Is Joe Arpaio's Job Really To Keep The Sick Locked-Up / Robert Daniels Jailed For Not Wearing A Mask

While I do realize that this is a tricky situation and Mr. Daniels is a risk to the community because of his refusal to wear a mask due to his sickness (tuberculosis). I just don't understand why they would put him in Sheriff Joe Arpaio's "Concentration Camp" like jail.Would it not make more sense to put Mr. Daniels in a hospital ward even if it was a locked ward?
Speaking of Joe Arpaio, I wonder if his Mother dressed him up in pretty pink panties when he was a kid. Could that be the reason why he likes to see all those "Hardened Criminals" prance around in them. Maybe his Father should have taken a bigger role in bringing him up... BJC

Is Sickness a Crime? Arizona Man With TB Locked Up Indefinitely in Solitary Confinement
27-year-old Robert Daniels is being held against his will in a Phoenix hospital ward reserved for sick prisoners. If state officials have their way, he could be there for the rest of his life. Daniels is suffering from a deadly strain of tuberculosis known as XDR-TB. Doctors say he is virtually untreatable. He has been forced to live in a hospital cell in complete isolation. [includes rush transcript]
Daniels contracted the disease while living in Russia. He returned to the United States last year and agreed to a voluntary quarantine in residential care. But Daniels violated his agreement when he went outside without a mask. Daniels says he misunderstood how much of a health risk he posed, in part because he hadn't been forced to wear a mask in Russia.

Authorities detain sufferers of incurable TB strain
PHOENIX -- Behind the county hospital's tall cinder block walls, a 27-year-old tuberculosis patient sits in a jail cell equipped with a ventilation system that keeps germs from escaping.

Robert Daniels has been locked up indefinitely, perhaps for the rest of his life, since July. But he has not been charged with a crime. Instead, he suffers from an extensively drug-resistant strain of tuberculosis, or XDR-TB. It is considered virtually untreatable.

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Angel Raich Loses Medical Marijuana Appeal / US Government Has No Compassion

When will this government realize that the people have spoken and they want the "Medical Marijuana Laws" passed?
They need to realize that the outdated laws concerning Marijuana are total bullshit. I wonder if most people realize that Marijuana is put in the same class as Heroine and Meth? The highest class you can get on the drug class list. That’s insane considering how mild of a drug it is compared to the rest of the drugs in that class.
The number of arrests and jail/prison sentences are skyrocketing day by day and that fills the jails and prisons so they need more space to lock-up the real criminals who deserve to be there. The prison game is big money in this country and the taxpayers are suffering because of it.
Wake-up Washington and do something about these insane drug laws before everyone is in prison for smoking a joint... BJC

Calif. appeals court rules against dying woman in medical marijuana case

SAN FRANCISCO - A woman whose doctor says marijuana is the only medicine keeping her alive can face federal prosecution on drug charges, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday.

The ruling was the latest legal defeat for Angel Raich, a mother of two from Oakland suffering from scoliosis, a brain tumor, chronic nausea and other ailments who sued the federal government pre-emptively to avoid being arrested for using the drug. On her doctor’s advice, Raich eats or smokes marijuana every couple of hours to ease her pain and bolster her appetite.

Dying Woman Loses Appeal on Marijuana as Medication

SAN FRANCISCO, March 14 — Federal appellate judges here ruled Wednesday that a terminally ill woman using marijuana was not immune to federal prosecution simply because of her condition, and in a separate case a federal judge dismissed most of the charges against a prominent advocate for the medicinal use of the drug.

Medical Marijuana: Should getting high be legal

The legalization of marijuana has been a source of social and political conflict in the United States for decades.

At PLU, illegal marijuana use is the most common drug abuse violation with more than 10 reported violations in the last three years.

Despite federal prohibition, attempts to legalize marijuana have appeared on several state ballots including Alaska, Arizona, California, Oregon, Nevada, and Washington.

Know All The Laws Of Every State

Attention all Medical Marijuana patients, Caregivers and supporters!
Rick's biography page has to be temporarily put on hold for these two special notice's to all of our Medical Marijuana patients and supporters! Supporters, Medical Marijuana patients & Caregivers alike read this very closely. Act now and do not let any more of our Medical patients State Rights be violated. Get your fliers printed up now! You can be and active part of this movement to stop violating medical necessity rights. Quick tip: Cargivers stay out of this lime lite, but do act by going to Kinkos and having a banner made up for your medical patient to display to these Jurors! " Kinkos will do a beautiful job you should see mine" I was the original person that wrote this script 6 years ago before I went on my 5 year vacation for the Fed's :). I want to take this moment to make a special thanks to the University students that took my banner to D.C. ( they are the true warriors of this script). Thank you Rocky Neil of Sac. State University. You are the finest true blooded Indian I have ever known and I love you brother!

Medical Marijuana in America

"What was done with the seed saved from the India Hemp last summer? It ought, all of it, to have been sewn again; that not only a stock of seed sufficient for my own purposes might have been raised, but to have disseminated the seed to others; as it is more valuable than the common Hemp."
George Washington - Former President


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Sheriff Joe Arpaio

TO THOSE OF YOU NOT FAMILIAR WITH JOE ARPAIO
HE IS THE MARICOPA ARIZONA COUNTY SHERIFF
AND HE KEEPS GETTING ELECTED OVER AND OVER...

These are some of the reasons why:

Sheriff Joe Arpaio (in Arizona) who created the "tent city jail":

He has jail meals down to 40 cents a serving and charges the inmates for them.

He stopped smoking and porno magazines in the jails. Took away their weights. Cut off all but "G" movies.

He started chain gangs so the inmates could do free work on county and city projects.

Then he started chain gangs for women so he wouldn't get sued for discrimination.

He took away cable TV until he found out there was a f ederal court order that required cable TV for jails. So he hooked up the cable TV again only let in the Disney channel and the weather channel.

When asked why the weather channel he replied, so they will know how hot it's gonna be while they are working on my chain gangs.

He cut off coffee since it has zero nutritional value.

When the inmates complained, he told them, "This isn't the Ritz/Carlton. If you don't like it, don't come back."

He bought Newt Gingrich' lecture series on videotape that he pipes into the jails.

When asked by a reporter if he had any lecture series by a Democrat, he replied that a democratic lecture series might explain why a lot of the inmates were in his jails in the first place.

With temperatures being even hotter than usual in Phoenix (116 degrees just set a new record), the Associated Press reports: About 2,000 inmates living in a barbed-wire-surrounded tent encampment at the Maricopa County Jail have been given permission to strip down to their government-issued pink boxer shorts.

On Wednesday, hundreds of men wearing boxers were either curled up on their bunk beds or chatted in the tents, which reached 138 degrees inside the week before.

Many were also swathed in wet, pink towels as sweat collected on their chests and dripped down to their pink socks.

"It feels like we are in a furnace," said James Zanzot, an inmate who has lived in the tents for 1 year. "It's inhumane."

Joe Arpaio, the tough-guy sheriff wh o created the tent city and long ago started making his prisoners wear pink, and eat bologna sandwiches, is not one bit sympathetic He said Wednesday that he told all of the inmates: "It's 120 degrees in Iraq and our soldiers are living in tents too, and they have to wear full battle gear, but they didn't commit any crimes, so shut your damn mouths!"

Way to go, Sheriff! Maybe if all prisons were like this one there would be a lot less crime and/or repeat offenders. Criminals should be punished for their crimes - not live in luxury until it's time for their parole, only to go out and commit another crime so they can get back in to live on taxpayers money and enjoy things taxpayers can't afford to have for themselves.

Sheriff Joe was just reelected Sheriff in Maricopa County, Arizona.