This is Sheriff Arpaio's idea of a school-protection posse

[KingOrfeo]

Arpaio has been slammed before for neglecting sex-crimes investigations in Maricopa County, AZ, while putting emphasis on more important things, like sweeps for illegal immigrants, and investigating Obama's birth certificate. But this goes further -- apparently his approach to sex-criminals is to recruit them to guard and protect schoolchildren. Story here:

Responding to calls from the National Rifle Association to arm teachers and school officials, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio vowed to deploy his gun-toting volunteers to monitor Arizona schools. Members of the 3,450-strong group began patrolling in January, and the sheriff’s office announced recently that the program will continue into next year. But the thing is, no schools have actually requested this service from Sheriff Joe, and it’s easy to understand why.

Local news affiliate KPHO reported on Arpaio’s “posse” and found that the sheriff hired sex offenders, domestic abusers and other members with criminal records to “serve and protect” Phoenix-area schools.


According to a 2009 article on his arrest:

“Boulter began using an online service called Phonezoo.com in early 2005 to meet young girls between 13 and 17 years old. Boulter ultimately exchanged nude photos and text messages with at least eight underage girls from around the country. Boulter also suggested that he meet the girls in person to engage in sex acts and to get married, according to court documents.

During the encounters, Boulter told the girls he was 15 years old, 27 years old and 32 years old, according to the document.

Boulter admitted to detectives that he had sent harmful images to one underage girl and that he chatted with another via text message and Web cam as he encouraged the child to masturbate, according to court documents.”

And Jacob Cutler, another member of the group Arpaio organized to “save our kids,” has been charged with domestic violence, according to CBS:

“According to a Flagstaff police report, Cutler threw his girlfriend to the ground and choked her while trying to sexually assault her in 2008. When she didn’t cooperate, he allegedly threatened to call police and said they would side with him, because he ‘has a badge.’”

And what if the Phoenix-area community doesn’t want child-sex offenders and violent abusers hanging around their kids’ schools? Too bad, says Sheriff Joe.

“It doesn’t matter whether they like it or don’t,” he told ABC News. “I’m still going to do it. I can’t imagine criticism coming when they’re given free protection.”

And, because it’s Arpaio, the story just keeps getting weirder. The sheriff hired washed-up action hack Steven Seagal to provide weapons training to his crew. In a press conference on Saturday, Seagal defended his qualifications to a room of baffled reporters:

“I’ve put hundreds of thousands if not millions of hours into my weapons training,” adding he would do “anything” to protect Arizona’s children.

“They are our most precious asset,” he said. “They are our treasures and we have to protect them.”

But at least they're not Mexican!

 

[SgtSpiderMan]

Arpaio has been slammed before for neglecting sex-crimes investigations in Maricopa County, AZ, while putting emphasis on more important things, like sweeps for illegal immigrants, and investigating Obama's birth certificate. But this goes further -- apparently his approach to sex-criminals is to recruit them to guard and protect schoolchildren. Story here:



But at least they're not Mexican!

Have they actually gone into schools?

 

[KingOrfeo]

Have they actually gone into schools?

Well, as Jon Stewart pointed out on TDS, that's a bit of a problem when you're not allowed within 500 feet of them.

 

[coastal-boy]

Let's do some simple math on Steven Seagal's statement of "putting in millions of hours into his weapons training

1,000,000 hours / 24 hours in a day = 41666.67 days

41666.64 days / 365 days in a year = 114.155 years

Must be that new Republican Math again...

 

[KingOrfeo]

Let's do some simple math on Steven Seagal's statement of "putting in millions of hours into his weapons training

1,000,000 hours / 24 hours in a day = 41666.67 days

41666.64 days / 365 days in a year = 114.155 years

Must be that new Republican Math again...

No, no, ya gotta do that in Buddhist math. What is number anyway? There is the Noble Eightfold Path . . . all numbers beyond 8 are meaningless.

 

[the_kuntess]

No, no, ya gotta do that in Buddhist math. What is number anyway? There is the Noble Eightfold Path . . . all numbers beyond 8 are meaningless.

No, you're wrong. It's 7.
Do that maths right, man!

 

[sufisaint]

No, no, ya gotta do that in Buddhist math. What is number anyway? There is the Noble Eightfold Path . . . all numbers beyond 8 are meaningless.

Religious bigotry in action... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bigotry

 

[phrodeau]

 

[KingOrfeo]

Religious bigotry in action... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bigotry

Dude, yew are Sufi like Mullah Nasruddin is Wiccan.

 

[sufisaint]

Dude, yew are Sufi like Mullah Nasruddin is Wiccan.

You are a bigot plain and simple...and there are as many path to God as there are human breaths...

 

[KingOrfeo]

You are a bigot plain and simple...and there are as many path to God as there are human breaths...

I'm bigoted only against idiots like yourself, and paths-to-God have nothing to do with it. (Paths-to-God have nothing to do with Buddhism, either, BTW; you can't get enlightenment from the Gods, they're in the same fix we are.)

 

[sufisaint]

I'm bigoted only against idiots like yourself, and paths-to-God have nothing to do with it. (Paths-to-God have nothing to do with Buddhism, either, BTW; you can't get enlightenment from the Gods, they're in the same fix we are.)

Like most bigots all you do is talk a lot and embarrass yourself... they are never worth the effort.

 

[sufisaint]

Not Christian or Jew or Muslim, not Hindu

Buddhist, sufi, or zen. Not any religion

or cultural system. I am not from the East

or the West, not out of the ocean or up

from the ground, not natural or ethereal, not

composed of elements at all. I do not exist,

am not an entity in this world or the next,

did not descend from Adam and Eve or any

origin story. My place is placeless, a trace

of the traceless. Neither body or soul.


I belong to the beloved, have seen the two

worlds as one and that one call to and know,

first, last, outer, inner, only that

breath breathing human being.


There is a way between voice and presence

where information flows.


In disciplined silence it opens.

With wandering talk it close

 

[Squibbs]

Vetteman and company stand firmly behind the Sheriff and his choice of 'posse'.

Only in America you will find people who think armed 'posse s' are a good idea to protect children in a school.

You idiots are out of your fucking minds.

 

[KingOrfeo]

Not Christian or Jew or Muslim, not Hindu

Buddhist, sufi, or zen.

Nor a poet, either.

 

[KingOrfeo]

Vetteman and company stand firmly behind the Sheriff and his choice of 'posse'.

How do you know? vetteman hasn't appeared in this thread yet, and nobody who has is defending Arpaio.

 

[sufisaint]

Nor a poet, either.

That was Rumi... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumi Here is a wiki link so you don't have to look up since that how you cover up your general ignorance.

 

[KRCummings]

It's silly to harp on Seagals math because he's...well, Steven Seagal. On a good day he can count to a hundred.
However I did look it up and he's 60 years old. That would mean he's been alive for about 500K hours. Someone should let him know.

 

[KingOrfeo]

Well, maybe it's not quite as bad as it looked. This is what the Salon story says now:

Local news affiliate KPHO reported on Arpaio’s “posse” and found that, in the past, the sheriff has hired sex offenders, domestic abusers and other members with criminal records to “serve and protect” the Phoenix-area.

I searched the KPHO website for "arpaio posse" and I think Salon's initial confusion came from this story from March 2012:

PHOENIX (CBS5) -
Maricopa County Sheriff's Posse members wear uniforms, have badges, drive county vehicles and some even carry guns. And some of them also have criminal records.

"They have as much power as the deputy wants to give them, including the power to arrest under the supervision of that deputy," said Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio.

Arpaio wants his army of 3,000 volunteer posse members to look like sworn deputies and sometimes perform the same duties. But an in-depth project by CBS 5 Investigates uncovered a number of posse members with arrests for assault, drug possession, domestic violence, sex crimes against children, disorderly conduct, impersonating an officer - and the list goes on.

These are crimes that are not tolerated in many professions, especially professions with an implied authority.

"We have about 600 (members) armed with guns," said Arpaio. "We haven't seen any problems with posse men and women shooting people and everything else. Where are all the problems?"

CBS 5 Investigates discovered that the county does not keep detailed records on posse members. A look into the backgrounds of about 2,000 of them revealed arrests for dozens of different crimes. From there, CBS 5 took a close look at some of the cases that were able to be confirmed.

That was all before the Newtown massacre and before anybody floated the idea of school-protection posses, of course.

 

[koalabear]

Well, maybe it's not quite as bad as it looked. This is what the Salon story says now:



I searched the KPHO website for "arpaio posse" and I think Salon's initial confusion came from this story from March 2012:



That was all before the Newtown massacre and before anybody floated the idea of school-protection posses, of course.

So it was way back in Clinton times.

 

[Squibbs]

How do you know? vetteman hasn't appeared in this thread yet, and nobody who has is defending Arpaio.

He and all the other dipshits seem to praise this Joe turd like an american hero.

Obviously FOX isn't reporting the story or he and his dildo squad would be in here defending him.

 

[Berries_n_cream]

He's got all the skills needed to be Pope.