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Arizona Judge Tells Sheriff "Reveal Password Or Face Contempt"
An anonymous reader writes "Four days ago, deputies from the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office in Arizona conducted a raid against the county government building hosting computers for a law enforcement database. After threatening to arrest county employees who would stop them, the officers proceeded to secure the room and promptly changed passwords on many of the servers. In a hearing on Friday, a Superior Court judge threatened to hold members of the Sheriff's Office in contempt if they did not reveal the passwords by next Wednesday. Following this, the Sheriff's Office claimed to be conducting an investigation against other Superior Court judges. Courts have asked for passwords before, but never under conditions like this."
Mods please consider modding up, or at least going against tradition and not modding him down for swearing. Joe Arpaio probably has it coming.
Don't blame me, I voted for Baltar.
Funny. Joe Arpaio enforces the law so well that the drug gangs and illegal immigrant smugglers' gangs are trying to kill him, and the illegal alien amnesty crowd is constantly bankrolling name-smearing campaigns against him. That tends to indicate to me that he's doing the right thing.
on behalf of those who love liberty and refuse to acknowledge a line in the dirt as a marker for who should be considered human and who not, i have to say that you are at least uninformed and at worst a ignorant worthless coward. You may chose to organize the murder of a mentally handicapped person and file that under "the right thing" but the rest of us, we don't. if you chose to be a ego-maniacal asshat and get your picture taken instead of doing what the rest of the sheriffs in your great state are doing (law enforcement), then you can expect a PR problem.
If it weren't for better people than "Sheriff Joe" and his band of racists, our nation would be a terrible, backwards, dying hulk... it's too bad that it seems the NeoCons and "Patriots" are winning. maybe we have hope, but we'll have to wait and see on that one.
America is all about speed. Hot, nasty, badass speed. -Eleanor Roosevelt, 1936
Election fraud? No. Severe intimidation of possible opponents? Yes. Intimidation of critical journalists? Yes.
The people he brutalizes in his jail are Hispanic. This plays very well with his electoral base -- and costs the county a fortune in civil rights judgments.
Welcome to the Turing Tarpit, where everything is possible but nothing interesting is easy.
In this post, you have proven that [b]you[/b] are the coward. Not only do you run your "little potty mouth" from the anonymity of your computer terminal in your mother's basement, you have the nerve to criticize someone else for doing the same. Do you know what you are? That's right, a hypocritical self-serving coward. In fact, if I met you in real life, I would not hesitate one moment in sawing off our limbs, feeding your genitals to dogs, and then burning you alive.