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A Modest Proposal For The Sheriff of Jefferson County, Alabama

“We have spent a substantial amount of time working with neighborhoods that are predominately Latino to build up their trust and to encourage them to come to us when it is essential to preventing and solving crimes,” Hale wrote in court documents. “HB56 may result in our deputies being viewed as state immigration officers instead of law enforcement officers trying to protect everyone in the entire Jefferson County.”

– Jefferson County “Sheriff” Mike Hale. AL.com

I want to be a good and loyal citizen of Huntsville, AL, but I’ve got this secret that holds me back. It has to do with how I make my living. I’m a union-man, you see. As a member in good standing of the Brotherhood of Meth-Cooking Mutha-….(BMCMF), Local #666, I worry some days about my relationship with community leaders and law enforcement personnel.

In my line of entrepreneurial endeavor, I witness blatant crime every day. But I feel held back from reporting it to Officer Friendly. You see, I’m afraid he’ll see all six of my illegitimate kids playing with the green, copper tubing of my meth cooking still (It’s an F-U-Up 6000). He’ll then go Bat(beep) Rambo on my gluteus maximus. This would be bad for business and significantly complicate my health insurance situation.

Really, I’d like to come forth from the shadows and no longer suffer the existential angst of leading a double life. Just think of all the Alabama State Tax revenue my operation could produce if I could report my vast and lucrative operations without getting read my Miranda Rights by some badass with a righteous case of halitosis. And I’m not just saying that from Tweaking Paranoia. I NEVER get Tweaking Paranoia. Not in the slightest. Not in the least…

But seriously; Alabama local law enforcement officials, particularly ones elected as partisan Democrats like Sheriff Mike Hale, are concerned about the difficulties the recent state immigration law would cause with the Latino community. I suppose, if there were a suitably large mosque of Wahabbi Muslims in Alabama, Sheriff Mike Hale would consult religious diversity experts before he got off his butt and prosecuted a public stoning. It would exacerbate police-minority relations if the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Department got all Eurocentric over the concept of Honor Killings.

Me, I’m concerned about the difficulties in law enforcement relations between local sheriffs and the many consumers of my fine, hand-crafted nuggets of crystal meth. Therefore, I offer Sheriff Mike Hale the following modest proposal. He and I can work together and bring political pressure on the Alabama State Legislature to grant amnesty to all meth users and illegal aliens within the borders of The Great State of Alabama.

Get rid of all these pesky laws, and law enforcement becomes a safer and easier path to a comfortable, middle-class lifestyle. The loyal customers who buy my product every day may not have as many teef or brain cells as the rest of the people in Alabama, but they are people too. Illegal aliens just want to live here, earned untaxed income to repatriate to the Motherland, drive without licenses, and perpetuate Alabama’s 10% rate of U3 unemployment. I can’t see why Sheriff Mike won’t just cut them a little more slack.

Getting rid of laws solves the crime problem with no messiness, ACLU lawsuits, scolding lectures from Mein Obama or over-crowded jails. I therefore submit that my modest proposal to “Sheriff” Mike is obviously the best way forward – along the highway to total anarchy and burning hell.

COMMENTS

  • westcoastpatriette

    who shamelessly defend the illegal alien invasion.

    • Repair_Man_Jack

      And also honest-to-God truth.

  • rightwingmom52

    While I appreciate the satire, Hale has done a pretty decent job with the staff and budget he has considering the deep cuts made because of the mismanagement of the Jeffco County Commission to avoid bankruptcy. I’ve heard Hale speak a couple of times at local tea parties, and as I recall, he supported the new law.

    • westcoastpatriette

      at the beginning of the diary, those are classic excuses for non-enforcement of immigration laws. Too many claim they want to do something about illegal immigrants but their behavior betrays falling into the camp of pitying them and only wanting to go after those who are committing violent crimes and leaving alone all of those who are simply here illegally–as if that is not a crime.

      I think that is the point of the satirical diary–to show why that doesn’t work.

      • rightwingmom52

        in Jefferson County are a cesspool of corruption and have been for years (not unlike other areas, I’m sure). Jefferson County is trying to avoid filing what would be the largest municipal bankruptcy in the country because of gross mismanagement, corruption, and lack of leadership which has resulted in deep cuts in budgets and manpower. Sitting here in the middle of it, I can cut Sheriff Hale a little slack because his record reflects a decent man just trying to do his job the best he can with what he’s got, but he could certainly do better.

        • westcoastpatriette

          nt

        • Repair_Man_Jack

          For getting his partisan ID wrong. His opening quote was too Democrat to check so I burned my own fingers. As for the JeffCo municipal bankruptcy, its forestalling embodies all that is wrong with the TBTF mentality. Jeffco needs to be put into receivership by Gov. Bentley (if such is legal) and made to unwind its debts while its corrupt city council takes up residency in a Graybar Hotel.

          • rightwingmom52

            It was a joyous day when we moved from Jefferson Co. to Shelby Co., but I still have to drive to downtown Birmingham every day where I try to spend as little money as possible as my own little protest against the machine. I’m so sick of hearing about JeffCo that I try to ignore it when I can.

            As for Sheriff Hale, that was indeed a Democrat sounding statement. I just feel for anyone stuck in the cesspool that is Jefferson County/Birmingham politics. Do you have a link for the court docs? I couldn’t find one, but I’d be interested in reading his entire statement. I listened to a summary of the testimony this morning, but it was the usual ACLU & DOJ blather.