Retarded Politician of the Week: Pima County, Arizona Sheriff Clarence Dupnik

Sergeant Joe Friday, no known political affiliation, LAPD:  "Just the facts, ma'am."

Sheriff Clarence Dupnik, Democrat, Pima County Sheriff:  "Just let me vent my spleen about you right-wing bigots."

Actually, the quote from Sheriff Dupnik was:

"When you look at unbalanced people, how they respond to the vitriol that comes out of certain mouths about tearing down the government. The anger, the hatred, the bigotry that goes on in this country is getting to be outrageous," he said. "And unfortunately, Arizona, I think, has become the capital. We have become the mecca for prejudice and bigotry." 

The above-quote was made by Sheriff Dupnik following the shooting of Representative Gabrielle Giffords, D-Arizona and other innocents by Jared Lee Loughner on January 8, 2011.  It appeared in the Newsmax story, here.

How retarded.  At a time that the citizens of Pima County need Dupnik to dispassionately perform his duties as the chief elected law enforcement officer, he engages in the type of hate-based political discourse that he decries.  Persons with political views that don't match Dupnik's own leftist ideology have now been libelled as bigots.  According to Dupnik, their political speech is considered prejudice and bigotry, and renders them responsible for the violence perpetrated by extremists.  The use of political office by Sheriff Dupnik to espouse such views reveals him to be the sort of intolerant petty despot who is a threat to liberty and unfit for office.

Was Sheriff Dupnik aware that the shooter, Jared Lee Loughner (always three names for an assassin) was a loony lefty whose favorite books included Mein Kampf and The Communist Manifesto and that Mr. Loughner had rants about as intelligible as Keith Olbermann's?  That Mr. Loughner's political views appear to be those associated with Sheriff Dupnik's own political party?

It appears that Sheriff Dupnik's office may have been aware that Mr. Loughner was unstable and prone to violence.  Karl Denninger reports on this in his excellent post on the shooting of Representative Giffords and the reaction of the left:  The Shameful Left and Revisionism.  The paragraph on Sheriff Dupnik is a ways down in the post, so I will reproduce the relevant paragraph here:

"See, there are also, unfortunately, reports in the media that the suspect had expressed homicidal ideation - that is, a desire (or threat) to murder. That's in the press at this point, and it's a problem. If this was known to the local law enforcement community, why wasn't he evaluated with regard to his mental stability? That may explain why the Pima County Sheriff was talking trash yesterday - he knows he's got himself a bit of 'splaining to do once people figure out that they had this guy in custody at least once, knew he was potentially unstable and that he was a threat to others. If they had done their job perhaps this wouldn't have happened - you see, it is already illegal for someone who is mentally ill to purchase and/or own a firearm, which begs the question: did every opportunity exist to interdict this individual at some point in the last couple of years, including direct contact with law enforcement who were aware of homicidal threats and his behavior at his college, and yet either the procedures were not in place to refer him for evaluation or they were not followed?"

Representative Giffords was the victim, along with other innocents, of a crazed criminal gunman.  I hope that Representative Giffords and the other wounded innocents have a speedy and full recovery.  The survivors of those who were murdered by Mr. Loughner have my sympathy.  This was a tragedy.

The citizens are the victims of outrageous statements made by the media and elected officials including Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik.  These statements, following this false-flag event, will undoubtedly be used by tyrannical fascist politicians to further limit the Constitutional rights of Americans to freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, and the right to keep and bear arms.  Mark my words.

False-flag event.  I have chosen those words carefully.  When a politician from the left exploits the murderous actions of a leftist extremist for the purpose of demonizing persons who had no connection to the murderous actions of the leftist extremist, I consider that to be a false-flag event.

The only reason to demonize persons who had no connection to the murderous event is to limit their freedoms.  It isn't hard to figure out.  Sheriff Dupnik has already told you that some political speech should be limited because it is, in his left-wing opinion, hateful, prejudiced, bigoted, and responsible for the violence of left-wing nutjob Mr. Loughner.  That is but one example of freedoms to be limited.

Kudos to my own Representative, Cathy McMorris-Rodgers, who reacted as reported by Fox News:

"Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., who appeared with Clyburn, said she is not aware that alleged shooter Jared Lee Loughner is tied to a political movement or engaged in a politically motivated act.

"You know, his favorite books are 'the Communist Manifesto' and 'Mein Kampf.' I think it's important that we recognize that this is an individual that had -- that has mental challenges, and we need to act appropriately in dealing with him and making sure that justice prevails here," she said."

A criminal act was committed by a criminal in Arizona yesterday.  Sheriff Dupnik turned a criminal act into a political action for the purpose of libelling a particular brand of political speech, turning the actions of a criminal into a false-flag event that will likely affect the freedoms of a generation of American citizens.  Again, how retarded.