I live in Phoenix and am getting more and more disturbed by the actions of the local and state authorities, using their offices to exact revenge on their political foes, all at the taxpayers' expense.
To wit: America's most unsrupulous Sheriff, Joe Arpaio, is conducting an investigation, in cooperation with the County Attorney''s office for a payement from the State Treasury to the AG's office. They haven't prodcued a shred of evidence, despite burying the AG's office in piles of requrests for information.
The Sheriff decided he wants access to all of the Mayor's Office's email.
Arpaio's officers are known to follow, monitor and harrass those who would run against him or criticize him, which to me is his way of doing away with the right to free speech, in it's purest form.
Arpaio arrests editors of a newspaper for continually writing unfavorable articles (a judge threw out the sherriff's and County Attorney's case almost immediately).
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