Obama and Congress go after Joe Arpaio

[Duck1968]

When is this going to stop! Now the Justice Department and congress have target Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio a true American hero.
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/local/articles/2009/03/12/20090312Montini0313.html (http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/local/articles/2009/03/12/20090312Montini0313.html)
Brian

[Hellsbane]

Heros exist to be torn down by those envious of their fame. Obama and company can not afford to have someone greater than themselves for the people to look up to and children to aspire to emulate.

[Duck1968]

Enforcing the law is not part of Obama’s agenda.

[kat]

Enforcing the law is not part of Obama’s agenda.

Exactly. Joe represents law and order ........ non negotiable. These thugs seek to destroy him because of it.

[Sneaky SF Dude]

They are going to make him a rock star.

[dirtmonkey]

I came across this which I found rather interesting while trying to wade through the muck:
article dated May 13 2006 (http://www.moonbattery.com/archives/2006/05/profiles_in_cou.html)
The secret of Arpaio's success as Sheriff of Maricopa County (i.e., Greater Phoenix) is that he treats criminals like criminals (http://www.nationalledger.com/artman/publish/article_27265545.shtml), instead of showering them with privileges they do not deserve. Lawbreakers foolish enough to make their way into Arpaio's custody do not have the "right" to smoke, ogle porno magazines, or have fun lifting weights and watching R-rated movies. Instead of loafing in their cells, masturbating and watching TV, they go out and work. So as to avoid being sued for discrimination, Arpaio even started the world's first female chain gang.
Appallingly, a federal court order requires that criminals have a "right" to cable TV in jail (how thoughtful of the Founding Fathers to include that provision in the Constitution). However, in Arpaio's jails, the only channels you'll see are Disney and the Weather Channel, and the latter can't be much solace when it's promising 120-degree heat to thugs on their way out to work in the sun.
But that's not the only entertainment for the inmates. Arpaio treats them to a Newt Gingrich lecture series. When asked if he were going to play lectures by a Democrat, he replied that a Democrat's lectures would explain why they were in jail in the first place.

When the inmates whined after he stopped serving coffee, Sheriff Joe replied:This isn't the Ritz-Carlton. If you don't like it, don't come back.Others complain about his tent city jails. Joe's response:It's 120 degrees in Iraq and our soldiers are living in tents too, and they have to wear full battle gear, but they didn't commit any crimes, so shut your damned mouths!Refreshingly, Arpaio also applies the "treat criminals like criminals" approach to the illegal aliens flooding across the Mexican border. He's put together an old-fashioned posse (http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/local/articles/0512posse0512.html) to patrol the desert southwest of Phoenix for invaders.
Despite Arizona Governor (at that time) Janet "Nappy" Napolitano's use of her veto power (http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/opinions/articles/0420breakout201.html) to prevent any sort of effective defense from the Mexican invasion, Arpaio has found a way to arrest aliens. Smuggling is a felony: Arpaio charges them with smuggling themselves. Instead of turning the illegals over to the Border Patrol for a free ride back to Mexico so they can try again the next day, Arpaio gives them "a free ride into the county jail."begin tag

gasp... you mean he actually treats criminals like criminals?
egads, we can't have a member of law enforcement actually do their job.
He should be strung up for interfering with the "liberal voters" streaming across our borders.

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Now all of a sudden it's considered "unpatriotic" to treat criminals like criminals.
Oh wait, I get it... He used the term "criminal".
We certainly can't have a law enforcement official use that term "criminal" now can we?
It might hurt the criminal's feelings.

-blech ~ :wall:

[EnchantedFrog]

More sheriffs should put their prisoners in tents, make them watch the Disney Channel, dress them in pink jumpsuits, and feed them bologna sandwiches. That's a hell of a lot better than giving them free college, gymnasiums, and air conditioning.

[kwallace48]

Remember when they picked barabas over jesus. They picked a murderer over jesus to set free. Well i think that this administration wants to do the same, lets let the criminal go and persecute the law abiding.

[MrDuffy]

More sheriffs should put their prisoners in tents, make them watch the Disney Channel, dress them in pink jumpsuits, and feed them bologna sandwiches. That's a hell of a lot better than giving them free college, gymnasiums, and air conditioning.
I had read he only let them watch C-Span.
Hmm.

[MrDuffy]

Having communicated with Sheriff Arpaio several times in the past, he knows he doesn't even need to contact me for my support.
Phone calls, emails, and letter writing are tools we can all use to flood offices with our cause.
Check out your elected officials on their web sites and contact not only your's but every one else's too.
Raise the dickens with newspapers too. Most of them have contact information.
Join the cause and help remove the lunatics who are running the asylum.