"Rule o' Law Russell" becomes "I'm the Law Pearce" (AZ Senate)

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http://www.blogforarizona.com/blog/2011/02/rule-o-law-russell-becomes-im-the-law-pearce.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+BlogForArizona+(Blog+For+Arizona)

Rule o' Law Russell can find neither the rule nor the law saying he can ban someone from the state Senate Building. Yet he says he has banned Sal Reza, and when Reza, who claims he hadn't heard of the ban, entered the building Thursday, he was arrested for misdemeanor tresspass.

Under what authority did Pearce ban Reza? You won't find it in the state constitution or any laws on the books.

In Pearce’s statement, he claims the state Constitution gives the president control over the Senate building.

So, according to Pearce, Presidential control means he can make any rules he damn well pleases. Because he's the law. Can he also banish Democratic lawmakers he disagrees with? Given his claim to presidential control over the Senate building, I can't see what would stop him.

Welcome to Russell Pearce's I'm-the-law Arizona.
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"Hispanic leader arrested defying (AZ) Senate ban"

http://azstarnet.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/article_443434b1-21ac-52b8-ac3d-12e49be2e866.html

A sometimes loud crowd reaction this past week at a legislative hearing has led to the banning of Hispanic civil rights leader Salvador Reza from the Senate - and his arrest Thursday after he returned there to see his legislator.

Reza was one of more than 300 people who showed up Tuesday night when the Senate Appropriations Committee heard several bills aimed at illegal immigration. Because the hearing was in a small room, most observers had to watch on closed-circuit TV in a nearby room. Some were clapping and cheering.

Pearce said there is no "blacklist" of people who are banned, other than Reza. But Attorney Stephen Montoya said the order, even if directed only at Reza, is illegal.

[DCKit]

1. Jail and/or a punitive fine for Pearce - some real time and real money.

Extreme threats and punishments are the only things a sociopath will ever understand.