And They Ask Why I Don’t Donate to the Fraternal Order of Police…

Yeah, but like everything else Joe Arpaio says, his immigration stance is a lie. If he and Andy wanted to curb illegal immigration in Phoenix they would crack down on employers; but he won't because the constituents that vote for him- the blue-hairs and the wanna-be yuppie house flippers- are the ones hiring them for bullshit landscaping and day labor jobs.

Arpaio's going down to Home Depot anyway, it would be just as easy and vastly more effective to lock up Johnny Granite-countertop when he drives up his leased F-250 to pick up the illegals as it would to lock up the illegals. Same thing with the blue-hairs, they bitch and complain when they have to go to McDonald's and point to the menu because the cashier doesn't speak English and they go vote for Joe to lock up the Mexicans instead of the franchise owner who hired them. They don't make that cognitive leap and realize that for every illegal you lock up, you create a job opening for the millions more you missed. Lock up the owner, and put the fear of prison into the other owners, and with no jobs they have no reason to come.

Incidentally, that's my only beef with the illegals- I like Mexicans; grew up with them. I speak the language, dated the women, dance to the music and love the food.

I just don't like 'scabs'- in the old 'union wars' sense. They've taken a whole class of jobs that used to be 'entry points' to the job market; food service, cleaning, warehouse, construction- instead of it being done by a high-schooler, there's a thirty-five year old mother-of-four making it a career. No more jobs for seniors, or the handicapped- they're being done by illegals.

The current situation victimizes the taxpayer who has to pay for their social services, the citizens who suffer from their property and drug crimes, and last but not least the Mexicans themselves! They're treated like second-class citizens, and paid less than the minimum wage in most cases. All of these "immigration rights" idiots are as dumb as Arpaio because what they want is for companies to continue to be allowed to pay people less than a living wage on the basis of their national origin. Employing illegal aliens or advocating their employment is outright racism and exploitation.

Nicely done again, JW!

I looked into Arpaio's record and his interviews. I can appreciate his hard stance on immigration, since no other politician has the audacity to stand firm on it. However, putting them in prison is not the answer since Arizona taxpayers pay for it. What about turning them over to the Border Patrol (or whatever they want to be called now, Customs & Border Protection)?

People like him should be shamed like Rev. Jeremiah Wright for his radical views, and disservice he has laid on the backs of taxpayers. I question his claim that imprisonment has reduced the number of illegal aliens.

I freely admit, I don't know the answer. Illegal immigration is a very divisive subject for the constituents in Arizona (54% Hispanic/Latino), but I do know that jail isn't the answer.

~Joe

Oh I almost forgot the 16 million dollars he's cost Maricopa taxpayers in wrongful-death settlements *alone,* over and above the $250,000 over budget he's gone each and every month in this fiscal year.

Well hopefully they didn't burn anyone's house down this time. Arpaio has next to no legal risk as long as he's got his boy Andy Thomas as the County Prosecutor- you know, the terrible little man who edits his own Wikipedia entry and who once prosecuted a 16-year old boy (seeking a NINETY year sentence- without parole) for showing a Playboy to some of his classmates. Oh, he was arrested in an early morning tactical raid and his family held at gunpoint; the family would go on to spend over $250,000 in legal fees and even when the child porn charges were thrown out he *still* tried to get the boy listed as a sex offender. http://www.abcnews.go.com/2020/print?id=2791529 . He spent $2 million of taxpayer money on TV commercials about himself. Not campaign commercials, just pointless self-promotion commercials. He had a "crime-prevention book" published, which was also largely self-promotion and included portraits of himself in it... the list goes on and on.

The prostitution debacle resulted in most of the 70 arrests thrown out due to the gross misbehavior of the deputies- conduct for which Arpaio is wholly responsible as the Sheriff. You've really got to try to get a case thrown out when you're in bed with the prosecutor and most of the judges.

He's impossible to get rid of because middle/upper class white people retire and then move to Maricopa County from all over the country and that is the demographic that votes in this worthless state. Those voters absolutely love Smokin' Joe. They can't get enough of his tough-on-crime grandstanding and his anti-immigrant bluster. My mom worked at a bank, and whenever the subject of Arpaio would come up, the blue-haired transplants universally went on and on about how much they loved him. Any criticism of him in the newspapers was merely "Mexicans playing the race card" or "liberal media mudslinging."

Here are some videos of choice Arpaio quotes- he loves him some TV cameras: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFTUQ71Aq0o&... "It's an honor to be compared to the KKK"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0oqik88NYk&... "I will lock up victims of human smuggling." "Everybody wants me to run for president." Note the classy gun-shaped tie tack.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQWgU12khwQ&... "I put women on chain gangs, and I'll be putting juveniles on chain gangs in a month or two... they like being on chain gangs." "I spend $0.40 day on inmates, and $1.50 on dogs, the dogs get air conditioning." Same tie tack (and tie) as the previous video.

Here's a pretty inclusive timeline of Arpaio shenanigans: http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/1102arpa...

Nice comment, Junkyard!

Re: Whoremongering...
At least the cop got one prostitute off the street as she finished him off. I can only imagine the legal risk Arpio is taking. All it takes is one gal who gets an STD and blames it on a cop. What happened to going after pimps? Clearly not a lot of that female talent operates by themselves, they get the hookup from their contacts.

My point is: With all the surveillance technology, wiretap-galore, and experienced cops who run Vice... a cop still needs to get off before he can make an arrest.


Ah, also I checked my RSS feed for my local news... 6 concurrent stories about Marijuana busts here today. Six.

Speed cameras are the law enforcement equivalent of Everquest gold farming. But that's not why I stay out of Maricopa County. I stay away from there because I don't want to get beaten to death by the police, and I don't want to get my neck broken by the police, nor do I want to get strapped to a chair and killed by the police. I don't like fake assassination plots invented by the Sheriff, or whoremongering paid for with my tax dollars.

The Irony...

Just now I received a call from the FOP for Phoenix. I shared my opinion on the subject, and his response was, "Yeah, those cameras catch people breaking the law." Hardly as such, it's all for revenue and nothing more.

Speeding is a very subjective since it depends on the road, weather and vehicle conditions. I don't need to pay for big brother to snap my picture.

I'd much rather the FOP hit up the State Treasurer for money than citizens.