Two sheriffs: A study in contrasts — Arpaio wins

Govt. endorsed snitching raises vast potential for abuse

If you only paid attention to the liberal media’s depiction of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, you’d think the professional lawman had neither a concept of legal parameters nor possessed what is clearly a sterling law enforcement career. In fact, Republican Arpaio is widely respected among the law-abiding citizens who have reelected him to an unprecedented five 4-year terms.

It’s harebrained Democrat Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw people need to worry about.

“We want people to call us if the guy down the street says he hates the government, hates the mayor and he’s gonna shoot him,” Bradshaw said. “What does it hurt to have somebody knock on a door and ask, ‘Hey, is everything OK?’ ”

In fact, his idea of preemptive law enforcement carried such sway with the Florida state legislature, that House and Senate budget leaders have ponied up $1 million for a new violence prevention unit — aimed at thwarting such acts from occurring on his turf. The amount is not quite the $3 million Bradshaw was seeking to launch “prevention intervention” units featuring fifteen specially trained deputies, mental health professionals and caseworkers. The teams will respond to citizen phone calls to a 24-hour informant hotline where residents can report neighbors, friends or family members they believe are engaging in suspicious activities or fear they could harm themselves or others. 

That works for Senate budget chief Joe Negron, who helped push through the funding. He said he met with Bradshaw about the program and “got assurances from the sheriff that this is going to be done in a way that respects people’s autonomy and privacy, and that he makes sure to protect against people making false claims,” according to this report in the Palm Beach Post.

Think of the myriad ways that such spy-like reporting ”in the name of safety” could play out, with pettiness and retribution ruining lives and reputations. Someone needs to remind Sheriff Bradshaw that this is America 2013, not Germany in the 1930′s.

The goal of this preposterous overreach is crime prevention. Bradshaw says he wants to make sure law enforcement knows about potential powder kegs before tragedies occur. The $1 million funding provision has rightly provoked concerns among mental health providers and legal experts about the balance between civil liberties, privacy and protecting the public.

Bradshaw says, “As Sheriff, I am committed to making our neighborhoods in Palm Beach County safe for everyone.” 

He neglects to mention that in order to accomplish his goal he will deliberately trample the rights of the citizens who put him in office.

Limitations on ammo, guns, driving panic

As the Obama regime continues to advance restrictive gun-control legislation, average Americans are attempting to stock up on ammunition, which is in short supply. Ammo was the big seller this past weekend at the two-day Crossroads of the West Gun Show at the Ontario Convention Center in southern California.  ”The line to purchase ammunition snaked around the exhibit hall,” said Bob Templeton, gun show owner. “It was taking nearly three hours for shoppers to make their way to the head of the line,” he said.

Not only are private individuals feeling the pinch, but law enforcement agencies nationwide are also affected, as firearms and ammunition fly off the shelves across the country, causing some dealers to limit sales.

Ammunition shortage continues to increase demand and prices, stripping some store shelves bare as gun owners rush to buy ammunition in anticipation of restrictive new gun laws.

CNS News runs a report, Ammo Manufacturers Scramble to Keep Up with Demand, Reassure Eager Customers, complete with information from various manufacturers.

As examples, here in Phoenix the disturbing news is that the Phoenix Police Department has stopped providing officers with 100 rounds of ammunition per month for practice. Tennessee’s Highway Patrol is still waiting for rifle and shotgun ammunition ordered in November.

Reports of government stockpiling of ammunition, and the lack of reasonable answers has increased public concerns. Congressman Doug LaMalfa (R-CA) and 14 of his House colleagues, who signed onto his March 5 letter, have asked the Department of Homeland Security to explain its purchase of approximately 2 billion rounds of ammunition of various calibers over the course of the last year — a fact which is believed to be exacerbating the bullet shortages. In his letter LaMalfa asks, “Are these purchases being conducted in a manner that strategically denies the American people access to ammunition?”

Great question, Congressman.

Additionally, the Social Security Administration posted this notice requesting a quote for ammunition indicating its intent to purchase 174,000 hollow point bullets. Why does the agency that is charged with sending senior citizens their monthly social security checks need bullets? Click on the first link under RFQ and read page 4.

Watch as presidential candidate Barack Obama, at a 2008 campaign event, declared he will not take Americans’ guns away:

“When you all go home and you’re talking to your buddies and you say, ah ‘He wants to take my gun away.’ You’ve heard it here; I’m on television so everybody knows it. I believe in the Second Amendment. I believe in people’s lawful right to bear arms. I will not take your shotgun away. I will not take your rifle away. I won’t take your handgun away.”

Maybe not.  But denying us the right to buy ammunition produces the same results, doesn’t it?

Illegal invasion: AZ República blames security efforts

In a tribute to convoluted thinking regarding the dangerously porous U.S.-Mexico border, today’s edition of the Periódico de la República de Arizona (Arizona Republic) front pages a report by another of its open border enthusiast staffers. This latest piece of deception posing as news is titled “Tight border discourages migrants from going home.”

File that headline –as well as the entire fallacious report — under “bizarre.”

It’s not worth going into the depth of the absurdity that undergirds this most recent dose of snake oil — dishonestly packaging illegal aliens as mere “migrants” — that is being sold to the newspaper’s few remaining readers. The headline says it all.  For help in deciphering such drivel, our popular post Lingo, a primer on decoding Republicese is indispensable.

The bottom line is this: For desiring to have our sovereign national borders secured and respected — which the Obama administration and our own Arizona Sens. Juan McAmnesty and his toady Jeff McFlake — are working diligently to subvert, it is American citizens who are to blame.

The Arizona-Mexico border is the major portal for drugs, crime and illegal invaders who come not only from Mexico and a wide array of Latin American countries, but also from those which sponsor terrorism.

In 2011 we posted Hezbollah on our doorstep: Radical Muslims in border towns. It was based on this troubling report by San Diego’s ABC News 10.

As far back as October 2001, WND reported in an article titled “Arab terrorists crossing border,” that there has been a “tremendous increase in OTM’s (law enforcement’s term for ‘Other Than Mexicans’). Illegals from the former Soviet Union, Asia, and the Middle East are joining the flood of Mexicans, Central and South Americans — all slipping in through our incredibly accessible and porous Southern border. Apprehensions have included illegals from the Sudan, Iran, and even Iraq.”

Note that the 2001 article by J. Zane Walley was datelined Cochise County, Arizona — where rancher Robert Krentz was murdered on his family property.

Formers meet to pile on Arpaio — again*

The effort to recall Sheriff Joe Arpaio has the potential to be deadly serious as evidenced by the negative impact on the public safety of Maricopa County citizens. But the news conference hastily assembled Wednesday, featuring a load of out of work “law enforcement officials,” provided much needed comic relief to the shaky endeavor.

In an article titled Law-enforcement veterans join Arpaio recall, the Periódico de la República de Arizona (Arizona Republic) writes, “Respect Arizona released statements purported to have been provided by retired Phoenix Police Chief Jack Harris and retired Phoenix Assistant Police Chief Bill Louis, accusing Arpaio of misleading supporters by taking sole credit for community safety. Former U.S. Attorney for Arizona Paul Charlton and former Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard were also quoted in the group’s statements.”

And since there was sure to be a microphone and cameras present, former Phoenix Mayor Philly Gordon, the object of a recall himself, for his steadfast support of sanctuary city status for the city’s illegals, showed up. He did little of that when he was in office.

The key words are “purported,” “retired” and “former.” This gathering of has-beens, as badly in need of resuscitation, as the recall group, could only engender news coverage at the equally declining AZ República.

The group assembled in an attempt to make book on a fundraising letter sent out by Sheriff Arpaio’s campaign.

The new movement to undercut elections by way of recalls got its initial steam when a single legislative district, scorched by newly imposed boundaries, waged a successful recall of Senate President Russell Pearce, architect of Arizona’s popular SB1070. Those who get their daily dose of leftward bias from the liberal newspaper might think the word preceding the bill number is “controversial.”

Know this. It all revolves around illegal immigration — an issue which the “formers” can not get their fill of.  They despise Sheriff Arpaio for his enforcement of immigration laws — exactly why the rest of us support him

*Read Quartet of rancorous “formers” pile on Arpaio.

McCain, Flake, gangsters, take absurd PR border tour

In a newscast nearly as vacuous as Arizona’s amnesty twins John McCain and Jeff McFlake, reporter Navideh Forghani glowingly describes the scene at the Arizona-Mexico border where “this kid” hopped the fence  The Republicrats took a couple of their “Gang of 8” Dem cohorts for a stroll along the border yesterday afternoon. Chuck Schumer (NY) and Michael Bennet (Colo.) got an eyeful as they watched illegals jumping the fence that is woefully inadequate in providing security.

Forghani said, “One of the key tools these senators want to do is provide agents with the right technology to help them patrol the vast border along Mexico. And it’s technology like that tower,” she said pointing off in the distance, “that the senators are talking about, and they tell me that technology will pay for itself because they’ll be charging those hi-tech companies to be a part of border security.”

Doesn’t it seem they should be paying for the services instead of charging the providers?

As if on cue, the reporter pronounced that these wizards are “90 percent complete with the proposed immigration reform.”

New Yorker Schumer who can return to his home 3,000 miles away from the porous border, inanely stated, “Secure the border, and once the border is secured by specific metrics, then people can become citizens.” He said, “What I learned today is we have adequate manpower, but not adequate technology. Technology will work.”

Schumer must have been asleep five years ago when former Homeland Insecurity Chief Michael Chertoff promised the $20 million technology newly put in place was “looking good.” But the “virtual fence” turned out to be a virtual flop. Two months after completion, the feds announced plans to replace the highly touted “virtual fence” with new towers, radars, cameras and computer software, scrapping the brand-new and costly system because it didn’t work.

McCain and Schumer promised this overhaul would pay for itself, while cautioning that their proposed border security package would be costly. “Nobody is going to be totally happy with this legislation, no one will be because we have to make compromises,” John McMaverick said.

Bennet added the Gang of Eight are opposed to double-sided fences along the length of the U.S.-Mexico border.

Makes sense. That might be more difficult to navigate.

In his most sincere tone, Flake opined: “It is difficult sometimes to get a good picture of where we are. We just know we aren’t there yet. We have to do more, but we’ve come a long way.”

Indeed.

Arpaio recall: Fool’s errand runs short of ca$h, volunteers & Update

When even the Periódico de la República de Arizona (Arizona Republic) concedes the myriad problems associated with the recall of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, it’s clear the misadventure is in the toilet. Arpaio was elected to his sixth term in November, easily beating his nearest challenger by nearly 81,000 votes.

Laurie Roberts, a columnist for the daily, acknowledges what others have known: the effort to recall our recently reelected sheriff is going nowhere. 

Open borders and anti-enforcement proponents Randy Parraz and his wife Lilia Alvarez have had to admit that their deceptively misnamed effort, “Respect Arizona,” is doomed — due to lack of cash to pay petition circulators and overall disinterest in carrying off this trickery. 

Arizona’s Secretary of State’s Office lists these non-resident petition circulators who have come into our state to infringe on our election process.  The forms list their effort as “Recall Joseph Arpaio Maricopa County Sheriff.” Click on their individual names to view their redacted, notarized registration forms. They are here, intruding on our duly elected sheriff‘s election results to earn money, but the well has run dry.

The recall leaders, buoyed by their Nov. 2011 success in recalling Arizona Senate President Russell Pearce, need a minimum of 335,317 valid signatures by the May 30, deadline. There are major differences between the two efforts. Pearce was elected from a single legislative district (former LD 18) and the recallers needed only 7,756 signatures to carry off their sham effort.

Pro-amnesty activists were also aided by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints which places heavy emphasis on proselytizing Hispanics. Behind-the-scenes support of a well-known former Bishop and Stake President in the Mormon-heavy East Valley district hampered Pearce‘s campaign. Pearce, also a devout member of the church was the architect of SB1070, the law making illegal entry a state crime. The scant 33.67% Election Day turnout also worked in the activist’s favor. But the election zeal was short lived. Jerry Lewis, who won the recall was ousted in the following election, handily beaten by Democrat Ed Abelser — giving the liberal radicals what they wanted in the first place.

According to the calculations in Robert’s column, the campaign to recall Sheriff Arpaio “needs at least 450,000 signatures in order to ensure success. Assuming the campaign had 120,000 valid signatures 12 days ago, it needs about 26,000 more where they came from every week until the end of May.”

It ain’t gonna happen.

This information has been sent as an email from a district chairman:

I heard the news, and so did you…. but it’s NOT true!

You probably heard the news that the recall effort against Sheriff Joe Arpaio is lacking funding and will be hampered. It was all over the news, both locally and nationally.  But the ‘news’ was a dirty tactic by the leftists ordered to dampen the ‘counter recall’ effort.

This has been confirmed with both Sheriff Joe’s campaign manager, and other high ranking people who know.

You see, our efforts to counter the recall (we’re called ‘Blockers’) is having a stifling effect on the people hired to get petition signatures. So they used the media in an effort to ‘call off the dogs,’ and to minimize the effort of the Blockers. The petition drive is not quitting!  And neither should the Blocking campaign. We cannot even slow down! In fact, the blocking campaign desperately needs your help! We CANNOT leave this important work undone!

DON’T believe the media reports! Wanna know how you can help with the blocking campaign?  Contact:  Alive_Kicking@msn.com

Another Bush? Thanks, Jeb, but we’ve had enough

Jeb Bush, Clint Bolick openly push for amnesty minus pretenses

Trying to conceal his lust for the Oval Office, 2016 GOP presidential aspirant Jeb Bush is on a book-pushing tour with his co-author Clint Bolick of the Goldwater Institute. The duo showed up on Sean Hannity’s program to promote “Immigration Wars: Forging an American Solution,” the theme of which even Bush appears to be at odds with. He admits the inconsistencies are due to the fact that his views have changed since the book was written last year. If anything, he veers even further left, as he attempts to double-talk his way around his amnesty ticket to ride.

The best review title going is Suzy Khimm’s, “We read Jeb Bush’s immigration book so you don’t have to.”

Bush’s appearance on Hannity was noteworthy for its banal inanity.  After insulting Republicans as racists, he threw irrational jabs that clearly show the former Florida governor is not prime time material. An example is claiming Republicans tell Asian Americans, “We want your vote, but we really don’t want you to join our team.”

Bolick, who authored two reports hammering Sheriff Joe Arpaio, oddly chimes in saying “coming from Arizona and seeing the tone in Arizona that state could turn blue because Republicans are not perceived as welcoming…”  Bolick appears to think that gifting citizenship to those who disregard our laws will magically transform illegals into instant Republicans — something even he isn’t.

Here Jeb advocates for the GOP having one, singular voice… a female spokesperson: “The world is changing demographically” and this sends the signal that “we’re inclusive,” says Bush.

Jeb Bush unveils his “six-point plan to reform the immigration system,” which — like Sens. McCain, Flake and previously, Kyl – he glibly calls ‘comprehensive.” Bolick sycophantically adds “you cannot secure the border until you have a legal immigration system that works” — likening it to “a doctor saying we’re not going to treat the cancer until the symptoms go away.”

At least the amnesty-bent senators always claimed to want to “secure the border first.” In a grotesque expansion of giving aid and comfort to those who invade our country while thumbing their noses at our laws and national sovereignty, the Bush/Bolick team haughtily advocate on behalf of amnesty preceding dealing with the sieve-like border.

If your tolerance level is high, you can watch the trendy two-step and listen to the gaggable drivel they call the “6 point plan to reform immigration,” as Sean Hannity interviews Bush and Bolick here. (A commercial mercifully precedes the interview.)

9th Circus Appeals Court supports illegal day laborers’ free speech

In his 35-page opinion, published Monday, Judge Raymond C. Fisher, writing for a unanimous three-judge panel of the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a ruling against a section of SB 1070, concluding that the law infringed on the constitutionally guaranteed right to commercial speech accorded illegal alien day laborers congregating on Arizona streets soliciting work.

The daily newspaper doesn’t disappoint. In the single initial sentence in the República’s report, Arizona’s nationally copied immigration law is described using the word “controversial” that is stuck on the keyboards of the reporters and always accompanies any mention of SB1070 or its requirements.

Here is the conclusion in the case Valle Del Sol v. Whiting: “Laws that limit commercial speech must not be more extensive than necessary to serve a substantial government interest. The district court correctly determined that, though Arizona has a significant government interest in promoting traffic safety, the day labor provisions fail Central Hudson’s requirement that restrictions on commercial speech be no more extensive than necessary to serve that interest. The district court did not abuse its discretion in concluding that the plaintiffs are likely to succeed on the merits and that the other requirements for a preliminary injunction are satisfied. We therefore affirm the preliminary injunction barring enforcement of the day labor provisions.”

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer’s spokesman Matthew Benson said the governor is conferring with her legal team to decide whether to appeal. “The governor thinks this is an important tool to give law enforcement,” Benson said.

The injunction was first imposed in February 2012 when Phoenix-based U.S. District Court Judge Susan Bolton ruled that statutes prohibiting potential employers from stopping their cars to hire and pick up day laborers soliciting work are unconstitutional.

Judge Fisher and Judge Bolton are both Clinton appointees.

Last December Gateway Pundit reported that the Mexican government filed court documents against Arizona’s SB1070, claiming the law punishes those who harbor illegal aliens and urging the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to block part of the Arizona immigration law.  In the most arrogant of legal filings, attorneys for Mexico claimed the provision of SB1070 “poses a real threat to Mexico-U.S. bilateral relations.”

Here is Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne responding to Mexico’s outrageous attempts to block our law. Horne says, “If a federal court can invalidate an otherwise valid state law on the grounds that a foreign country disagrees with it, and therefore we’re interfering with the federal monopoly on foreign relations, state sovereignty is suffering a terrible damage and this is a very dangerous kind of argument.”

Sheriff Arpaio trips, breaks shoulder

Sheriff Joe Arpaio broke his left shoulder earlier today.  He’s obviously on the mend. After a tender kiss from his wife Ava, here he is giving an update:

 

We wish our Maricopa County Sheriff the very best and a rapid recovery.  We need this good man on the job!

Follow him on Twitter@RealSheriffJoe

Read the AZ Family News 3 report.

Released illegals raise new ?? as DHS official resigns

Obama and Napolitano in the dark or was this release actually authorized?

After releasing an unspecified number — said to be in the “hundreds” — of jailed foreign nationals illegally in the United States, Gary Mead, the Homeland Security Department official in charge of the agency’s immigration enforcement and removal operations has abruptly resigned. In his role with DHS, Mead oversaw a $2.5 billion budget.

Between 1974 and 2006, Mead held various positions in the U.S. Marshals Service. From 2008 to 2009, Mead was a self-employed criminal justice and immigration consultant. He must have been providing complementary consulting services to illegals since his business lasted less than a year.

A spokesman for Barack Obama claimed today that the White House was never consulted in this release action, although the illegals were described as “low-risk, non-criminal detainees.” Since all were facing deportation, that raises the question of exactly how “low-risk” they are. ICE’s recent policy involved detention of those who committed additional criminal acts once entering the U.S. in violation of the law.

Previously, federal spending cuts were given as the reason for releasing the illegal aliens from jails across the country. Who and what to believe? The Obama administration’s believability record is non-existent.

This is what WND reports.