Sheriff Joe Arpaio said Friday that the Justice Department’s extensive three-and-a-half-year probe of his Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office was all just part of a bid for President Obama to win the Hispanic vote in 2012, even though the investigation began five months before Obama was even elected.
Responding to the Civil Rights Division’s findings that Arpaio “promoted a culture of bias” within the MCSO where detention officers called Latino inmates “wetbacks” and “Mexican bitches,” Arpaio took to Fox News on Friday afternoon to criticize Assistant Attorney General Thomas Perez for opening up DOJ’s Thursday press conference with the words “buenos dias.”
Arpaio also claimed he’d “been working with the Justice Department” even though he refused to turn over documents he was legally required to disclose for over a year. He called DOJ’s announcement a “sneak attack” even though the preliminary investigation into the MCSO was opened in June 2008.
Arpaio said his office “took care of” a “couple isolated incidents” of deputies pulling over Hispanic residents without cause, even though DOJ’s report found Latino drivers were four to nine times more likely to be pulled over.
He said it was “ridiculous” for DOJ to characterize his alleged civil rights violations as egregious.
“We’re going to fight back. We’re going to show the politics involved,” Arpaio said. “Why are they getting into this at this time, just before the election? I can go on and on about the politics, but you find the timing of all of this very suspicious.”
One thing is certain: Arpaio wouldn’t be stepping down voluntarily.
“Are you serious?” he said when asked if he had any plans to leave office. “No way in a million years. We haven’t done anything wrong. I’ve been sheriff almost 20 years. I’m not going to be driven out of office for following the law.”
“I’m not going to back down because of politics, because the president wants to get the Hispanic vote,” Arpaio said. “It’s never going to happen.”
Ryan J. Reilly
Ryan J. Reilly is a D.C.-based reporter for TPM. Prior to joining TPM, he worked for a news website covering the Justice Department and was a researcher for Bloomberg News. His email address is ryan(at)talkingpointsmemo.com.
Merry Christmas all you hateful disgusting slobs posting such foul things on these boards. Shame on all of you!
shelley92127
Meanwhlle, shelley is just the epitome of good taste. Here she is in all her effulgent glory:
An investigation that has been running for 3 1/2 years is a sneak attack? I'm guessing Joe is a rocket scientist in his free time.
maitaiquin that comment has been made several time already.
shelley92127 maitaiquin
It's just as true as it was the first time it was made.
That face in the photo says: "Resign? I'm the Juggernaut, bitch!"
i would like to see that pig in pink underwear, squatting every now and then to spread his cheeks for some hispanic prison guard to stick a baton up his ass to check for any more shit.
Whenwillthisnightmareend you disgust me. i hope your mother is aware of how hateful you are.
shelley92127 Whenwillthisnightmareend
Hey, I thought *I* was the hateful one! Make up your mind, woman!!
tldr version: WAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!!!
Said the bigoted racist profiler!! i'm the victim here now that i've been exposed.Teapub M.O.
Sheriff Joe can't handle the hard job of actually policing his county; rape and child molestation investigations dropped, perpetrators go free to molest again. Thank [god] he's only Sheriff of one county, otherwise that poor state would have suffered the same crime increase his county did.
Of course, Phoenix is just getting what it deserves.
I turned on my television one day last year to hear that yet another child was killed, sitting in her home, because it was riddled with gunfire from still another Mexican gang that can''t shoot straight. Disgusting.
shelley92127 Well then perhaps we should do something about the fact that our gun laws are so pathetic that we're supplying arms to them. For that matter, if the child had been killed by an American - as is FAR more common than your non-specific, undocumented "one day last year" incident - would you feel the need to tell us all about it in hopes of self-justification?
shelley92127 Never mind shooting straight, you are an easy target. Is your other avatar dugfmjamul?
OK, just for giggles, would you care to provide a link to this alleged murder; from a site not associated with FAIR? I seriously doubt that you can, which makes you either incompetent as a debater or a liar -- I really don't care which.
For additional giggles, would you care to provide documentation that undocumented Hispanic immigrants ("Mexicans" in your limited vocabulary), are having "anchor babies?" Would you also care to attempt in some way to support your assertion that these "Mexicans" are somehow "dirty?" Or is this just a prejudice I'm supposed to share with you by default?
C'mon lady (or is it Duggie?), show you've got more than a legume in your cranium.
shelley92127
I'm surprised you could find the remote.
How many of you want more overpopulation invading your schools, hospitals, scarce job maket and neighborhoods ????
shelley92127
Well, we really can't stop the Hillbillies from having children.
fargo117 Is that the type of household YOU came from?
fargo117 you are right fargo we can't stop the hillbillies from reproducing - that's why we don't need the illegal Mexicans adding to our problems...we have enough trouble with our own poor uneducated people.
get it now?
shelley92127
Nope.
shelley92127
Except you haven't shown that your 'solutions' will help any.
Get it now?
Here, let me put it simply. 'Where are the jobs?'
Mexicans lack neither freedom nor opportunity in Mexico. Mexico is a wealthy nation-the only problem is the corruption has all the wealth in a few hands. They are coming here for our wage scale. They are being polticized by radical Chicanos. The Roman empire intitially welcomed the barbarian tribes fleeing Attilla the Hun out of sympathy. Hundreds of thousands of them poured into the long civilized and ordered world of Europe. A century later Europe lay in ruins and faced 1000 year dark ages. Europe was not to know peace again until the American Army established it after WII. The Romans should have built the border fence. Sheriff Joe not a punk - he is my hero! He's not going to back down-! If you don't like him you're either an illegal Mex or a scumbag!
shelley92127 "If you don't like him you're either an illegal Mex or a scumbag!"
Or someone with a dedication to the rule of law, the Constitution, and basic human rights. One or the other...
IcarusPhoenix stop reading and remarking about what i post. how many times have I got to tell you? you are impossible to deal with - you think
all people who want to end illegal immigaration are a bunch of racists. i don't care what you think. you told me to shut up. if you don't like what i write why do you read it? grow up and leave --go back to junior high school and learn some manners while you're at it. you have no respect for your elders. i was grown up & working before you were even in diapers. goodbye to you!
shelley92127 IcarusPhoenix
LOL! An old lady who used to live near me screamed almost the exact same thing when she got mocked.
fargo117IcarusPhoenix fargo your mother is ashamed of you.
shelley92127 IcarusPhoenix
I very much doubt it.
Did she send you a spirit message or something? I have a question about the will.
shelley92127 No shelley, I do not think all people who want to end illegal immigration are racist; I think YOU are a racist because of the derogatory statements you've made about Hispanics, the ignorance you've demonstrated of the issue, and the outright falsehoods you've written in a desperate attempt to force more intelligent individuals than yourself to agree with you... and you've not done anything to disabuse any of us of that notion. Someone who uses terms like "jackass", "jackhole", "libtard", and "moron", and who tells people who have the temerity to disagree with her that they're "full of shit" and can "go to hell" might want to reconsider telling people who believe in intellectual debate that they should learn manners. If you honestly can't understand why we feel it necessary to debunk the truly vitriolic and thankfully-archaic falsehoods you spout, then my pity for anyone who has to deal with you in the real world has just increased greatly.
IcarusPhoenix You and a few other started it and I kicked back. You called me a racist, said my figures were all wrong, you mocked me and wrote very immature and ridiculous & inflammatory things. So I fire back and now you tell me I'm spouting vitriolic and archaic falsehoods...and that I am trying to force people more intelligent than myself to agree with me. I can't win with you. So do I care? No - I've asked you not to read what I wrote - so why do you keep on doing it? I do not care what you think. All you want to do is try to put me down. In psychology the term for that is "leveling". Does it give you a great sense of importance to feel like you are putting me down? What do you care about me if I am such a stupid know-nothing? Leave me alone.
shelley92127 We started it? That's interesting, because when I came into this conversation, you already were calling people vulgar names... incidentally, your figures were wrong, and your response to that was to say you didn't care if you had proof, you're still right because you already believe it. If you're afraid of disagreement from people who actually know more about that which you're disagreeing with than you do, and can't differentiate between disagreement with things that you just made up and a personal attack, then perhaps you have not yet matured to the point where you are ready to have a legitimate conversation about issues, and I fervently hope that your undeserved sense of superiority from blind attacks on the internet against people who have committed the sin of discussing things that you simply don't understand have not yet translated to the real world. If you are uncomfortable having people debunking your fantasies, then perhaps, rather than pretending to be a victim because people with a basic grasp of the real world disagree with you, you should instead learn to tell the difference between that which is true, and that which you merely WANT to be true.
shelley92127
We don't really care if he backs down or not! If he resigns, good. If he doesn't we get to hit him in the teeth every day before throwing his old ass in prison for the rest of his life.
It really doesn't matter WHAT he does.
fargo117 oh fargo you sound like a middle school student--hit him in the teeth-?
how wonderful a person you must be. christ. is your mother proud of you? if you were my son I'd be ashamed of you. We Americans in 2008 had 20 million illegally in our country. They wave their Mexican flags. They demand Spanish be taught in our schools. And they carry their signs, FUWhite Racists, This Is Our Continent and White Racists Go Back to Europe. This is not immigration; it is not assimilation; it is not becoming an American citizen; it is not a desire to assimilate. It is a take-over. Each illegal is a foot solider in this Reconquista army. It is a take-over promoted by the Mexican government under their policy of Reconquista to put the Southwestern states under Mexican control (Aztlan) by mass migration. It is working. It is a war of demographics.
shelley92127
Absolutely. Any other questions you got?
No one knows just HOW many illegal aliens are in the country. The 20 million figure is just a guess.
Mexico has no such policy of 'reconquista,' That's just the paranoid coal the S.S. Imagination runs on. You can see it in the 14-year-old ad you clowns wasted your money on in the LA Times.
fargo117 I bet your mother would love know her son wants to hit someone in the teeth - jesus h christ if you were my son i'd be so ashamed of you.
Larry Elder, L.A. radio talk show host read a letter from one of his listeners: "Dear Larry, I spent ten years as a cruise hostess working at sea on cruise ships all over the world, so many of my assignments were to the Mexican Riviera, going back to the destination over and over again working friendships with many of the local people working along side of us in the Mexican tourist industry. Larry, the one phrase I heard a hundred times or more was, ''When the revolution is over.'' When I asked for information, always the same answer, ''When they have California back.'' Young or old, it seems they grew up being taught there would be a revolution some day. Somehow they would have California back."
shelley92127
Fortunately, you aren't anywhere close to being my mom, which is fortunate. Then I wouldn't have to pretend I don't know you in public.You know, like you actual kids do?
So your evidence for the Mexican government having a policy of 'reconquista' is a letter read by an Uncle Tom?
fargo117 fargo i don't have any children of my own. i'm so glad i never wanted any kids. i would hate to have one turn out like YOU.
fargo117 no fargo one letter is not evidence or a reconquista policy - there are numerous other things. too many to post and you would just try to put me down or refute my statistics anyway. you are name-calling again--so larry is an uncle tom? how the hell can you say that ?
The social ramifications --the virulent and racist anti-Americanism coming out of MechA, mexicans without borders, and other groups is a dire warning of future violence and civil unrest on a national scale-from them, not Americans either.
shelley92127
That;'s great., We don't have to worry about any Shelley Jr,s screwing things up more than the GOP cocksuckers already have,
shelley92127
No, I wouldn't TRY. I'd DO it. All you have to do is have the guts to put some down. Got that?
"you are name-calling again--so larry is an uncle tom? how the hell can you say that "
Because you can't reason with folks like yourself. So you might as well have some fun humiliating them. As for name-calling, you are just gettting back what you try and dish out.
Actually the threatened violence and bigotry of groups like yours, Elderly Without Boners, is much MUCH worse.
This brown shirt thinks he's more important than he is. He's a punk.
This 'sneak atack' was more than three years in the making, meaning it began on Bush's watch and was seen as worth pursuing on Obama's. Suggests there's some there there.
Icarus - STOP reading my comments. I FORBID you to read any more of my comments. I don't want to hear anything more you have got to say so I am not going to read yours. Now you do the same jackass!
shelley92127 Aww, did a completely anonymous person on the internet hurt the poor little bigot's feelings? Of course, now I can say what I want in reply to the bile you're spewing for others to read without having to deal with you spewing more in response, so I thank you for that. You not reading my commentary is certainly vast improvement to you reading it and not actually understanding what I'm saying.
IcarusPhoenix shelley92127
Shelley's just like every other bigot. When she runs the S.S. Imagination aground on Fact Island, she gets all butt-hurt about it,
shelley92127
Oh Goody ~ lets all be sure to read and comment on lil' ol' shelley's rabid yet nonsensical posts~ yippee
tigerp I don't know; you have to admit, her responses are pretty hysterical.
IcarusPhoenix tigerp
The fact that you have her practically foaming at the mouth over a line on the computer is pretty funny.
EVERYTHING American society has accomplished it has accomplished because of the rule of law. Everything Mexico has failed to accomplish it has failed to accomplish because of lawlessness and corruption. So what is their first act in coming here? Violating all of our laws. Essentially they are transfering the lawlessness of THEIR society onto ours. Its like hammering out the foundation of a building. bash out enough stones and the thing structure is going to collapse on everyone in the building. You wait and see. It's already happening. I remember back in 1986 when it became "unconstitutional" to require proof of citizenship to enroll a child in public school. I knew the floodgates were about to open and they did.
Notice the timing of the doj accusations? It is a distraction to the truth. 0bama would do anything to stay in power. Most corrupt President in the history of the nation. And the left media and its followers do his bidding. Liberals are followers because they lack courage and guts to stand by themselves and make independent decisions. They are weak individually and are nothing more than momma's boys and girls.
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