Christmas Music 12-Hrs A Day? At Gitmo This Would Have Been Considered Torture
Are the 8,000 Arizona prisoners having their “rights” violated by having to listen to 12 hours of Christmas music a day in Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s bare bones desert jail set-up? Nope…the U.S. District Court thinks a little holiday spirit, over and over and over again can’t hurt anyone.
I like Christmas music (after Thanksgiving Day and until 12:01 a.m. on December 26th) especially if they are good, old classical Christmas tunes, but I think 12 hours a day would be good punishment for any criminal. Torture? No.
from the Washington Times -
Sheriff Joe Arpaio – the self-proclaimed “toughest sheriff” in America – likes Christmas music, especially “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” and anything by Alvin and the Chipmunks, and apparently he thinks the 8,000 inmates inside his Phoenix jail should, too.
So it was with some glee that his Maricopa County office announced Thursday in a red-and-green press release that the “sixth and perhaps final lawsuit” brought by inmates to stop the sheriff from playing the holiday songs all day, every day, during the holidays had been dismissed in federal court.
I suppose Sheriff Arpaio really understands music madness – and the only “Christmas song” he should be playing to these criminals is this one -