Posted on 04/17/2015 6:46:28 PM PDT by nickcarraway
In perhaps the oddest nonprofit synergy since the not-especially-health-conscious 7-Eleven baked pink ribbon-shaped donuts for Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is buddying up with 82-year-old Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio to get the entire US prison system to serve meat-less meals to inmates.
Yes, that would be the same Joe Arpaio who only yesterday lost a racial profiling case that determined that his office disproportionately targets Latinos for traffic stops, the same Joe Arpaio who’s staunch support for the anti-immigrant SB1070 led San Francisco’s city government to boycott of the entire state of Arizona for a time, and the same Joe Arpaio who uses his cruel mistreatment of prisoners to demagogue his way to re-election again and again in law-and-order Phoenix. This time, Arpaio is linking arms with none other than Pamela Anderson, because in 2013 the Maricopa County jail system went meat-free, making Arpaio a humanitarian in PETA’s eyes. As Think Progress observed, Arpaio’s commitment to animal welfare seems fairly minimal compared to his lust for depriving his inmates of daily necessities (and saving taxpayers money). Most individuals Arpaio’s office oversees are low-level offenders awaiting trial, or immigrants housed in an outdoor tent city, yet they’re expected to pay for their own meals while incarcerated.
Further, according to Think Progress, a Fox affiliate toured the factory that produces the inmates’ food, and found brown carrots and soy that looked like wood chips, something Arpaio dismissed as nothing more than harmless dirt. (Simpsons fans may remember Principal Skinner responding to Mrs. Krabappel’s accusation that she could “taste the newsprint” in the cafeteria lunch by saying it provided “essential inks.”)
Meanwhile, whatever savings the sheriff might have racked up through his campaign of unconstitutional deprivation will go to the $21.9 million payout in the racial profiling case. This is the man whom PETA is hailing as a hero in their quixotic campaign to reduce meat consumption.
So politics have made strange bedfellows once again. “America’s Toughest Sheriff” has also been known to force inmates to wear pink underwear, which does open up a potential partnership with the Komen Foundation down the line.
The guy isn’t standing up for the Constitution, he’s taking a dump on it. His department pulls people over for no other reason than they happen to be Hispanic. Most of his prisoners haven’t been convicted,yet they are treated like animals. But you probably agree that the Patriot act is a good thing.
We have very good Sheriff here in Yuma County by the name of Leon Wilmot. Very conservative, gets the job done and doesn’t treat Yuma County as his own personal fiefdom. You can keep Joe.
Looks like a Meal served at Papillon Elementary School.
Yet another complex confusing logic path.
Bottom line, the elites want to cut the sheeple’s real meat consumption since that makes you sicker. More sick sheeple equals more profit for the elites’ medical/death industry - and more killing of sheeple, which they think there are just “too many” on the planet. They’ve thought this since at least the 1700’s, which is laughable.
Part of the reason for the vegetarian meals in the jail is that Arpaio is a vegetarian, according to his FB comments.
No meat? Cruel and unusual punishment
Let them eat quiche!
Where was PERA when the BLM was slaughtering and burying Mr. Bundy’s cows?
Yay for Joe.
Didn’t like jail, sean? That’s kind of the idea.
I’m developing a problem with the ‘tough’ approach.
You put a thousand men in a cage, then release them back into the general population with no skills and a record that will guarantee that they’ll never have employment. You treat them like animals for years, then expect them to happily integrate back into the population as civilized human beings.
This doesn’t make sense.
All we have with prison is punishment - with no thought to outcome.
Honestly, the definition of “tough” is relative.
Honestly, think about Mexican prisons. Think about Turkish prisons. Think about the vast, vast, vast majority of countries that actually HAVE tough prisons with genuinely terrible, awful conditions and guards that can do just about anything to prisoners.
Now I am not saying that bad crap doesn’t happen in prisons. What I am saying is relatively speaking we have a lot better conditions than most places in the world.
Eating nutriloaf is a first world prison problem. Most other places you’re lucky to get bread and water and twice a day.
We have people that complete degrees, high school and college degrees in prison. They become LAWYERS behind bars in prison. They get sex changes paid for by taxpayers. They spend decades, DECADES on death row and die of natural causes instead of by some form of execution.
The people who don’t want to change, in prison, DO NOT CHANGE. It’s their choice. The ones who do want something different, do.
Your last statement is patently false.
I assume it’s a typo, but the word “notorious” is in the wrong place in the headline.
The Simpsons still brings the funny every once in a while.
Very , very surprised the Sheriff Joe would let his name be associated with the likes of PETA, a completely PC organization that Joe usually wouldn’t take the time to spit at.
WTH is “unconstitutional deprivation?!” Not feeding T-bones to jail inmates who include a large number of illegal alien lawbreakers?
Tent city jail, pink underwear, no tobacco, no caffeine, no condiments, no TV unless an inmate pedals a stationary bike, limited TV channels, no meat, chain gangs. There’s a reason Arpaio is popular.
Grandstanding asses will attract other grandstanding asses to oppose them. That’s the biz called “world,” sweetheart.
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