Christ - my brother lives in Houston. And I thought Atlanta was bad.

[CatWoman]

HOUSTON (KTRK) -- There is shock in Houston's Muslim community as emails and cartoons defiling their religion are found in emails from the Harris County Sheriff's Office.
Shocking and scary are some of the words being used to describe what we found in the email box of a top sheriff's department commander.

They are harmless jokes to some and racism to others. The sheriff's department prohibits inappropriate emails. Something that even top commanders seem to ignore. Of course we wouldn't have known that if the sheriff's office had gotten away with destroying them.

Contained in the emails:

It's a cartoon for 'Preparation M,' Islamic suppositories for prayer time relief.
There is a picture of a Muslim man's remote control for his wife with buttons to clean, feed camel and give me an AK-47.

"I don't mean to be politically incorrect, racist, or religion intolerant," one cartoon reads "I'm just tired of looking at Arabs."

And look at this email:

"Perhaps we should be very suspicious of all MUSLIMS in our country; They obviously cannot be both "good Muslims and good Americans" SEE MORE

A quarter of a million Muslims live in Harris County.

"They are all good Americans," said Dr. Siddiqui. "Anyone implying anything else is totally wrong."
And when wildfires broke out in California last year, a sheriff's employee email to a top commander suggested fires would be the perfect terrorist attack. A top commander emailed another official, "we continue to under estimate these dumb foreigners."

His reply includes a reference to the, "number of foreigners who own gas stations."
"Actually it's pretty scary," said Zakaria.

Zakaria and his brother own a number of gas stations. During Hurricane Rita they opened to provide free gas to lawmen.

"My trust and confidence in the sheriff's department is very low now," he said.

"Do they not have better things to do with our taxpayer dollars," asked Ibarra. "Everyone should share that sentiment if they don't, they are just sitting ducks."

And the sheriff remains silent.

http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news/13_undercover&id=6231196

[skooooo]

1. sad

:(

[Subdivisions]

2. Unacceptable behavior!!! This is outrageous! n/t

[Bob Dobbs]

3. Law enforcement are just thugs for the power elite criminal class.

Same as it ever was.

They are around to protect the properties of the rich. Anything else is window dressing.

[Xenotime]

4. So, the sheriff supports racism? Is this how I'm reading this?

[Richardo]

5. You should see the emails they got out of the Harris County DA's office

Racism, sexual content, love notes from an affair, etc.

That old boy had to resign, and now it looks like a Democrat could actually become Harris County DA.

Sheriff's Department is likewise neck deep in a big pile of shit right now, and ripe for a housecleaning as well. Maybe a Democratic sheriff in November, too.

[damntexdem]

8. Dallas County already turned blue, including sheriff.

Although the sheriff is being strongly targeted by the GOP this year.

Still, there is some evidence that Texas may be turning ever-so-much bluer.

[Lisa0825]

6. I'm glad it's finally coming out.

We all pretty much knew racist rethugs still had control. Now that it has come out in the DAs office and in the Sheriff's office, we need to keep up public pressure, VOTER PRESSURE, and legal pressure to work to purge it.

Believe it or not, Houston has a pretty strong progressive population, and it has been growing too. The problem is that we have not yet been able to take the offices back. I have some measured optimism that we will begin to do that this election cycle. If the Obama campaign sends help with their 50-state strategy, that could give us a big push too.

[jobycom]

7. Oh, C'mon, just men being men. Who's it going to hurt? It's not like cops

have the power to hurt anyone with their racist stereotypes.
:sarcasm:

[bunkerbuster1]

9. "During Hurricane Rita they opened to provide free gas to lawmen. "

Guess they've learned the hard way that no good deed goes unpunished.

What a sickening story.