Willacy District Attorney Juan Angel "Johnny" Guerra is living, breathing, proof that there is no shortage of idiots. The question that needs to be answered is how he succeeded in getting a majority of county grand jury members to indict the vice president of the United States, a former attorney general of the United States, a sitting state senator, two district judges and other respected individuals on criminal charges. Didn't the grand jury members realize that this lamebrain attorney will be out of office in January and that the courts will throw these ridiculous charges out? There isn't a snowball's chance in hell that any of these individuals will be found guilty of anything having to do with a fight between inmates at the Wackenhut prison facility in Raymondville and neglect of illegal aliens. There are only four possible excuses for the indictments the grand jury is said to have returned.

(1) The signature of the assistant grand jury foreman was forged by someone in Guerra's office.

(2) Juan Guerra has finally gone completely crazy (Judge Lopez should order him held for a sanity hearing).

(3) Juan Guerra is well known for using the law to get even with his political enemies. Maybe that's what this is all about.

(4) Juan Guerra is spending a lot of time on the West Coast according to rumors, trying to put together a TV series or movie to be known as "Angel's Law."

Maybe he believes indicting vice-president Dick Cheney will be just crazy enough to get him the publicity he needs to promote his acting career. In any case, this guy has made Willacy County a laughing stock across the state of Texas and now, across the nation and maybe even the world.

Who can forget his carnival in front of the sheriff's office and his menagerie of farm animals? Juan Guerra has caused this county to spend an estimated $1 million to defend public officials he wrongly accused of crime, including the police chief, sheriff's investigator, and the special prosecutors hired to look into his questionable dealings while in office. We were hoping he would leave town quietly but that may be too much to ask.