{"id":39955,"date":"2017-08-28T03:00:19","date_gmt":"2017-08-28T07:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=39955"},"modified":"2017-08-27T12:58:59","modified_gmt":"2017-08-27T16:58:59","slug":"convicting-arpaio-of-contempt-of-court-was-like-busting-al-capone-on-tax-evasion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/08\/28\/convicting-arpaio-of-contempt-of-court-was-like-busting-al-capone-on-tax-evasion\/","title":{"rendered":"“Convicting Arpaio of contempt of court was like busting Al Capone on tax evasion”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jon Gabriel<\/a> on Il Donalduce<\/em>‘s pardon of the world-class authoritarian scumbag and all-around thug, ex-Sheriff of Maricopa County, Joe Arpaio:<\/p>\n

President Trump asked the crowd last week at his Phoenix rally, “Was Sheriff Joe convicted for doing his job?” Had the hall been filled with an accurate cross-section of Arpaio\u2019s former constituents, the answer would have been a resounding \u201cno.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, Trump pardoned the ex-sheriff on Friday, though he had not yet been sentenced and had shown zero remorse for his crime.<\/p>\n

America\u2019s self-proclaimed \u201ctoughest sheriff\u201d was convicted of criminal contempt of court last month after refusing to obey court orders. This most recent legal battle involved numerous federal attempts to get Arpaio to stop racially profiling residents of Maricopa County.<\/p>\n

Not only did Arpaio refuse, he bragged about it. \u201cNobody is higher than me,\u201d he said. \u201cI am the elected sheriff by the people. I don\u2019t serve any governor or the president.\u201d<\/p>\n

Many conservatives outside of Arizona celebrated his headline-grabbing antics, but they don\u2019t know the real story. I\u2019m a conservative Maricopa County resident who has lived under Arpaio throughout his decades-long reign. Arpaio was never a conservative; he just played one on TV.<\/p>\n

I saw his love of racial profiling firsthand, especially on my daily commutes through the tiny Hispanic community of Guadalupe, Ariz. When conducting these \u201csweeps,\u201d helicopters buzzed houses, an 18-wheeler marked \u201cMobile Command Center\u201d was planted in the center of town, and countless sheriff\u2019s deputies stood on the roadsides, peering into the cars rolling by. Being Caucasian, I was always waved through. The drivers ahead and behind me weren\u2019t so lucky.<\/p>\n

Washington\u2019s laxity in border enforcement led many right-of-center Americans to appreciate more robust enforcement, even when it regularly included authoritarian scenes like the one in Guadalupe. But even if you turn a blind eye to the human cost of such race-based enforcement, Arpaio\u2019s other misdeeds are legion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jon Gabriel on Il Donalduce‘s pardon of the world-class authoritarian scumbag and all-around thug, ex-Sheriff of Maricopa County, Joe Arpaio: President Trump asked the crowd last week at his Phoenix rally, “Was Sheriff Joe convicted for doing his job?” Had the hall been filled with an accurate cross-section of Arpaio\u2019s former constituents, the answer would […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,13],"tags":[56,363,1037,98,99],"class_list":["post-39955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-usa","tag-arizona","tag-corruption","tag-donaldtrump","tag-police","tag-racism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-aor","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39955"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39956,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39955\/revisions\/39956"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}