The headlines from Sunday are all too depressing, three Baton Rouge law enforcement officers killed and four injured. The “lone wolf” gunman was killed in the attack. Police are looking for any possible co-conspirators, but I’m afraid they will not look far enough afield and the main perpertrator, the one who stood to gain the most, will walk away unscathed. It doesn’t have to be that way. Oh, for a District Attorney that is packing a pair.
There is a solution and it is one with political precedent. There is a tool, not often used and in fact discouraged by the United States Attorney’s Trial Manual. (Think how to prosecute a case for Dummies) But in this instance, there is the exception to the rule.
The tool is called an unindicted co-conspirator, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unindicted_co-conspirator. I turn to the lazy man’s resource guide, Wikipedia, and this is what it has to say: An unindicted co-conspirator, or unindicted conspirator, is a person or entity that is alleged in an indictment to have engaged in conspiracy, but who is not charged in the same indictment. Prosecutors choose to name persons as unindicted co-conspirators for a variety of reasons including grants of immunity, pragmatic considerations, and evidentiary concerns.
There is a Fifth Circuit decision that says that naming somebody an unindicted co-conspirator is a mean nasty thing to do and prosecutors have enough mean and nasty things they can do that they shouldn’t have to resort to name calling. Okay, I paraphrased a little.
BUT, it’s okay if you do it to a sitting President. Richard Nixon was named as an unindicted co-conspirator during the Watergate grand jury. It seems that everybody agrees a District Attorney can indict a ham sandwich and a sitting President. However, nobody is sure that once indicted, the President can be prosecuted by the District Attorney.
The other alternative is impeachment but that isn’t going to happen. The One could choose to nuke Cleveland on Tuesday and remain impeachment free. The current Congress would characterize such an act as “the worst damn case of suicide they ever saw.”
Throughout his administration Obama has disparraged police officers and law enforcement agencies. He has openly supported terrorist organizations like Black Lives Matter (BLM) in their goal to take extra legal action against police and the communities they serve. He has supported criminals engaged in committing felonies at the time of their death. In the ultimate act of hypocracy he has dispatched drones to kill Americans engaged with Islamic terrorists. His message for domestic consumption and the Islamic terrorists message are advocating the same acts.
I can’t help but think that there is real fear in the black community. The fear is that the whole community will be judged by the people that Obama caters to the drug dealers, convicted felons, welfare frauds, race hustlers, black bigots, and other assorted near do wells. There is no place in Obama’s universe for the black man who works two jobs to provide for his family. Or the black family that goes to church on Sunday and not only believes but tries to put into practice what they learned the rest of the week. Give these people a forum where they can voice how they feel. Obama doesn’t allow conflicting opinions.
This is Louisiana, no other state can do it. Hillar C. Moore III is the District Attorney. He looks to be of an age that he would remember Jim Garrison, just down the road in New Orleans. Here is chance to carry on Garrison’s proud tradition. I am not a lawyer, have never played one on TV and have not stayed in a Holiday Inn Express during this millenium, however it appears the following Louisiana Statutes have been violated by Obama.
- R.S. 14.26 Criminal Conspiracy
- R.S.14.28 Inciting a Felony
- R.S. 14.30.1 Second Degree Murder (in conjunction with #1)
Unindicted Co-conspirator it kinda sings doesn’t it? Let’s try it on:
President Barak Obama, an unindicted co-conspirator in the deaths of three Louisiana police officers ….
The President may be most famous for being an unindicted co-conpirator
He’s the worst President in history. How bad was he? Well you’ve heard the old saying about a District Attorney indicting a ham sandwich? He couldn’t even get that done …. unindicted co-conspirator.