Grr.

[yendi]

High Thug of Phoenix Joe Arpaio, a man who would use the Constitution for toilet paper if he weren't already so hyper-constipated that his colon has actually turned to stone, has added kidnapping American Citizens to his list of hobbies.

Arpaio is a goon, a thug, and perhaps the epitome of everything wrong with this country. His "officers" are the sort of cops who, if they appeared in movies, would be dismissed as too cartoonish (in fact, the British constable from Garth Ennis's Goddess? Pretty much Arpaio, but with subtlety and depth).

(And yes, the majority of voting citizens of Maricopa county deserve a huge amount of the blame here. My mom's in the minority of voters, it seems, much to her disgust)

Comments

[manifestress.livejournal.com]

Let me assure you that he is despised here - I cannot fathom how he stays in office!

[yendi]

I don't have the slightest doubt that his thugs find lots of suspicious folks to detain on election day in the right districts.

[litch.livejournal.com]

according to this (http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/1205poll1206.html) he's got a 59% approval

the republicans love him

[cucumberseed.livejournal.com]

I'm just rewriting the chapter in which our hero faces a fascist sheriff. I could never use Arpaio as a model, because it would look completely unrealistic on paper. What a shit.

[feste-sylvain.livejournal.com]

Why haven't the Feds come down on his head like the proverbial ton of bricks?

Okay, strictly speaking, the State of Arizona has first crack at him, then the Feds. And that's what the higher layers of oversight are supposed to be for.

[hlglne.livejournal.com]

jeez I'm glad I don't live there anymore. Keys frozen in the front door lock are preferable.

[lurkerwithout.livejournal.com]

The fucker tends to run unopposed. Hell the only guy I can recall trying to run against him recently was one of his ex-minions. There are only so many times you can put down a write in vote for Mighty Mouse...

I feel sorry for a friend of mine who is a MC Deputy. Miles is slightly to the left of me politically, which isn't good in ANY cop shop, much less Sheriff Joe's...