I closed my laptop yesterday afternoon with your post (the third on this thread) the latest one. I was wondering what kind of reaction your post would elicit. When my laptop resumed this morning, I see that, faithfully, FR has given you no slack.
Your posts in defense of your original statement demonstrate a fairly obvious lack of critical thinking, to put it mildly. To react with ‘What ever happened to free speech?’ shows your youth in terms of logic and debate, as well as “length of service” here on FreeRepublic. Free speech? What does a constitutional freedom granted to its ctizens offering preventing the government silencing voices of dissent have to do with an inane, random thought posted on a privately held web site? This was the second clue that you’re not able to demonstrate FR-level thinking and analysis.
So then you finally post (rather, lazily copy/pasted - as evidenced by the non-linked footnotes plainly following the verbatim source) comments about how the sheriff is under investigation by the FBI for abuse of power and racial profiling.
FreeRepublic.com is the big leagues, champ. we make it a habit of understanding not just the ‘What’, but the ‘Why’s and the ‘Who’s. In this case, it doesn’t take too much to understand that the FBI investigation is merely a reaction by the Eric Holder Justice Department to the Sheriff’s effective tactics to curb crime within his jurisdiction.
As for posting wikipedia-sourced content (I am assuming that’s where your quote is from, but you didn’t provide a link), well, while wikipedia is fantastic for non-political matters (like what engines were available in 1969 Mustangs), it slants rather obviously to the left in matters of political discourse. That you used it as a source for argument here on FreeRepublic signals to me that you might be a member of the wrong forum.
I’m sorry, I didn’t realize FR was a job that required strategic analysis or investment banker insight. I use FR as a place for news and to generally discuss how I feel or think like many others on here. Sheriff J is a crook - and a trumpster on many levels (his antics, and dressing up prisoners in pink jumpsuits). He has been the subject of many Federal inquiries; and these haven’t just happened under President Obama. Having just moved from AZ, I will say he has been losing a lot of support there because folks are catching on to his game. Generally speaking the best law or crime reducing effort that has happened in AZ are the relaxed gun laws. Other then that Sheriff J is a publicity whore and his crazy methods have not really produced a drop in statewide crime that has shown any real results statistically.