Dear Liberty Dispatch, you have got to be kidding....

LOGAN PICKETT AND JOHN JOSLIN

You people are only touching the tip of the iceberg when you point to the problems our young smirking district attorney could cause this county. One example of the kind of thing Mr. Logan Pickett has done that is related to your current posting is providing aid to someone in a similar circumstance. Mr. Pickett's use of his position  to take advantage of women will always give him something in common with some that come before our courts, but he also has something in common with anyone that commits what your last post called "official oppression".

Mr. Pickett used the power voters gave him to give a free pass to Constable John Joslin after a Grand Jury made up of Liberty County taxpayers indicted him for repeatedly sexually harassing a female working in Liberty County law enforcement. He tried to bypass the system by using the power and connections of the district attorney and it worked. John Joslin must have been on cloud nine. Joslin is a slippery snake and as many remember not that long ago he managed somehow to get out of a situation where had had posed as an official. even though he made the Houston news and embarrassed Liberty County, he escaped the consequences and kept his right to run for office. This more recent sexual harassment case looked like his Waterloo until Mr. Pickett saved his butt.

But Mr. Pickett's powers and his connections can only abuse the system for so long. John Joslin do what he does for only so long. How long?

Only as long as Liberty County citizens allow it. And Joslin was indicted again by our neighbors serving on the Grand Jury.

Mr.Pickett and Mr. Joslin have very little they can say to defend their behavior. they can say it is what they do in their private life and nobody else's business. But that has not worked well. So now they have to blame their actions on politics. "it is election time," you might hear the few defenders they have say. They can both say this but one Grand Jury has already reviewed evidence and they have shattered that excuse. That excuse shows how much they disregard, not just the law, but the lives of women.

Official oppression needs to stop in this county and public officials need to be certain that not only does it have to end, but those who believe they can lie their way out of the consequences of their behavior will be fired at the ballot box and their will be hell to pay beyond that.

LD Watcher and Supporter