Vile criminal defense lawyers equate Andy and Joe with Hitler
Their protest trivializes the Holocaust

In all of recorded history, there has been but one Hitler, a madman whose goal was the total eradication of an entire people down to the last infant. No one, not Pol Pot, Genghis Khan or even Joseph Stalin can compare. Only one man ever, has orchestrated such a systematic elimination of human beings. To equate anyone else with Hitler is to spit on the graves of the millions he crushed.  There are scarcely words to describe what such an equation means to the living survivors and their descendants, and yet on Monday, a few radical Arizona criminal defense attorneys, who dubiously claim membership in the human race, organized a rally in front of Maricopa County Superior Court comparing County Attorney Andrew Thomas and Sheriff Joe Arpaio to Hitler.

When people resort to violence and vileness, you know they have run out of ideas. The more they do so, the more they indicate a lack of intelligence and/or judgment. Apparently, these defense attorneys must have been born on a day when both were in short supply. When someone plays the Nazi card, you know they have no substantive argument.

In addition to displaying pictures like the one above that places Hitler next to Sheriff Arpaio, several protesters held large white signs actually equating Arpaio and Thomas with Hitler. They were the usual suspects, a mob of far left angry, radical left-wing attorneys upset that Thomas doesn’t cave in to them on illegal immigration, the death penalty, and other pet left wing causes.

Although it looked as if there were at least 200 protestors, that was deceptive. Most criminal defense attorneys spend half their day downtown at Superior Court, which recesses at 12:00 noon for lunch, exactly when the protest started. Not only were numerous criminal defense attorneys already down there by default, but many standing in the crowd seemed to be court employees, defendants and other litigants who stuck around to enjoy the show.

The protest was organized by criminal attorney Jim Belanger, who represents the Home Builder’s Association which profits off illegal immigrant labor, something Thomas and Arpaio have fought against in the interests of protecting American jobs, a fact he neglected to mention even once in his speech. We are struck by the title, criminal attorney. Does this mean an attorney who represents criminals, or an attorney who is a criminal? You have to admit that there is a bit of ambiguity in the term.