Posted on 09/02/2010 7:00:08 PM PDT by Candor7
Maricopa County Sheriffs Office
100 West Washington, Suite 1900
Phoenix, AZ 85003
Joe Arpaio
Sheriff
Phone: 602-876-1801
Fax: 602-251-3877
Switchboard:602-876-1000
www.mcso.org
The following is an official statement by Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio regarding todays lawsuit filed against his office by the U.S. Justice Department in Washington, D.C. for alleged refusal to turn over documents. It is followed by another statement from his Washington, D.C. attorney, Bob Driscoll.
The Obama administration has filed three lawsuits against Arizona in the last few weeks ... one against a college district, one against the state of Arizona and now one against my office. Each lawsuit centers on something to do with alleged racial discrimination.
These actions make it abundantly clear that Arizona, including this Sheriff, IS Washingtons new whipping boy. Now its time to take the gloves off.
As for todays lawsuit against my office: These people in Washington met with my attorneys only a few days ago. And in that meeting, Washington got our cooperation; they admitted they already have thousands of pages of the requested documents; and they were given access to interview my staff and get into my jails.
They smiled in our faces and then stabbed us in the back with this lawsuit. The Obama administration intended to sue us all along, no matter what we did to try to avert it. Washington isnt playing fair and its time Americans everywhere wake up and see this administration for what it really is. Calculating, underhanded at times and certainly not looking out for the best interests of the legal citizens residing in this country.
STATEMENT OF ROBERT N. DRISCOLL,
COUNSEL TO SHERIFF JOSEPH ARPAIO AND THE MARICOPA COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE
Todays lawsuit by the Department of Justice is part of a deliberate media strategy to get tough on Sheriff Arpaio and the Maricopa County Sheriffs Office and undermine immigration enforcement by a local Sheriff who is trying desperately to make up for this Administrations own indifference to the topic.
The DOJ suit speaks loudly by what it does not say. It does not allege that Sheriff Arpaio or the MCSO have discriminated against anyone because the DOJ, after 18 months of soliciting allegations against Sheriff Arpaio, has come up empty. Even the purported basis for the suit, which alleges a lack of cooperation, is a sham. In fact, after meeting with the DOJ last week, just last Friday, on behalf of MCSO, I informed the DOJ that MCSO would cooperate with all reasonable document requests and would schedule tours of MCSO facilities and interviews with senior MCSO command staff. We were awaiting a response from DOJ, and this lawsuit is apparently it. Clearly DOJ is more interested filing its third lawsuit in as many weeks against Arizona defendants than in looking into the allegations that purportedly gave rise to its investigation. This lawsuit is nothing more than an attempt to obscure the fact that DOJ still has no case. Todays suit over documents does not change that.
CONTACT: ROBERT N. DRISCOLL
(202) 239-3470
...starting with the REAL certificate of live birth!!! >:-(
I heart Sheriff Joe! These people have him and Arizona in their sights, but they aren’t caving in! God bless Sheriff Joe and Governor Brewer and the state of Arizona, our sister state in these UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, GOVERNED BY THE UNITES STATES CONSTITUTION!!!!
Praying for the safety of Sheriff Joe and his people, I think this is going to get worse than fisticuffs if HolyO and his bonehead flunkies keep it up—I keep thinking Waco, but I hope it doesn’t get that bad!! :-O
It is becoming more evident every day that the true racists and bigots are Holder, Obama, and most democrats. I think they want a race war.
The DOJ is suing Americans and protecting non-citizens. The role of a government is to protect the people. This administration hates the people.
Sod - "Sod off" is like saying "piss off" or "get lost" & "sod you" means something like "f*** off". It also means a chunk of lawn of course. You can usually tell the difference!
Go - Sheriff Joe!!
Organize an attack on a US Naval vessel killing over a dozen US Sailors, and the DOJ doesn’t have time to worry about prosecuting you, but if you have the audacity to try to enforce the laws and curtail illegal immigration, and obama’s gestapo will come at you like a spider monkey.
If nothing else, we can just say “Way to go” or “Real Americans are behind you” here:
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Obama is despicable.
Wonder what Joe has up his sleeve?... Heard him on Hannity today...he said they have all the material and records they asked for and then some. So this is truly a bogus undertaking, (as usual), by the Bo administration and the Democrats supporting him.
When Jim says there's a rebellion brewing he is not kidding....how much more the citizens will take only time will tell...but I sometimes wonder if Bo isn't purposely antagonizing the American people....he surely has no concerns for them and continues to reveal he opposes the people.
“...but I sometimes wonder if Bo isn’t purposely antagonizing the American people...”
Likely to be so, November is not looking good for the goons, they can use a flare-up.
Can’t see how this is not on purpose, no way!
I think Sheriff Joe needs ot kick out all federal agents from the county.
Now you’re getting the picture - that was the agenda from the get-go.
It’s time for Sheriff Joe to show this clown administration how much power the Sheriff’s have!
Of course Obama is purposefully antagonizing the people. He wants martial law, preferably before Nov. 2nd, ,and if he doesn’t get that, a stock market crash will do, or maybe he wants both simultaneously.( We still do not know what banks precipitated the electronic bank run on the fed to the tune of 500 billion dollars, Sept 18th, ,2008, that precipited the current economic crisis...why? Obama wants to do it again!)
Few in our nation actually understand who and what Obama truly is.
This is a good read and defines it exactly with no pretentions.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/ic05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html
Too many Republicans think it is business as usual, but it is not. And they had better get down to the business of saving the nation, or get the hell out of the way.
I will be lazy, and repeat my post of Aug. 31st on this matter:
“I think the Fed is piling on as much crap as they can because they are dead wrong, they know they are dead wrong, but they put themselves in a position that Arizona has to go down, or they, the Left lose far more than just a lawsuit.
Arizona is right, and the Fed is wrong. Thats why the Fed is piling on IMO.”
Additionally I believe they are trying to delay, drag out this action as long as possible to make Arizona look as bad as they can in the MSM, as well to deter other States from joining with Arizona in challenging their authority.
The news for the Obamajesty is that it ain’t going to go his way. It ISN’T going his way.
Just for fun, I'm going to don my autographed Sheriff Joe pink underwear to celebrate this evening.
I think you are right.
“Its time for Sheriff Joe to show this clown administration how much power the Sheriffs have!”
The Tea Party should back Sheriff Joe for President in 2012. The saying?
“There’s a new Sheriff in town.”
Run on a “build the fence” platform. 70% of Americans want the fence. That is a winning ticket.
Bingo. The politics of governmental fear, and most States shut up because they do not want to lose variouos federal funds. Thuggism works, up to a point, until the pointed tip of the knife is felt, or a gun barrel goes up someone's nostril.
Every red state in the Union should be passing a Bill 1070.
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