Slouching Towards Oblivion

Monday, September 06, 2010

Electioneering 2010

From TPM:
"Mexican drug cartels literally do control parts of Arizona," Babeu told the Times. "They literally have scouts on the high points in the mountains and in the hills and they literally control movement. They have radios, they have optics, they have night-vision goggles as good as anything law enforcement has."
"This is going on here in Arizona," he added. "This is 70 to 80 miles from the border - 30 miles from the fifth-largest city in the United States."

 This guy Babeau is the sheriff of a border county in Arizona, and the guy who appears in John McCain's campaign video about "finish the danged fence".  TPM actualy does some decent reporting, so they called around to other law enforcement offices, and couldn't get anybody to confirm anything Babeau said.  In fact, while most stopped short of calling him full of shit, they all flatly contradicted the guy.

Here's a quick question:  Since Babeau is supposed to be in charge of upholding the law in his jurisdiction, is he just pleading for help...or is he admitting to professional incompetence?

Assuming he's a capable agent of the law, I gotta wonder why he says such things.  So I'm thinking it has everything to do with making sure certain middle class white people have something to be afraid of so that Big Daddy Politicians get more power.

These assholes pull this kinda shit because it works.

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