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McCain wasn't an American patriot. He was a globalist. Read his address to the Naval cadets. He calls for them to go forth and be enforcers for the corporatist state.

McCain: The Most Reprehensible of the Keating Five. Remember when he ran for President and the same people worshipping him today were calling him a Nazi? Are you wearing your "Sarah Palin is a Cunt" tee-shirt today? The Reclusive Leftist blogged in 2009 that it was a "major shock" to discover "the extent to which so many self-described liberals actually despise working people."

Seriously, the idea that there are people working behind the scenes to keep the country running on a relatively straight course, and that these people actually hate the public, is absurd.

""Just went to a southern Virginia Walmart. l could SMELL the Trump support."

"Yup. Out to lunch with -------- We both hate everyone and everything."

"Finally, and related to nothing, but I just saw my first Bernie Sanders bumper sticker. Made me want to key the car."

"I would recommend everybody go out and get an academic book published last year called "What Washington Gets Wrong," and it's two scholars from Johns Hopkins University who do a massive survey of senior unelected executives in government, basically the deep state, and asks them a bunch of questions. And as the authors describe the deep state has contemptuous attitudes towards the average American."

"They think they're far less educated than they actually are," he continued. "They think they are far more dependent than they actually are. They're arrogant, they believe, and say in the surveys if the American people want one thing, and they think it's wrong, they're going to push something else. There's a massive disconnect, and the deep state is real, and it's a threat to our republic form of government."

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30027384-what-washington-gets-wrong

A lot has been said about the Puritanism of this.

Some might be interested in knowing that the co-founders of Backpage were previously arrested and charged years back for printing the home address of Sherriff Joe Arpiao of Arizona. Yes, THAT Arpaio. At the time, this information was already public.

The Sherriff's arrest for which he and fellow New Times founder received awarded 3.75 million dollars.

Make of this info what you will.

A lot has been said about the Puritanism of this.

Some might be interested in knowing that the co-founders of Backpage were previously arrested and charged years back for printing the home address of Sherriff Joe Arpiao of Arizona. Yes, THAT Arpaio. At the time, this information was already public.

The Sherriff's arrest for which he and fellow New Times founder received awarded 3.75 million dollars.

Make of this info what you will.

No. It's been said since that the uber car was *not* speeding. CNN said the speed limit in that stretch of road is 40mph.

Look uber is a scumbag, scamming, cheating company. It sucks that this happened with one of their cars because it is hard to trust the information, video, etc.

Also (quoted from elsewhere)

"This article gives the location and that the car was northbound on Mill S. of Curry:
http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com......

When I trace back south, I get to a 45 mph sign, however the other side of Mill is 35 mph, and that sign is easier to find; a natural mistake, I expect. In CA, and I expect AZ, a divided road is considered two roads, which can have different speed limits. So the limit on the Uber car was 45.

https://www.google.com/maps/pl...

If that doesn't get you there, try 642 N Mill Ave, Tempe, AZ, turn on satellite, and zoom in.

Looking at the satellite image, several decorative brick strips go up to the curb, repeated on each side of the road. A bus stop is on one side. While these are probably not legal crosswalks, the breaks in the median vegetation make a strong case that they are used as such."

So, per the signs available for that side of the road, the speed limit was 45mph (and you can follow the link above to verify that for yourself personally).

Also, there are several "false" crossings between the divided road where the median is bricked but they have signs saying "do not cross here". The state probably should put up fences or remove the brick or remove part of the brick and plant bushes to block passage.

Here's a picture of one of them.

https://cf.geekdo-images.com/m...

Will the Theranos suit divert resources that are used to enforce important public safety laws, such as:

In Arizona it is illegal to have more than 2 dildos in a house.

8 Photos That Prove Some Laws Should Have Never Been Written
Big Government. Small Brains. Dumb Laws.
10 Arizona "Dumb Laws" That Are Complete Horse S**t

Troll alert. This is apples and rotten oranges...

These body cameras are intrusive and over the top when it comes to personal privacy, but if you believe the news reports coming out of police departments, cops actually like them after having to wear them for a while. No more BS, "he said/she said" issues; And I'm sure that cops love not having to deal with paperwork over unfounded cop complaints.

OTOH, red light cameras (and speed cameras) were put in place as a "sin tax" revenue grab by government officials/councilmen/legislators that usually had personal vendettas against rude/aggressive drivers. Those naive officials were easy prey for the real bandits - companies like ATS and Redflex, whose CEO was bribing city officials to get the revenue generators installed in as many places as possible.

Body cameras: Enormous drop in police complaints, and both sides like the extra clarity they provide to litigious and/or life or death situations. Red light cameras: mixed safety results, bogged-down municipal courts, confusion, outright corruption, and even murder generation.

Of course these days, who cares about facts. Perception is reality...

Try asking anyone under 30 if they know what the phrase "Papers Please!" denotes

It's just two words... It's a lot of things.

It's when the Military place soldiers in a natural disaster area such as New Orleans after Katrina requiring you to show military ID or proof of government authorization, to avoid arrest, or having vehicles impounded

It's an attack onAmerican birthright citizenship

It's two words that succinctly describe America's dark future.

Personal and Professional Encounters with Surveillance

anti-state.com: May I See Your Papers Please?

It's what Mr. Hiibel of Nevada went to jail for refusing to comply with

It's what police do now to ordinary people minding their own business.

It's congress work on the REAL ID act

It's a name given to a section of an Arizona law upheld by the Supreme court.

It's the name of a complaint against changes the US is making starting this Fall 2013 to further restrict the free travel of Americans and greatly increase the difficulty of US citizens getting passports

It's the name of a dystopian video game about communist immigration control.

It's the name of an anti-TSA blog

It's a request you comply with when asked by the police; otherwise, you face immediate arrest.

• Texas 77 year old Grandmother arrested after refusing to show ID
• Police arrest for refusing to show ID while on private property
• Exhibit 1
• Exhibit 2: According to the Supreme Court, the police may arrest for failure to identify
• Arrested at Circuit City for refusing to show ID: "It all started when I refused to show my receipt to the loss prevention employee at Circuit City, and it ended when a police officer arrested me for refusing to provide my driver's license."
• I follow the blog of a guy who walked across the country (California to New York) last year. He was arrested in Greencastle, Indiana last summer, after a prison worker called the police to report him as a suspicious person after they exchanged words while he was walking past the prison complex.
• Florida Cops Tase man for refusing to show ID
• Refusal to show id in Georgia (arrest)
• Man in Arizona arrested for refusing to surrender firearm to officers who refused to show their own ID

Solar home for 20K per house? Closer to 30K, and only if your house happens to be conveniently situated.

You can get in for $5000, if all you want to heat is the pool or maybe some hot water.

Most of the figures you see for solar home additions are for auxiliary heat (usually for hot water), they
make no attempt to cover a house's whole electrical load. With air conditioning, that load can be
pretty high, and you never get off the grid.

There are a couple articles on this recently on AZ Central.
http://www.azcentral.com/business/consumer/articles/20130726arizona-solar-costs-high.html
and also
http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2012-12-27/news/solar-eclipsed-why-the-sun-won-t-power-phoenix-despite-an-industry-boom/

This plant has at least an chance of lasting long enough to pay for itself, which, unfortunately is not
always the case with with roof top solar. The rude awakening in that industry is that the equipment
often doesn't last to the payout period.

Economies of scale, and the probability actually seeing maintenance make large installations more
efficient than rooftop solar.

http://apps.leg.wa.gov/rcw/default.aspx?cite=46.61.504

also fun reads:

http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2008-05-29/news/heather-squires-was-arrested-for-dui-without-drinking-a-drop-of-alcohol/
http://www.minotdailynews.com/page/content.detail/id/562773

Stress can make people laugh or giggle, even if they don't want to. If people are walking around thinking to themselves "oh my, I better not make any bomb jokes or even accidentally say a word like 'bomb'", it's just like an admonishment that requests "Don't think about penguins!".
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The admonishment alone inserts thought about penguins into your head. So consciously thinking "don't say anything stupid" could make your brain ask itself "stupid things such as what?" and then your brain cooks up examples and a genuinely nervous person innocently blurts out "so, what do you think, that i have a bomb in there?"
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And then the excitement begins. This is ridiculous thought-porn torture, people, as part of security theater. And we buy tickets for that security theater every time we purchase a seat on an airliner. We pay to be subjected to this humiliation and useless piece of proof of our obeisance to group-think. It's like the idiotic "Freeze!" tactic exercises being performed at various airports: TSA Freeze Drill links
http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/valleyfever/2012/09/tsa_freeze_drill_videod_at_sky.php
http://www.airliners.net/aviation-forums/general_aviation/read.main/5103484/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/28/tsa-all-stop-drill_n_1923683.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Km0awE1Q2HA

Butthurt much?

Not to be pedantic: The State of Arizona had little to do with one school district canceling Mexican-American studies. That was a course taught at a few schools in Tucson, and the school district shut it down. There are reasonable arguments both ways on that call.

Huh? You are completely wrong. Maybe you are trolling and this is meant to be "meta", but here are the actual facts.

It was a popular Tucson program that was ruined by Republican state lawmakers from outside Tucson. There was a state law passed that specifically targeted Mexican-American studies at TUSD. You can read more here. There were 1400 kids in Mexican American studies in Tucson before the state started targeting it. The state threatened to withhold 10% of TUSD's budget - millions of dollars for a cash-strapped school district - unless they cancelled Mexican American studies. TUSD appealed the decision and lost a court case, and only then voted to end the program.

An audit the state commissioned found that the program was successful and not illegal, but the Republicans ignored their own audit and insisted the program was illegal.

[citation needed]

That's fair.

Read here

Also note that the bill never made it to the governor's desk, despite earlier reports to the contrary.

. I have never seen a study, but it would be interesting to know how many repeat offenders there are in Maricopa county compared to say, LA county in California or Bronx county in New York. It's just speculation on my part, but I would imagine the percentage of repeat offender is much less in Maricopa county.

Comparing recidivism rates between Maricopa country and other areas of the country wouldn't provide any useful information on the effectiveness of Arpiao's policies. What you would want is a comparison of recidivism rates in the same area before and after the policies were put into place.

Luckily for you such a study was done, and according to it Sheriff Joe's tent prisons have done nothing to reduce recidivism.

source

If you really want a comparison of Maricopa county with other locales, here is an interesting one:

"New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Houston, for example, collectively housed more than 61,000 inmates per day last year. From 2004 through November of this year, these same county jails had a combined 43 prison-conditions lawsuits filed against them in federal courts.

In the very same three-year time frame, despite housing a mere 9,200 prisoners per day, Sheriff Arpaio was the target of a staggering 2,150 lawsuits in U.S. District Court and hundreds more in Maricopa County courts."

SOURCE

I'm not sure what is involved with GetSatisfaction, but I know that the Rip Off Reports guy thumbs his nose at everyone and will absolutely never take anything down unless he is paid. And there is no requirement for putting something up (in fact, false accusations are known to be made very frequently not by consumers or visitors, but the site's own staff). You just create an account and post whatever you like and libel people (not merely companies, but even your next door neighbor or an ex or your coworker) and it will never be taken down, unless you join their expensive program, at which point you can suddenly have such things removed. (Oh, also note that you can't have an accusation removed even if you are the one that wrote it and later changed your mind). The guy behind it is about as shady as you can be - even for the internet.

http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2007-02-01/news/the-real-rip-off-report/1/

http://www.97thfloor.com/blog/public-spam-report-google-your-honeymoon-with-rip-off-report-has-to-stop/

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/chris-bennet-on-rip-off-report

If there is someone you dislike, you can get revenge very simply and effectively by destroying their reputation without any possible recourse. Just crate a fake account and go to the website and start making shit up. Accuse them of criminal activities. Of fraud. Hell, accuse them of rape and child abuse. Include their full name and address and place of employment and anything else you like. It will stay there and when other people look up their name, they'll see these complaints on what an ignorant person would otherwise view as a legitimate consumer advocacy website. Pretty effective! Hell, try this out on your competitor, if you're in business.

Anyway, you can google all you like about it. I was pretty astonished when I heard about it and started digging around.

No, they actually do picket the funerals of homosexuals as well. Notably, they picketed the funeral of Matthew Shepard, but there have been several others. They even threatened to picket the funeral of a 9-year old girl, claiming that she was killed as punishment for "resisting" when God sent somebody to smite the heathens or some insane claptrap like that.

They're the poster child for how the US has gotten "free speech" wrong. Take a look at Canada, or most European countries. We enjoy essentially free speech as well, but what WBC is doing would be seriously illegal, as hate speech, and picketing a fallen soldier's funeral with signs like they have would land them in jail in Canada.

And, finally, how many are dead now due to violence from the left?

Hopefully Giffords and others wounded will all make a successful recovery and it won't grow anymore than six.

Do I get mega-win for being the first commenter (as 'BootyFooz') in the original article to point out the flawed PDF 'blackouts', revealing SSN, drivers license, and DOB info for both the CEO and the other Lifelock employee?!

The Lifelock thing is clearly a scam founded by a guy who was already lifetime-banned from the credit repair industry. The only thing they did was use robo-dialers to call one credit reporting agency to set fraud alerts on subscribers's credit reports, and when the credit reporting agency stopped them from doing that, they now have no service at all except a false promise with a false $1 million guarantee. They had $12 million in liquid assets once, but a government fine completely cleaned out their bank accounts (yet allowed them to stay in business), so they couldn't even pay this guarantee even though their fine print says they really don't have to pay it anyway.

Maybe you should read the law? I've seen a whole ton of FUD from racist groups like La Raza out there, and none of it is based on any reading of the law itself.

Give me a break. Calling La Raza racist just shows your ignorance. The real racist is Russel Pearce, the guy who wrote the law and freely associates with white supremacy movements.

There are a couple key points here that are missed without context that essentially everyone is missing it.
Maricopa Counties Sheriff has been on a 'arrest all the mexicans!' bender for some time; he's currently under investigation by DOJ for a variety of things, including civil rights violations, racial profiling, using department resources to wage war on political rivals/basically anyone who disagrees with him and this in turn caused ICE to strip him of his authority to arrest illegal immigrants (By federal law, only ICE has this authority).

So the response? Okay we'll make a state law and make it sufficiently vague that we are essentially legitimizing his practices (a prior quote of his was telling AZ citizens to arrest any mexican they saw driving with a cracked windshield [horrible advice, citizens arrests are just asking for lawsuits/charges]).
Some interesting reading:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/01/08/politics/main6071928.shtml - Sherrif Joe Arpaio Facing Investigation

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/16/AR2008071602636.html - Ariz. Sheriff Accused Of Racial Profiling

http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/2009/03/15/20090315arpaio-politics0315.html - Feds' new tone puts Arpaio in hot seat

http://www.aclu.org/immigrants-rights/sheriff-arpaio-sued-over-racial-profiling-latinos-maricopa-county - Sheriff Arpaio Sued Over Racial Profiling Of Latinos In Maricopa County

http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/arpaio - series of articles concerning the sheriff's activities .. like 15 years worth.

http://crooksandliars.com/logan-murphy/ice-strips-sheriff-joe-arpaio-immigra - ICE Strips Sheriff Joe Arpaio Of Immigration Enforcement Powers

et cetera, just hit google.

Also, while you're correct that the feds have the ability to throw up checkpoints, its *supposed* to only be legal within 100 miles of an international border; although in practice they just do what they want anyways. (i.e. on a bus trip from Seattle to Phoenix the bus was stopped by ICE in far northern Utah, everyone white was allowed off without much of a question, everyone who appeared mexican was in turn given the 'royal treatment')

In Arizona a mailed ticked does not carry the force of law and can safely be ignored. They have to serve you to make it legal, and they usually don't unless you're a repeat offender. http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/valleyfever/2008/12/how_to_beat_a_photo_enforcemen.php

Personally I'm offended by speed and red light cameras as it's clear it's primarily for revenue, not safety. There is one on a major street near her (120th and Shea for locals) and all it does is control speed at a point, not overall - people drive 65-70, as they approach it they slow to 55 or so (SL is 50) and immediately after the sensor speed right back up to 70. Since the camera is mid block it does nothing to slow people down through intersections, and since the road is 3 lanes each direction and divided, I can see no real safety issues that it addresses, hence my conclusion that it's for revenue only.

I've been snapped a few times but never received a ticket, but be assured that if I ever do it's going in the round file.

Ahhh finally the whole meat of the bleeding heart argument. How about I take the opposite position? Let's turn loose every single murderer in prison because one of them might be innocent.

Consider this: you are driving, and summoned to stop. It just so happens to be that the cops are corrupt and have to make their monthly quota. One of 'm plants a baggie in your vehicle, and you go off to the Tent Camp. It doesn't even have to be about corrupt cops if you think this is implausible.

Honestly, I would take my chances with a "less than perfect" justice system that offers greater deterrence

Here's the trick though: death penalty doesn't offer greater deterrence per se.

And, as Terry Pratchett once said, the death penalty combines the maximum deterrence with the minimum chance of recurrence.

Terry Pratchett writes satire. Errors (which are made a-plenty) can never, ever be righted again. But do continue your belief in your own infallibility and the absolute correctness of the justice system, because these are all disgusting liberal bleeding hearted links, and I'm obviously very much misguided, being a subject in the People's Republic of Europe.

I'm sure everything would've been right if they just would've manned up.

Ahhh finally the whole meat of the bleeding heart argument. How about I take the opposite position? Let's turn loose every single murderer in prison because one of them might be innocent.

Consider this: you are driving, and summoned to stop. It just so happens to be that the cops are corrupt and have to make their monthly quota. One of 'm plants a baggie in your vehicle, and you go off to the Tent Camp. It doesn't even have to be about corrupt cops if you think this is implausible.

Honestly, I would take my chances with a "less than perfect" justice system that offers greater deterrence

Here's the trick though: death penalty doesn't offer greater deterrence per se.

And, as Terry Pratchett once said, the death penalty combines the maximum deterrence with the minimum chance of recurrence.

Terry Pratchett writes satire. Errors (which are made a-plenty) can never, ever be righted again. But do continue your belief in your own infallibility and the absolute correctness of the justice system, because these are all disgusting liberal bleeding hearted links, and I'm obviously very much misguided, being a subject in the People's Republic of Europe.

I'm sure everything would've been right if they just would've manned up.

Furthermore, if you are unsafe to drive, you can pull over. Yet if you are drunk, you still get charged. So if you are drunk, the law actually encourages you NOT to pull over and keep driving. And if you are diabetic, an attack can set upon you quite suddenly. But if you pull over, they'll treat you like a drunk. (example(s) below)

And it doesn't take much googling to find that having a clear breathalyzer doesn't automatically free you of harassment:

http://www.wlwt.com/news/20693221/detail.html ... http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/content/printVersion/733637 ... Oh wait, this guy was pulled over! NOT driving. Still treated the same. ... and sometimes they lie .

But hey, if I can pull up those examples in 1 minute, you can bet there are 1000s more.

And really, are you incapable of googling "Without breathalyzer"? At least spend 10 seconds before you say "I think what you said sounds fishy". You waste both our time, and mislead the public. People are also charged when blowing below the limit. You might have to dig down in those results some, but what you are looking for is available without needing me around to show it to you.

Just Google It(tm)

Please. Understand that reality sucks more than you think it does :)

Furthermore, if you are unsafe to drive, you can pull over. Yet if you are drunk, you still get charged. So if you are drunk, the law actually encourages you NOT to pull over and keep driving. And if you are diabetic, an attack can set upon you quite suddenly. But if you pull over, they'll treat you like a drunk. (example(s) below)

And it doesn't take much googling to find that having a clear breathalyzer doesn't automatically free you of harassment:

http://www.wlwt.com/news/20693221/detail.html ... http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/content/printVersion/733637 ... Oh wait, this guy was pulled over! NOT driving. Still treated the same. ... and sometimes they lie .

But hey, if I can pull up those examples in 1 minute, you can bet there are 1000s more.

And really, are you incapable of googling "Without breathalyzer"? At least spend 10 seconds before you say "I think what you said sounds fishy". You waste both our time, and mislead the public. People are also charged when blowing below the limit. You might have to dig down in those results some, but what you are looking for is available without needing me around to show it to you.

Just Google It(tm)

Please. Understand that reality sucks more than you think it does :)

Then how does he keep getting re-elected? I have heard many accusations against Sheriff Joe Arpaio, but I don't recall anyone suggesting that he has committed election fraud.

All the Sheriff's Men: The SCA Campaign-Finance Scandal is Linked to Sheriff Joe Arpaio's Chief Deputy David Hendershott

The article reviews allegations of illegal money funneling from Arpaio's senior deputies to the Republican-financed SCA. It also covers the over-the-top video campaign run by SCA that accuse Arpaio's opponent Dan Saban of rape (unfounded), letting child molesters go free (no evidence at all), and included portions of a video deposition from a civil suit where Arpaio's attorneys questioned Saban about his sexual practices including masturbation (plain old dirty politics.)

Now, while the campaign finance case remains open, nothing's proven - however, the video campaign itself was run again and again, analysed on TV news programs, and generally helped to swing the race in a big way, IMO.

So, the allegations are there, think what you will, but IMO one day soon the law will catch up with Sheriff Arpaio. If he doesn't croak first (he's old!)

But when you call someone an Englishman on St Patrick's day, his goons will break your neck.

One anonymous coward told a fantastic tale of this sheriff burning down a house killing a dog and whoops causing $4,000 worth of damage to an innocent neighbors car. No link thou

I found this http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2004-08-05/news/dog-day-afternoon/full

It sounds as fanciful as the Dukes of Hazzard but it appears not to be fiction but to be quite real or is it surreal.

No wonder the criminals hate him he's bat shit insane, even as a law abiding member of the public you'd be keeping your head down any time the Sheriff and his merry men are in the area.

He makes Jack Thompson seem quite reasonable and the RIAA a benevolent society for destitute music fans.

Don't be afraid of the Phoenix Police. Be afraid of the imposters.

In Phoenix, you stand a good change of being the victim of a home invasion staged by Mexican Army Regulars...

Or Mexicans in Phoenix police drag, fulfilling their contracts...

Or Phoenix Police whose chief and the Phoenix mayor just can't take much criticism.

Try and discredit the reports based on the sources I use. Not working. The incidents did happen. Police officers were calling into local radio shows and confirming the reports.

It seems most home invasions in Phoenix are carried out by those who attack drop houses the 'coyotes' use to stage illegal immigrants on their way to other cities. Taking some hostage and making a quick buck is the motive. Posing as police works very well until the real police show up. then, hope the bad guys run out of bullets, which they often do.

Our mayor, Phil Gordon, is death against enforcing immigration law, as is our former Governor and now head of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano. It's so bad the Feds are demanding that local law enforcement accept a new policy that pretty much prevents them from enforcing the law. That's the 287(g) program that apparently is too successful.

Sherrif Joe also has tangled with the local alternative paper, which published his and other officials home addresses and apparently violated grand jury statutes. It's only an arcane law when it is applied to you.

Sherrif Joe has his view of law enforcement. It enrages many of the liberal intelligensia around here, who would rather we put the illegals up in the Phoenician and give them a chance.

Me? I back Sherrif Joe, knowing full well he can get carried away. The alternative is to have everything not nailed down stolen by the illegals as they stream through here on their way to a better life.

At least he doesn't PRETEND to be doing his job.

You ought to live here. Then you would grasp a little more of the nuance. Much too easy to take things at face value. 4 years here has taught me that we have a serious illegal immigration problem. How to solve it is unfortunately simple - clean house, starting with the House of Reperesentatives. Our government has too many conflicts of interest, business sees illegals as cheap labor, Democrats see them as new voters, and regular citizens have no one on their side. But I'm not hopeful.

Why the focus on illegal immigration? That's the crux of the trouble over Sherrif Joe. That's all it is.

Bring it on.

Don't be afraid of the Phoenix Police. Be afraid of the imposters.

In Phoenix, you stand a good change of being the victim of a home invasion staged by Mexican Army Regulars...

Or Mexicans in Phoenix police drag, fulfilling their contracts...

Or Phoenix Police whose chief and the Phoenix mayor just can't take much criticism.

Try and discredit the reports based on the sources I use. Not working. The incidents did happen. Police officers were calling into local radio shows and confirming the reports.

It seems most home invasions in Phoenix are carried out by those who attack drop houses the 'coyotes' use to stage illegal immigrants on their way to other cities. Taking some hostage and making a quick buck is the motive. Posing as police works very well until the real police show up. then, hope the bad guys run out of bullets, which they often do.

Our mayor, Phil Gordon, is death against enforcing immigration law, as is our former Governor and now head of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano. It's so bad the Feds are demanding that local law enforcement accept a new policy that pretty much prevents them from enforcing the law. That's the 287(g) program that apparently is too successful.

Sherrif Joe also has tangled with the local alternative paper, which published his and other officials home addresses and apparently violated grand jury statutes. It's only an arcane law when it is applied to you.

Sherrif Joe has his view of law enforcement. It enrages many of the liberal intelligensia around here, who would rather we put the illegals up in the Phoenician and give them a chance.

Me? I back Sherrif Joe, knowing full well he can get carried away. The alternative is to have everything not nailed down stolen by the illegals as they stream through here on their way to a better life.

At least he doesn't PRETEND to be doing his job.

You ought to live here. Then you would grasp a little more of the nuance. Much too easy to take things at face value. 4 years here has taught me that we have a serious illegal immigration problem. How to solve it is unfortunately simple - clean house, starting with the House of Reperesentatives. Our government has too many conflicts of interest, business sees illegals as cheap labor, Democrats see them as new voters, and regular citizens have no one on their side. But I'm not hopeful.

Why the focus on illegal immigration? That's the crux of the trouble over Sherrif Joe. That's all it is.

Bring it on.

If they demanded admin passwords, I would have demanded a warrant. Arrest or not, that's a fight you can have later.

Huh. It's safest just to let Sheriff Joe arrest you and fight it in court. Juan Mendoza Farias thought that too.

I wonder what his repeat statistics are in comparison to other places that run taxpayer funded country clubs.

Well, I'm pretty sure that those roving gangs of mentally handicapped people are going to think twice before loitering in any convenience stores. I'm sure that Arizonans can be proud of his "tough on being confused in public" stance, and those pansies from Amnesty International just don't understand just how much danger the coffee pot could have been in from that 130 pound giant if Sheriff Joe and his boys hadn't beaten and tortured him to death.

Of course, I'm just cherry picking the one, lone example of a harmless little guy with the mind of a twelve year old who was murdered by Sheriff Joe. I'm sure that everybody else who has died while in Sheriff Joe's custody have been dangerous, vicious criminals and not, say, people whose only crime was appearing to be mexican, or a blind man serving a short sentence for shoplifting, who accidentally fell out of his bunk so hard that he broke his neck, ruptured his intestines, gave himself severe internal bleeding and broke all of his own toes.

Yeah, that's the kind of "tough on blind guys who commit misdemeanors" stance that we can all support, isn't it?

I wonder what his repeat statistics are in comparison to other places that run taxpayer funded country clubs.

Well, I'm pretty sure that those roving gangs of mentally handicapped people are going to think twice before loitering in any convenience stores. I'm sure that Arizonans can be proud of his "tough on being confused in public" stance, and those pansies from Amnesty International just don't understand just how much danger the coffee pot could have been in from that 130 pound giant if Sheriff Joe and his boys hadn't beaten and tortured him to death.

Of course, I'm just cherry picking the one, lone example of a harmless little guy with the mind of a twelve year old who was murdered by Sheriff Joe. I'm sure that everybody else who has died while in Sheriff Joe's custody have been dangerous, vicious criminals and not, say, people whose only crime was appearing to be mexican, or a blind man serving a short sentence for shoplifting, who accidentally fell out of his bunk so hard that he broke his neck, ruptured his intestines, gave himself severe internal bleeding and broke all of his own toes.

Yeah, that's the kind of "tough on blind guys who commit misdemeanors" stance that we can all support, isn't it?

Yes they do have an IT guy. Appears he built the system. No I don't believe he does need the password. But he is reported to have told the judge it would be "convenient" to have it but that he didn't really need it.

Hendershott Could End Up in Jail Next Week in Showdown Over Password

I wouldn't have a problem with my arrest for something being public, as long as it was just as public if I were found innocent.
 
A relative of mine built a storage shed in his back yard. A neighbor didn't like it and called the city. An inspector came out while he wasn't home, took incorrect measurements, and left a large, neon colored notice on the front of his house saying that he was in violation of city ordinances. He had them come out, showed them that they were wrong, and they said, "oh - sorry". He said, "Well, go tell all my neighbors." Of course they didn't.
 
A homeless man in Phoenix was picked up on suspicion of raping and killing a child a while back. They figured out pretty quickly that he didn't have anything to do with the child, but he did have other legal issues so he was kept in jail. That night it made the local news that he had been picked up in connection with the child's murder. He was beaten so badly he lost his spleen.
 
People who are accused of something are not necessarily guilty and I can see why they may not want it broadcast all over the world that they have been accused, when it is not easy to also broadcast their innocence later.
 
You can read about the guy who lost his spleen in this new times article that was written a bit after it all happened. It was all I could find, but this happened 8 years ago or so.

Lifelock was founded by Robert J. Maynard Jr. who was banned in the early 90's from working in the credit repair industry-forever. Their basic service doesn't offer anything you can't do yourself for free. Read for yourself what Lifelock is all about. http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2007-05-31/news/what-happened-in-vegas/

The real man behind this company is Robert Maynard, Jr.

Yes, the man who was also behind Internet America ISP back in the mid-late 1990's.

You really MUST read this Phoenix newspaper story about Maynard.

You'll be quite enlightened as to what he's all about.

Similar to this;

http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2007-10-18/news/breathtaking-abuse-of-the-constitution/

The local prosecutors office ordered and conducted the arrest of the newspaper editors for disclosing the fact that they had been requested, through the act of a horrifically crooked grand jury subpoena (which neither the judge nor jury had approved or even seen), to turn over a list of their entire readership and website visitors over a period of years.

I hope for a similar, if not stronger, reaction.

It's usually not all that difficult to tell the difference between a police raid and a home invasion.

Right. In a home invasion, the attackers aren't wearing uniforms, don't identify themselves as police, smash up nearby parked cars just because they're there, set fire to your house, kill your dog and then joke about it.

No, wait. That's the police. My bad.

I guess if you're lucky it will just be a home invasion.

Swat doesn't get called unless there is a barricade, ongoing threat of life or hostage situation

Wouldn't it be great if that were true?

Trouble is, police departments in many cities are now using militarized squads for serving routine misdemeanor warrants.

This violates the sprit of the posse comitatus act, and probably the letter of the law as well.

-jcr

I heard that radio ad and also wondered how long he would last! Here's an Url for the news story about his little "loss".

Here's another scathing story about the Bandy case, published January 25. Others are archived on the Justice For Matt website. http://www.justice4matt.com/ Doubting Thomas By Sarah Fenske County prosecutors charged a teenager with looking at kiddy porn. Turns out they hadn't done their homework http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/Issues/2007-01-25/n ews/news_print.html Thanks, The Bandy Team

I'm surprised I don't see a link to the original story yet, so here it is:

http://www.mydd.com/story/2006/10/24/122153/98

From the story:

--AZ-Sen: Jon Kyl, --AZ-01: Rick Renzi, --AZ-05: J.D. Hayworth, --CA-04: John Doolittle, --CA-11: Richard Pombo, --CA-50: Brian Bilbray, --CO-04: Marilyn Musgrave, --CO-05: Doug Lamborn, --CO-07: Rick O'Donnell, --CT-04: Christopher Shays, --FL-13: Vernon Buchanan, --FL-16: Joe Negron, --FL-22: Clay Shaw, --ID-01: Bill Sali, --IL-06: Peter Roskam, --IL-10: Mark Kirk, --IL-14: Dennis Hastert, --IN-02: Chris Chocola, --IN-08: John Hostettler, --IA-01: Mike Whalen, --KS-02: Jim Ryun, --KY-03: Anne Northup, --KY-04: Geoff Davis, --MD-Sen: Michael Steele, --MN-01: Gil Gutknecht, --MN-06: Michele Bachmann, --MO-Sen: Jim Talent, --MT-Sen: Conrad Burns, --NV-03: Jon Porter, --NH-02: Charlie Bass, --NJ-07: Mike Ferguson, --NM-01: Heather Wilson, --NY-03: Peter King, --NY-20: John Sweeney, --NY-26: Tom Reynolds, --NY-29:

--AZ-Sen: Jon Kyl --AZ-01: Rick Renzi --AZ-05: J.D. Hayworth --CA-04: John Doolittle --CA-11: Richard Pombo --CA-50: Brian Bilbray --CO-04: Marilyn Musgrave --CO-05: Doug Lamborn --CO-07: Rick O'Donnell --CT-04: Christopher Shays --FL-13: Vernon Buchanan --FL-16: Joe Negron --FL-22: Clay Shaw --ID-01: Bill Sali --IL-06: Peter Roskam --IL-10: Mark Kirk --IL-14: Dennis Hastert --IN-02: Chris Chocola --IN-08: John Hostettler --IA-01: Mike Whalen --KS-02: Jim Ryun --KY-03: Anne Northup --KY-04: Geoff Davis --MD-Sen: Michael Steele --MN-01: Gil Gutknecht --MN-06: Michele Bachmann --MO-Sen: Jim Talent --MT-Sen: Conrad Burns --NV-03: Jon Porter --NH-02: Charlie Bass --NJ-07: Mike Ferguson --NM-01: Heather Wilson --NY-03: Peter King --NY-20: John Sweeney --NY-26: Tom Reynolds --NY-29: Randy Kuhl --NC-08: Robin Hayes --NC-11: Charles Taylor --OH-01:

Some articles to think about in the upcoming election:

Jon Kyl Rick Renzi J.D. Hayworth John Doolittle Richard Pombo Brian Bilbray Marilyn Musgrave Doug Lamborn Rick O'Donnell Christopher Shays Vernon Buchanan Joe Negron Clay Shaw Bill Sali Peter Roskam Mark Kirk Dennis Hastert Chris Chocola John Hostettler Mike Whalen Jim Ryun Anne Northup Geoff Davis Michael Steele Gil Gutknecht Michele Bachmann Jim Talent Conrad Burns Jon Porter Charlie Bass Mike Ferguson Heather Wilson Peter King John Sweeney Tom Reynolds Randy Kuhl Robin Hayes Charles Taylor Steve Chabot Jean Schmidt Deborah Pryce

Reminds me of a story from my local alternative weekly about a couple who contracted hookworms, but were diagnosed with delusional parasitosis when they went to doctors complaining of bugs under the skin. Just because something resembles the pathology of schizophrenia doesn't mean that it's not real, and getting a doctor to take you seriously isn't always easy. Morgellans sounds a little kooky, but I'm surprised to see so many Slashdotters dismissing it out of hand.

Another interesting situation with red light cameras. I guess being dead won't stop you from getting a ticket anymore!

How about Joe Arpaio?