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Bring the No-Fly Zone Home to Arizona
Could Obama and his supporters take a break from celebrating so-called no-fly zones--and take a look at what's happening in Arizona?
Gaddafi, after all, isn't the only one using military technology against his own people. Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, Arizona, has launched "Operation Desert Sky" to round up "illegal drugs and human cargo"--read: men, women, human, immigrants.
Mar 31, 2011
Could Obama and his supporters take a break from celebrating so-called no-fly zones--and take a look at what's happening in Arizona?
Gaddafi, after all, isn't the only one using military technology against his own people. Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, Arizona, has launched "Operation Desert Sky" to round up "illegal drugs and human cargo"--read: men, women, human, immigrants.
If that name sounds familiar, perhaps you're remembering Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm in Iraq under the first President Bush. That's right, the sheriff of a US county is deliberately evoking the names of military operations in his war on migrants.
Thirty aircraft will be used in the operation, and, according to the Cypress Times, will be furnished and flown largely by the sheriff's armed volunteer posse--in other words, vigilantes. They'll be armed with M-16s and a .50 caliber machine gun.
Isn't it time for a no-fly zone in Arizona? The state senate failed to pass Russell Pearce's anti-immigrant bills, but Arpaio, who just recently performed a tank raid on suspected cockfighters for A&E's TV cameras and Steven Seagal, is clearly escalating.
Former GRITtv guest Salvador Reza, an Arizona immigration activist, says it's unconscionable for Obama and the Justice Department to be part of Arpaio's coalition of the willing. But beyond that, isn't it time for us to put a stop to Arpaio's violence once and for all?
I mean, even progressives are arguing that intervention in Libya was justified on humanitarian grounds. How big a humanitarian disaster must we see on our own soil before we act?
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Could Obama and his supporters take a break from celebrating so-called no-fly zones--and take a look at what's happening in Arizona?
Gaddafi, after all, isn't the only one using military technology against his own people. Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, Arizona, has launched "Operation Desert Sky" to round up "illegal drugs and human cargo"--read: men, women, human, immigrants.
If that name sounds familiar, perhaps you're remembering Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm in Iraq under the first President Bush. That's right, the sheriff of a US county is deliberately evoking the names of military operations in his war on migrants.
Thirty aircraft will be used in the operation, and, according to the Cypress Times, will be furnished and flown largely by the sheriff's armed volunteer posse--in other words, vigilantes. They'll be armed with M-16s and a .50 caliber machine gun.
Isn't it time for a no-fly zone in Arizona? The state senate failed to pass Russell Pearce's anti-immigrant bills, but Arpaio, who just recently performed a tank raid on suspected cockfighters for A&E's TV cameras and Steven Seagal, is clearly escalating.
Former GRITtv guest Salvador Reza, an Arizona immigration activist, says it's unconscionable for Obama and the Justice Department to be part of Arpaio's coalition of the willing. But beyond that, isn't it time for us to put a stop to Arpaio's violence once and for all?
I mean, even progressives are arguing that intervention in Libya was justified on humanitarian grounds. How big a humanitarian disaster must we see on our own soil before we act?
Laura Flanders
Laura Flanders interviews forward-thinking people about the key questions of our time on The Laura Flanders Show, a nationally syndicated radio and television program also available as a podcast. A contributing writer to The Nation, Flanders is also the author of six books, including "Bushwomen: How They Won the White House for Their Man" (2005). She is the recipient of a 2019 Izzy Award for excellence in independent journalism, the Pat Mitchell Lifetime Achievement Award for advancing women's and girls' visibility in media, and a 2020 Lannan Cultural Freedom Fellowship for her reporting and advocacy for public media. lauraflanders.org
Could Obama and his supporters take a break from celebrating so-called no-fly zones--and take a look at what's happening in Arizona?
Gaddafi, after all, isn't the only one using military technology against his own people. Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, Arizona, has launched "Operation Desert Sky" to round up "illegal drugs and human cargo"--read: men, women, human, immigrants.
If that name sounds familiar, perhaps you're remembering Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm in Iraq under the first President Bush. That's right, the sheriff of a US county is deliberately evoking the names of military operations in his war on migrants.
Thirty aircraft will be used in the operation, and, according to the Cypress Times, will be furnished and flown largely by the sheriff's armed volunteer posse--in other words, vigilantes. They'll be armed with M-16s and a .50 caliber machine gun.
Isn't it time for a no-fly zone in Arizona? The state senate failed to pass Russell Pearce's anti-immigrant bills, but Arpaio, who just recently performed a tank raid on suspected cockfighters for A&E's TV cameras and Steven Seagal, is clearly escalating.
Former GRITtv guest Salvador Reza, an Arizona immigration activist, says it's unconscionable for Obama and the Justice Department to be part of Arpaio's coalition of the willing. But beyond that, isn't it time for us to put a stop to Arpaio's violence once and for all?
I mean, even progressives are arguing that intervention in Libya was justified on humanitarian grounds. How big a humanitarian disaster must we see on our own soil before we act?
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