I'm a little late posting on this, but during his last showboat in the Buckeye area, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's deputies stopped a car containing a young woman with two young children for not having headlights on. It goes all downhill from there. Sal Reza happened to catch this on video and what he captured was chilling and heartless and immoral.
To make a long story short, the woman, Ciria Lopez, had a warrant out for driving on a suspended license. During the process, the Deputy leaves Lopez' children alone in the car and when he decides to arrest her, he tells the children to "kiss mommy goodbye because she's going back to Mexico." He then tries to chum the kids by giving them stuffed animals, like that'll make the pain easier to bear. You can read the details here on the Phoenix New Times web site (God forbid the rest of the Arizona media pick up on this.)
Some people give me a hard time for pointing this out, but this is the type of stuff the Nazi's did in the early 1930's. They gave kids toys for turning in Jews. To me, this is nothing more than a slow and deliberate ratcheting up of evil that just keeps getting worse and worse, and until good people stand up and say "put an end to this," it will continue. What type of person comes up with the idea of giving the children who are watching their parents being taken away from them a freakin' toy in order to buy their silence? How heartless and inhumane can you possibly get?
The New York Times and the Huffington Post have both picked up on this story and the outrage is beginning to build.
It's about time.
P.S. Stephen Lemons has an update posted on the New Times web site. It's worth a read.
Monday, January 19, 2009
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