Morning Reads for Jan. 10

Exactly. In his grandstanding zeal to be the epitome of a dime novel law-and-order sheriff this guy was convicted of not just breaking the law, but completely ignoring lawful court orders. Plain and simply he condoned traffic stops, roadblocks, neighborhood sweeps and other Gestapo tactics targeting residents solely based on their ethnicity. Many were detained without any reasonable suspicion that they were violating any of the laws his office was authorized to enforce.

Let’s set aside my objections to his neglect of constitutional civil liberties though and look at fiscal matters. Any conservative worth his salt should not ignore the fact that Arpaio’s department misappropriated millions in federal taxpayer dollars meant to improve the county’s jails. Instead he kept his tent city and used the money to investigate his own critics, personal travel, and of course, immigration sweeps. Maricopa County has paid an additional $44 million in settlements for his investigations of his political critics alone.

So no way am I making Noway’s illogical leap of labeling all who support strong borders as racist. I’m simply stating that a guy who condoned racial profiling, was ordered to stop racial profiling, and continued to racially profile is a racist.