Liberty and Justice for All!

State Senator Derrick Shepherd was arrested over the weekend for basically trespassing, battery, and theft. Oyster stole most of my thunder on this issue but missed one point that I brought up on Jeff Crouere’s morning show.

Shepherd was arrested at his residence in Stonebridge. The sheriff’s office said there were two women in the house, one of whom appeared to be performing a lap dance on Shepherd, who was on a sofa.

So let me get this straight. Derrick Shepherd, the man who got national attention on the Colbert Report for drafting the legislation to ban people from having low hanging pants, was getting a lap dance? Nice.

Update:  Well, she lied.  While the irony of his getting a lap dance is still valid, it seems that the woman was upset at Derrick Shepherd and instead of just yelling at him, she decided to make up a story to the police. Things like that really tick me off. I remember reading an ex girlfriends cosmo and they had a story in there about false accusations of rape. One third of the women saw no problem with falsely accusing a man of raping them.

Problems like rape and domestic violence are serious problems that are only made worse when people who are not victims make false accusations against others. It not only threatens the accused with possible jail time, it also makes it that much harder for legitimate victims to get justice. This woman deserves to have the book thrown at her.

Derrick “don’t drop your pants” Shephard is scheduled to be indicted by a grand jury today. I guess if he goes to jail, we may understand why he wanted the ban against pants dropping.

Something about him always rubbed me the wrong way. The icing on the cake (before the indictment) was his “informational handout”, paid for by the taxpayers (allowed by a Louisiana Law that allows legislators to inform everyone on what they have accomplished). He handed it out while campaigning for reelection. THAT should be illegal.

Just sayin…

UPDATE: Betty Jefferson, sister of Congressman Bill Jefferson, has been implicated(according to the T-P) but not indicted in the case. How many more Jeffersons need to be indicted/implicated/or otherwise involved in a crime before the Democratic Party says “just go away”.