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Is Arizona becoming a Banana Republic, with central America style government tactics?
I live in Phoenix and am getting more and more disturbed by the actions of the local and state authorities, using their offices to exact revenge on their political foes, all at the taxpayers’ expense.
To wit: America’s most unsrupulous Sheriff, Joe Arpaio, is conducting an investigation, in cooperation with the County Attorney”s office for a payement from the State Treasury to the AG’s office. They haven’t prodcued a shred of evidence, despite burying the AG’s office in piles of requrests for information.
The Sheriff decided he wants access to all of the Mayor’s Office’s email.
Arpaio’s officers are known to follow, monitor and harrass those who would run against him or criticize him, which to me is his way of doing away with the right to free speech, in it’s purest form.
Arpaio arrests editors of a newspaper for continually writing unfavorable articles (a judge threw out the sherriff’s and County Attorney’s case almost immediately).
Yes it is. But then Sheriff Joes antics have been going on for a long time.
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/local/articles/0212records-ruling0212.html
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/0912jailcam0912.html
http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/ss/nationworld/80585.php
http://www.fox11az.com/news/topstories/stories/kmsb-20080213-apjc-publicrecords.bb04a0b4.html
http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/specialReports/view/633378
He has cost the tax payers millions
http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2007-12-20/news/inhumanity-has-a-price/
http://www.hispanicbusiness.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=17243
He wasted hours of money and time when he could have been doing real police work to arrest a WHOPPING 13 illegal immigrants.. I would laugh if it were not so sad
http://www.kpho.com/news/16719101/detail.html
Ignores criminals to chase illegals
“75,000 outstanding warrants countywide – 41,000 of which are for felony crimes.”
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2008/04/01/20080401b1-talker0402.html
Janet cuts off his funding
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2008/05/14/20080514fugitivesfund0514.html
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2008/05/16/20080516sheriffbudget0516.html
He abuses taxpayers money
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2008/04/13/20080413honduras0413.html
If illegal immigration were not in the public eye neither would Joe, how many years has illegal immigration been going on in Arizona, when did he become so outspoken about it? When it would get him the most publicity of course.
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