Joe Arpaio does not disguise what he thinks. He thinks dark skinned Hispanic immigrants are criminals and threaten White America.
And he says he's the toughest sheriff in America, and he bought himself a tank and painted flames on it just to show that off.
He rounds up people, claps them in handcuffs for the crime of looking suspiciously Hispanic, which in a border state like Arizona, means his police are kept busy.
He is a hero to the White supremacists because their greatest fear is non white immigration. People like Kris Kobach of Kansas have figured this out, and he panders to those quaking voters by agreeing with callers to radio shows who imagine the coming "ethnic cleansing" once Hispanics arrive in sufficient numbers to wipe out the Whites the way the Whites wiped out the Indians.
I had a secretary once who was a very smart woman, who learned our computer system quickly and did the job of three people, so she was an asset. But she was a big fan of Joe Arpaio. She had grown up in a desperate hollow in West Virginia and never got past the third grade and lost all her teeth by age 50. Her husband could never keep a decent job, but would scrounge a job here and there delivering flowers. When he found out about the retirement money I had put into an account for her, he drained that account to buy himself a new pick up truck.
That didn't bother her though. What bothered her was the Spanish speaking teenagers who worked at the McDonalds who would laugh and chat in Spanish with customers and then switch back to English to take her order.
"I don't even feel like I'm in America any more," she said. "Can't understand what half the people in that McDonalds are saying."
A Chinese family moved in the rental house next door to her rental house and they gutted fish in their back yard and then cooked the fish on a wok. That disgusted her.
"But didn't men gut deer in West Virginia?" I asked her.
"Yeah, sure, but they didn't squat down in their back yards like they wanted to poop and jabber in Chinese."
What really bothered her, I think, is that she had finally got a well paying job, felt secure economically, bought a new car every 3 years, but she found herself living with people who were just starting out in this country, and that made her feel she had not made any real progress in life. "Moving on up," had not happened for her.
She was still living among people who were on the first step of the ladder in America.
The courts told President Snowflake he couldn't just bar a class of people at the airports. The court held Joe Arpaio in contempt for continuing to imprison people for being Hispanic. Well, Snowflake could do something about that court--he just over rode the court's action with a pardon.
Checks and balances.
From Wikipedia:
And he says he's the toughest sheriff in America, and he bought himself a tank and painted flames on it just to show that off.
He rounds up people, claps them in handcuffs for the crime of looking suspiciously Hispanic, which in a border state like Arizona, means his police are kept busy.
He is a hero to the White supremacists because their greatest fear is non white immigration. People like Kris Kobach of Kansas have figured this out, and he panders to those quaking voters by agreeing with callers to radio shows who imagine the coming "ethnic cleansing" once Hispanics arrive in sufficient numbers to wipe out the Whites the way the Whites wiped out the Indians.
I had a secretary once who was a very smart woman, who learned our computer system quickly and did the job of three people, so she was an asset. But she was a big fan of Joe Arpaio. She had grown up in a desperate hollow in West Virginia and never got past the third grade and lost all her teeth by age 50. Her husband could never keep a decent job, but would scrounge a job here and there delivering flowers. When he found out about the retirement money I had put into an account for her, he drained that account to buy himself a new pick up truck.
That didn't bother her though. What bothered her was the Spanish speaking teenagers who worked at the McDonalds who would laugh and chat in Spanish with customers and then switch back to English to take her order.
"I don't even feel like I'm in America any more," she said. "Can't understand what half the people in that McDonalds are saying."
A Chinese family moved in the rental house next door to her rental house and they gutted fish in their back yard and then cooked the fish on a wok. That disgusted her.
"But didn't men gut deer in West Virginia?" I asked her.
"Yeah, sure, but they didn't squat down in their back yards like they wanted to poop and jabber in Chinese."
What really bothered her, I think, is that she had finally got a well paying job, felt secure economically, bought a new car every 3 years, but she found herself living with people who were just starting out in this country, and that made her feel she had not made any real progress in life. "Moving on up," had not happened for her.
She was still living among people who were on the first step of the ladder in America.
Checks and balances.
From Wikipedia:
On July 2, 2011, when the temperature in Phoenix hit 118 °F (48 °C), Arpaio measured the temperature inside Tent City tents at 145 °F (63 °C). Some inmates complained that fans near their beds were not working, and that their shoes were melting from the heat.[47] During the summer of 2003, when outside temperatures exceeded 110 °F (43 °C), Arpaio said to complaining inmates, "It's 120 degrees in Iraq and the soldiers are living in tents and they didn't commit any crimes, so shut your mouths!"[48]
In 1997, Amnesty International said Arpaio's tent city jail was not an "adequate or humane alternative to housing inmates in suitable ... jail facilities."[49] Tent City was criticized by groups contending that there were violations of human and constitutional rights.[50]
Arpaio stated he reserved the punishment of living in Tent City "for those who have been convicted."[51][52] In April 2017, it was announced by newly elected Sheriff Paul Penzone that the jail would be shut down.[53]
Volunteer chain gangs
In 1995, Arpaio reinstituted chain gangs. In 1996, he expanded the chain gang concept by instituting female volunteer chain gangs.[54] Female inmates worked seven hours a day (7 a.m. to 2 p.m.), six days a week. He also instituted the world's first all-juvenile volunteer chain gang; volunteers earned high school credit toward a diploma.[55]
Pink underwear
One of Arpaio's public relations actions was the requirement that inmates wear pink underwear in order to prevent its theft by the released inmates. He claimed this saved the county $70,000 in the first year the rule was in effect.[56] Arpaio subsequently started to sell customized pink boxers (with the Maricopa County Sheriff's logo and "Go Joe") as a fund-raiser for Sheriff's Posse Association. Despite allegations of misuse of funds received from these sales, Arpaio declined to provide an accounting for the money.[57]
Arpaio's success in gaining press coverage with the pink underwear resulted in his extending the use of the color. He introduced pink handcuffs, using the event to promote his book, Sheriff Joe Arpaio, America's Toughest Sheriff.[58] Arpaio has said "I can get elected on pink underwear... I've done it five times."[59][60]
Selective Service registration
In 2004, Arpaio ordered all undocumented immigrants currently in jail to register for the Selective Service System.[61]
Mad Dog,
ReplyDeleteI believe the good sheriff has many of the traits that were present in Nazi guards and officers-a proclivity for meanness and cruelty. It's so apparent that Arpaio is nothing more than a vicious cur,empowered by his position, that even Ryan had to finally speak out. Not particularly surprising that the nut in the oval office deems Arpaio a real "patriot"..Two bullies cut from the same cloth..
Maud
M,
ReplyDeleteThe cur should be the poster child for the Left--this is who they are, Trump, Arpaio, and all who travel with them. But who on the Left is there to say this?
Maud for Congress!
Mad Dog