ongoing racist bullshit in arizona thread

wow! it would be so exciting if this was true. unfortunately she doesn't seem able to produce any sort of source, proof, evidence, factual basis, anything. which is surprising since you'd think arizona law enforcement would be able to produce all kinds of statistics given the proportion of the budget most arizona municipalities throw in. she's an idiot. she wasn't even elected. she's a godsend to the republicans in arizona.

lol at this

Arizona republican primary is such a race to the bottom.

Persecution against Japanese was against legal immigrants btw.

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/10/az-gop-mailer-dem-is-letting-illegal-immigrants-shoot-up-our-neighborhoods.php

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/images/yuma-az-mailer-original.jpg
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/images/yuma-az-mailer2-original.jpg

mad photoshop skills

It is so weird, there's all these totally homemade looking signs on many corners in town saying that some or another politician opposes SB 1070. For me that's a bonus but I'm pretty sure these signs are saying it is a reason to not vote for that politician.

Also, naturally I read these signs as saying "GIFFORDS OPPOSES SUGGEST BAN 1070."

http://arizonaspolitics.blogspot.com/2010/10/following-money-in-arizonas-politics_13.html

why do they need to make a separate org to fund these things?

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130833741

Last year, two men showed up in Benson, Ariz., a small desert town 60 miles from the Mexico border, offering a deal.

Glenn Nichols, the Benson city manager, remembers the pitch.

"The gentleman that's the main thrust of this thing has a huge turquoise ring on his finger," Nichols said. "He's a great big huge guy and I equated him to a car salesman."

What he was selling was a prison for women and children who were illegal immigrants.

"They talk [about] how positive this was going to be for the community," Nichols said, "the amount of money that we would realize from each prisoner on a daily rate."

But Nichols wasn't buying. He asked them how would they possibly keep a prison full for years — decades even — with illegal immigrants?

"They talked like they didn't have any doubt they could fill it," Nichols said.

That's because prison companies like this one had a plan — a new business model to lock up illegal immigrants. And the plan became Arizona's immigration law.

unbelievable

its like terminator level dystopia

WTF is wrong with Arizona

People behind a new church in Phoenix are trying to stay ahead of any potential controversy or hate that accompanied the announcement of a proposed mosque near Ground Zero in New York City.

A new dome-like structure near 19th Avenue along Interstate 10 in Phoenix is the Light of the World church, a nondenominational Christian church hoping to modernize traditional worship services, a church spokesman said

Since the distinctive dome shape went up, church leaders said they have received phone calls from concerned neighbors who've mistaken the building for an Islamic mosque.

On Wednesday, church officials hung a sign reminding people they're Christian congregation. "We're trying to let people know that we're Christian and our churches are modern," said Uzieo Martinez.

They better be careful, pretty soon people will start thinking they're fundamentalists as well!

Whoa wtf at this:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130833741

and how did I not hear about it

Yeah, posted that before.

Scary.

u mosque, doggie?

so fed up with AZ. my (mexican) momz moved last year from phoenix up to prescott which is a pinch more lax (tho still the site of that stupid mural fiasco a few months back) and like of all the things for her to worry about its citizen papers in order?

also, everything else that gd state does wrong

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zh8GBl3Jnac&feature=player_embedded#!

http://colorlines.com/archives/2011/02/arizona_introduces_omnibus_immigration_bill.html

*foams from mouth*

http://www.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/02/22/arizona.double.killing/index.html?hpt=T2

It is difficult for me, as someone who is on balance more against the death penalty than for it due to the nature of our judicial system, to feel like this verdict was unwarranted.

That woman lived in my hometown and has a truly bizarre saga. http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20090222/NEWS01/702229930

props to that arizona jury.

no

sweet christ. that link, dan.

god what a heartbreaking little detail:

Posing as border patrol and law enforcement officers, Forde, Gaxiola and Bush, whom prosecutors identified as the gunman, showed up at the Flores home after midnight, several hours after the family had returned from a shopping trip in Tucson to buy shoes for their daughter for summer camp.

She sounds really crazy.

That said I'm still against the death penalty.

yeah jesus that is terrfying

I'm still not for the death penalty. LWP would be fine, though.

Well, as I said I am not for the death penalty either. This case is testing me.

life with electrodes applied sounds right

lol dan lots of people do lots of really horrible shit, shouldn't really affect your opinion on whether the death penalty is OK or not

it helps determine in individual circumstances imo

i mean i dont wanna turn this into a death penalty thread or whatever, but no not really

Once inside, the gunman shot Flores in the chest and Gonzales in the leg. Brisenia (a 9-year old girl who was sleeping on her couch with her puppy before the group banged on the door after midnight) was later shot as she pleaded for her life.

the paranthetical is mine. this case is testing my conflicted feelings for the death-penalty, too.

i don't either, but yes totally xp

Not rah rah death penalty either, but if it represents the strictest punishment available then I'm for that message being sent.

what is the opposite of splitting hairs because that's what you just did

using conditioner?

lol "sending a message" to deter crimes you really really don't like = you're for the death penalty

also to make really bad people die, don't forget

i am against the death penalty, in this instance.

the woman maintains her innocence (i think she does anyway, from earlier stories i've read) and that should be enough not to kill her, even though her guilt has been proven. it's always possible something has gone very wrong in prosecuting this crime. i don't think so, based on what i've read, but the possibility is always there.

as far as "sending a message", i wonder if keeping creepy shitbags like this alive forever is a better example than letting them be executed and forgotten. probably about even tbh (ie not much of an example either way...)

As someone who is extremely pro-death penalty, this verdict is comforting.

But fuck Arizona anyway for all that anti-immigration bullshit. That's so insane.

the woman maintains her innocence ........ and that should be enough not to kill her

kind of a handy condition, that?

yup