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marmar

(77,056 posts)
Thu Jan 24, 2013, 10:23 AM Jan 2013

Joe Arpaio's latest chart-topper





CAVE CREEK, Ariz., Jan 23 (Reuters) - Retired salesman David Bennett sits in a patrol car, armed with a semi-automatic Glock pistol and a shotgun, watching as parents drop off their children at a kindergarten in a desert community a few miles north of Phoenix.

Bennett is volunteering his time to join a posse organized by controversial lawman Joe Arpaio, who styles himself as "America's Toughest Sheriff."

The mission: to deter a repeat of last month's school massacre in Newtown, Connecticut.

"Hopefully we are letting the bad guy know that this school is being watched," said Bennett, peering through the windshield as a mother led her daughter by the hand through the school gate. ...............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/24/joe-arpaio_n_2537561.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000009



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onehandle

(51,122 posts)
1. Yeah. That's what I want. Some heavily armed freeper watching my wife and little girl.
Thu Jan 24, 2013, 10:34 AM
Jan 2013

Perfectly normal.

niyad

(113,077 posts)
4. at least the character of dillon was decent and had integrity. this creep would not know
Thu Jan 24, 2013, 10:53 AM
Jan 2013

integrity if it bit him with the organ he uses to think.

niyad

(113,077 posts)
3. joe is one sick bastard, but the people who keep re-electing him, even with all the charges
Thu Jan 24, 2013, 10:51 AM
Jan 2013

and investigations, are the truly sick ones.

UTUSN

(70,649 posts)
5. We had a 20+ yrs dictator-mayor in our town. When he was finally replaced, it was like he was never
Thu Jan 24, 2013, 11:01 AM
Jan 2013

there. These a-holes think their "legacy" lasts forever but in the end they disappear into the ether.

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