Submit, Citizens

Submit, Citizens

by digby















Look for more of this under the new Law and Order Regime:
The state's new "Blue Lives Matter" law is already being used here in Acadiana. In the last year, Louisiana became the first state to offer hate crime protections to police officers.

St. Martinville Police Chief Calder Hebert hopes the law will not only save lives, but make offenders think twice before resisting arrest.

"We don't need the general public being murdered for no reason and we don't need officers being murdered for no reason. We all need to just work together," said Hebert.

Hebert is very familiar with the new hate crime law, having already enforced it since it took effect in August.

"Resisting an officer or battery of a police officer was just that charge, simply. But now, Governor Edwards, in the legislation, made it a hate crime now," said Hebert.

Under the new law, Hebert says any offender who resists, or gets physical, with an officer can be charged with a felony hate crime.

For example, if someone who's arrested for petty theft, a misdemeanor, tries to assault an officer, that individual can be charged with a hate crime. A hate crime is considered a much more serious offense, with serious consequences.

That's right, citizens. It's not enough that they can taser you into total submission if you have the nerve to pop off at a cop,  in Louisiana you now risk being charged with a hate crime for any kind of resistance.

You must immediately submit to the authority of the government in all cases. Do not speak, do not resist. You WILL be arrested at the whim of any police officer and go to jail. Then later, maybe, if you can afford a lawyer, you will allowed to speak out for your freedom. But be sure to be very polite about it or you will be held in contempt by the justice system.

This is what we call freedom and liberty.

I have a sneaking suspicion that when this happens to some white people they will rethink it. But who knows? There is a strong strain of authoritarianism in our culture and they are yearning to let the police off the leash and knock some heads. And every last one of them heard Donald Trump promise to do just that. In fact, I believe that is the fundamental reason they love him so much.

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