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Grand Isle is not a big place. It's an island on the Gulf of Mexico in
Louisiana. Estimated 1,500 full time residents who shrimp and fish and
work in the oil patch, with too many vacation homes (camps) to count.
Sometimes the population will swell to 20,000 during a holiday. The
island is about 8 miles long and connected to the mainland of Louisiana
by a 1/2 mile bridge.
The full time community is rich in Cajun Culture with a people very
independant. It's a very closed culture and there is a tendancy to only
marry another Cajun. Everyone knows everyone else and there are few
real secrets in this community.
August llth, 2005, Grand Isle had a rude awakening from it's parochial
slumber. At 6:30 am it was raided by DEA, State Police, and the
National Giuard. None of the local officials were notified nor brought
in on what was comming down
Fact is, when the local police chief protested he was threatened by the
State Police with arrest if he did not leave within 2 1/2 seconds. The
police cheif ran, took the mayor with him to the next town and a motel
room in another small community some miles up the bayou.
The arrests began at 6:30am in the morning. The group of DEA and State
officers met in front of Artie's Sports Bar in Grand Isle central. None
of the local officials were notified of the event before hand. Even the
two local State Police officers who live here knew anything about the
action going down. The National Guard was represented in the Helicopter
hoovering overhead to detect and locate individuals they could not find
at home.
The net result of the raid was individuals reported to have sold 1
pill, or growing one marijauna plant. ETC: Small stuff. Thier
proclaimed 1 year investigation was conducted by one of the local
natives with the accompaniment of a DEA offricer present. In other
words, the results of the raid were all pretty much small potatoes.
All those arrested. were taken to the Fourchon Port Commission offices
just off the island and in another Parish (county). Present at this
location in control were DEA, State Police, and two National Guard
personnel in riot military gear and armed. No Port Commission or local
law enforcement were present.
At 11 am they were taken to the Gretna holding facility by a Lafourche
Parrish deputy with a van and 2 State vehicles 75 miles away. The van
driver was the only local law enforcement officer present through all
the process.. The court in Gretna was unprepared and the arrested did
not leave for home until 8 pm. Nost were sent home with Personal
Recognizance Bonds. Only one person was actually retained.
What really happened here? Since there was no crossing of
jurisdictional boundaries, it was a local problem. Out of the
Constitutional control by any other jurisdiction. Posse Comitatis was
violated with the presence and participation of the National Guard.
Local officials and jurisdiction was ignored. The tactic of swarming by
law inforcement was utilized.
So, what was accomplished? The arrest of several locals, for offenses
much less than trivial in the amounts and in some cases was base on 1
pill, 1 gram, 1 plant. More ijmportant, the Fed and State managed to
impose itself on the local jurisdiction with the violation of Posse
Comitatus. In total, the constitutional jurisdictions and the rights of
those arrested were ignored. These are the tactics of a POLICE STATE.
I have to question the tactis, but mostly the actual motivation of
those who carried out this raid. Clearly the drugs were not the goal of
those agencies, it was the intimidation of a small community in local
affairs. It was the conditioning of that population to fear those
agencies.and to intimidate them into accepting control by Federal, and
State jurisdictions. The unconstitutional drug laws are being used to
abuse, to wrest control now from local to state and federal
jurisdiction.
Under the Constitution the drug laws are unconstitutional. The actions
by authorities were illegal. And the worst part is this they will be
subjected to a court system that supports the destruction of the
Constitution and local jurisdiction. No doubt the justification for the
State Police and the National Guard and the Federal Drug Enforcement
Agency will be drawn from the "Patriot Acts" in it's war on the
"domestic terrorists". To this government now in power and all it's
agencies, you and I are the domestic terrorists. It's a government
protecting itself from us.
Will the residents of Grand Isle wake up to the significance of what
just happened? Some will. Others won't. Some are happy in their state
of slavery Today, there is just one local individual who seems intent
on doing something about it. Thats all it takes to begin with. Thats
how change begins. One small community, and one individual who
understands the actions of the tyrant.
