WARNING: Right-Wing Viewpoint Approaching
The following email was recently forwarded to me. Very interesting approach. Most of you know I'm not generally conservative at heart, but this guy may have something here. I don't know...Thought I'd pass it along to you...Read on and see what you think...
TO THOSE OF YOU NOT FAMILIAR WITH JOE ARPAIO, HE IS THE MARICOPA, ARIZONA, COUNTY SHERIFF AND HE KEEPS GETTING ELECTED OVER AND OVER.
THESE ARE SOME OF THE REASONS WHY:
Sheriff Joe Arpaio (in Arizona) who created the "tent city jail":
He has jail meals down to 40 cents a serving and charges the inmates for them.
He stopped smoking and porn magazines in the jails. Took away their weights. Cut off all but "G" movies.
He started chain gangs so the inmates could do free work on county and city projects.
Then he started chain gangs for women so he wouldn't get sued for discrimination.
He took away cable TV--until he found out there was a federal court order that required cable TV for jails. So he hooked up the cable TV again, but only let in the Disney Channel and the Weather Channel.
When asked why the weather channel he replied, "So they will know how hot it's gonna be while they are working on my chain gangs."
He cut off coffee since it has zero nutritional value.
When the inmates complained, he told them, "This isn't the Ritz-Carlton. If you don't like it, don't come back."
He bought Newt Gingrich's lecture series on videotape that he pipes into the jails.
When asked by a reporter if he had any lecture series by a Democrat, he replied that a democratic lecture series might explain why a lot of the inmates were in his jails in the first place.
More on the Arizona Sheriff:
With temperatures being even hotter than usual in Phoenix (116 degrees just set a new record), the Associated Press reports: About 2,000 inmates living in a barbed-wire-surrounded tent encampment at the Maricopa County Jail have been given permission to strip down to their government-issued pink boxer shorts.
On Wednesday, hundreds of men wearing boxers were either curled up on their bunk beds or chatted in the tents, which reached 138 degrees inside the week be! fore.
Many were also swathed in wet, pink towels as sweat collected on their chests and dripped down to their pink socks.
"It feels like we are in a furnace," said James Zanzot, an inmate who has lived in the tents for 1 year. "It's inhumane."
Joe Arpaio, the tough-guy sheriff who created the tent city and long ago started making his prisoners wear pink, and eat bologna sandwiches, is not one bit sympathetic. He said Wednesday that he told all of the inmates: "It's 120 degrees in Iraq and our soldiers are living in tents too, and they have to wear full battle gear, but they didn't commit any crimes, so shut your damned mouths!"
TO THOSE OF YOU NOT FAMILIAR WITH JOE ARPAIO, HE IS THE MARICOPA, ARIZONA, COUNTY SHERIFF AND HE KEEPS GETTING ELECTED OVER AND OVER.
THESE ARE SOME OF THE REASONS WHY:
Sheriff Joe Arpaio (in Arizona) who created the "tent city jail":
He has jail meals down to 40 cents a serving and charges the inmates for them.
He stopped smoking and porn magazines in the jails. Took away their weights. Cut off all but "G" movies.
He started chain gangs so the inmates could do free work on county and city projects.
Then he started chain gangs for women so he wouldn't get sued for discrimination.
He took away cable TV--until he found out there was a federal court order that required cable TV for jails. So he hooked up the cable TV again, but only let in the Disney Channel and the Weather Channel.
When asked why the weather channel he replied, "So they will know how hot it's gonna be while they are working on my chain gangs."
He cut off coffee since it has zero nutritional value.
When the inmates complained, he told them, "This isn't the Ritz-Carlton. If you don't like it, don't come back."
He bought Newt Gingrich's lecture series on videotape that he pipes into the jails.
When asked by a reporter if he had any lecture series by a Democrat, he replied that a democratic lecture series might explain why a lot of the inmates were in his jails in the first place.
More on the Arizona Sheriff:
With temperatures being even hotter than usual in Phoenix (116 degrees just set a new record), the Associated Press reports: About 2,000 inmates living in a barbed-wire-surrounded tent encampment at the Maricopa County Jail have been given permission to strip down to their government-issued pink boxer shorts.
On Wednesday, hundreds of men wearing boxers were either curled up on their bunk beds or chatted in the tents, which reached 138 degrees inside the week be! fore.
Many were also swathed in wet, pink towels as sweat collected on their chests and dripped down to their pink socks.
"It feels like we are in a furnace," said James Zanzot, an inmate who has lived in the tents for 1 year. "It's inhumane."
Joe Arpaio, the tough-guy sheriff who created the tent city and long ago started making his prisoners wear pink, and eat bologna sandwiches, is not one bit sympathetic. He said Wednesday that he told all of the inmates: "It's 120 degrees in Iraq and our soldiers are living in tents too, and they have to wear full battle gear, but they didn't commit any crimes, so shut your damned mouths!"
posted by Heather at
10:01 PM
4 Comments:
MAKE THOSE TERMINALLY ILL POT SMOKERS HITCH A TENT!
I am for this type of treatment for violent offenders. It didn't say what type of inmates he was in charge of.
By
Rob Arguello, at 7/07/2006 12:26 AM
What we have here is a failure to communicate.
By
RynoM, at 7/07/2006 10:43 PM
And to be honest, if that's a "right-wing" viewpoint, I'm proud to be on the right. But I don't think punishing violent criminals is a right wing viewpoint at all. It's common sense.
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RynoM, at 7/08/2006 12:43 PM
I guess I called it a right-wing viewpoint in comparison to what I would call the left-wing approach of rehabilitation. I had no intent to assume or offend or label.
By
Heather, at 7/08/2006 5:38 PM
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