Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Conyers seeks DoJ probe into controversial sheriff(Joe Arpaio)
The Hill ^ | February 15, 2009 | Reid Wilson

Posted on 02/16/2009 4:12:39 AM PST by Scanian

House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.) and three fellow Democrats want the Department of Justice to investigate civil rights complaints against controversial sheriff Joe Arpaio.

The lawmakers, in a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano sent Friday, are seeking a probe into reports Arpaio has used skin color as a basis to search for illegal immigrants in Arizona.

Conyers and Reps. Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.), Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) and Bobby Scott (D-Va.) want to end a federal agreement that allows the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office to enforce immigration laws if the allegations turn out to be accurate.

It is hardly the first time Arpaio, sheriff of Arizona's largest county, has attracted criticism from those who take issue with his approach. Last year, Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon (D) and several immigrant rights groups called for a similar investigation, according to the Arizona Republic.

Arpaio has been at the center of other national controversies before, including instituting volunteer chain gangs and issuing prisoners pink underwear.

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: 111th; arpaio; conyers; holder; immigraqtion; leo; liberalagenda; probe
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-32 next last
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio is target of liberal scrutiny.
1 posted on 02/16/2009 4:12:40 AM PST by Scanian
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: Scanian

Is there any way to launch a civil suit against a racist Congressman who uses “racism” as a weapon against those he disagrees with?


2 posted on 02/16/2009 4:15:02 AM PST by angkor
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Scanian
Meanwhile.....

Kidnapping Capital of the U.S.A.

...and....

Conyers aide subpoenaed in $47-million Synagro probe

3 posted on 02/16/2009 4:16:22 AM PST by mewzilla (In politics the middle way is none at all. John Adams)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: angkor

Given what’s going on with the Synagro thing, I think Conyers’ court time may already be spoken for :)


4 posted on 02/16/2009 4:17:15 AM PST by mewzilla (In politics the middle way is none at all. John Adams)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: Scanian
Conyers and his fellow committee members accuse Arpaio of ordering deputies to search largely Hispanic neighborhoods in and around Phoenix for illegal immigrants. Those in the Hispanic community, the lawmakers wrote, "feel under siege."

A sane person might ask, "Isn't that where illegal aliens are to be found?"

5 posted on 02/16/2009 4:19:24 AM PST by angkor
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Scanian

I think Sheriff Joe has no problem with the DoJ folks coming over...he might even remind of the law and what it takes to enforce the law. I’m guessing he will demand public responses and the Obama administration will be hesitant to allow anyone in the public to realize that the Feds pick and choose what laws to enforce. Sheriff Joe has no preference....he’ll just enforce all of them....Federal, state, local, etc.


6 posted on 02/16/2009 4:20:50 AM PST by pepsionice
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Scanian; All
Conyers is the one that needs to be investigated...for TREASON!!

FYI: House Judiciary Committee chairman, democrat John Conyers Jr of Michigan, and HJC member, Maxine Waters, have each given their endorsements to the Revolutionary Communist Party movement/organization, "World Can't Wait--Drive Out the Bush Regime".

Click on the WCW link just below and see: "Endorsers of the Call to Drive Out the Bush Regime Include". Conyers' endorsement appears right after Ward Churchill's. Al Sharpton's, Maxine Waters and Jesse Jackson Jr's are further down the list:
http://worldcantwait.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2538&Itemid=2
_______________________________________________________________________

Fact: World Can't Wait--Drive Out the Bush Regime is a Maoist-revolutionary movement organized by the Revolutionary Communist Party. (scroll down the list that appears (after clicking link) to find the World Can't Wait organization --rwor.org is the website of the Revolutionary Communist Party):
http://rwor.org/a/rwlink/links.htm
_______________________________________________________________________

From David Horowitz's FrontpageMag.com /DiscoverTheNetworks.org:
Profile: World Can't Wait (WCW)

*Revolutionary communist movement that stages protests against the Bush administration

*Organizes college and high-school students

*Founded in June 2005 by Charles Clark Kissinger, a longtime leader of the Revolutionary Communist Party

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7213
_______________________________________________________________________

Endorsers of the [World Can't Wait] Call to Drive Out the Bush Regime Include:

James Abourezk, Aris Anagnos, Rocky Anderson, Anti-Flag, Edward Asner, Russell Banks, Ed Begley Jr., Harry Belafonte, St. Clair Bourne, Gabriel Byrne, Margaret Cho, Ward Churchill, Paulette Cole, US Rep John Conyers Jr., John Densmore, Jesse Diaz Jr., Michael Eric Dyson, Steve Earle, Niles Eldredge, Daniel Ellsberg, Eve Ensler, Laura Flanders, Jane Fonda, Martin Garbus, Senator Mike Gravel, Andre Gregory, Sam Hamill, Suheir Hammad, Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Jr., Mumia Abu-Jamal, Rickie Lee Jones, Sarah Jones, Brig. Gen. (Ret) Janis Karpinski, Jonathan Kozol, Rabbi Michael Lerner, US Rep. Cynthia McKinney, Robin Meyers, Mark Crispin Miller, Tom Morello, Viggo Mortensen, John Nichols, US Rep. Major Owens, Grace Paley, Harvey Pekar, Sean Penn, Michelle Phillips, Harold Pinter, Michael Ratner, Mark Ruffalo, US Rep. Bobby Rush, Susan Sarandon, Richard Serra, Jeff Sharlet, Rev. Al Sharpton, Cindy Sheehan, Martin Sheen, Nancy Spero, Gloria Steinem, Lynne Stewart, Serj Tankian, Sunsara Taylor, Studs Terkel, Gore Vidal, Kurt Vonnegut, Alice Walker, Naomi Wallace, US Rep. Maxine Waters, Cornel West, Ann Wright, Howard Zinn, and thousands more who have already joined us.

http://worldcantwait.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2538&Itemid=2
_______________________________________________________________________

On Oct 5, 2006, Democrat Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, John Conyers Jr, the same guy who is leading the 'investigation' of the Bush administration, gave a SPEECH to the World Can't Wait--Drive Out the Bush Regime organization, the "anti-war" front for the Revolutionary Communist Party!
http://www.worldcantwait.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3801&Itemid=69
_______________________________________________________________________

Also from the Revolutionary Communist Party website:
"Tearing Up the U.S. Paper Tiger in Korea:
How 300,000 Chinese Troops Snuck into Korea and Kicked the Ass of the U.S. Armed Forces"
RW #1059, June 18, 2000:
http://rwor.org/a/v22/1052-059/1059/korea.htm
_______________________________________________________________________

Mission Statement from the Revolutionary Communist Party website (revcom.us or rwor.org):

"Create Public Opinion, Seize Power: We are preparing minds and organizing forces for the time when there is a major crack in the system, whenever it comes and wherever it comes from: an opening that makes it possible to bring the future Revolutionary Army of the Proletariat (R.A.P.) into the field and wage a revolutionary armed struggle that actually has a chance of winning.

And we have said that building our party itself is the most important part of organizing forces for revolution. This is true now, and it is true looking forward to the creation of that future R.A.P. and the waging of that armed struggle.":

http://revcom.us/a/v20/1000-1009/1000/barw.htm
_______________________________________________________________________

Judiciary Chairman Conyers Issues Report Documenting Bush Abuses, Calling For Further Committee Investigation, Blue-Ribbon Panel, and Criminal Probes

For Immediate Release
January 13, 2009
Contact: Jonathan Godfrey, Lillian German

(Washington, D.C.) -- Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, Jr. released a nearly-500 page report documenting numerous abuses and excesses of the Bush administration. The report, titled "Reining in the Imperial Presidency: Lessons and Recommendations Relating to the presidency of George W. Bush," contains 47 separate recommendations designed to restore the traditional checks and balances of our constitutional system. Recommendations include calls for continued committee investigation, a blue ribbon commission to fully investigate administration activities, and independent criminal probes.

"Even after scores of hearings, investigations, and reports, we still do not have answers to some of the most fundamental questions left in the wake of Bush’s Imperial Presidency," Conyers said. Pointing to allegations of torture and inhumane treatment, extraordinary rendition, warrantless domestic surveillance, the Valerie Plame Wilson-leak, and the U.S. attorney scandal, Conyers continued, "Investigations are not a matter of payback or political revenge – it is our responsibility to examine what has occurred and to set an appropriate baseline of conduct for future administrations."

In addition to the set of recommendations, the report contains a foreword by Chairman Conyers and detailed discussions of: the administration’s legal approach to presidential power; the politicization of the Department of Justice; the administration’s far-reaching assaults on individual liberty (including torture, extraordinary rendition, and warrantless domestic surveillance); the misuse of Executive Branch authority; the administration’s retribution against its critics; and the administration’s excessive secrecy, noncompliance with congressional oversight, and manipulation of pre-Iraq War intelligence.

http://judiciary.house.gov/news/090113_1.html

The full report [487 pages on pdf]:
http://judiciary.house.gov/hearings/printers/110th/IPres090113.pdf

7 posted on 02/16/2009 4:21:59 AM PST by ETL (Smoking gun evidence on ALL the ObamaRat-commie connections at my newly revised FR Home/About page)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Scanian

Why just not go for it instead of letting it be announced? I really wish they would just do it, that way all Americans could see what blatant sorry excuses for representatives these people really make!


8 posted on 02/16/2009 4:23:20 AM PST by sirchtruth (Gravity Of The Situation...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: angkor
...who uses “racism” as a weapon against those he disagrees with?

..that question was asked 40 years ago, and ignored

9 posted on 02/16/2009 4:25:28 AM PST by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: Scanian

We is in charge now.

Ecpect to see a lot more of this.

It’s just the beginning.


10 posted on 02/16/2009 4:27:17 AM PST by Venturer
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Doogle

I want a DoJ inquiry into what happens to all those frozen
turkeys for the poor that keep disappearing on Thanksgiving!


11 posted on 02/16/2009 4:40:06 AM PST by Dr. Ursus
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 9 | View Replies]

To: mewzilla
the Synagro thing

Heh.

After reading your comment, I was curious about developments on Synagro and this is what turned up. Last week's Detroit News story parading Conyers' wife Monica in her full glory, and writing about her in an odd juvenile style that mimics Conyers and her childish antics.

It's too ridiculous to be true, but it is! (With my emphases added)

http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090211/METRO/902110472/1410/METRO01

Conyers, the wife of U.S. Rep. John Conyers, D-Detroit, accused the media of being what she called "Conyer-ized" and blaming her for everything.

"If it's raining outside and it's only raining in one spot, Monica Conyers made it happen," she said of the media. "It's always Monica, Monica, Monica, Monica. I guess they like my name."

Conyers also gave her side of a loud argument with Kenyatta last week that began over proposed budget cuts and escalated into shouting in a City Hall hallway.

Conyers told Darcell that she couldn't remember whether she insulted Kenyatta for having a GED or wearing a hearing aid, but said she was only inquiring about whether he was in failing health.

Conyers said the argument began when Kenyatta disrespected her, challenged her authority and turned his back on her while she was talking.

"Everyone wants to make Monica out to be this bad person, but I'm going to say this to Detroiters and I'm not going to say it again: I don't care who it is or what it is, I'm going to defend myself," Conyers told Darcell. "I love men. I have four brothers. My whole family is full of men ... But I am not, I am not going to tolerate disrespect of women by men."

Sources familiar with the argument said Kenyatta suggested Conyers needs mental health assistance and called her "Councilmember A," referring to an unnamed member of the panel referenced in federal documents as taking bribes in the Synagro Technologies Inc. sludge scandal.

12 posted on 02/16/2009 4:41:45 AM PST by angkor
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: Venturer

>>>> Expect to see a lot more of this. <<<<<<

Conyers has been playing this game for a long time.

Nothing new.


13 posted on 02/16/2009 4:43:14 AM PST by angkor
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 10 | View Replies]

To: Venturer

(Illegal) immigrants some words confuse democrats and other liberals.


14 posted on 02/16/2009 4:43:23 AM PST by Vaduz
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 10 | View Replies]

To: angkor

Detroit and Chicago. What’s not to love, eh?


15 posted on 02/16/2009 4:44:08 AM PST by mewzilla (In politics the middle way is none at all. John Adams)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies]

To: Venturer
Ecpect to see a lot more of this.

What? Crappy spelling? Or kissing illegal alien ass?

16 posted on 02/16/2009 4:45:33 AM PST by VeniVidiVici (If the Democrats wish to foist national health care on Americans, give us the same plan Congress has)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 10 | View Replies]

To: angkor
The latest on Synagro....

Figure in Detroit Synagro probe gets new lawyer

17 posted on 02/16/2009 4:46:24 AM PST by mewzilla (In politics the middle way is none at all. John Adams)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies]

To: Scanian
used skin color as a basis to search for illegal immigrants

While ignoring all the red headed white boys named Rodriguez........

18 posted on 02/16/2009 4:48:36 AM PST by Hot Tabasco (Welcome to Detroit, the Renaissance city......)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: mewzilla

And there we have it:

“Detroit City Council President Monica Conyers is also under investigation, persons familiar with the case said. “


19 posted on 02/16/2009 4:50:11 AM PST by angkor
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 17 | View Replies]

To: Dr. Ursus
I want a DoJ inquiry into every Senator and Congressman tax paying records for the last 20 years.
20 posted on 02/16/2009 4:50:42 AM PST by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-32 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson