Each month, even if I’m not physically in the United States, I try to read, among other magazines, GQ (Gentlemen’s Quaterly) and Esquire. I particularly enjoy reading the British editions of each of these magazines. As a republican there are no stipulations that I must read only right winger periodicals or those with conservative political orientation.
I do however acknowledged and concede that I ordinarily read GQ and Esquire for their fashion attire photography. For example, the other year I bought a pair of Lacoste’s Fairbrooke shoes after seeing them advertized in both Esquire and GQ.
Sometime shortly before Christmas, 2012 I appropriated (I didn’t but it) a copy of December, 2012 British edition of GQ magazine. A scan of the cover is provided directly below:
This edition contains a Sheriff Joe Arpaio interview on pages 276 thru 281.
At the outset of the interview I imagined that I would find some sort of reference(s) to Arpaio’s investigation regarding Barack Obama’s birth certificate or other eligibility and fraud related issues.
I was astonished, and rather disappointed, after I read the entire article without finding a single remark or reference to Barack Obama’s birth certificate or other eligibility related issues.
Moreover, Barack Obama’s name is only mentioned one (1) time throughout the entire interview and that is when, on page 278, Russian born reporter Evgeny Lebedev said, “In Phoenix, there’s only one candidate that anyone – love him or loathe him – has interest in, and it isn’t Mitt Romney or Barack Obama.”
Below is a shrimpy-sized list, a thru i, of notable data (to me at least) which I scrapped from the interview, although I’m somewhat certain that all of it has already been available online, some of it for a number years now:
a. On page 277 I learned that Sheriff Arpaio was 80 years old at the time of the interview.
b. On page 279 I learned that Arpaio once worked for the DEA (Drug Enforcement Agency). “In 1957, he [Arpaio] was appointed a federal narcotics agent, finally being named head of the DEA’s Arizona branch.”
c. On page 279 Arpaio said, “I was Mitt Romney’s campaign guy for four or five years.”
d. On page 280 the reporter indicated that Arpaio once said the he, Arpaio himself, was honored when he was compared to the Ku Klux Klan. “The prosecution showed the court media interviews in which he [Arpaio] said being compared to the Ku Klux Klan was “an honour”…”
e. On page 281 I learned about a woman named Mary Rose Wilcox, a Maricopa County (Arizona) Supervisor (Democrat) who, after publicly challenging Arpaio’s behavior, was indicted on trumped-up corruption charges which a judge subsequently threw out as a blatant misuse of power by Arpaio. Wilcox also claims that Arpaio had her followed and harassed through the streets by gangs on motorcycles. She also claims that these Nazi-tattooed thugs harassed and freighted her and the clientele at a restaurant that she ran to the point that she finally had no choice other than to close the business.
f. On page 281 I learned that it appears that Sheriff Arpaio is not a proponent of free speech. It appears that he does not advocate the right to free speech as he once had the co-owners of the Phoenix Times arrested after they published a story about him. “The co-owners of the Phoenix Times were arrested at their respective family homes after the paper published details of the sheriff’s properties, including investments. The coverage resulted in subpoenas demanding a release of computer records, including those of anyone who had visited the New York Times’ website and read the story. That case too was dismissed [as Mary Rose Wilcox’s case was dismissed] and a £9m [9 million British Pounds] lawsuit launched in response.”
g. On page 281 I learned that at the time of the interview (December, 2012) Arpaio’s war chest stood at £4.3 million British Pounds, much of which came from out of state.
h. On pages 277, 278 and 281 I learned that actor Steven Seagal might Karate-chop you if you have a beef with his partner-in-crime Sheriff Arpaio.
i. On page 279 I learned that Arpaio is originally from, and was raised in, Springfield, Massachusetts and that his father was born outside of the USA, in Italy. (Also I think his mother too was born in Italy although its not mentioned in the interview). I’m not sure if Arpaio’s parents were, or were not, full US citizens at the time of his birth but if Arpaio ever decides to run for US President I would advocate this being looked into and being taken into consideration by fellow brethren birthers when contemplating whether or not Arpaio is a Natural born citizen.
Below I have attached scans of each page of the December 2012 British GQ interview:
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