Posted on 08/15/2017 5:50:50 AM PDT by calvincaspian
Arizona’s Joe Arpaio became Maricopa County sheriff in 1993 and thus began the dark ages for the bad guys.
“It’s not a country club,” Sheriff Joe said about his jail.
He wasn’t kidding.
When more room was needed, he did it on the cheap by erecting an infamous “tent city” out in the Arizona heat. In 2003, when inmates complained about temperatures over 100 degrees, Sheriff Joe was unimpressed.
(Excerpt) Read more at bostonherald.com ...
Back at the jail, the food was minimal and its grotesque appearance legendary. “It’s not a buffet here,” Hodgson recalls the sheriff saying.
Sheriff Joe Arpaio, an 85-year-old Springfield, Mass., native, followed the letter of the law and ran a jail meant to make a lasting impression. He held the line against a culture increasingly critical of law enforcement.
Arpaio lost his election last year and now a federal judge has found him in contempt of court for defying an order to stop detaining people based on their immigration status.
And in the pardon it should call the “conviction” (in quotes) a gross miscarriage of justice and a perfect example of judicial overreach and what is wrong with the judicial system today!
One main reason for the presidential pardon is to prevent political disagreements from being criminalized by those in power. Another great wisdom from the Founders.
So tell me, what is to consider before giving Arpaio a pardon? He was doing the perps a favor just keeping them alive. Time to stop pampering those who break the law.
COMMON Trump, get the pardon done and over with and show us you are making America great again.
The Executive pardon has been part of English law for about 1,000 years.
I’m in full support of a presidential pardon for Sheriff Joe, and greatly annoyed that it’s necessary.
M. A. (Arizona) G. A.!
Just Do it and stop all the yakking about it!!!!
Of course it is - what would be the down side? Lefty’s get mad?
He is a hero who really cared about his country and wanted to protect it’s citizens, unlike all of the politicians in DC!
The Judge is guilty of obstruction of governance
According to a 1915 Supreme Court decision (Burdick v. U.S.), accepting a pardon is an admission of guilt.
I live out here and have met Sheriff Joe several times.
I didn’t like everything he did: For instance, he used Fathers Day, not Mothers Day, to round up dead beat dads. I thought that was a real slap at good fathers everywhere, to use Father’s Day, the day that honors fathers, like that. The real facts are that mothers ordered to pay child support, a small number in comparison to fathers, are less likely to pay than fathers order to pay
The tents weren’t a form of punishment, they were a cheap way to house inmates and the inmates preferred them to being locked up inside 24/7, (The three hottest months of the summer were the exception to that but people lived in Arizona for many, many decades before A/C was even invented.) Only those actually convicted of a crime were housed in the tents and yes, they did prefer them.
The Sheriff was in on the right side many times, early, and often. He was one of the first nationally known figures to endorse Trump. He was the same man in private as he was on TV. He is one of the last of the straight shooters.
He didn’t deserve what Obama tried to do to him with the Criminal Contempt charge. That was a rigged game and everyone out here knows it. He isn’t a criminal and he deserves a pardon and expungment of this heinous miscarriage of justice against him.
Truth in advertising: I was his “guest” for one night in the tents.
BTW the food was grotesque and most inmates on short stays there came to the jail with a boatload of 1 dollar bills to feed into the food vending machines in order to bypass the slop. I never tried it on my one day stay but my bunk mate tried to eat it and said he couldn’t finish it and would only eat it if he began to actually starve to death.
Sheriff Joe traveled around the county making appearances with numerous body guards for his 24 years as Sheriff. He was never without them, on or off duty, as the Mexican cartels, Aryan groups and others had a price on his head 24/7. Where ever Joe was, shopping mall, public events, his home, etc he had a small army protecting him and he lived that way, probably still does. He didn’t deserve what Obama tried to do to him.
His options are to accept the conviction without the pardon, fight in the appeals courts to overturn it or accept the pardon. He has already said he would accept it. I believe most right thinking people would see it as vindication even if that’s not technically correct.
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