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Title: Arizona Sheriff Requires Jailed Immigrants To Listen To ‘Patriotic Songs,’ Wear Pink Underwear
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thinkprogress.org
URL Source: http://thinkprogress.org/2006/07/06/sheriff-pink-underwear/
Published: Jul 6, 2006
Author: Thinkprogress
Post Date: 2006-07-06 18:16:04 by Mind_Virus
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Views: 145
Comments: 4
Arizona Sheriff Requires Jailed Immigrants To Listen To ‘Patriotic Songs,’ Wear Pink Underwear Yesterday on Fox’s The Big Story, Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio described how he jails hundreds of immigrants and subjects them to degrading treatment. Arpaio says he dresses jailed immigrants in pink underwear, pink handcuffs and a stripped jumpsuit. He also forces them to listen to “patriotic songs” multiple times a day. Watch it: Arpaio’s prison has also been the site of multiple controversial inmate deaths. Transcript: SHERIFF JOE ARPAIO, MARICOPA COUNTY, AZ: Yesterday, by the way, I have 1,000 illegals in a jail out of 10,000, including 2,000 we have in tents, so yesterday I started a new program, everyone will have to listen to the national anthem and god bless America. We did it four times yesterday, but every day from now on, in the morning, at night, they’ll listen to the patriotic songs. [snip] BANDERAS: Apparently you dress them up in colorful jumpsuit, tell me about that? ARPAIO: We’ve been doing that for six years, we put them in pink underwear and striped uniforms and pink handcuffs. BANDERAS: Why the pink underwear? ARPAIO: They were stealing the white underwear several years ago, smuggling it out of the jail. So I dyed the underwear pink because they hate pink, especially in this county they hate pink. Why give them a color they like? BANDERAS: Why would you, that’s a great question. All right, Sheriff Joe Arpaio, thank you very much. Keep it up, I guess.
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#1. To: Mind_Virus (#0)
lmao
Do I hear a fat lady singing?
When El Presidente de "Union de Americas" Jorge Arbusto hears of this, he'll send Gestapo goons to remove this Sheriff from office. After all, we can not insult illegal Mexicans because, it is their country./sar
"Freedom and human rights in America are doomed. The U.S. government will lead the American people in ...into an unbearable hell and a choking life." The wetbacks should have "maricona" on the front and back of their pink t- shirts.
"Benjamin Franklin was shown the new American constitution, and he said, 'I don't like it, but I will vote for it because we need something right now. But this constitution in time will fail, as all such efforts do. And it will fail because of the corruption of the people, in a general sense.' And that is what it has come to now, exactly as Franklin predicted." -- Gore Vidal
No, I'd rather feign being horrified for a bit longer, thank you.
Quit bogarting that peace, Herbert!
#2. To: Mind_Virus (#0)
-OBL
"Prohibition...goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes. A prohibition law strikes at the very principles upon which our govt was founded."
- Lincoln
#3. To: Critter (#1)
#4. To: Mind_Virus (#0)
He also forces them to listen to “patriotic songs” multiple times a day. Watch it:
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