Re: PHONY LOUISIANA GOVERNMENT

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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
>>