Re: PHONY LOUISIANA GOVERNMENT

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On 8/20/05, Hardy Parkerson, Atty. wrote:
> Dear D.C. Attorney,
>
> Very weak! First of all she's a woman. Her husband is a
> football coach who really runs the state. The first
> significant thing she did was to go down to Cuba and kiss the
> feet of Cuban Communist Murderous Dictator Fidel Castro. The
> officials of the Lake Charles Harbor and Terminal District
> (Port of Lake Charles) did the same thing. Secondly, during
> her first session of the Louisiana legislature, she did
> nothing to stop the passage of hundreds and hundreds of new
> laws. In Louisiana we live in an ocean of laws. You have heard
> it said that there are too many lawyers. Not in Louisiana! In
> Louisiana there are not enough. Everything in Louisiana,
> everything, has to do with law. Almost everyone, everyone,
> has a serious legal problem. Our school students are taught
> that in Louisiana we have Napoleonic Law. Nothing could be
> further from the truth. We used to have Napoleonic Law, but
> not any longer. Napoleon said that since every man was
> presumed to know the law, and that since ignorance of the law
> was no excuse for violation of the law (IGNORANTIA NON EXCUSIT
> LEGIS). that there should be no more laws than would fit in a
> one-volume code that would fit in a woman's purse or a man's
> hip pocket. Thus his lawgivers gave him the CODE NAPOLEON,
> which Louisiana adopted as its own and which served us well
> for over two hundred years until the Louisiana Law Explosion
> of recent years. The very idea of a CODEX is that it is a one
> volume tome. Now our so-called LOUISIANA CIVIL CODE, even the
> Thompson-West edition, is two large volumes consisting of
> about two thousand pages and weighing about ten pounds, if not
> more. Instead of being governed by clearly stated principles
> of law contained in a one volume CODEX, we are now governed by
> what has become the "Louisiana Common Law", and by at least a
> hundred thousand black-letter separately indexed and numbered
> statutes, some of which are pages and pages long. The drivers
> license law alone is about sixty-one double columned pages
> that only a termite could read without manigfying glass. In
> Louisiana we now live in an ocean of laws. What we were once
> proud of in Louisiana as the CODE MORROW, or the Louisiana
> Criminal Code, a short, clear, terse and succinct statement of
> definitions of criminal offenses and short rules of criminal
> statutory interpretation, has now become another West-Thompson
> monstrosity of a volume of about a thousand pages,if not more;
> and again, it now contains the definitions of so many recently
> adopted stated criminal offenses that almost every man, woman
> and child in Louisiana is guilty of having committed some
> criminal offense; and Louisiana leads the Nation in having the
> largest number of prior convicted felons than any other state
> in the Union; and the same applies to it's prison population.
> Lousisian has upwards of ten large state prisons, if not
> more. I have also read that Louisiana has more persons
> imprisoned in its state prisions, per capita, than any other
> state in the nation, or even any other nation in the world.
> The prison industry is probably one of the largest, if not the
> largest, industires in the state of Louisiana. It is so large
> that corporations listed on the New York Stock Exchange have
> gone to running large prisons for the state of Louisiana.
> Recently when a large "river-boat" gambling casino named
> Pinochel Pinoche Casino opened its "L'Auberge" casino, hotel
> golf course and $1,000 a day Villas, it had to delay its
> scheduled opening for several weeks because it could not find
> the necessary employees to staff its operations, since there
> were so many Louisianians that had felonies against them, that
> it had to go out of state, and even out of the United States
> to find the necessary employees so that it could opoen. Also,
> the state universities, like the local McNeese State
> university, have made an unholy alliance with Organized
> Gambling and seek to derive every penney they can from the
> Organized Gambling Industry; and, the local university is even
> at the present moment advertising about a large "Texas Hold-
> 'Em" Poker Tournament to be held locally very soon and from
> which McNeese University expects to receive thousands of
> dollars for improvements to its Jack Doland Field House. The
> late, great McNeese Football Coach, University President and
> Louisiana State Senator Jack Doland would roll over in his
> grave if he knew that his name and the name of his family were
> being being associated and advertised publicly with such an
> unwholesome activity. When gambling was approved by the
> Legislature in Louisiana, the people were assured that it
> would be very, very regulated and conducted only on Casino
> river boats plying the lakes and rivers of Louisiana. Now
> there are Poker Machine gambling casinos with up to fifty
> poker machines at almost every truck stop in Louisiana, and
> almost every restaurant in the state has a gambling room with
> three video poker machines; and one restaurant building here
> in Lake Charles has been converted from a single restaurant
> into a three-business gambling operation consisting of a
> restaurant with one name and a three video poker machine
> gambling room, a Daiquiri Shop with a three video poker
> machine gambling room, and a traditional bar-room with its
> three video poker gambling room, all in one relatively small
> building under one roof on one street corner in Lake Charles;
> all three gambling-type businesses are owned by the same rich
> gambling tycoon. Gambling has taken over in Louisiana. It is
> really a state not fit for a child to grow up in. It is
> quickly becoming a police state, if there ever was one. The
> Louisiana State Bar Association thinks so little of Louisiana
> that it has not held but one of its Annual Conventions in
> Louisiana in the last forty years, since I became a lawyer.
> The Louisiana District Attorney's Association won't even hold
> its Annual Convention in Louisiana, but takes it out of
> state. A lot of that is because there are over five-hundred
> unsolved murders on the books, most of them happening to out
> of state tourists, many many of these having happened to
> tourists in the New Orleans French Quarter. There is more to
> it all than this, but this is something to think about. I am
> considering very seriously running for governor so that I can
> straighten this state and its crazy legal, educational,
> medical and criminal "justice" ystems out. Louisiana's
> educational system, both elementary and secondary, as well as
> higher educational systems, always rank the lowest in
> traditional national rankings, all except its L.S.U. Football
> team. Further, the health-care system in Louisiana is
> deplorable. I will talk more about that later. Well, you
> asked, so you got the answer. Althouth the the little lady
> governor is doing here best, apparently she just does not have
> what it takes to run a whole state, not even with her foot-
> ball coach husband to tell her what to do. Thanks for your
> concern!
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Hardy Parkerson, Atty.
> Ronald Reagan Democrat
> (Possible Candidate for Governor - 2007)
>
>
> D.C. Attorney wrote:
>
>> Hi Hardy,
>>
>> What do you think of the new governor down there?
>>
>> DC
>>
>> On 8/18/05, Hardy Parkerson, Atty. wrote:
>
>>> In Louisiana, to sell legalized gambling to the populace,
>>> the legislature passed a law that said the only casino-
>>> type gambling would be on riverboats, as if to say that
>>> casino gambling would not pollute the towns, but would be
>>> out on the rivers during on boats under way on river
>>> cruises. And that is the way it started. Then they passed
>>> a law that said that the river boats could stay dockside
>>> while casino gambling took place aboard. But what has
>>> developed lately is a phony operation by some casinos,
>>> such as Pinochle Casino (L'Auberge) in Lake Charles
>>> whereby the so-called "river-boat" sits in a cement pond
>>> on land near the river; and it could not be taken for a
>>> cruise up or down the river if L'Auberge wanted to. How
>>> phony! How phony of the corrupt Louisiana elected
>>> officals and governmentleaders!
>>>
>>> Also, the Lake Charles Harbor and Terminal District (Port
>>> of Lake Charles), paid for with tax-payer dollars, and
>>> which was established by early Louisiana leaders to
>>> promote maritime commerce, has sold out to Organized
>>> Gambling and now the large Pinochle (L'Auberge) Casino,
>>> Golf Course, Hotel and Thouand-Dollar-A Day villas occupy
>>> the land bought and paid for and owned by the taxpayers.
>>>
>>> Again, how phony!
>>>
>>> Sincerely,
>>>
>>> Hardy Parkeson, Attorney
>>> Lake Charles, LA
>>>