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machiado Donating Member (74 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-27-06 10:19 AM
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"Sheriff Joe" email
This is circulating via email and they would like those of us who disagree to simply delete it and not propagate it. I disagree and think it should be exposed for its outrageousness and that "Sheriff Joe" should be fired.

Here it is:



TO THOSE OF YOU NOT FAMILIAR WITH JOE ARPAIO HE IS THE MARICOPA ARIZONA COUNTY SHERIFF AND HE KEEPS GETTING ELECTED OVER AND OVER.





THIS IS ONE OF THE REASONS WHY:

Sheriff Joe Arpaio (in Arizona) who created the "tent city jail":

He has jail meals down to 40 cents a serving and charges the inmates for them.

He stopped smoking and porno magazines in the jails. Took away their weights.. Cut off all but "G" movies.

He started chain gangs so the inmates could do free work on county and city projects.

Then he started chain gangs for women so he wouldn't get sued for discrimination.

He took away cable TV until he found out there was a federal court order that required cable TV for jails. So he hooked up the cable TV again only let in the Disney channel and the weather channel.

When asked why the weather channel he replied, so they will know how hot it's gonna be while they are working on my chain gangs.

He cut off coffee since it has zero nutritional value.

When the inmates complained, he told them, "This isn't the Ritz/Carlton. If you don't like it, don't come back."

He bought Newt Gingrich' lecture series on videotape that he pipes into the jails.

When asked by a reporter if he had any lecture series by a Democrat, he replied that a democratic lecture series might explain why a lot of the inmates were in his jails in the first place.








More on the Arizona Sheriff:

With temperatures being even hotter than usual in Phoenix (116 degrees just set a new record), the Associated Press reports: About 2,000 inmates living in a barbed-wire-surrounded tent encampment at the Maricopa County Jail have been given permission to strip down to their government-! issued pink boxer shorts.

On Wednesday, hundreds of men wearing boxers were either curled up on their bunk beds or chatted in the tents, which reached 138 deg rees inside the week before.

Many were also swathed in wet, pink towels as sweat collected on their chests and dripped down to their pink socks.

"It feels like we are in a furnace," said James Zanzot, an inmate who has lived in the tents for 1 year. "It's inhumane."

Joe Arpaio, the tough-guy sheriff who created the tent city and long ago started making his prisoners wear pink, and eat bologna sandwiches, is not one bit sympathetic. He said Wednesday that he told all of the inmates: "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!"
Way to go, Sheriff! Maybe if all prisons were like this o! ne there would be a lot less crime and/or repeat offenders. Criminals should be punished for their crimes - not live in luxury until it's time for their parole, only to go out and commit another crime so they can get back in to live on taxpayers money and enjoy things taxpayers can't afford to have for themselves.

If you agree, pass this on. If not, just delete it.

Sheriff Joe was just reelected Sheriff in Maricopa County, Arizona.



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xchrom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-27-06 10:25 AM
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1. tapeworms like to be ruled by tapeworms.
that's what this proves -- those higher on the evolutionary ladder than tapeworms better learn how to make 138 degrees in the tent and get them unelected.
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tenshi816 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-27-06 10:39 AM
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2. Check out this website about Sheriff Joe:
Edited on Mon Feb-27-06 10:57 AM by tenshi816
http://www.arpaio.com/

Doesn't sound like he's real popular.

Edited to add another one: http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/special_reports/arpaio/index.html
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Canuckistanian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-27-06 10:56 AM
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3. And guess who his buddy is?
This guy:



This isn't the first time Arpaio's banned New Times from an event. While others in the news media were given the red carpet, he refused to allow me to attend the July 2004 pre-election Tent City concert featuring his lackey Glen Campbell (who owed Arpaio for allowing him to avoid incarceration in a tent following his drunk-driving conviction).
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Viva_La_Revolution Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-27-06 11:07 AM
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4. 10 years ago, some of it worked...
This was back when the worst of it was bologna sandwiches and pink underware. The guys complained when they got out, but when it changed from complaining about having to wear pink underware to living in tents and illnesses and abuse someone should have put a stop to it. The prisoners tried to complain when they got out, but no-one would listen.
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The Sleeper Donating Member (229 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-27-06 11:12 AM
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5. He sounds like the perfect choice...
to run a major corporation ! He'll get the company comfortably back in the Black, by golly !! :sarcasm:
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Humor_In_Cuneiform Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-27-06 03:05 PM
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6. He's a big Dub supporter and arrested the Dem Sen Cand's son recently
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blondeatlast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-27-06 04:08 PM
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7. But, but, but, he SWEARS it wasn't politically motivated.
And Tanker Joe would NEVER lie to us...

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Humor_In_Cuneiform Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-27-06 05:44 PM
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9. Yea, I really believe him. Really! Not. n/t
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Neil Lisst Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-27-06 05:35 PM
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8. He sounds like a jackass, as does whoever sent the email.
Why would anyone here look favorably upon some rightwing goon who doesn't understand why we are America, not the USSR?
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