Lunatic Phoenix Sheriff Joe Arpaio . . . inmates must listen to xmas carols

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Lunatic Phoenix Sheriff Joe Arpaio Issues New Order Forcing Inmates to Listen to Christmas Carols

His unconventional tactics are often unusually cruel and sometimes outright racist.


The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office, run by the controversial Sheriff Joe Arpaio, released a “news brief” this week announcing that it will be forcing the system’s 8,000 inmates to listen to “Christmas music” during the holiday season, even though Arpaio has faced six lawsuits over the issue in the past two years. From the statement (written in Christmas-themed red and green fonts):

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Arpaio claims that “oliday music from all countries and faiths” will be represented in the play list, but he repeatedly refers to “Christmas music,” which of course excludes many faiths. According to ABC News, Arpaio said that “for agnostics,” he would “mix in the singing Chipmunks” — who also presumably sing Christmas carols. “We can’t say ‘Merry Christmas’ in the U.S., in the world anymore,” said Arpaio, fully joining in the War on Christmas. “What are we coming to? I am saying it. I am singing it. It’s gonna be in this jail, and that’s the way the ball bounces.”

In previous grievances, inmates have called Arpaio’s stunt “cruel and unusual punishment” and said that it is forcing them to “participate in religious celebrations.” As the Phoenix New Times points out, “The practice of forcing people to listen to crappy music all day long has been used in the past for interrogation purposes. For example, the U.S. military blared Metallica music at detainees in Guantanamo Bay with the intention of breaking them down psychologically.”

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Recently Arpaio’s tactics gained attention again when a woman spoke out and said she was detained in Arpaio’s jail while nine months pregnant. She eventually had to give birth while shackled to a bed and then “was not allowed to hold her baby and was told that if no one came to pick up the child within 72 hours, the baby would be turned over to state custody.”
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he should be dragged out of power by his feet and put in a prison mental ward for the rest of his miserable life.

[slackmaster]

1. Oh what a cruel bastage that man is!

I'm a free man, and I have to endure Christmas music in public places and the media for several weeks every year.

Fifty lashes with a wet noodle.

[catnhatnh]

2. One part of the "cruel and unusual" part that goes unmentioned...

...is that this policy inflicts additional pain on the prisoners with the strongest family ties and the most desire for societal re-integration-IE:those most likely to be salvagable citizens. The worst socio and psycho paths could care less. "Merry Christmas assholes-this is to remind you what you're missing this month!". The real "assholes" won't care and the rest are treated to needless cruelty.

[lies and propaganda]

3. i have a pal in there right now...

i bet he is HATING life.. Luckily, you can leave for 12 hours a day if you have a job.

Arpaio is a fucking scumbag.. the shitty air, the sprawl, and him are WHY i moved.

[Tumbulu]

4. oh my--- this breaks my heart to read about this woman giving birth

shackled to a bed? And then not allowed to hold the newborn baby?/ Not breastfed it as it should be? This man need to go to hell and fast. No midwife or doctor to help with the birth?

[NightWatcher]

5. Paul McCartney's "simply having a wonderful christmas time" is cruel and unusual