Comments on: A New Low, Even for Sheriff Joe

By: Ken

Ken — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 23:32:21 +0000

You liberals are pretty funny. 4 people were arrested and its terrible. Tom Tancredo can’t even begin speaking because of a bunch of liberal punk college kids and its okay. Or go look at the video on drudgereport.com of the conservative reporter covering the Katie Couric Media award. He was standing outside!!!! Not even in the building and he certainly didn’t break a window like those moron college kids in NC. On to something else. Illegal immigration is bad. It hurts our economy and presents a threat to national security, you know that thing that lets you post dumb shit about the world being so unfair blah blah blah instead of fearing for your life if you speak ill of the ayatollah like a good portion of the rest of the world. Prisoners pretty much deserve whatever they get, short of outright abuse bordering on torture. Illegal immigrants get what they deserve when they try to cross a dessert with only a few gallons of water and carrying a metric ton of crap. In short Go Joe. Keep up the good fight. You people don’t deserve the freedom you enjoy which is guaranteed for you by the military and people like Sheriff Joe.

By: mahtso

mahtso — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 00:39:32 +0000

“Exactly how is a citizen even possibly guilty of trespassing at a government office during operating hours?” I can’t provide a complete and full answer, but I believe that there is an Arizona Revised Statute providing that the state’s buildings are private property.

This makes sense, because it could become impossible to conduct state business if anyone was allowed to enter the buildings on a whim. This may sound far-fetched, but you should realize that most of Arizona’s buildings are located in a bad neighborhood; so when it is 100 degrees out (which is only common 4 or 5 months of the year), if the buildings were open, it would be a good place for transients to gather to get out of the heat. (And, of course there is the issue with restrooms).

With respect to the people in the video, my guess would be that the theory is that as soon as they disrupted the meeting they had no official business in the building and were trespassers.

By: Nick S.

Nick S. — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 03:27:26 +0000

Exactly how is a citizen even possibly guilty of trespassing at a government office during operating hours?

By: mahtso

mahtso — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 19:28:53 +0000

I am a little confused by this post because I don’t see Sherriff Arpaio in the video and, to me it looks like he had nothing to do with the incident.

In considering whether or not the deputies acted appropriately, people should be aware that in the last few months groups of people have deliberately disrupted the Supervisorsâ€™ meetings in an effort to vent their frustrations about the Sherriff, which (rightly or wrongly) has led to a policy of little or no tolerance.

By: Jim Collins

Jim Collins — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 16:26:39 +0000

I want to know why the ACLU isn’t there defending their right to free speech? If flipping someone the bird is protected speech in Pennsylvania, I think a good case can be made for applause being protected in Arizona. The tresspass charge is just plain BS.

By: joshv

joshv — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 13:02:37 +0000

Wow. I am simply amazed that such things can actually happen in the US, while the president of the county board just sits there and ignores it.

By: TJIC

TJIC — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 10:55:39 +0000

I know that in Texas it’s legal to resist unlawful arrest with force, including deadly force.

Wonder what the law is in AZ?

By: Captain Obviousness

Captain Obviousness — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 03:47:27 +0000

Wow… That video is unbelievable. What was it, 10 seconds of applause and they get arrested??? I can’t believe that could happen in America.

By: Jens Fiederer

Jens Fiederer — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 03:25:51 +0000

Aren’t you just a little worried about being arrested yourself?

Or do you figure Joe doesn’t read blogs?