Posted on 11/29/2010 7:12:06 AM PST by raccoonradio
The self-proclaimed "toughest sheriff" in America, Phoenix's Joe Arpaio, who has survived six separate inmate lawsuits trying to stop him from playing Christmas music, will begin playing the tunes again this year - starting Monday with "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,""Frosty the Snowman" and "Feliz Navidad."
The 8,000 inmates also will hear, among others, "A Christmas Kwanzaa Solstice," "Over the Skies of Israel," "Ramadan," "Llego a La Ciudad," "Let it Snow" and "Rodolpho El Reno de la Nariz Rojita."
"Maybe the holiday music can help lift the spirits of the men and women who are away from friends and family during the holidays, not just the inmates, but the dedicated men and women who work in the Maricopa County Jails," the sheriff said in an announcement Sunday.
The Maricopa County Sheriff's Office, to which Sheriff Arpaio was first elected in 1992 after a 25-year career at the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), has played the holiday songs all day, every day, during previous seasons. The latest inmate lawsuit was dismissed in federal court in December 2009.
Sheriff Arpaio has long expressed his fondness for Christmas music, especially "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" and anything by Alvin and the Chipmunks, so it was with some glee last year that he announced in a red-and-green press release that the lawsuit had been dismissed and the music would begin.
"We keep winning these lawsuits. Inmates should stop acting like the Grinch who stole Christmas and give up wasting the court's time with such frivolous assertions," the press release read.
Inmates have sued six times claiming that being forced to listen to the Christmas songs 12 hours a day was in violation of their civil and religious rights and a cruel and unusual punishment, but
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~Scarlett O'Hara
No weights.
QVC as only TV Channel.
Baptist Bible thumping radio station (only one)
Dick and Jane Books as only reading material.
Talk about not wanting to go back.......
thanks—yeah the title stuck in my head even though I hadn’t heard it for awhile. I used to have cassettes, mix tapes made by other people and “traded” (prob don’t have it anymore)
and that was on it...
You didn’t read my post. You read some of my words and then launched off to fight some villain in your imagination. It ain’t me, dude.
I didn’t say starve.
Read again.
Pardon me, you said “hungry.” “After a few YEARS of being hungry” was another quote, more or less. I’m not positive, but I bet if a person felt hungry for “years” he/she would feel as though they were starving. That is nothing short of torture. :)
Cradle in the Shadow of a Cross
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUexkdB-0eI
TOFU
Feed them TOFU!
I remember seeing on some documentary tv show one time about a prison that served “punishment loaf” to trouble-makers in solitary. It was highly nutritious and they could have as much as they wanted, some kind of tasteless veggy-bread that the prisoners hated with a passion and became better behaved to avoid... until the courts stepped in and made the prison stop doing it.
Being compelled to hear "Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer" and similar dreck is indeed cruel ... but since all inmates in Maricopa County are being subjected to it, it's not unusual.
I do, however, pity the poor Corrections Officers ...
Vegan prisons...we might get bipartisan support for that.
Money quotes:
"In one common version, it is made from a mixture of wheat bread, non-dairy cheese, various vegetables, and mixed with vegetable oil, tomato paste, powdered milk and dehydrated potato flakes. Prisoners do not need utensils to eat it, and it is generally served on a piece of paper, rather than a tray."
"In April 2010, Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County Arizona won a federal judgment for the constitutionality of nutraloaf."
Sheriff Joe!
Go, Joe!
I remember that! I thought it was a hoot. It would save us a ton of money on medical care if we served them a vegan diet. And they might just decide NOT to re-offend.
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