Here he is, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio; one who listens to
the NRA.
Good ol Joe heeding the advise of the NRA to arm teachers and post
guards around schools created a gun-toting posse to monitor Arizona schools.
Now bear in mind no schools asked for this, he just did it.
The local news folk at KPHO found out about Joe’s plan and found
out that in good ol Joe’s posse, 3,450 members, he had enlisted sex offenders,
domestic abusers and others with criminal records to protect these schools.
For example there was Dominic Boulter arrested and convicted for
crimes against children. “Boulter began using an online
service called Phonezoo.com in early 2005 to meet young girls between 13 and 17
years old. Boulter ultimately exchanged nude photos and text messages with at
least eight underage girls from around the country. Boulter also suggested that
he meet the girls in person to engage in sex acts and to get married, according
to court documents.
During the encounters, Boulter told
the girls he was 15 years old, 27 years old and 32 years old, according to the
document.
Boulter admitted to detectives that
he had sent harmful images to one underage girl and that he chatted with
another via text message and Web cam as he encouraged the child to masturbate,
according to court documents.”
The fact that the Phoenix area community doesn’t want this posse
makes no difference to good al Joe. He told ABC news: “It
doesn’t matter whether they like it or don’t, I’m still going to do it. I can’t
imagine criticism coming when they’re given free protection.”
Now it gets really interesting; Joe hired Steven Seagal to train
the posse. Good to have a guy who can’t act train folk to do things he
pretended to do in movies. Seagal claims hundreds of hours of weapons training;
must have been an interesting acting school.
I suppose if a bad guy really showed up at a school Seagal and Joe
could together shout, “Cut! That’s a wrap.”
Too weird.
The sheriff is 81 so perhaps his age bears on the 22 controversies listed in Wiki. He should follow Pope Benedicts lead....
ReplyDeleteWow. Didn't know this. I already disliked him because he is so harsh on immigrants.
ReplyDeleteBB: The pope comparison is kind of scary, considering that, according to those post. "Joe", like the Pope, is the leader of an organization that finds gainful employment for those who sexualy abuse children.
Good point, dmarks. Consider if Joe and Benny got together in retirement and started a daycare....
ReplyDeleteYou guys are beginning to scare me. I have been pretty successful in ignoring Maher. I very glad of the precedent the pope is making. Now if the Romans would elect an African that would be news; who know even women priests might follow. Oh yes, I participated in the ordination of a woman priest in Winona, MN. Most impressive.
ReplyDeleteWhy not a woman Pope? Author and thinker Fr. Andrew Greeley once pointed out that while the Church forbids female priests, there is no such restriction on having a female Pope.
ReplyDeleteJust curious which denomination had the female priest in Winona? A rebellious RCC local church, or something else?
In fact, if you name the particular church building that the ordination happened in, I might even be familiar with that also.
Found on a page on ordained women priests:
ReplyDelete"Kathy Redig, M.A. in Pastoral Ministries is a certified chaplain. She has served in Winona, MN in this capacity since 1995. Through this ministry she became aware that many people feel disenfranchised from the Catholic church and other churches. She was called to ministry at a young age, entering the convent after high school. Eventually realizing that she needed a partner in life, she left, married, and with her husband, raised two children. She suddenly became aware that God was calling her to ordination to become part of the change that she hoped to see within the Catholic church. Kathy and her husband Robert have established an inclusive parish, All Are One Roman Catholic church where all are welcome at the table."
Rather sure I was friends with two of her relatives, long ago.
You found her. Her congregation I think still meets at the union on the Winona State University where the rent a room. A german bishop ordained a woman who became a bishop and she was here from Germany to conduct Kathy's and others installations in the RRC.
ReplyDeleteI thought I remembered a woman pope and found her on wikipedia:Pope Joan was a legendary female Pope who allegedly reigned for a few years some time during the Middle Ages. The story first appeared in 13th-century chronicles, [1] and was subsequently spread and embellished throughout Europe. It was widely believed for centuries, though modern religious scholars consider it fictitious, perhaps deriving from historicized folklore regarding Roman monuments or from anti-papal satire.
The first mention of the female pope appears in the chronicle of Jean de Mailly, but the most popular and influential version was that interpolated into Martin of Troppau's Chronicon Pontificum et Imperatorum, later in the 13th century. Most versions of her story describe her as a talented and learned woman who disguises herself as a man, often at the behest of a lover. In the most common accounts, due to her abilities, she rises through the church hierarchy, eventually being elected pope. However, while riding on horseback she gives birth, thus exposing her gender. In most versions, she dies shortly after, either being killed by an angry mob or from natural causes. Her memory is then shunned by her successors.
Andrew Greeley is one of my favorite authors both in his academic work (sociology) and novels. He always as a one paragraph homilly in his novels by Fr. Blackie that knocks your socks off. He also has a great web page.
"You found her" also applies to Pope Joan, who was sitting in the back of my mind also.
ReplyDeleteFr. Greeley's writings on the female pope that I read were a very long time ago. Probably at the time when either of the John Paul's was about to be chosen.