Prof. Hardy Parkerson (J.D.)

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The New Police State Terrorism

(August 19, 2005
– by Hardy Parkerson, Attorney)

Take Calcasieu Parish for example. We
start off with about a
thousand full time deputies. Then there is the
Lake Charles City
Police of about three or four hundred. Then
there is the Lake
Charles City Marshal police force of about a
hundred. Then there is
the Louisiana State Police of thousands. Then
there is the United
States Marshal police force. Then there is the
Port of Lake Charles
police force, and the Sowela Tech police force,
and the McNeese
State University Police force.
Also, now we have the Sabine River
Authority police force. Am I
missing any? Oh, yes! There's even the Railroad
Police, even in Lake
Charles, with cop uniforms, badges and guns.
Then there is the
Federal Bureau of Investigation police, not to
mention the I.N.S.
Border Patrol police force and the U.S. Customs
Service police force
which perform run-of-the-mill police operations
traditionally
handled only by local state police forces.
Our Fathers never intended for the Federal Government to
conduct an intrastate-only Criminal Justice System; but
that is what is happening right
now, with the United States Attorney's offices
handling what has traditionally been handled
only by local state
prosecutors and by local state courts.
What's more is that a contingent from each
of most of the
above-named police forces has gotten together
and formed even
another giant police force that they call
a "Task Force" and they
are literally terrorizing the State of
Louisiana. In making what is
a simple arrest of a non-violent defendant, on
a simple drug charge,
they arrive en masse and all pull out guns and
aim them at even
women and children who are not even criminal
suspects.
Further, they depend on the United States
Attorneys' offices to
prosecute the alleged cases that they "make".
Since the state
District Judges refuse to allow some of these
police forces and/or
their leader and/or leaders to "terrorize"
certain portions of
Calcasieu Parish, such as North Lake Charles,
and refuse to allow
the police to dictate whether bond for accused
defendants will even
be allowed, and, if so, how much these bonds
should be set at, these
police forces and/or their leader and/or
leaders have elected to
take their cases not to the local District
Attorneys for
prosecution, but to take them to the United
States attorneys whose offices
are getting bigger and bigger and bigger.
The traditional Louisiana Criminal Justice System is
changing and changing fast. There is more to it all than
this, but this is something to think about.

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