What's a Mother to Do? Part Two: Saving Sheriff Joe
Mother’s Problem Number Two: Saving Sheriff Joe
For those unacquainted with Sheriff Joe, i.e., Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, Arizona, he’s the law enforcement official most hated by the Mexican drug cartels who have put a million dollar bounty on his head because he’s afflicted with an odd quirk: He insists on doing his job and enforcing the immigration laws of the State of Arizona and the United States of America.
Sheriff Joe is also the law enforcement official most hated by the Obama administration and Eric Holder’s Justice Department who haven’t, as yet, put a bounty on his head and instead harass and threaten him for the same reason, his odd quirk about doing his job and enforcing the immigration laws of the State of Arizona and the United States of America.
It’s as presumptuous of me to suggest saving the tough and independent Sheriff Joe as it is for the DOJ to suggest he cease and desist from repeatedly rounding up Mexican and other illegal aliens in his state and incarcerating them in his tent prison. There they are decked out in pretty pink garb, served adequate but far from sumptuous meals, and expected to behave as prisoners, not as indulged guests of the state.
It’s presumptuous but I’ll do it anyway.
Long a burr under the saddles of everyone from the ACLU to La Raza to every other illegal alien rights group in the nation, Sheriff Joe, the self-described “America’s toughest sheriff,” was issued a second ultimatum last week insisting he “comply with a Justice Department request to explain his office’s ‘operations, policies and procedures’ involving the arrest and detention of Hispanics.” . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1877)
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Thursday, September 2, 2010
Sunday, April 4, 2010
You Go, Sheriff Joe! Part Two
You Go, Sheriff Joe! Part Two
. . . They also don’t appreciate his brand of law enforcement, not mollycoddling the thousands of illegals and other miscreants he rounds up and incarcerates and treats like prisoners rather than as wards of the state to be indulged and entertained.
He dresses his prisoners in shocking pink underwear to soothe them, feeds them spare prison fare–two fifteen cent meals a day without salt and pepper– plays Sinatra and opera on his in-house radio station, houses some in tents, and has used all-female and all-youth chain gangs.
Most recently he has come up with a unique idea which will no doubt infuriate Amnesty International and the American Civil Liberties Union which already oppose his tactics.
The idea could be summarized as, “You wanna watch, you gotta pedal,” meaning that any prisoners who want to watch more television must pedal exercise bikes to generate the electricity needed to power their tvs: http://bit.ly/cxSyXB
Under his pedaling policy, Maricopa inmates . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1613)
. . . They also don’t appreciate his brand of law enforcement, not mollycoddling the thousands of illegals and other miscreants he rounds up and incarcerates and treats like prisoners rather than as wards of the state to be indulged and entertained.
He dresses his prisoners in shocking pink underwear to soothe them, feeds them spare prison fare–two fifteen cent meals a day without salt and pepper– plays Sinatra and opera on his in-house radio station, houses some in tents, and has used all-female and all-youth chain gangs.
Most recently he has come up with a unique idea which will no doubt infuriate Amnesty International and the American Civil Liberties Union which already oppose his tactics.
The idea could be summarized as, “You wanna watch, you gotta pedal,” meaning that any prisoners who want to watch more television must pedal exercise bikes to generate the electricity needed to power their tvs: http://bit.ly/cxSyXB
Under his pedaling policy, Maricopa inmates . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1613)
Friday, October 9, 2009
You Go, Sheriff Joe!
You Go, Sheriff Joe!
Seldom does a local official have the testicular fortitude to stand up to the federal government when that government is acting wrongly.
Even more rarely does a local sheriff dare confront the feds when those feds blatantly and consistently fail to enforce federal laws and oppose the enforcement of Arizona laws passed to compensate for that failure.
Then, again, Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Arizona’s Maricopa County is a rara avis and not your typical local official.
Embattled and harassed for years over his penchant for law enforcement and his refusal to cave to Washington’s blind eye toward illegal immigration, Sheriff Joe also refuses to mollycoddle convicted felons.
He opts to treat them as what they are, namely convicted felons not entitled to kid gloves in his jail.
He once took flak for decking out his prisoners in pink. The soothing color may have offended the dignity of his inmates but served its purpose of soothing their tempers.
Ya got a problem with all that? So, too, does the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency which lauds itself as “a component of the Department of Homeland Security. . . whose mission is to protect national security by enforcing our nation’s customs and immigration laws.”
Nice, concise mission statement, ICE! Too bad you don’t abide by it and choose to ignore the massive influx of illegal aliens who for years have been flooding across America’s southern border and wreaking havoc on the populace with their guns and drugs.
Sheriff Joe is merely picking up your slack and doing what ICE is supposed to do.
“America’s toughest sheriff” has been the subject of a number of encomia on this blog, including, “Sheriff Joe Arpaio and His Enemies,” http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=885, et al. and he’s under attack once again.
His offense? The same ol’, same ol’, i.e., doing his job to the best of his ability.
That embarrasses the Powers-that-Be . . .
(Read the rest at http://genelalor.com)
Seldom does a local official have the testicular fortitude to stand up to the federal government when that government is acting wrongly.
Even more rarely does a local sheriff dare confront the feds when those feds blatantly and consistently fail to enforce federal laws and oppose the enforcement of Arizona laws passed to compensate for that failure.
Then, again, Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Arizona’s Maricopa County is a rara avis and not your typical local official.
Embattled and harassed for years over his penchant for law enforcement and his refusal to cave to Washington’s blind eye toward illegal immigration, Sheriff Joe also refuses to mollycoddle convicted felons.
He opts to treat them as what they are, namely convicted felons not entitled to kid gloves in his jail.
He once took flak for decking out his prisoners in pink. The soothing color may have offended the dignity of his inmates but served its purpose of soothing their tempers.
Ya got a problem with all that? So, too, does the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency which lauds itself as “a component of the Department of Homeland Security. . . whose mission is to protect national security by enforcing our nation’s customs and immigration laws.”
Nice, concise mission statement, ICE! Too bad you don’t abide by it and choose to ignore the massive influx of illegal aliens who for years have been flooding across America’s southern border and wreaking havoc on the populace with their guns and drugs.
Sheriff Joe is merely picking up your slack and doing what ICE is supposed to do.
“America’s toughest sheriff” has been the subject of a number of encomia on this blog, including, “Sheriff Joe Arpaio and His Enemies,” http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=885, et al. and he’s under attack once again.
His offense? The same ol’, same ol’, i.e., doing his job to the best of his ability.
That embarrasses the Powers-that-Be . . .
(Read the rest at http://genelalor.com)
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