Ponzi-scheme king Bernie Madoff got the cuffs slapped on him today and a one-way ticket to the no-frills Manhattan Correctional Facility, after pleading guilty to 11 felony counts involving his $64 billion empire of fraud, which has bilked thousands of investors. The courtroom cheered as the judge sent him on…
One clip from today’s media event denouncing Joe Arpaio, and heralding the investigation into him by the U.S. Department of Justice. The big news out of D.C. for us here in Sand Land, of course, is that the Justice Department is investigating Sheriff Joe Arpaio and his office for civil…
So much of the time, Joe Arpaio, with his speech punctuated with dese, dats, and dose, and his defiance of federal authority, sounds more like he’s imitating Robert DeNiro’s Al Capone in The Untouchables, than acting like a local sheriff. Now the feds are after Joe for real. If you haven’t heard…
Check this video the group America’s Voice has been using to gather signatures for the anti-Joe petition to be ballyhooed tomorrow. This is one I wish I could be in D.C. for: Tomorrow at 1 p.m., House Judiciary Chair John Conyers, Immigration Subcommittee Chairwoman Zoe Lofgren, and apparently our own…
Who has the time, or motivation to listen to bigoted KTAR blowhard Darrell Ankkkarlo’s b.s. on a regular basis? Once in a while I’ll flick on PHX’s Glenn Beck-wannabe, just to see if KTAR’s fired his lame ass yet. But you’d really have to be a glutton for earaches to tune…
Should the State of Arizona carve out an exemption to its marijuana ban for the pot-worshipping, neo-Zoroastrian Church of Cognizance? That was but one of the legal issues at stake during oral arguments on February 18 before the Arizona Supreme Court in the case of the State of Arizona vs…
Judge Michael Gordon’s cupboard-sized Phoenix courtroom was packed Wednesday afternoon with supporters of both Courtney Bisbee and Bisbee’s parents Camille and Tom Tilley. Family court seldom gets that kind of action. The Tilleys were there to petition the court for visitation rights to their granddaughter, Bisbee’s daughter, Taylor Lee. As regular readers of…
Proving once more that the anti-Arpaio march that went down this weekend in Phoenix has, um, legs, both the Huffington Post and the New York Times editorial board have put their respective two cents in on the Zack de la Rocha-led anti-Arpaio protest. The Huffington Post had a two-woman film crew on…
I’d been tipped off that KNUV 1190 AM, formerly the flagship station of the liberal Nova M radio network, and briefly, the home of Nova M’s successor network, On Second Thought, had been padlocked. So I had to see for myself, as On Second Thought’s driving force, Mike Newcomb, was apparently…
Dennis Gilman’s video of the Saturday march, featuring Shannon Rivers of the Akimel O’odham people. Gilman’s video of the Saturday anti-Arpaio protest led by Zack de la Rocha is particularly cool because of an address he captured at the beginning of the march, given by Shannon Rivers of the Akimel…
My conservative estimate is that today 3,000 to 4,000 people braved 90 degree weather to march from Steele Indian School Park to the Sandra Day O’Connor Federal Courthouse in downtown Phoenix to protest Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s immigration abuses. Led by Rage Against the Machine frontman Zack de la Rocha, as well Phoenix civil…
THIS JUST ADDED: Zack doing an inspiring version of “People of the Sun” at Tonatierra. The closest thing to compare it to that I can think of, is that famous footage in the documentary Don’t Look Back of a young Bob Dylan singing Only a Pawn in Their Game at a…
Well, here’s one sure to spook the socks off the nativists — Gilman’s latest YouTube effort promoting the anti-Arpaio march tomorrow. This little poison pill features loads of video coughed up by the sheriff’s office in the case of Juan Mendoza Farias, a poor sap who went into Arpaio’s roach…
I had been hoping that the Congressional Hispanic Caucus would take a thick paddle to Janet Napolitano’s ever-generous backside when they met with the new DHS head for the first time today. But, alas, some of our congressional leaders are as worthless as a week-old bowl of menudo. If they…
Hopefully, 2009 A.D. will be the year Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, starts to melt. You may recall a little essay I posted to this blog in December entitled, “A Modest Proposal: A World Without ICE,” in which I suggested “a total moratorium on all ICE activities, as preparation for the…
Below is the schedule for this weekend’s anti-Arpaio/anti-287(g) activities just released by the National Day Laborer Organizing Network. Several high-ranking NDLON staff members have re-confirmed that Rage Against the Machine’s Zack de la Rocha will attend Saturday’s march, so be there and be there early. Word is Phoenix’s anti-Hispanic nativist…
The congressional daily The Hill is reporting that Department of Homeland Security czar Janet Napolitano will be meeting privately for the first time with members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus tomorrow in D.C. If true, one can only hope they grill Nappy’s generous fanny till it practically resembles the face…
How do deputy prosecutors sleep at night, when they are charged by their elected bosses to rack up as many warm bodies in prison as possible, to overlook exculpatory evidence, to cull only those facts from a case that lead to conviction, and ignore all others? Sure, it’s their living. But…
The hillbillies are coming! The hillbillies are coming! And no that’s not Phoenix’s new line of do-it-yourself redneck porn. Nah, by hillbillies, I mean convicted public urinators like Buffalo Rick Galeener, alleged bookstore trespassers such as Anna Gaines (aka, the “anti-Hispanic Hispanic”), massage parlor owners, toothless ne’er-do-wells, assorted Hells Angels…
It would tickle Sheriff Joe Arpaio no end to learn the degree to which his enemies and detractors are obsessed with him. I can’t count the number of times, for instance, that I’ve gotten the anonymous “tip” that Arpaio can’t wear a gun because of some obscure legal dictate, when…
B-rock’s recent visit to Mesa garnered loads of local coverage, some of which mentioned those who showed up to protest the President’s stimulus package. But not much was said of the more than 100 there demanding that Obama do something about Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s misuse of the federal government’s 287(g) program, as…
Both the Huffington Post’s Dawn Teo and Amy Goodman of Democracy Now have produced long pieces in the past week covering Joe Arpaio’s recent outrages against those with brown skin, Arpaio’s “200 Mexican March” a couple of weeks ago, and the request from four House leaders, including House Judiciary Chairman John…
