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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJoe 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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Joe Arpaio's latest chart-topper (Original Post)
marmar
Jan 2013
OP
Yeah. That's what I want. Some heavily armed freeper watching my wife and little girl.
onehandle
Jan 2013
#1
at least the character of dillon was decent and had integrity. this creep would not know
niyad
Jan 2013
#4
joe is one sick bastard, but the people who keep re-electing him, even with all the charges
niyad
Jan 2013
#3
onehandle
(51,122 posts)1. Yeah. That's what I want. Some heavily armed freeper watching my wife and little girl.
Perfectly normal.
maryland native
(48 posts)2. Marshal Dillon
I think posses went out of style about 135 years ago...
niyad
(113,077 posts)4. at least the character of dillon was decent and had integrity. this creep would not know
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
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
there. These a-holes think their "legacy" lasts forever but in the end they disappear into the ether.
niyad
(113,077 posts)6. and the sooner, the better for this dangerous creep.