International Worker's Day (aka. Labour Day or May Day)

[Type XXIII]

Congratulations, comrades.

Today is May 1st. Established as the International Worker's Day by the Second International in 1899, partly to commemorate the 1886 Haymarket Riot, this day is the day for socialist movements to demonstrate in support of workers' rights.

The day is marked in various manners around the world, here in Norway there's rallies organized by labour unions and left-oriented parties.

Personally, I've participated in a rally at the town square earlier today. The paroles were mostly local, maintaining birth and emergency facilities at the local hospital, and national, stopping privatization of various state companies. There was also a parole for a Free Palestine, which I gather most of you wouldn't support.

Anybody else who have marked the day somehow or have any views?

[Kapitan]

Mayday parades should be takeing place in russia right now shame i cant be there.

[The Avon Lady]

I see that May Day is being marked in the US today by protests and work stopages by illegal aliens and their supporters.

I hope that anyone who has the opportunity to fire illegals that took of from work today does so and hires legal aliens and citizens in their place.

The nerve! :down:

[August]

I see that May Day is being marked in the US today by protests and work stopages by illegal aliens and their supporters.

I hope that anyone who has the opportunity to fire illegals that took of from work today does so and hires legal aliens and citizens in their place.

The nerve! :down:

One would hope so...

[Sharkstooth]

Subject: ILLEGAL ALIENS (KEY word is ILLEGAL)



HUMAN EVENTS ONLINE
By: Mac Johnson

May 1st is better known as the Marxist holiday of May Day.

This May Day campaign will consist of yet more anti-law-enforcement marches and a nationwide boycott of shopping.

The aim of the boycott is to demonstrate the purchasing power of the 11 million ILLEGAL immigration criminals demanding amnesty.

The boycott will also include a general strike by immigration criminals, who are being encouraged to skip work that day.

Now it appears that illegal aliens are here to just skip the jobs that
no American is willing to skip.

If the boycott and strike are successful, this means that May 1 will be A DAY WITHOUT ILLEGAL ALIENS! Lines will be shorter. Clerks will all speak English. Businesses that have been honest enough to hire LEGAL residents will be poised to finally enjoy a competitive advantage!

It will be morning again in America.

EVERY American should make a point to get out and support those
businesses and counteract the criminal boycott movement.

SPEND like a congressman!

Heck, spend like Teddy Kennedy on a junket to a distillery or a
convention!

SPEND in freedom!

Order in a mall or SPEND at a Wal-Mart near you!

I hereby declare May 1 to be a national holiday --
Conservative Shopping Day!

Show the doubters that a day without illegal aliens is not a crisis,
it's just a good start!

SPREAD the word!

Forward this notice or send out your own.

Let it be shouted, in clear unaccented English, from every mountaintop and blog: SPEND, GRINGOS, SPEND!

Lastly, be sure to make note of which businesses can still function on a day without illegal aliens, so that you can patronize them everyday for a long time.

Let's turn the day without illegal aliens into an everyday thing.


TO THE WAL-MART, COMRADES!


Mr. Johnson, a writer and medical researcher in Cambridge, MA., is a regular contributor to Human Events. His column generally appears on Mondays.

[Type XXIII]

I see that May Day is being marked in the US today by protests and work stopages by illegal aliens and their supporters.

I hope that anyone who has the opportunity to fire illegals that took of from work today does so and hires legal aliens and citizens in their place.

The nerve! :down:

What goes around, comes around, I guess. Employers employing illegal immigrants (for whatever reason) and then treating them so badly that a strike is triggered. An employer is dependant of his workers, illegal immigrants or not. I don't know if these immigrants are organized or not, but I'd guess they aren't.

If this is so then the employers might very well employ other workers, but my guess would be that those new workers will demand more payment than those immigrants.

[Sharkstooth]

I see that May Day is being marked in the US today by protests and work stopages by illegal aliens and their supporters.

I hope that anyone who has the opportunity to fire illegals that took of from work today does so and hires legal aliens and citizens in their place.

The nerve! :down:

What goes around, comes around, I guess. Employers employing illegal immigrants (for whatever reason) and then treating them so badly that a strike is triggered. An employer is dependant of his workers, illegal immigrants or not. I don't know if these immigrants are organized or not, but I'd guess they aren't.

If this is so then the employers might very well employ other workers, but my guess would be that those new workers will demand more payment than those immigrants.

If the employers were treating them badly, they would not want to stay. What they are demanding, is to be given citzenship. Not go about it legally as others have had to do.
And I'm sure once they get it, they will not want to work as they are now, but will demand more money, benefits, etc..... therefore paving the way for more illegal immigrants.

[The Avon Lady]

I see that May Day is being marked in the US today by protests and work stopages by illegal aliens and their supporters.

I hope that anyone who has the opportunity to fire illegals that took of from work today does so and hires legal aliens and citizens in their place.

The nerve! :down:

What goes around, comes around, I guess. Employers employing illegal immigrants (for whatever reason) and then treating them so badly that a strike is triggered. An employer is dependant of his workers, illegal immigrants or not. I don't know if these immigrants are organized or not, but I'd guess they aren't.

If this is so then the employers might very well employ other workers, but my guess would be that those new workers will demand more payment than those immigrants.
This is a solidarity type of strike. It is calling for all illegal aliens to strike, including those that are treated just fine.

BTW, do you have a statistic that shows what percentage of illegal aliens are mistreated by their US employers? I don't think so.

And the main purpose of the strike isn't to protest their work conditions. It's to demand that they be granted amnesty and no longer be illegal.

The nerve! :down:

Here's a good read: A Day Without an Illegal Immigrant - An imaginary exercise (http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NTBlOTVlNDFkNTYwOTg4YWYxMThkZmE2MWZhMmVjMWM=).

[Torpedo Fodder]

This protest is not going to get the illegals anything either way: If it succeeds in having it's desired effect of disrupting the economy, then it will be seen as blackmail and simply harden the public's resolve against them. If it doesn't work, the public will come to the conclusion that illegals really aren't as important to the economy as they would have us believe, and thus make people less averse to deporting them and punishing businesses who hire them.

[TteFAboB]

At least nobody was bothered with the intended May 1st holliday. Everybody won already, now we can devote our attention to truly important dates, like the Post-Office day or the Fire-fighter day.

Muchas Gracias. :up:

[Ducimus]

I can only hope these protests strength the American Citizens resolve to remove these leech's from our country. They are nothing less then domestic outsourcing that puts American Citizens out of work.

I cannot beleive the nerve of these people. They want right's id give them rights ... one free all expense paid trip back to their home where they came from.


If the employers were treating them badly, they would not want to stay. What they are demanding, is to be given citzenship. Not go about it legally as others have had to do.
And I'm sure once they get it, they will not want to work as they are now, but will demand more money, benefits, etc..... therefore paving the way for more illegal immigrants.

If people think we have alot of mexican's in our country now, wait tell what happens if these people get their way. You may as well erase the nations southern border, as it may as well not exist anymore. Our nation, combined with mexico, with welfare, and taquito's for all.

[Ishmael]

Solving the Illegal Immigration Problem


Illegal immigration is back in the news these days with both parties failing to come up with a solution to the problem. The reasons behind this failure are manifold but basically break down to the Democrats wanting more voters and the Republicans and their corporate masters wanting an endless pool of cheap labor to drive down wages. Thus, neither party has an incentive to solve the problem and the only people left out in the cold are the citizens of the United States. At the same time, recent polls in Mexico suggest that 50% of Mexican citizens would move to the US if given the opportunity.

I believe I have a solution to this problem once and for all. The solution is the annexation or union of the United States and Mexico under the United States Constitution and federal laws. This would accomplish many positive things for the citizens of the United States and Mexico. For Mexicans, US wage, hour and environmental laws would immediately benefit Mexican workers by increasing their wages and improving their working conditions. The adoption of US federal laws and law enforcement would enable Mexicans to better fight and defeat the drug cartels that have made the border areas of both nations into a war zone. They would also contribute to ameliorating the endemic corruption inside the Mexican government and law enforcement. By making everyone citizens of one country, former Mexicans could travel and work freely within the borders of the entire country. Mexican political parties would be free to organize and campaign for votes within the entire nation, breaking the stranglehold of the Democrats and Republicans.

For US citizens, Benefits would be equally strong. We would trade a 2000 mile border for a 500 mile border making it cheaper and more effective to enforce border security. Access to the Mexican oil reserves would lessen this country’s dependence on foreign oil supplies from politically volatile areas of the world bringing prices down and providing an engine for growth in the area of the former Mexico. The ability of US citizens to own property in Mexico would also bring investment opportunities to Mexico and help build the overall economy as a whole. The infusion of 300 million young legal workers would give the Social Security program a much needed boost and keep it solvent into the 22nd century.

As far as the mechanics of union proceed, I would use constitutional guidelines to guarantee Mexican citizens equal representation in Congress. Each state in Mexico would receive 2 Senate seats and the House of Representatives would be increased in size by giving proportional representation to Mexican citizens at the same per capita rate as currently in force in the US right now. By accomplishing this, we would give equal political opportunity to Mexican political parties as well as our own.

One hundred and fifty-eight years ago, my ancestor, General Winfield Scott, invaded and conquered Mexico in the first US war of imperialism. The only reason the entire country was not annexed outright then was due to the existence of slavery and the fact that the entire country would be annexed as slave states. That issue is long settled so there are no major impediments to this union as far as I can see.
So this is my solution, Union with Mexico. Viva la Revoluccion!


© Richard B. Scott 2006
All rights reserved

[PeriscopeDepth]

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/05/01/dobbs.immigrantprotests/index.html

[The Avon Lady]

One hundred and fifty-eight years ago, my ancestor, General Winfield Scott, invaded and conquered Mexico in the first US war of imperialism.
For a more accurate historical assessment, read The Mexican War (http://www.lone-star.net/mall/texasinfo/mexicow.htm).

[Ishmael]

The main cause of the Texas revolt that precipitated the war was the transfer of governance of Texas to the Mexican state of Santa Fe. The former Mexican state government in Texas was very willing to allow slavery in it's territory, going so far as to pass a law permitting indentured servitude for life for the slaves imported from the US. When Santa Fe was given control by the Mexican federalists, the Santa Fe government was vehemently opposed to slavery in any form. The main reason for this was that government's experience with the autonomous tribes of present day New Mexico and the cooperation it received from the tribes. When the US immigrants learned of the change in state government, they conspired with the former Texas state government to revolt and declare independance. This was also one of the reasons that US abolitionists opposed the war. This was before the Compromise of 1850 and the abolitionists were very worried about the spread of slavery into the new territories and the permanent power slaveholders and their allies would gain.

[XabbaRus]

What hypocrisy.

Quite happy for the illegals to do the **** jobs Americans don't want to do (we have the same thing here) but want them thrown out when a situation such as this arises.

Interestingly the majority of illegals in the US are believed to actually pay taxes

http://www.nysun.com/article/30872/ as one source. I'll find more later.

It would be cheaper and more beneficial to normalise their status.

The cost of rounding them up, prosecuting them and deporting them would be substantially more than letting them become US citizens and having them continues working. Make a cut off, those here get citizen ship, new illegals, automatic deportation.

[August]

What hypocrisy.

Quite happy for the illegals to do the poo poo jobs Americans don't want to do

I keep hearing this theme from the people favoring the illegals. What you actually mean is:

"...poo poo jobs that Americans won't do for the slave wages that are offered".

Americans are not afraid of getting their hands dirty...

[XabbaRus]

But as a country you seem quite happy for them to do the **** jobs for **** wages so you can have cheap services as long as they keep their gobs shut.

I've done some **** jobs for **** wages, but I'd rather clean toilets than sit on my arse doing nothing because I think I am too good for that.

[August]

But as a country you seem quite happy for them to do the poo poo jobs for poo poo wages so you can have cheap services as long as they keep their gobs shut.

It might seem that way from your side of the pond but i invite you to check out the readers comments from the BBC article on the illegals protest. Among US citizens they are overwhelmingly in favor of rounding them up and shipping them back to where ever they came from.

I've done some poo poo jobs for poo poo wages, but I'd rather clean toilets than sit on my arse doing nothing because I think I am too good for that.

So there's nobody in your country who feels that way?

[The Avon Lady]

What hypocrisy.

Quite happy for the illegals to do the poo poo jobs Americans don't want to do (we have the same thing here) but want them thrown out when a situation such as this arises.
Who says anyone here is for this?

And who says that only now do people want them sent back to where they came?

Wrong on both counts.

[XabbaRus]

I never wrote only now.

I know many who do want to send them back, but hey the US govt has done little to that effect, hence problem is as it stands now.

I wasn't talking about people on this board in particular I was meaning in the US in general.

Fact is the US and her people have been quite happy for the illegals to do the **** jobs. The UK is no different either, or any other country for that matter.

[Kapitan]

Beg to differ any illigal found to be working in dubai is quickly deported without any hesitation, my uncle recently came back from there and they are $h1T hot on immigration because there is no where to hide they will find you.

[joea]

Dubai is a very small country and as you said no place to hide. Quite different from the US or Europe.

[Konovalov]

Over here in Britain our problem is how the Home Office stuffed up and let out of prison over 1000 foreign national criminals including murderers, paedophiles, and rapists back onto the streets of Britain instead of promptly deporting them back to thier home countries. This is a huge scandel in Britain and rightly so.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,17129-2150862,00.html

[STEED]

Over here in Britain our problem is how the Home Office stuffed up and let out of prison over 1000 foreign national criminals including murderers, paedophiles, and rapists back onto the streets of Britain instead of promptly deporting them back to thier home countries. This is a huge scandel in Britain and rightly so.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,17129-2150862,00.html


Say that again this Government is corrupt to the core, what a bunch of useless http://www.langkawi.dk/midis/9.gifthey are.

[August]

Say that again this Government is corrupt to the core, what a bunch of useless http://www.langkawi.dk/midis/9.gifthey are.

Incompetant is not the same thing as corrupt, unless of course you feel these people were deliberately released in accordance with some dark evil plan.

[STEED]

Say that again this Government is corrupt to the core, what a bunch of useless http://www.langkawi.dk/midis/9.gifthey are.

Incompetant is not the same thing as corrupt, unless of course you feel these people were deliberately released in accordance with some dark evil plan.

The current British government is incompetent on all matters. :down:

[Sharkstooth]

What hypocrisy.

Quite happy for the illegals to do the poo poo jobs Americans don't want to do (we have the same thing here) but want them thrown out when a situation such as this arises.

Interestingly the majority of illegals in the US are believed to actually pay taxes

http://www.nysun.com/article/30872/ as one source. I'll find more later.

It would be cheaper and more beneficial to normalise their status.

The cost of rounding them up, prosecuting them and deporting them would be substantially more than letting them become US citizens and having them continues working. Make a cut off, those here get citizen ship, new illegals, automatic deportation.

What a crock.
The Mexicans I know of, and I know of quite a few......have good paying jobs --mostly in restaurants or landscaping. I don't have any idea if they are illegals or not, but this country would buck up and get the jobs done if they are not here.
The business owners hire them because they would have to pay more for a US citizen to do the job.

Contrary to some beliefs, America did NOT shut down and I am all in favor of shipping them back until they can get over here legally.

Would you like your country to have a mass immigration of illegal americans who work cheaper and enjoy many of the benifits legally in your country?? oh, and then demand that we be made citizens cause we are willing to work for a little bit less money and there are too many of us over there now to ship us back.

[XabbaRus]

Well that's the rub, they provide cheap labour. Why don't you campaign for proper pay, or a raising of the minimum wage so that Americans would do the jobs.

In the UK minimum wage is close to £5, that's almost $10 an hour. Pretty decent.

People might think I am talking as if there isn't a problem in the UK.

We get illegals who then claim asylum, we also get others who aren't illegal in entering but also then claim asylum. Now technically for some daft reason, while their application is being processed they aren't allowed to work, they are given vouchers and other benefits. The crazy thing is most WANT to work, legally, they want to take a job here. That's why they come. And many of them will do the minimum wage jobs that many Brits won't touch as they believe they are too good for that (believe me I see enough of them.) but the govt. won't let them work so they work illegally cash in hand and the result is they can get ripped off etc. I think quite a lot of Brits might not realise who are doing the ****ty jobs.

The thing is the problem in the US has been building up for many many years to the point you can't just throw them back out. Like many countries there was no coherent policy.

Personally I'd round up or the lazy bums who don't want to work and swap them 1 for 1 with an immigrant who does want to work.

[Ducimus]

What hypocrisy.

Quite happy for the illegals to do the poo poo jobs Americans don't want to do

I keep hearing this theme from the people favoring the illegals. What you actually mean is:

"...poo poo jobs that Americans won't do for the slave wages that are offered".

Americans are not afraid of getting their hands dirty...


Several years ago, my family consisted of ranch and field hands. My father used to pick pears. He now works as a foreman in a machinists workshop. My aunt used to work in the sorting shed, sorting what people had picked. She now works at JPL. I have alot of other family members with a similar story.

The point is that while they have moved on to bigger and better things, they started out, doing the crap jobs mexicans do today. When your poor, and just starting out, you take what opportunities you can get. Opportunites that are no longer avialable to american citiizens. Why hire an american when you can pick up some wetback off the highway, pay him less then minimum wage, and avoid taxes?

I don't buy into the "jobs american's won't do" bullcrap. My famlies proof that they will. As my father told me, "when your hungry enough, you'll do most anything". Ill bet theres quite a few americans just starting out who would probably rather work out in a field for minimum wage, then flip burgers at the local McD's.

It could also be a vicious circle. Jobs such as these promote old world values, like " a days work". Without jobs that teach these values, some of these virtues are fading out of our society.

I think i read somewhere, an intresting idea. Deport all the illegals, and all the people on welfare, make them do the jobs the illegals were doing.

[August]

Well that's the rub, they provide cheap labour. Why don't you campaign for proper pay, or a raising of the minimum wage so that Americans would do the jobs.

You're missing the point.

There is no minimum wage when the work is being performed by illegal labor. As long as that is the case then raising the minimum wage would only make it harder for people who do have a right to be in this country to get those jobs.

After all, why should a company hire someone at minumum wage, and pay disability and unemployment insurance and maybe healthcare benefits when they can just hire an undocumented worker and pay them whatever they want? How does raising the minumum wage help that?

[XabbaRus]

If you make them legal, ie documented then companies will have to pay the minimum wage for them, they would then be in competition with Americans for the jobs would be interesting to see what would happen.

After documentation of existing illegals, crack down on any new comers.

Ducimus you come from a good hardworking family. Your family is proof there are those who will work hard, but in all the time I spent in the US it seemed the immigrants, not just illegals were doing jobs Americans didn't want to. It's the same in the UK.

[August]

If you make them legal, ie documented then companies will have to pay the minimum wage for them, they would then be in competition with Americans for the jobs would be interesting to see what would happen.

At least as long as it takes to fire them and hire newly arrived illegal immigrants that will accept substandard wages.

After documentation of existing illegals, crack down on any new comers.

That won't happen because new illegals are arriving every day. If the government gives in to the present set it will just encourage more to get across the border any way they can and we'll be right back in the same situation.

[Kapitan]

Face it illegals are going to come in no matter how high the wall is, right across the mexican american border theres a wall and many risk thier lives every day to cross it.

Some who come from cuba even do real dumb things like flood thier boats with petrol and then threaten to set light to it, or even take people hostage at gun / knife point, or travel accross ina rubber ring.

Its going to be here today tommorrow and 50 years time get over it we can do little if some one wants to be some where they are going to try thier best.

Only way to realy stop it is to shoot the ruddy lot of them but thats not an option.

[August]

Face it illegals are going to come in no matter how high the wall is, right across the mexican american border theres a wall and many risk thier lives every day to cross it.

Unfortunately the fences and walls don't extend all the way from the atlantic to the pacific. There's no comparison to real border perimeters like the Isreal/Palestine wall or the old Iron Curtain. There are big gaps in unpopulated areas and even the parts that do have fences aren't patrolled as well as they need to be.

[Type XXIII]

Face it illegals are going to come in no matter how high the wall is, right across the mexican american border theres a wall and many risk thier lives every day to cross it.

Unfortunately the fences and walls don't extend all the way from the atlantic to the pacific. There's no comparison to real border perimeters like the Isreal/Palestine wall or the old Iron Curtain. There are big gaps in unpopulated areas and even the parts that do have fences aren't patrolled as well as they need to be.

What are you saying here, August? That Israel's wall in Palestine and the old Iron Curtain are/were fortunate? :huh:

Am I the only one who finds such a statement disturbing?

Anyway, why are there so many illegal immigrants? Is it so hard to become an American citizen nowadays? What ever happened to:

Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!

Revised?

[August]

Face it illegals are going to come in no matter how high the wall is, right across the mexican american border theres a wall and many risk thier lives every day to cross it.

Unfortunately the fences and walls don't extend all the way from the atlantic to the pacific. There's no comparison to real border perimeters like the Isreal/Palestine wall or the old Iron Curtain. There are big gaps in unpopulated areas and even the parts that do have fences aren't patrolled as well as they need to be.

What are you saying here, August? That Israel's wall in Palestine and the old Iron Curttain are/were fortunate? :huh:

Am I the only one who finds such a statement disturbing?

No, i was only speaking to the effectiveness of the three structures in keeping people out (or in the ICs case in).

Besides YOU'RE the one who says we ought to crack down on future illegals. Crack down? In what way? Should i find that statement disturbing as well?

[Type XXIII]

Huh?

For your information, I'm not XabbaRus' alter ego.

[Wim Libaers]

Face it illegals are going to come in no matter how high the wall is, right across the mexican american border theres a wall and many risk thier lives every day to cross it.

Unfortunately the fences and walls don't extend all the way from the atlantic to the pacific. There's no comparison to real border perimeters like the Isreal/Palestine wall or the old Iron Curtain. There are big gaps in unpopulated areas and even the parts that do have fences aren't patrolled as well as they need to be.

What are you saying here, August? That Israel's wall in Palestine and the old Iron Curtain are/were fortunate? :huh:

Am I the only one who finds such a statement disturbing?

Anyway, why are there so many illegal immigrants? Is it so hard to become an American citizen nowadays? What ever happened to:

Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!

Revised?

Er, no, that WAS the revision.
http://www.looksmarthowto.com/p/articles/mi_m1510/is_n61/ai_6896802

[August]

You're right sorry.

[Sea Demon]

What are you saying here, August? That Israel's wall in Palestine and the old Iron Curtain are/were fortunate? :huh:

Am I the only one who finds such a statement disturbing?

Unfortunately, we in America now need a wall to keep illegal immigrants out. There is simply no comparison to the Iron Curtain as that was designed to keep people in as prisoners against their will. We have a right to keep illegal immigrants out and protect our borders as we see fit. The UN, political correctness and such can stuff it.

What ever happened to:

Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!

Revised?

It's alive and well, thank you very much. Come legally. Obey our laws. We'd love to have you. :D

Kick in the front door and DEMAND citizenship and benefits, well you deserve to be thrown out. :stare:

[Iceman]

Funny ...no dodging the fact if you don't enter in thru the front door you are a thief and a robber....and well you know what happens there sometimes.

I find the comment ...."the jobs americans don't want" pretty sad too....America keeps losing jobs all the time to other...Cheap ..Slave type labor countries...I might need that landscape job someday.

Strain at the Knat and swallow the Camel again lol.

[PeriscopeDepth]

I think a more accurate term would be jobs that employers can pay illegals less for.

[TLAM Strike]

Here is an idea I got from Stormin’ Norman. As he said, “how many mines does it take to make a minefield? None, all you need is a press release.” We print out millions of leaflets in Spanish saying the US (or the Minutemen or someone) has placed land mines all along the border and air drop them in to Mexico. Have a little stick figure of a guy getting his legs blown off incase they don't understand what a Land Mine is and in big bold letters print: “Your first illegal step in to America could be your last!” On the back we put how to come legally. Like in the Gulf War with the leaflets that told Iraqis how to surrender. ;)

[August]

I think the Germans say it best:

http://www.ianhamiltonfinlay.com/images/ihfcard/achtungminen.jpg

[The Avon Lady]

The huddled masses (http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=20392_Video-_El_Uno_De_Mayo). :nope:

[Iceman]

Here in AZ we have Sheriff Joe

http://www.posse.net/graphics/joe.jpg


...inmates get a nice pair of pink coveralls to wear and stay at luxurios tents....hehehe Iceman laughs evily as Arizona temperatures now apporaching the seasonal 100 degree mark...yea I want to stay out all day in a tent....but ole sheriff says he has enough tents to stretch back to Mexico lol...I knida like that idea.... just make gulag tent hotels out in middle of AZ desert and see if tents start filling up.

We Love Joe here.. :)

[August]

We Love Joe here.. :)

I thought he had been bagged for embezzlement or something. I read some blurb on it several months ago. Nothing come of it?

[Iceman]

He's been sheriff here for yrs now and has and will be till he dies or resigns I'm sure....He has a very high approval rating here.

He likes to Enforce the law....which is good. :)

Not sure what he'd embezel...a bologna sandwich or some pink undies....He's a good guy.

After retiring from the DEA in 1992, Arpaio was elected Sheriff and has been re-elected by a landslide for three straight terms. He has considered running for Governor of Arizona, but says his heart is devoted to the people of Maricopa County and he plans on being their Sheriff as long as they want him to be

[August]

He's been sheriff here for yrs now and has and will be till he dies or resigns I'm sure....He has a very high approval rating here.

He likes to Enforce the law....which is good. :)

Not sure what he'd embezel...a bologna sandwich or some pink undies....He's a good guy.

After retiring from the DEA in 1992, Arpaio was elected Sheriff and has been re-elected by a landslide for three straight terms. He has considered running for Governor of Arizona, but says his heart is devoted to the people of Maricopa County and he plans on being their Sheriff as long as they want him to be

Heh, except for the locale and position hat blurb could have been written for my former mayor Buddy Cianci, now serving time in a federal pen for racketeering.

[Iceman]

He's been sheriff here for yrs now and has and will be till he dies or resigns I'm sure....He has a very high approval rating here.

He likes to Enforce the law....which is good. :)

Not sure what he'd embezel...a bologna sandwich or some pink undies....He's a good guy.

After retiring from the DEA in 1992, Arpaio was elected Sheriff and has been re-elected by a landslide for three straight terms. He has considered running for Governor of Arizona, but says his heart is devoted to the people of Maricopa County and he plans on being their Sheriff as long as they want him to be

Heh, except for the locale and position hat blurb could have been written for my former mayor Buddy Cianci, now serving time in a federal pen for racketeering.

Instead of August you could insert the name Skybird....your always so full of....cheer.

[August]

Instead of August you could insert the name Skybird....your always so full of....cheer.

Oooh touche'.