Jan Brewer loses head over immigration tactics
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Jan Brewer, governor of Arizona, must enjoy a good ghost story.
I mean, she's certainly good at telling them. To defend her endorsement of the anti-immigrant SB-1070 bill Brewer told the press in July that 'law enforcement agencies have found bodies in the desert either buried or just lying out there that have been beheaded.'
Decapitated in the desert? Yikes, well, since you put it like that Jan.
'I believe today, that the majority of the illegal trespassers that are coming into the state of Arizona are under the direction and control of organized drug cartels and they are bringing drugs in,' Brewer said.
Apparently it's Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome in Arizona now, every single goddamn day.
But wait, didn't the Arizona Republic recently publish an exhaustive report that found that, according to statistics supplied by the FBI and Arizona police agencies, crime in Arizona border towns has been 'essentially flat for the past decade.'
Woops.
Then last month the Pima County sheriff who patrols the territory and knows it better than anyone in America reported that 'the border has never been more secure.'
Again, woops.
Why does this matter? It matters because fears of drug cartels and decapitations were the blocks that Brewer's SB-1070 law were built from. If those stories are false - and if South American drug cartels are not in fact chopping the heads of fair skinned citizens of Arizona every day - then Brewer's law is built on a fallacy.
Scary claims of violence gave us the SB-1070 bill and they also explain the American public's support for it. But if those scare tactics aren't true it starts to look like you've bought a bazooka to pluck a daisy. It starts to look like the powers that be talked up the threat to get a bill they liked.
No wonder the reporters in her home state are chasing her down corridors insisting she admit she was wrong about the non-existent beheadings. Horror tales like the one's she's been telling are bad for Arizona, bad for the state's tourism, bad for it's image and profoundly bad for the nations political climate too.
It's time for Jan Brewer to tell the truth instead of run from it.
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seanomelbourne | Sep 04, 2010, 08:47 PM EDT
Australia his hardly a small state(as big as mainland U.S.).Why is Sheriff Arapiao"s district the only district in Arizona to show an increase in law breaking. Why did Brewer lie about beheading's and when found out did not have the moral turpitude to face the press and resolve the matter.Of course Brewer is lining the highways with fear mongering signs,what else can she offer the people of AZ. She is morally bankrupt.
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olovely | Sep 04, 2010, 07:26 PM EDT
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Jan is at the ball park today to catch a double header.
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maloney | Sep 04, 2010, 06:40 PM EDT
Jan Brewer... A true American Hero.. Hey hillary, bill's got a cigar for ya!!
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Monsoonman | Sep 04, 2010, 02:36 PM EDT
Hillary clinton is a corrupt liar, who looks the camera straight in the lens and prevaricates without blinking her eye. she and her husband are such practiced lars they would pass a lie detector test with ease. Sadly the only thing bill got caught on was the blue dress because there was hard fast evidence of his lies...When in reality he should have been impeached for such utter corruption, way beyond a lie about his affair with an intern....Yet you sheep drink his kool aid and sing the praises still.
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allentown | Sep 04, 2010, 12:55 PM EDT
Isn't our Secretary of State the same person who said she landed under fire in Bosnia?
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Monsoonman | Sep 04, 2010, 12:51 PM EDT
Lad, I wonder how you would be if the federal government unleashed all of its lawyer hounds directly at you and your small state? Do you think you would be a bit preoccupied? Even the sheriff is getting sued by eric holders injustice department. In the meantime along interstate 8 in Arizona the federal government is posting signs warning motorists the area is dangerous and overrun with violent drug cartels...This is in my country and what does the federal government do to the state when it tries to protect itself? Sues them!!!If you think I am lying or stretching the truth or being a racist just look up on google a picture of the warning signs along interstate 8, then get back to us.
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seanomelbourne | Sep 03, 2010, 11:49 PM EDT
Brewer has the courage of her convictions? Why doe's she avoid the press.The idiot secretary of state!!! A flower among thorns.
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borefield | Sep 03, 2010, 09:13 PM EDT
Jan Brewer has the courage of her convictions and beliefs. I guess Cahir O'Doherty wouldn't recognise these attributes.We need to take back our country and people that want to come here and work and be part of this great country should try the legal route like many of us did.
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McNabb1966 | Sep 03, 2010, 08:24 PM EDT
Cahir serves up yet another fact-free, low-credibility koolaid beverage with zero relevance and all the bitter aftertaste of Lefty failure. Drink up, wingnuts! lol
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Liamkeyes | Sep 03, 2010, 08:13 PM EDT
The Threat to the Citizens of Arizona or any other American Citizens are not overstated. Have you heard of the "Juarez Cartel" yet? It is up to us to join with our fellow Americans in Arizona and other Border States to support them.
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maloney | Sep 03, 2010, 08:08 PM EDT
hollowbutgroul.. you math sucks as does your opinions.Say what you want, you will be boohooing come Nov.
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hancock | Sep 03, 2010, 07:58 PM EDT
What about that idiot Secratary of a State?
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seanomelbourne | Sep 03, 2010, 07:41 PM EDT
Who switched off her ear piece, she now joins the ranks of "dumb blonds".But! she has good company,Gretchen,Gloria,Ann and the honorary blond Malkin.
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patrick1945 | Sep 03, 2010, 05:46 PM EDT
What are your sources, I've seen reports that differ from yours. Why is the federal government putting up signs that it is unsafe for citizens to enter parts of the state. There would be no governor Brewer in the news and no SB-1070 if the federal government would enforce federal law already on the books. As for decapitated bodies look just across the border. If they find them there what's to keep them from finding them on this side of the border. And didn't you leave out the word "illegal" in your statement "Anti-emigration bill SB-1070".
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