The Toughest Sherrif in America, Maricopa County's Joe Arpaio, is going to England. The newspaper article makes it sound like he's going over to hold committee metings with MPs and PCs on how to get tough on criminals, but he's going at the invitation and expense of the BBC. And I assume that means they intend to put him on tv and/or radio shows. Get him up in front of an audience, put him on with a panel of weenie sociologists from the University of Little Whinging who are incapable of logical argument, give the panel a moderator who is wholly in support of the sociologists, and watch the sparks fly. The good sherrif goes home humiliated, the get-tough-on-crime idea is again discredited in the eyes of the Beeb and the Guardian, and business continues as usual, with politically-motivated grave-robbing and the rest. There's just one thing the BBC isn't reckoning on.
Sherrif Arpaio is constitutionally incapable of humiliation or shame.
I hope the video will be available on this side of the pond.
That should be highly entertaining!
Posted by: Kevin Baker | 27 August 2005 at 12:30
Go Sherrif
Posted by: Mark Holland | 28 August 2005 at 06:05