Posted on 08/05/2011 11:27:51 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
The Quartzsite, Ariz., police officers who were being dismissed by a police chief described by the mayor as a "Nazi" have been ordered by a judge to be reinstated until after a show cause hearing scheduled Aug. 15 and after hearings before a "neutral decisionmaker."
The orders came in two temporary restraining orders issued this week by LaPaz County Superior Court Judge Randolph A. Bartlett, who acted on emergency pleadings by an attorney representing the officers.
The weeks-long confrontation erupted in Quartzsite when city officials ordered police to remove a woman from a town meeting, even though the mayor was pleading her cause.
Most recently, officials with the office of the state attorney general took the unusual step of releasing a statement, confirming there is "reasonable cause" to believe officials in Quartzsite were breaking the law, even though the investigation was not fully finished.
State Attorney General Tom Horne said about his investigation of Quartzsite:
Normally, we do not release the results of an investigation until it has been completed. However, because this is a matter of unusual public interest, we are prepared to say that, based on review of a video of a July 10 meeting, there is reasonable cause to believe that there has been a violation of the Open Meeting Law, inasmuch as the public was excluded.
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No job for you. Next!
It’s hard to follow the loop-the-loop.
But were these the officers who bucked the coup?
(Well, it’s an eye rhyme)
They have cheapened/weakened the term “Nazi” to the point where it only means “someone who disagrees with you”, instead of “mass-murdering National Socialist, along the lines of Bolsheviks”...
This is true, however the gist still seems to remain that of a particularly bullying politician who has a crazy vision and brooks no dissent.
I should say, connotation rather than gist.
I’m not defending anyone here; cops work for their employers (the taxpayers), and if they can’t remedy it at the ballot box they do it with their feet. In NJ they’re fleeing in droves; soon all that will be left is our permanent underlcass, illegal aliens, and the civil servants to “administer” to them. If we enforced immigration laws here the nation would have 100,000+ unemployed teachers, cops, and firmen from NJ alone.
That is why we’re a “sanctuary” - we’d be a ghost town otherwise...
What this has to do with Arizona has me baffaloed.
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