Comments on: Petition to Investigate Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s Reign of Terror

By: AshKW

AshKW — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 23:28:47 +0000

Done and passed on. Let’s throw the numbnuts into his own general population and watch the fireworks!

(Wow, that was kinda malicious…)

By: Yolanda C.

Yolanda C. — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 20:57:22 +0000

Signed. Arpaio is a serial human rights violator, and he needs to go.

By: Bitter Scribe

Bitter Scribe — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 17:04:11 +0000

When cops care more about self-aggrandizement than about enforcing the law fairly, it’s trouble.

By: KathyMarie

KathyMarie — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 15:46:07 +0000

Thanks for the link. I first learned about Arpaio here on Feministe (I live in N. Illinois) and I’m glad I can do something to stop this hateful bastard.

By: falloch

falloch — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 15:00:37 +0000

OT: Today in the Glasgow Herald :
PERNAMBUCO The mother of a nine-year-old rape victim pregnant with twins has been excommunicated by the Catholic church after doctors performed an abortion.
Government officials in Brazil sharply criticised the decision but ARchbishop Jose Cardoso Sobrinho siad despite the nature of the ase, the church had to hold its line against abortion. ‘The law of God is higher than any human laws’ he said. ‘When a human law – that is, a law enacted by human legislators – is against the law of God, then that law has no value. The adults who approved , who carried out this abortion, have incurred excommunication.
The girl lives in the north-eastern state of Pernambuco and was alegedly sexually assaulted for years by her stopfather. The doctors involved in the procedure were also excommunicated. Abortion is only permitted in Brazil in cases of rape and where the mother’s life is at risk. Doctors say the girl’s case met both conditions.

Sorry if this is the wrong place to post this, but I’m just so steaming with rage that I had to post it somewhere!

By: Kristen from MA

Kristen from MA — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 14:44:14 +0000

Signed. Thanks for the link.

By: Cara

Cara — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 14:27:24 +0000

Yeah Dan, by that definition, Planned Parenthood should stay out of political fights, too. Because right wingers portray them as crazy extremists!

Sounds like it’s a great way for Republicans to win every fight, by the way. Just portray their opposition as extremists. Oh wait, that’s what they do already, even though the “extremists” are much closer to the values of average Americans. Yes, let’s just let them win that one by having each and every organization portrayed that way immediately pack up shop. Sounds productive.

Though I think you’re absolutely right that it’s just like the American public to care more about the fact that an organization dared follow voter registration law than about the fact that there’s a sheriff enacting policies which result in clear cruel and unusual punishment for inmates, including death.

By: anon

anon — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 11:52:34 +0000

I know someone who went to Arpaio’s prison. She laid on a cement floor with broken ribs and a cracked skull and denied her heart and thyroid medication. The only thing she really remembered was the jailors beating a prostitute and the cockroaches climbing out of her sandwhich.

Petition signed.

By: Dan in Denver

Dan in Denver — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 06:40:25 +0000

Don’t care, Cara. ACORN could be composed of the reincarnated spirits of FDR and Jesus, and they would still be political poison. Having them in the foreground = automatic fail.

By: Amber

Amber — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 05:02:44 +0000

I unfortunately live in Phoenix and when the newspaper in Guadalupe wrote how they didn’t like him, he stopped sending officers there to protect the city. He’s a crazy publicity whore.

When the electtion was going on, his opponent came to our radio station to do an interview and Sheriff Joe sent his hacks to follow him and heckle and take pictures of the guy, really weird.

Also, did anyone see the HBO documentary on drugs that he was in? I think it was called Americas last great white hope, or something like that. He is clueless about drugs. When the director or one of the prisoners in the background asked if he liked mushrooms, Sheriff Joe said that yeah, he ate them, with a straight face while they all laughed at him.