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Letter: Arpaio is not commendable

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Cynthia Hafen, we are a nation of laws. If I disagree with a law, it doesn’t relieve my responsibility to follow that law. And if I passionately disagree with a law, it is my duty as an American citizen to try to change that law.

A court of law had determined Joe Arpaio had knowingly and willingly continued to violate the law even when told by the court to stop. For that reason he was going to jail. There’s a long history of presidents pardoning criminals of questionable character. I can accept that. What I can’t accept is someone who deliberately (again, as was determined by a court of law) violated the civil rights of private citizens as someone to be commended.