you think the system is not edged against us. Consider this, who is next?<div><iframe height="339" width="425" src="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22425001/vp/32227675#32227675" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe><p style="font-size:11px; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #999; margin-top: 5px; background: transparent; text-align: center; width: 425px;">Visit msnbc.com for <a style="text-decoration:none !important; border-bottom: 1px dotted #999 !important; font-weight:normal !important; height: 13px; color:#5799DB !important;" href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com">Breaking News</a>, <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032507" style="text-decoration:none !important; border-bottom: 1px dotted #999 !important; font-weight:normal !important; height: 13px; color:#5799DB !important;">World News</a>, and <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032072" style="text-decoration:none !important; border-bottom: 1px dotted #999 !important; font-weight:normal !important; height: 13px; color:#5799DB !important;">News about the Economy</a></p></div> Police investigating officer-involved shooting<br />July 25, 2009<br /><br />The Louisiana State Police Bureau of Investigations/Alexandria Field Office is investigating a Friday shooting in which a Colfax Police officer fatally shot a man.<br /><br />The shooting happened around 2:45 p.m., according to a State Police release. According to that release, Colfax Police Officer Stephen Merchant witnessed a physical altercation between Harold Phillips, 54, of Colfax, and an unidentified person on Chester Street while on patrol. As Merchant approached the two, Phillips fled on foot.<br /><br />The foot pursuit led Merchant to Ash Street, where a physical altercation occurred between Officer Merchant and Phillips. It was at that time that Merchant shot Phillips, according to the report.<br /><br />The Colfax Police Department requested that the State Police investigate the incident. The Grant Parish Sheriff's Office is assisting in the investigation.<br /><br />Phillips was transported to Rapides Regional Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.<br /><br />The investigation is ongoing and, at the conclusion, the case will be forwarded to the Grant Parish District Attorney's Office.<br />The Town Talk<br /><br /><br />Couple Sues Police Over Dog's Death, Abuse In Raid<br />Yes, this involves cops threatening children with machine guns<br />By JIM NEWELL<br />Updated 6:31 AM EDT, Wed, Jul 29, 2009<br /><br />The Hendersons' story spread like hotcakes in January 2008 after a Howard County SWAT team entered their Columbia home, late at night, brandishing a warrant for a major drug-dealing operation -- for some other home down the street: "a nearby house the police raided later that evening more closely matched the warrant’s description, and contained marijuana, a pair of scales and large sums of money." All they found drug-wise in the Hendersons' home was some pot and a bowl belonging to their house guest, who was immediately arrested for possession. <a href="http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local-beat/Md-Couple-Sues-Police-For-Shooting-Family-Dog-Abusing-Them-In-Drug-Raid.html">Couple Sues</a> <br /><br /><strong>Officers involved in fatal La. shooting resign</strong><br />(AP) – 1 day ago<br /><br />HOMER, La. — Two white police officers involved in the fatal shooting of a 73-year-old black man in northern Louisiana have resigned from the force.<br /><br />The Feb. 20 shooting of Bernard Monroe Sr. sparked protests and at least two investigations.<br /><br />Officer Tim Cox, who shot Monroe in his yard, and Officer Joey Henry, who was present at the time of the shooting, have decided to pursue other employment, said Homer city attorney Jim Colvin.<br /><br />"Tim Cox told me he is moving to St. Tammany Parish and I think will be training canines for police departments," Colvin said. "I don't know what Joey Henry is going to do."<br /><br />Both officers had been on paid administrative leave after the shooting, which is still under investigation by the FBI and state police.<br /><br />"They should have been gone," said Rev. Willie Young, head of the Claiborne Parish NAACP, on Wednesday. "I don't think taxpayers should have been paying their salaries all this time."<br /><br />Monroe, who was mute after losing his larynx to cancer, was cooking on a grill in his yard with relatives and friends when the police officers arrived. In a report to state authorities, Homer police said Cox and Henry chased Monroe's 38-year-old son, Shaun, from a suspected drug deal blocks away to his father's house.<br /><br />Witnesses disputed that account, saying the younger Monroe was talking to his sister-in-law in a truck outside the house when officers arrived.<br /><br />There was a scuffle between the officers and Shaun, in which Shaun was shocked with a Taser. Police said the elder Monroe then pulled a gun on them and Cox fired his weapon. Witnesses claim Bernard Monroe was unarmed as he walked toward his porch.<br /><br />State police said in February that a loaded gun was found on or near Monroe's body. But friends and relatives suggested police planted a gun Monroe owned next to his body.<br /><br />The American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana is studying arrests and traffic citations by Homer police as part of an investigation of racial profiling complaints against the department.<br /><br />Reached by phone on Wednesday, Police Chief Russell Mills refused to comment.<br /><br />Copyright © 2009 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.<div class="blogger-post-footer">The Resistance is On! Over & Out.</div>Joseph LeSieurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00184598229377794888noreply@blogger.com0