Friday, May 12, 2006

MY CURRENT HERO: JOE ARPAIO

TO THOSE OF YOU NOT FAMILIAR WITH JOE ARPAIO


HE IS THE MARICOPA ARIZONA COUNTY SHERIFF

AND HE KEEPS GETTING ELECTED OVER AND OVER.







THIS IS ONE 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 porno 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 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' 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 before.

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!"

Way to go, Sheriff! Maybe if all prisons were like this one there would be a lot less crime and/or repeat offenders. Criminals should be punished for their crimes - not live in luxury until it's time for their parole, only to go out and commit another crime so they can get back in to live on taxpayers money and enjoy things taxpayers can't afford to have for themselves.

I say we should adopt this mans ideas around the country and watch the crime rate drop drastically!

7 Comments:

Blogger the sabra said...

yay for him

May 14, 2006 1:33 PM  
Blogger Chasidishe Shaigitz said...

Realy cool! So when can we get this guy to come down to NY? I'll elect him anytime governor mayor or even president.

May 15, 2006 3:56 PM  
Blogger Pragmatician said...

It's good to have hero's who's biggest accomplishments is greater than scoring a few points or saying a few words in front of a camera.
thanks for this interesting article

May 16, 2006 8:00 AM  
Blogger Faye Spalter said...

nice! i like this guy!

May 16, 2006 4:58 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Read about him on msn once. One of those daily featurettes. Quite a guy.

February 21, 2007 3:27 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

i def agree, there should be one in every major city, u know along time ago they used to have some prisoners choose between jail or the army.

June 01, 2007 12:40 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

hey eli,
so while scrolling i see this article, and its brilliant !!!!! very very interesitng ... how come people like this , we never hear about ?????

January 23, 2008 7:35 PM  

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