ongoing racist bullshit in arizona thread

he conflated your post with my joke post re: all crimes being punishable by death

haha okay that makes more sense

ftr my dystopia: oklahoma city, if it were filled with italian people

Poor Italian people...

what a relief!

http://www.kpho.com/news/27272012/detail.html

i mean, what

Steven Seagal, Sheriff Raid Valley Home In Tank

PHOENIX -- Sheriff Joe Arpaio rolled out the tanks to take down a man suspected of cockfighting.

West Valley residents in the neighborhood are crying foul after armored vehicles, including a tank, rolled into their neighborhood to make the bust.

* VIDEO: Steven Seagal, Sheriff Raid Valley Home In Tank

Neighbor Debra Ross was so worried she called 911 and went outside where a nearby home had its windows blown out, was crawling with dozens of SWAT members in full gear, armored vehicles and a bomb robot.

“When the tank came in and pushed the wall over and you see what's in there, and all it is, is a bunch of chickens,” Ross said.

In a massive show of force on Monday, the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office executed a search warrant and arrested the homeowner, Jesus Llovera, on charges of suspected cockfighting.

Llovera was alone in the house at the time of the arrest, and he was unarmed.

“I think taxpayers should be shocked,” said Robert Campus, Llovera’s attorney. Campus said he believes the operation costs tens of thousands of dollars.

Deputies had no probable cause to believe Llovera was armed or dangerous, according to Campus.

Campus said he believes the entire scene was basically a stage, to help actor Steven Seagal’s TV show, “Lawman.”

Seagal was riding in the tank.

The Sheriff’s Department has entered into a contract with Seagal and part of that contract gives Seagal carte blanche to go along with the sheriff as he arrests people.

Thousands of dollars in damages were made to the property and 115 birds were euthanized on the spot.

Llovera was convicted of a misdemeanor last year of attending a cockfight and has no history of owning weapons.

Yet the sheriff’s office said they had reasons to believe Llovera might be armed.

“We're going to err on the side of caution. We're going to make sure that we have the appropriate amount of force in case we do run into anything like that,” said Sgt. Jesse Spurgin.

this isn't racist exactly but it is just wtf

does the AZ legislation ever, like, do their jobs and pass laws that are actually legal and can be implemented

lol?

we're doomed

ohhhh my goddddd

wow i just

though i bet among conservative AZers the real feeling is "illegal except in the case of rape, incest, or if your girl gets knocked up by a black or mexican or something".

and the principled life people wanted to make a stand against that. very dredd-scott-code-word kind of thinking...

It's not even that the thing being legislated against IS A THING! It's just to make doctors need ANOTHER piece of legal paperwork done before the procedure ca proceed. And provide extra basis for arrest and persecution, if that turns out to be convenient for anyone.

*can proceed

lol'ing at the potential responses to any "Reason for abortion" form fields

"baby daddy is a Republican"

"my vagina was drunk"

good god that state

It would be kind of amazing if this all ended up in Baja Arizona actually happening

That a woman should have to state a reason for abortion to anyone aside from herself, her healthcare provider, or her god (or w/e) is the most insidious idea here, and likely the wedge they're trying to drive.

Shit is private, full stop.

god hates abortions tho next argument please

oh shit :(

"to piss off Jesus"

"I'm afraid my baby might be Chinese."

gosh didn't see this coming

lol idiots

Yep. Arizona state legislature is basically paid to write political fan-fiction and waste the time of the courts, as far as I can tell. They certainly haven't solved any of the states' deep financial problems, or our water issues, or all the dirty as fuck old coal plants we should fix up/replace...

But hey, if its offensively divisive immigration laws you want, they gotcha covered!

I thought yall lived in NM?

Arizona state legislature is basically paid to write political fan-fiction and waste the time of the courts, as far as I can tell.

well put

xpost we used to!

Arizona state legislature is basically paid to write political fan-fiction and waste the time of the courts, as far as I can tell.

^^this is so perfectly put

oh lol shakes

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/16/us/16immigration.html?_r=1&ref=us

Georgia, too.

if the GOP really hates trial lawyers so much they should stop handing them such easy work

lololol

http://jonathanturley.org/2011/09/05/arizona-to-charge-people-to-see-incarcerated-family-or-friends/

Not racist per se, but definitely.

oops, should read "but definitely bullshit"

are you fucking kidding me, that is monstrous. want to start a fund to pay for people who just want to visit their loved ones but don't have 25 bucks to spare. can't fucking believe what assholes people are.

like I mean I know ppl are assholes but even still they can come up with some "did you for sure know how big an asshole I was?" shit

didn't think they could top rotten bologna sandwiches in their pink underwear desert tent quarters, but here it is, topped

well tbf remember when jesus said "i was in prison, and you paid $25 and visited me"

it really feels like nothing could spike my sympathy for prisoners more than the succession of bs legislation, & the erosion of prisoner rights, over the last year

ongoing racist bullshit in arizona alabama thread

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2011/10/07/339067/alabama-illegal-to-live-undocumented/

http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/water-image-268x300.jpg

At least one utility company in Alabama posted a sign informing its customers that a section of Alabama’s extreme anti-immigrant law prohibits them from providing water service to undocumented immigrants. According to the sign at Allgood Water Works in Blount County, Alabama, customers must have “an Alabama driver’s license or an Alabama picture ID card on file” by the date that the immigration law went into effect; otherwise, they risked losing their water service.

Sadly, the picture for Alabama’s immigrants is even grimmer than this sign suggests. Indeed, under one provision of the state’s immigration law, HB 56, it is a felony for an undocumented immigrant to even attempt to do business with Alabama’s state-run water agencies:

An alien not lawfully present in the United States shall not enter into or attempt to enter into a business transaction with the state or a political subdivision of the state and no person shall enter into a business transaction or attempt to enter into a business transaction on behalf of an alien not lawfully present in the United States. [...]

A violation of this section is a Class C felony.

In Alabama, Class C felonies are punishable by up to ten years in prison — meaning that undocumented people in Alabama can now be locked up for an entire decade if they attempt to take a bath in their own home.

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2011/10/06/337764/sen-sessions-its-not-sad-immigrant-children-too-scared-to-go-to-school-its-sad-theyre-here-in-the-first-place/

Sen. Sessions: It’s Not Sad That Immigrant Children Are Too Scared To Go To School, It’s Sad They’re Even Here

By Marie Diamond on Oct 6, 2011 at 12:20 pm

As ThinkProgress has been reporting, the decision of a federal judge last week to allow Alabama’s harshest-in-the-nation immigration law to go into effect has had heartbreaking consequences. Hispanic families have been fleeing Alabama in droves and thousands of children have been too terrorized to show up for school. The law allows police to racially profile and pull over anyone they suspect might be in the country illegally, and blatantly violates children’s constitutional right to an education by forcing schools to check students’ immigration status before they can be enrolled.

But Republican lawmakers who supported the measure have been remarkably short on compassion for immigrant families that have been torn apart and other residents who have been deeply affected by their exodus. During an interview on conservative radio host Laura Ingraham’s show, Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions (R) said Hispanic children being too afraid to go to school is merely the just consequence of immigrants’ unlawful decision to live in the state:

INGRAHAM: Do you think it’s bad all these Hispanic kids have disappeared from the schools? Do you think that’s a bad thing?

SESSIONS: All I would just say to you is that it’s a sad thing that we’ve allowed a situation to occur for decades that large numbers of people are in the country illegal and it’s going to have unpleasant, unfortunate consequences.

Sessions said he “couldn’t agree more” with Ingraham when she called this a “sob story” that simply proves that “enforcement of the law works!” It’s a good thing, Ingraham suggested, that immigrants are responding by leaving Alabama. “This is a rational response,” Sessions remarked, arguing that “one of the sad consequences of illegal immigration is families can be hurt in the process” — indicating that families brought the government’s harsh crackdown on themselves by seeking a better life here.

there's no "constitutional right to an education" btw, though there should be, but holy shit

oh there is in alabama apparently, nvm me

anyway denying people access to running water? who are paying for it anyway? what the fuck

this is fucking shameful, is what it is.

Oh wow, my old senator is still an absolute cunt? This is my surprised face. I am surprised.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/09/us/politics/judge-finds-manipulation-in-recall-vote-in-arizona.html

bizarre pullquote:

The judge also said Ms. Cortes’s case did not resemble the subterfuge displayed in “The Distinguished Gentleman,” a movie in which the actor Eddie Murphy, playing a character named Jeff Johnson, runs for Congress after an incumbent with the same name dies.

“Russell Pearce mentioned the Constitution six times tonight, and Jerry Lewis mentioned it zero,” said Craig Ray, a Pearce ally who was convinced that his candidate would stave off the challenge.

lollin'