{"id":7289,"date":"2012-03-03T00:01:16","date_gmt":"2012-03-03T08:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=7289"},"modified":"2012-03-03T00:01:16","modified_gmt":"2012-03-03T08:01:16","slug":"birtherism-in-brewerstan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/03\/03\/birtherism-in-brewerstan\/","title":{"rendered":"Birtherism in Brewerstan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Crazy things often happen in the Totalitarian Corporate Plutocracy of Brewerstan, formerly Arizona, and Maricopa County Sheriff Arpaio did not earn the nickname \u201cCrazy Joe\u201d without cause.&#160; Although the notion that Barack Obama plotted in the womb to have his birth certificate forged, so he could disguise his Kenyan birth, and thus assure his future path to the Presidency, has been thoroughly disproven, Crazy Joe has gone birther!<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"line-height: normal; margin: 0in; font-family: \"><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: left; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"3romney-arpaio\" border=\"0\" alt=\"3romney-arpaio\" align=\"left\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/3romney-arpaio.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"225\" \/>Having gained national attention for his strict anti-immigration practices and racial profiling of Mexicans, Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Arizona is now pointing his target at President Obama. While the &quot;birther&quot; movement &#8212; spearheaded by the Tea Party who called into question the validity of President Obama&#8217;s American citizenship &#8212; has quieted down since the Obama administration released his birth certificate to the public in April 2011, Arpaio is launching an investigation&#8230;now.<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: normal; margin: 0in; font-family: \"><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Some critics of the sheriff believe that he is doing this to secure votes for his re-election as he is seeking a 6th term. <strong>Others believe the media attention around this investigation is to cover up Arpaio&#8217;s own legal troubles<\/strong>.<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: normal; margin: 0in; font-family: \"><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\">There is currently a federal grand jury investigation into Arpaio for:<\/font><\/p>\n<ul style=\"line-height: normal; margin-top: 0in; padding-left: 0px; unicode-bidi: embed; direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.75in\" type=\"disc\">\n<li style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; vertical-align: middle\"><span style=\"font-family: \"><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><strong>Criminal abuse-of-power<\/strong> allegations since at least December 2009, focusing on the sheriff&#8217;s anti-public corruption squad.<\/font><\/span> <\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; vertical-align: middle\"><span style=\"font-family: \"><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><strong>Racially profiling Latino, basing immigration enforcement on racially charged citizen complaints and punishing Hispanic jail inmates for speaking Spanish<\/strong>.<\/font><\/span> <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"line-height: normal; margin: 0in; font-family: \"><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\">&#8230; [<em>emphasis added<\/em>]<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.loop21.com\/politics\/president-obama-birth-certificate-sheriff-joe-arapio\" target=\"_blank\">The Loop 21<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Alex Wagner provided more detail on this story and the investigation into Arpaio.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><object width=\"592\" height=\"346\" id=\"msnbc8cac6\" classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\" target=\"_blank\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=10,0,0,0\"><param name=\"movie\" target=\"_blank\" value=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/32545640\" \/><param name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"launch=46605156^0^228362&amp;width=592&amp;height=346\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><embed name=\"msnbc8cac6\" src=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/32545640\" width=\"592\" height=\"346\" FlashVars=\"launch=46605156^0^228362&amp;width=592&amp;height=346\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" wmode=\"transparent\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/shockwave\/download\/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash\"><\/embed><\/object><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; margin-top: 5px; width: 592px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; color: #999; font-size: 11px\">Visit msnbc.com for <a style=\"border-bottom: #999 1px dotted; height: 13px; color: #5799db !important; font-weight: normal !important; text-decoration: none !important\" href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\" target=\"_blank\">breaking news<\/a>, <a style=\"border-bottom: #999 1px dotted; height: 13px; color: #5799db !important; font-weight: normal !important; text-decoration: none !important\" href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/3032507\" target=\"_blank\">world news<\/a>, and <a style=\"border-bottom: #999 1px dotted; height: 13px; color: #5799db !important; font-weight: normal !important; text-decoration: none !important\" href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/3032072\" target=\"_blank\">news about the economy<\/a><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Frankly, it seems perfectly clear that Arpaio needs a new perspective from the inside of his own jail, but he provides an excellent example of the type of diversion tactics employed throughout the Republican Party.&#160; 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