We’re working hard to keep the illegal Canadians from getting through our border. We’re doing our part! Of course, they would have to sneak over through Detroit, so….I guess that is our best defense. Maybe we should move Detroit to Arizona? I can’t believe I knocked my own city….but if you can’t laugh at yourself…..

There are consequences for violating the law, people. Don’t like those consequences? Think before acting.

Yesterday my employer offered me tickets to the All Star Game this year, and accomodations at a nice hotel while I was there. Part of the package they had picked up as a sponsor.

I turned it down.

I will not contribute one cent to the Arizona economy while they are approving racist and unconstitional laws, promoting jackasses like this Sheriff, or encouraging vigilante justice at the border. Not a penny.

Fortunatly, I’m pretty certain my employer will have tickets next year.

How do you treat those who have wronged you?

That’s the man you are.
That’s the nation you are.

Oh, and also, me, if I should ever, wittingly or unwittingly, do something or be something that the majority decides should be illegal.

“This is mostly just an attention whore doing what he does best. And he’s done it before, including at the Super Bowl in Glendale a few years ago.

But whatever the motivation is, I’m sure Bud Selig and all of the other dignitaries at the game are glad that the Midsummer Classic is being used in this way.”

Yet Steve Nash and the Suns weren’t “attention whores” when they, as a team, chose to wear Los Suns jerseys. Or baseball players threatening to boycott the All Star game because of a law they did not like…they weren’t “Attention whores” or “grandstanders”. They were fighting for what is RIGHT, right? LOL.

Again, you are getting off the jist of what and why Craig wrote what he wrote…I am not debating whether it is OK for the Sheriff to use the chain gang…that’s not my beef. My beef is specifically that Craig will write this entry denegrating the Sheriff for his beliefs, but would never write a column denegrating the beliefs of those who are against the AZ law.

Just looking for some consistency from the fearless leader of this site is all I am asking.

The Suns chose, as a team, to make that statement. Arpaio chose for his team, and it’s not clear how much of a choice they had in the matter. Arpaio is not speaking for the prisoners. He’s speaking for himself and using his prisoners to do it.

“If someone draws another message about the legal pitfalls of undocumented immigration, all the better.”

The timing and location are obviously to make a point and the use of prisoners for a political purpose is a bit weak. Again, this isn’t about (at least for me) his right to have an opinion that I don’t agree with; it’s about him using his position to espouse or advance said beliefs. Again, the only reason that he’s doing this is to get attention. If you feel that Nash was incorrect to do have an opinion publicly that’s fine, but it doesn’t make what is going on here correct.

You want to disagree with him, that’s cool. This is America. But I was hoping for a little more “down-the-middle” reporting from Craig and I guess that’s where I made my mistake.