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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."

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  1. Re:Good afternoon, Arizonians, by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Could have said all that about Southern California too.

  2. Re:On behalf of arizona... by iluvcapra · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Mods please consider modding up, or at least going against tradition and not modding him down for swearing. Joe Arpaio probably has it coming.

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  3. Re:Summary doesn't make it clear... by sco08y · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Summary doesn't make it clear that the Sheriff in question is Joe Arpaio, a sadistic, authoritarian monster that that believes in making prison as demeaning and painful affair as possible no matter what the offense.

    And it's all legal and supported by his constituency.

    So why is it liberals want more and more aspects of our lives run by the government, thus giving guys like Arpaio more control over our lives? Why do liberals scoff at the notion of a limiting Congress to powers specifically enumerated in the Constitution?

  4. Re:On behalf of arizona... by Moryath · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    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.

  5. Re:Summary doesn't make it clear... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Jawoll, mein Fuehrer !

  6. Re:Phoenix should be nuked from Orbit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Speaking as a liberal in Arizona, fuck you!

  7. Re:On behalf of arizona... by Gunnut1124 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    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.

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  8. Re:Mods, please be responsible. by StormyMonday · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    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.

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  9. Re:Mods, please be responsible. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    How the hell does a post whose entire content is "fuck you, [name]" get modded "insightful"?

    Because /. is full of a bunch of limp wristed pussies. Cry me a fucking river for all the cons in Joe's custody. They're getting far more than they deserve;

  10. Re:On behalf of arizona... by Moryath · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Hint: having people trying to kill you is NOT a sign that you're doing a good job! It means you're hated, not that you're effective.

    Since the people who hate him most are organized crime, you have no point.

    And I don't give a crap whether there's an "R", a "D", a "Q", or anything else beside someone's name.

    I'm a Republican.

    No, you're a fucking liar.

  11. Re:On behalf of arizona... by Frenchman113 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    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.