Jeff Landry, the attorney general for the banana republic of Louisiana, could find no wrongdoing with a Baton Rouge police officer gunning down Alton Sterling in the parking lot of the Triple S Food Mart, writes Business Report Executive Editor JR Ball in his latest column.
Landry also argues—strongly—that he has no authority to investigate undeniable sexual abuse in Catholic churches across the state, Ball writes.
“But what he can do is climb atop a GOP elephant and scream for Donald Trump’s federal government to pursue anti-trust allegations against Google, Facebook and a bevy of other social media sites,” Ball writes. “Their crime? Suppressing the conservative agenda.”
“Never missing the chance to utter a catchy, media-grapping quip for the red state folks back home,” Ball continues. “John Kennedy—Louisiana’s junior senator, Landry’s semi-big brother and a soon-to-be gubernatorial candidate—is in full support of the move.”
But, Ball asks, how do we know Facebook, Google and other social media sites are part of a vast #fakenews, left-wing conspiracy? Because Trump said so to his more than 54.5 million followers on Twitter.
“So, let’s take stock,” he says.
Our attorney general sees no reason for a trial or even a grand jury when a guy—described as “borderline nuts” by one of his police superiors—unnecessarily escalates a situation to the point of needlessly killing someone, but he wants an all-out legal assault on Mark Zuckerberg’s supposedly discriminating algorithms.
Louisiana’s top law enforcement official also says his hands are tied when it comes to pursuing pedophile priests preying on Louisiana children, but fingers of condemnation fly freely in his quest to bust up the Alphabet.Â
Ball goes on to write that another passion of Landry’s is eradicating an edict from the federal government under Barack Obama that protects citizens of this state with pre-existing conditions from losing health insurance.
“Who knew the guy was such a strict constitutionalist?” Ball asks.
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