Question: What does throwing kids in jail with adults have to do with taxes?

Answer: Nothing.

Question: Do you know that state legislators are in a special tax session right now?

Answer: Who doesn’t?

Question: And that they’re debating amending the state constitution so they can expand the crimes kids can be charged with as adults?

Answer: WTF?

Question: Exactly. What are your thoughts on kids and adults commingling in prison?

Answer: I don’t think adults want to be bothered with kids like that.

Question: Do you think proposing to throw kids in jail with adults carries the threat of abuse?

Answer: Yes. And I think that is the point.

Question: To use it as a deterrent?

Answer: Yep. And at the expense of some inmate possibly catching an additional charge.

Question: This is the Third Extraordinary Session Governor Landry has called this year.

Answer: That’s not a question.

Question: He doesn’t strike you as a bit dramatic?

Answer: Who? The Governor? No. He strikes me as strategic.

Question: Murder, rape, robbery, burglary, kidnapping, and associated attempts?

Answer: I don’t follow.

Question: Can you think of any other crimes Governor Landry would want to charge kids with as adults?

Answer: Whistling at white women?

Question: What do you think will happen if SB2, the bill to amend the constitution, makes it out of this session?

Answer: I think we’ll be voting on the amendment in March. And if it passes, legislators will be submitting crime bills for the yearly legislative session in April.

Question: Do you think proposing a crime bill in the middle of what was supposed to be a special session on taxes violates the public’s trust?

Answer: As in does it constitute sneaking a bill through and depriving citizens of voicing their opinion on how they’d like their kids’ lives to be governed? That would be a yes.

Question: What actions can we take?

Answer: We can call our state Reps and Senators and let them know we want nothing to do with this.

Question: And if that fails?

Answer: We can reject it by voting it down when it appears on the ballot .

Question: Did you know that  Governor Landry was just at the Metropolitan Crime Commission’s yearly luncheon celebrating the fact that crime rates are going down?

Answer: Yep. And here he is proposing harsher penalties.

All We Need To Do Is Throw More People In Jail

Question: Do you think Governor Landry ultimately wants what’s best for our kids?

Answer: I think Governor Landry had a live tiger sedated, caged, and rolled out onto the field at Tiger Stadium before a LSU game.

Question: And?

Answer:  I think Governor Landry wants to treat our kids like tigers and lock them in cages.

Question: Strategic?

Answer: Yes. Exactly.