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2003-09-12 Europe

Germans Meet Wyatt Earp at Conference, Learn to be afraid very afraid

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Posted by Super Hose 2003-09-12 9:04:55 AM|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 And the Europeans thought Rumsfeld was scary......heh heh heh!

Posted by Baba Yaga 2003-9-12 10:16:41 AM|| 2003-9-12 10:16:41 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 God I hope he spoke like Foghorn Leghorn.

Posted by Shipman 2003-9-12 11:04:11 AM|| 2003-9-12 11:04:11 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Love'm or hate him, this guy is old hat, except maybe to the Germans.

This actually sounds like fun.

Posted by Hiryu 2003-9-12 11:21:21 AM|| 2003-9-12 11:21:21 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 But did they take any underwear????

TGA, would you mind posting any stories you find?

Posted by Anonymous 2003-9-12 2:43:47 PM|| 2003-9-12 2:43:47 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Nope, I was too busy alerting Amnesty International about the "pink cruel and unusual punishment". I mean, executing people is bad enough but THIS is so over the top! Btw, nothing about it in the German press.

Posted by True German Ally 2003-9-12 5:30:08 PM|| 2003-9-12 5:30:08 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Sherrif Arpaio has been in the news for this stuff before, but any serious look at his operation seems to conclude he is doing strange but valid things. Like those tents: the prison did not have sufficient room to house prisoners in anything approaching humane conditions, so rather than what some other places have done - turn out prisoners arbitrarily - he found a way to cope. Unusual, but not cruel, and not circumventing the sentences imposed by the courts.

Now, "This did, however, upset some of her colleagues who felt she was playing into the hands of Arpaio by having visited the jail at all." Huh? Would they have felt that way if she had come back with stories of over-the-line treatments rather than just off-the-wall? Instead, "given a choice between living in an indoors facility or on the tent grounds, she would opt for the latter." Ooh, how horrible, she must have been brain-washed!

Posted by John Anderson 2003-9-12 6:21:02 PM|| 2003-9-12 6:21:02 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 John

I think I have seen the same documentaries that you have. His system seems to be valid for petty offenders. Being a popular politician, he presents no documentation of his results. No need to as the voters are happy that his program isn't sucking local taxz dollars like otehr programs tend to. His results can't be miserable, though, as I'm sure his opponents have sponsored studies to undercut what he is doing.

Would love to the the EU or UN take on his operation.

Posted by Super Hose 2003-9-12 8:24:27 PM|| 2003-9-12 8:24:27 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 I'd bet my left nut he's a Repooplican--playing to the lowest common denominator in the American sheeple--giving the Yahoos a Springer moment they can revel in. I bet O'Reilly loves him!

Posted by Not Mike Moore 2003-9-12 11:27:01 PM|| 2003-9-12 11:27:01 PM|| Front Page Top

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