AG Holder goes after Sheriff Joe Arpaio, but not Black Panthers with billy clubs

[blue fluff]

"Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio and his Washington attorney said Tuesday they will not cooperate with an ongoing Department of Justice investigation into the sheriff's office until the feds name specific charges and reveal what they are looking for.

Arpaio also said Tuesday during a heavily attended press conference in Phoenix he will not be intimidated nor back down in his methods of crime sweeps that have netted the arrests of 4,000 illegal immigrants in the last two and a half months.

Arpaio's office is accused of racial profiling during crime sweeps and is the target of a civil rights violations investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division. Arpaio has called the investigation "politically motivated."
http://www.yourwestvalley.com/articles/arpaio-6951-cooperating-feds.html

Yeah, and Holder decided not to prosecute Black Panthers on video with billy clubs intimidating voters.

Sheriff Arpaio is one of my heroes. When I talked to one of his deputies a month or two ago about what I could do to help (letter writing, phone calls, etc) he said (regarding the false accusations of profiling) something to the effect of "yeah, right, like we can tell what race someone is coming up behind them in a squad car and seeing the back of their head." They said Arpaio's position is elected and not subject to the Feds, which was what Sheriff Mack says in his book (they are friends). He gets re-elected over and over.

 

[buck50]

and hopefully over, and over, and over , and over again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[swampwater]

This will get interesting a real jurisdictional battle, I hope he has the support of the county attorney. We don't need another Ramos and Campeon. THe problem is DOJ will not tolerate anything that hampers the illegal aliens and they will try and break him. Swampy

 

[DenverR1]

We need more like him!

 

[Wade]

Maybe the Sheriff should deputize the entire county. Then meet the feds at his place.

 

[Gainster]

Just happens we are working on a vehicle for a guy this morning & he turns on FOX news, After BSing with him for a bit he tells me he is from Arizona. I had to ask him his take on the illegal's because we dont have the huge issue here in northern mich.

Get this he just retired from working under sheriff Arpaio 3 weeks ago! I just had to shake his hand right then

He was telling me sheriff Arpaio is a strong supporter of 287G http://www.ice.gov/partners/dro/iceaccess.htm
but the FED is a joke when in comes to dealing with illegals.

 

[Wolfrun]

Joe is one of of us. My inlaws winter in Mesa. We all love Joe Arpaio and Joe and Sarah Palin make a pair. They are real people. That is why they are hated.
I have always understood that in the western states, the country sheriff has the brass nuts and no one supercedes his authority because as Joe says he is the the only law enforcement elected by the people. I sure would go to Phoenix to rally for him. Any time.

 

[blue fluff]

He was telling me sheriff Arpaio is a strong supporter of 287G http://www.ice.gov/partners/dro/iceaccess.htm
but the FED is a joke when in comes to dealing with illegals.

Great story Gainster! I wish the retiree dude could become an SW'er and spill!

Well whaddya know! I looked up 287g from your link.

"This program cross-designates local officers to enforce immigration law as authorized through section 287(g) of the Immigration and Nationality Act."

No wonder Arpaio isn't worried.

You guys GOTTA get Sheriff Richard Mack's book. He used to be Sheriff in AZ in Graham County. Two terms starting in 1988. He was re-elected in '92. Then in '94 is when Clinton's Brady Bill was passed and Mack, and our local sheriff, Jay Printz, both simultaneously w/o knowing each other, sued and won at SCOTUS.

Mack joked Tuesday that he's the only person in history to sue Bill Clinton and win for something other than sex.

Mack said now in retrospect the most effective and inexpensive measure they could've done instead of sue was just have all the AZ sheriffs send the Brady Bill back to Congress with a CC to the White House with an explanation as to why the Brady bill, or 20 more just like it, would have no place in AZ.

Sheriff Mack: "The federal government, the White House, or Congress do not hire us, they cannot fire us, and they cannot tell us what to do. Therefore, their legislation aimed at the sheriffs or any other officer of the counties in this nation, are entirely meaningless and have no way of being enforced unless we say so."

Arpaio endorsed Mack's book (back cover) and follows Mack's philosophy.

 

[Anvil]

My in-laws just bought a house last year in Maricopa county. I think I will be down there in the spring some time. I wonder if a person can go see him in person and congratulate him.

Anvil

 

[Wolfrun]

I am sure Joe would love that , as I said he is real people.

 

[Gainster]

August 04, 2009
Obama's war on Sherrif Joe Arpaio
Rick Moran
You may have heard of Maricopa County, AZ Sheriff Joe Arpaio who has been a one man border enforcement machine - doing the job the feds refuse to do.

Well, Joe got himself in a spot of trouble with Obama administration immigration enforcement officials at Homeland Security by rounding up 13 illegal immigrants and trying to deliver them to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency.

One would think that ICE would be grateful to Sheriff Joe for doing their work for them. Not according to this editorial in the Washington Times. It seems that in the end, Joe was forced to let the illegals go - and ICE lied about the reason why:


Sheriff Arpaio blamed ICE. However, Matthew Chandler, Washington-based spokesman for the federal Department of Homeland Security (ICE's parent agency), issued a statement saying that "the determination to release these individuals lies solely within the [sheriff's office].... [On July 23], ICE gave the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office permission to interview the three individuals in question, arrest, and initiate removal proceedings -- instead Sheriff Arpaio released them." Homeland Security's story doesn't pan out. The sheriff's deputies taped the calls to ICE. The recordings show that ICE repeatedly refused permission to take custody of the illegals.

"Right now we cannot authorize you to take her into custody," an ICE official said to one deputy about a woman who had admitted to being illegal. On another call, ICE said: "The only way we can [authorize detainment] is if he has a criminal record." A frustrated deputy replied, "We're just gonna kick him loose then." ICE said: "OK."

The obvious misinformation from the administration might be dismissed ordinarily as a spokesman's one-time goof except that it follows a pattern of misbehavior by Obama appointees that seems intended to undercut the controversial sheriff. On May 29, Arpaio attorney Robert N. Driscoll, former chief of staff at the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department, sent a complaint letter to both Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano. His letter, amply documented, accuses the two federal departments of "a serious violation of ethical standards of conduct" with regard to three federal "investigations" into Sheriff Arpaio's practices.


Within weeks of Obama taking office, three separate federal investigations were begun by the feds looking into Sheriff Joe's administration. And now we have Homeland Security lying through its teeth and trying to blame him for them not doing their job?

Not much politicizing going on in law enforcement, huh?

 

[bobback]

Sherrif Joe for President!............hmmm, a bumber sticker?

 

[blue fluff]

Yup, people voted for Change, that's what's happening. The rapid and blatant dismantling of the greatest and only truly free country in the world. All because they know a bigger percentage of people aren't paying attention and think, "They wouldn't do THAT!" The people who like to bury their head in the sand will find out too late and those of us who are paying attention get to suffer right along with them.

Illegals sucking us dry and Gitmo detainees coming to a local prison near you to radicalize the rest of the prison population and bribe guards (or alternatively the OAdmin pays $200 Million of our tax dollars for the tropical Island of Palau to take 17 of them and sends others to Bermuda). We treat non-citizens and terrorists better than tax payers.

Great Britain media has a new nickname for BO - President Pantywaist (British humor and all that)

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/g...s_President_Pantywaist_hate_America_so_badly/

 

[Wolfrun]

For the life of me i don't know how a deputy could do any racial profiling while stopping cars in Maricopa county. All the car windows are blacked out there. Joe would spit in Eric Holder's eye.

 

[ThrillSeeker]

We love Joe here in AZ... he might not be the sharpest tool in the shed or even the most practical... but he is the right tool and gets the job done...


Just say Joe...

 

[blue fluff]

"Civil Rights Commission blasts decision to drop voter-intimidation case
posted at 2:53 pm on August 4, 2009 by Ed Morrissey

The decision by the Department of Justice to drop charges against several members of the New Black Panther Party for voter intimidation has come under fire from an unlikely source. The US Commission on Civil Rights demanded an explanation of their decision to back away from a case the DoJ had already won, and for which they had extensive evidence, including videotape. The chair openly wondered whether Attorney General Eric Holder would have made the same decision if the KKK had been involved:

The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights is demanding that the Justice Department explain why it recently dismissed a civil complaint against members of the New Black Panther Party who disrupted a Philadelphia polling place during last year’s election, saying the department has offered only “weak justifications.”

Commission Chairman Gerald A. Reynolds, a former deputy associate attorney general under President George W. Bush, said he fears the legal precedent set by the department in its May decision to drop the case might encourage “other hate groups” to act similarly at polling locations in the future.

Mr. Reynolds also charged that other groups might not have been treated so leniently.

“If you swap out the New Black Panther Party in this case for neo-Nazi groups or the Ku Klux Klan, you likely would have had a different outcome,” he told The Washington Times in a telephone interview Monday.

“A single law, a single rule should be applied across the board. We are communicating with the department in hopes of gaining a better understanding of just what happened.”

If the White House and DoJ hoped this incident would quietly disappear, they are mistaken. The DoJ exists to enforce the law and prosecute violations of it. Few cases of voter intimidation are as clear-cut and egregious as that caught on tape during the presidential election in November, as the tape shows:

The civil right to vote without fear of intimidation and violence is so important that the Commission was created in reaction to a long history of violations of it. It’s literally their raison d’etre. As Reynolds notes, it matters not who intimidates whom; the federal government has the duty to enforce those laws regardless of who benefits from the intimidation. Otherwise, the rule of law means nothing.

Perhaps the Obama administration can blame Gregory Craig for this, too."

Article with Video of Black Panthers with billy clubs at polling place:

http://hotair.com/archives/2009/08/...sts-decision-to-drop-voter-intimidation-case/