What Do You Think About This Guy?

[GiovanniC]

http://www.snopes.com/crime/deserts/pink.htm

On Wednesday, hundreds of men wearing boxers were either curled up on their bunk beds or chatted in the tents, which reached 138 degrees 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 you are in a furnace," said James Zanzo't, an inmate who has lived in the tents for 1 1/2 years. "It's inhumane."

Joe Arpaio, the tough-guy sheriff who created the tent city and long ago started making his prisoners wear pink, is not sympathetic. He said Wednesday that he told the 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."

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"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."

[donco6]

1. So Dems are the reason our jails are so full?

And not, oh, say, mandatory sentencing laws that clog up the cells with non-violent offenders? People who, in 10 years or so, will be able to sue the government for lost years when pot is made legal?

What a moran.

[PragMantisT]

7. Of course!

Democrats lock up criminals; Repukes elect them.

[LittleApple81]

2. American to the core. He should be sent as a guard in Abu Ghraib.n/t

[tom_paine]

3. I think he will make a fine Commandant of Imperial Amerikan Auschwitz

Which (and there is plenty of record in my past posts on DU) I have ALWAYS said will be in the Arizona Desert. Well, one of 'em at least.

Arapio or someone just like him WILL be Kommandant during the reign of Nero or Caligula Bush, who are coming.

Actually, there will be many Apapaio's and MANY Kommandants.

Liek the Nazis, Arpaio already betrays himself with teh piping in of propaganda.

At least the Nazis piped in classical music sometimes.

And at least he isn;t mudering his victims wholesale, though I'd be more than willing to wager he's killed or had killed MANY prisoners in the standard old way...dig a hole in the desert. Shoot prisoner. Fill hole.

Yes, Arpaio will make a WONDERFUL Kommandant of Amerikan Auschwitz.

Just hange on 5-15 yeras, Joe, and you'll get your chance, I think.

[Viking12]

4. Joe Arpaio = Don King

Having lived in Tempe for a few years, I quickly learned that he's nothing more than a self-promoter. He likes to see himself on TV and get re-elected but he hasn't really done anything constructive to reduce crime in the Valley of the Sun.

[sazdem]

5. People in Arizona either love him or hate him.

The bottom line is he keeps getting reelected.His methods are rough. I do know two individuals whose lives have been turned around by a trip to tent city.I work with one of them. He spent time there for a DUI offense. He still claims today that it was the harsh environment that is his biggest motivator. He says he NEVER wants to go back to that place.
The second is a young man who was constantly in trouble. The law finally caught up with him and he did 18 months in tent city. That was 5 years ago and he is still walking the line. If you ask him about his stay with Sheriff Joe he still says he NEVER wants to go back to that place.He is doing very well and has gained control of his life.

[amber dog democrat]

6. sometimes all it takes is a bad experience

At least sheriffs are not paid a bounty for selling convict labor like they used to.

[Delano]

8. He's a POS.

I am NOT an advocate for prisoners, and I don't think they deserve luxuries like cable TV, but putting people in such dangerously hot conditions is criminal. The fact that the POS-in-chief has sent our men in the service to live in such conditions for no reason whatsoever doesn't make it any better. Why should these prisoners, or our troops have to suffer in a desert furnace just because Bush is an idiot thug?

As for crime, I'm pretty sure it soared under Reagan and Bush, went down throughout the Clinton years, and has started creeping up again under Bush. This makes it the democrats' fault how?

Wouldn't republican economic policies, which are designed SPECIFICALLY to create job scarcity and thus pressures to keep labor cheap, be the real culprit?