Arpaio Snuggles Up to an Ex-Inmate in His Cynical Bid for a Sixth Term

pp_sheeba

if you notice it was posted days before they found out it was friendly fire.. It was sad.. Oh by the way they did catch the drug dealers that they shot at...

pp_sheeba

I know.. If you look at the date of my posting it was before they knew it was friendly fire.....

pp_sheeba

THIS IS WHY ARE LAWS ARE HARDER THAN OTHER STATES... DO YOU GET TRUTHSEEKER>>>

One U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent was killed and another wounded after they were shot early Tuesday while checking a motion sensor near the Arizona-Mexico border, according to the Department of Homeland Security.

A CBP official said that 30-year-old Nicholas Ivie died after the agents encountered gunfire around 1:50 a.m. near Naco.

Complete CoverageEXCLUSIVE COVERAGE:Arizona's Broken Border5 INVESTIGATES: 24 Hours at the BorderRELATED: Stories on border patrol agent Brian TerryRELATED: Coverage on Operation Fast and FuriousPDF: DOJ's full report on Operation Fast and FuriousRELATED: Immigration NewsSLIDESHOW: Brian Terry station in wake of shootingSLIDESHOW: CBS 5 Investigates' special reports "24 Hours at the Border"

SLIDESHOW: 4 men wanted by FBI in agent Brian Terry's death (7/9/12)

Both agents worked out of the Brian Terry station in the Tucson sector. The shooting occurred on State Route 80 about seven miles east of Bisbee, according to Carol Capas of the Cochise County Sheriff's Office, one of two investigating agencies.

The wounded agent was flown to a hospital with injuries to his lower extremities that were not life-threatening, according to Capas. A third agent in the area was not injured, Capas said.

Capas said the agents were walking up a hill to investigate the triggered sensor, indicating something that was moving across the area, when they took on the gunfire. Capas said it was not known if the agents returned fire but that they were able to radio in they were under fire.

The FBI and Cochise County Sheriff's Office are leading the investigation and search for suspects.

Terry was a U.S. Border Patrol agent killed in a December 2010 firefight with a group of armed Mexican bandits just north of the Arizona-Mexico border.

Two guns found at the scene were bought by a member of a gun smuggling ring that was being monitored in the government's botched gun smuggling probe known as Operation Fast and Furious.

It has been a devastating week for Cochise County law enforcement. Sheriff Larry Dever was killed in a one-car crash on Sept. 18 as he was headed to meet family in northern Arizona for a camping and hunting trip.

"You know we haven't completely processed today yet, but ... it's just been devastating for us," Capas said. "Our biggest concern right now is for the Border Patrol agents, their families and the people that they work with directly. Our hearts go out to them. We understand how difficult of a time this can be."

"You know, we have such a vast amount of land to cover from our department's standpoint with 86 sworn officers, and that includes our administration, Border Patrol is an integral part of assisting us whenever we need backup on any type of call that we have, specifically when we are in the remote areas," Capas said. "So it's very difficult for us right now."

ccdiane

@pp_sheeba The Border Patrol agents shot each other. It's tragic, but there were no Mexicans involved.

pp_sheeba

I fed the fuel and was wondering how many fish i could hook....... Looks like i got my catch for a week! LOL.. It has been fun messing with you minds!

truthseekeraz topcommenter

Wake up people. This is Arizona, leaders in torture, abuse and cruel and unusual punishment. Two decades of Arpaio's culture. What does this say about the "compassionate conservatives" Bush talked about that drive the state of Arizona? Hypocrites ALL. This film is disgusting. Arpaio should put this in his ads.

Torture in American prisons - YouTube Take the time to watch Arpaio's jails. Arizona led the way.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWxpQ87C4t4

errolmcinnes

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@truthseekeraz Arpiao still leads the way in the abuse, torture, neglect, and summary execution of it's inmates, many of them not convicted. Anyone who has any kind of medical condition that is medicine dependent can pretty much count on getting your final affairs in order before going into Arpaio's jail,as there is a chance that they may decide to neglect you to death. They have not changed policy one since the documentary, and continue using the chair, including the torturous practice of sitting the inmate down, then leaning the inmate forward so the inmate can no longer breathe.Sadly Arpiao will win the next election, and everyone who voted for Arpiao will love him until he executes one of their relatives, probably for a minor traffic offense or shoplifting.

truthseekeraz topcommenter

@errolmcinnes Well informed comment that rings true. Everyone dies at some time. When you're in your 80's if you care about your family more than your "job", then it's time to smell the roses and enjoy his "empire". He'll probably die on the job -- an appropriate ending for a narcissist protecting his domain that no one has been able to see.

truthseekeraz topcommenter

@errolmcinnes What goes around, comes around.... ask andrew thomas, lisa aubuchon, rachel alexander, hendershott, russell pearce, lester pearce, joel fox, ...black and on and on with bigger fish in the pipeline. They are all so power hungry and narcissist they are all self destructing in front of eyes, unfortunately taking the people and the state of Arizona, they care nothing about. Why? They are carpetbaggers with their hands out for Federal $$'s = corporate and government welfare for the "public servants". Self-destruction for all.

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truthseekeraz topcommenter

Sunbelt Justice: Arizona and the Transformation of American Punishment - Mona Lynch

http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?id=17521

"In the late 20th century, the United States experienced an incarceration explosion. Over the course of twenty years, the imprisonment rate quadrupled, and today more than than 1.5 million people are held in state and federal prisons. Arizona's Department of Corrections came of age just as this shift toward prison warehousing began, and soon led the pack in using punitive incarceration in response to crime. Sunbelt Justice looks at the development of Arizona's punishment politics, policies, and practices, and brings to light just how and why we have become a mass incarceration nation."

truthseekeraz topcommenter

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6533541-accidental-felons

Accidental Felonsby Daniel Horne (wake up people this could happen to you)

Maricopa County is a place where first-time DUI offenders can find themselves facing thirty years in prison, where parents can find themselves woken up in the middle of the night, their bedroom filled with armed men and drawn guns, their home being invaded after the County Attorney suspects their child of viewing porn. The sheriff s challenger in the last election woke up one morning to find himself defending allegations that he had raped his mother. And, the prior County Attorney, a Conservative Republican, ran television ads asking people to vote for the Democratic challenger of the existing County Attorney.

Sheriff Joe Arpaio and County Attorney Andrew Thomas are the two most controversial lawmen in the United States today. They both reside in Maricopa County, Arizona, where their respective departments are fraught with lawsuits and investigations of wrongdoing all at taxpayer expense. Yet they remain defiant that their ultra-rightwing form of Western justice is what the American people want.

This story takes you through the heart-wrenching experience of one suburban family s tragic encounter with Maricopa County justice soon after having their second baby. It shows how the Maricopa County Prosecutor abuses mandatory minimum sentencing to manufacture violent criminals out of ordinary citizens, and it exposes the dangerous truth about Sheriff Arpaio s infamous Tent City found nowhere else."

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truthseekeraz topcommenter

The truth of Arizona's mass industrial prison complex driven by an out of control sheriff who is misleading the public... get informed.

http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/20120604arizonas-prisons-deadlier-than-most.html

"Arizona's prisons deadlier than most

by Bob Ortega - Jun. 5, 2012 11:18 PM The Republic | azcentral.com

excerpt:

"At least seven Arizona inmates have been murdered over the past two years, a prison-homicide rate more than double the national average, an Arizona Republic investigation shows.

The killings have occurred amid rising violence behind bars. Between fiscal 2009 and 2011, as the state's prison population rose by less than 6 percent, inmate-on-inmate assaults jumped 90 percent, to 1,478, and assaults on corrections staff rose 18 percent, to 362.

Arizona prison inmate deaths

The Republic investigation found two common threads in a majority of the killings: inmates housed with violent cell mates and inmates targeted by groups or gangs.

Among the victims was Eduardo Martinez, 51, who was beaten to death in the Yuma state prison in December, reportedly by the same men who six months earlier had assaulted him at the Florence state prison."

pp_sheeba

Oh i know her and her family.. She was bad looking.. I'm glad he picked her... The comments i read about her.... It proves you should do some back ground searching before speaking... Glad she got help by Joe! If you look at tent city.. there is a vacancy sign.. lol.. It like a hotel.. lol.. but this hotel keeps you tell you pay your dues! you get a choice in tent city. you can sit there do your time or choose Joe drug program.... I hate to say it.. there are other States that could use tent cities to.. it would cut the crime down a whole lot... I have no compassion for criminals.. all of you that do. Should remember.. For a fact all they are allowed by geneva convention.. Is a toothbrush, toilet paper, soap, and razor. Minimal medical.. time to treat them as such.. Criminals.. but we have boohoo bleeding heart liberals that have made it so inmates now get better Medical care ( organ transplants included ), better education, food, and yet they feel like their lives are hell.. then when they get out and can't get the luxury stuff they had in jail.. they do a harder crime so they get longer time.... they even get the top dental care who would want to live outside their.. when they want something they whine and congress and the bleeding hearts.. It's time to get tough... Screw the families that come here and are worried about there babies in jail here why did you come here to the USA.. because the Jails and prisons are ten times worse than are... We have spoiled prisoners in are country.. time to make their time hell.. Isn't that what jail and prison is for.. to make you never want to commit that crime again!

errolmcinnes

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@pp_sheeba You might want to keep in mind that you don't necessarily have to commit a crime to end up in Joe's correctional system. Just fall in his bad side, or get profiled by his deputies, and you can find yourself in his jail, and if the conditions are right, you can find yourself on his execution list. It is one thing to be detained awaiting conviction or sentencing. It is another to be executed for shoplifting. If you take issue with my statement about being executed for shoplifting, might want to take a look. Inmates who were awaiting appearance before a judge have ended up dead before a judge even adjudicated the case.

truthseekeraz topcommenter

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The U.S. is the #1 Jailer in the world. The only one with the barbaric Death Penalty of the civilized nations. The death rate of inmates in Arizona has more than doubled under this governor and ADC director. Unnecessary deaths that will result in wrongful death lawsuits that will waste millions of tax $$'s. Your tax $$'s? Don't believe you are a taxpayer anyone with your ignorant comment.

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truthseekeraz topcommenter

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@pp_sheeba The facts are in the links through-out this blog. You need to read the books and articles filled with fact. This is NOT a Third World dictatorship and its time to get rid of "torture" in America -- a civilized nation? Arizona is not a civilized state and it needs to be brought into the 21st century, starting with the ousting of the Maricopa County Sheriff "little, big man with a badge" and millions of $$'s to crush whoever crosses his path.

truthseekeraz topcommenter

@pp_sheeba I must have hit the bull's eye with the truth, to receive your rabid response. Educated in Arizona?

george13

Sounds to me like this author is just sour grapes........you go JOE

truthseekeraz topcommenter

@george13 troll.

drumsforjesus

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I graduated ALPHA in 2002 - Been clean and sober now for ten years. The tents is where I got my introduction to God and CA / AA, and it was in ALPHA where I actually realized the desparity of my adiction. I now am a religious volunteer at tent city and facilitate a church service there on Tuesdays. Further, I know MANY who have found recovery in the jails in Maricpoa County. I currently run a successful HVAC company in Phoenix, and I have been given a greater life than I could ever imagine. I can't say that the credit goes to Shreiff Joe, but instead to God, but he sure di use ol' Joe to save my butt! - I submit to you, Mr. Lemons, that perhaps you should do some research into the PEOPLE involved here. The program of custody support volunteers is Joe's program, but it is the people that volunteer that are making the impact. I find it insulting that you suggest that "Randall" may not ever have been an addict. If you would like to meet for lunch sometime, I would be happy to share my experience with you - and I have PROOF of bad it was for me then and how good it is for me now. If I were a journalist, I would jump at the chance to get some real insight into a story that interests me. I was an inmate therte for seven months, and I KNOW!

tommy

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Joe does a job that none of the commentators are capable of. If you do not like him vote. But please keep your mouth shut about rumors you propagate.

twelvestepreaper

For many, a stint in jail is required to get off drugs; often these addicts are truly grateful for being locked up as it results in getting their lives back.

truthseekeraz topcommenter

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@twelvestepreaper wrong. wasting millions of taxpayer $$'s when they need treatment NOT costly incarceration ($$'s for the profiteers -- pink underwear, vending machines, inmate collect calls, bobble heads, armored tanks, luxury Penthouse offices in the Wells Fargo Bank building underwriting the private prison corporations and on and on.

truthseekeraz topcommenter

And they wonder why businesses and people want to leave Arizona.... The power behind the media "puppets" Arizona's puppetiers put out there. Wake up people, you're being redirected, masking Arizona's reality -- a "prison" state. Who puts people into prison? The police / the prosecutors and bad lawyers and their team of enablers.

Locking up profits - Opinion - Al Jazeera English

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2011/11/20111127105458655442.html

goodguess

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well, even for old feeble joe these new ads are wading in deep bullshit....we already knew he was a liar and a blow hard and needs a shampoo, but geez you old pathetic creep you must really be feeling the heat from penzone, after all is this the same joe who said so many times he doesnt care what anyone thinks of him, he is DOING HIS JOB AS HE SEES FIT......remember this fellow voters, you cant always believe what Joe SAYS, but you can ALWAYS believe what Joe DOES....follow the money, ask the real question: Are you receiving good value for your tax dollars? Didnt think so.

wachale

Hey Machete wants to give you a bear hug too, Arpy. He told me he's looking for you. He said "if chu see Arpy tell him, MACHETE, MACHETE, MACHETE!"

tomphrey1

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Oh, boy, you comsoclibprogs are at it again. Being on the side of criminals, you have to scream at their nemesis. Sheriff Joe's my guy. You go, Joe!

Tommy_Collins

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@tomphrey1

Because someone opposes the unprofessional, corrupt, and criminal behavior of the MCSO shurf you deem them to "being on the side of criminals"? Hmmmm... you must be a posse member waiting on your knees in line for a promotion to "Hawaiian Detective", that newest rank accorded to those with the strongest ability to defy gravity....

ReggieVV

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Just when you think Arpaio cannot get anymore disgusting, he tops all his other nonsense. Surely there is some 51% in Maricopa County that can see thru his crapola?

croft53

@ReggieVV Sadly the only people who vote in maricopa county are the old people. I suppose we will continue to vote him in til the nasty creep dies....

godhatesdems

All the kicking and screaming and racist remarks will not keep old Joe from being elected.

LegitQuestions

@godhatesdems Genesis 1:27, "So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them"

andre-leonard

The people have spoken at the ballot box for 6 elections now. They say the same thing. Joe Arpiao. I think some folks have seen the light and turned themselves around after going through the Maricopa County Jail, there are programs for inmates who want to change.

It should be remembered, no one is in jail for singing to loud in church. Some folks hit rock bottom, go to jail and turn it around. Others are repeat customers by their own admission. Inmates like most people are not perfect, they make mistakes, some people learn from their mistakes when a better way is shown. Sometimes that occurs in jail.

I am disappointed that the federal government spent 4 years and countless millions of dollars on an investigation that went no-where. There final report seems to lay waste to all the folks who were ready to crucify MCSO

Joe Arpiao, may not be perfect, but he exists by the popular will and vote of the people.

savatage69

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Sometimes a child gets molested, then the sheriff redirects investigators to getting after brown people instead of helping that child, and the child is left to fend for him or herself. Somtimes that happens over 400 times. But that's OK with you, right? You still would say he's doing a fine job. Joe's got the child molester vote locked up, that's for sure.

Borsch

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@andre-leonardHe's been elected five times, dummy.

WhoKnows

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Will the Clown Sheriff agree to a debate in this election? He can get Russ Pearce and Candy Thomas as his "practice" debaters, as neither have jobs, thanks in part to Joke himself!

Tommy_Collins

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@WhoKnows

No, he won't 'debate'. He only talks TO people, not with people. He also has no depth of knowledge upon which to rely should he actually have to think about a cogent question presented to him and other candidates. Such as, "What can be done to use monetary and human resources better within MCSO so as to put more officers and deputies in positions where they can be most effective"?

His answer would simply be, "I don't recall".