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 Posted: Sat Oct 11, 2008 6:58 am Post subject: Investigation ties Palin to extreme right-wing fringe. |
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http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Blumenthal_breaks_Palinsecessionist_connection_wide_open_1010.html
Friday October 10, 2008
Investigation ties Palin to 'extreme right-wing fringe'
David Edwards and Muriel Kane
The McCain campaign has attempted to make an issue out of Barack
Obama>s limited connections with former Weather Underground member
William Ayers.
However, according to a new investigative report, vice-presidential
candidate Sarah Palin herself has had a far close and more extensive
association with Alaska>s own political extremists than she has ever
acknowledged.
The story at Salon.com by Max Blumenthal and David Neiwart offers an
in-depth examination of the crucial role played in Palin>s political
career by two members of the secessionist Alaska Independence Party
(AIP).
When Blumenthal appeared on Thursday>s Rachel Maddow Show, he began by
explaining that AIP -- which has links to both neo-Confederate parties
in the South and the theocratic Constitutional Party -- serves as "a
haven for anti-government extremists, anti-government militia members,
and conspiratorial figures who believe that the United States
government plans to implement a New World Order."
AIP advocates secession from the United States, and its founder, Joe
Vogler, is known for having proclaiming "I>m an Alaskan, not an
American. I>ve got no use for America or her damned institutions."
The extent of Palin>s connection to AIP has previously been uncertain.
Her husband Todd was a member of the party until 2002, but although
Palin attended some conventions and sent them a message earlier this
year saying, "Keep up the good work," she herself never belonged to
the group.
The Atlantic>s Marc Ambinder suggested a week ago that Todd Palin>s
membership in AIP should not be an issue, writing that "Maybe Todd
Palin didn>t believe in all of the principles the AIP espoused...
indeed, the AIP seems to be a bit of a cultural relic in Alaska, a
quirky old friend. ... That [Sarah] didn>t dump him because he
associated with some dum-dum secessionists is probably a sign of good
judgment."
http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/10/wm_ayers_v_todd_palin_tales_fr.php
However, Blumenthal told Maddow that when he and co-author David
Neiwert, who has been investigating anti-government militias since the
1990>s, interviewed people in Palin>s home town of Wasilla, they found
that "Sarah Palin is far more intimately associated with the extreme
right-wing fringe of Alaska than the media has acknowledged or than
she is willing to acknowledge." http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/
Blumenthal said that Palin used former AIP chairman Mark Chryson and a
local John Birch Society activist known as "Black Helicopter" Steve
Stoll "to advance her political career on a local and state level --
and she sought to reward them with plum political appointments."
In 1996, Chryson and Stoll helped Palin with her campaign of negative,
character-based attacks on the incumbent mayor, and after Palin was
elected she attempted to appoint Stoll to the seat she had formerly
held on the Wasilla city council.
That appointment was blocked by another council member, who considered
Stoll a "violent influence," but Palin continued to work with Chryson
and Stoll on various initiatives.
Chryson now says, "Every time I showed up her door was open. And that
policy continued when she became governor."
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| Posted: Sat Oct 11, 2008 7:31 am Post subject: Re: Investigation ties Palin to extreme right-wing fringe. |
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In article <d120f4l48lftl3d16kldco8rlkgrl7sjuv@4ax.com>,
Harry Hope <rivrvu@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
[quote]http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Blumenthal_breaks_Palinsecessionist_connection_w
ide_open_1010.html
Friday October 10, 2008
Investigation ties Palin to 'extreme right-wing fringe'
David Edwards and Muriel Kane
The McCain campaign has attempted to make an issue out of Barack
Obama>s limited connections with former Weather Underground member
William Ayers.
However, according to a new investigative report, vice-presidential
candidate Sarah Palin herself has had a far close and more extensive
association with Alaska>s own political extremists than she has ever
acknowledged.
The story at Salon.com by Max Blumenthal and David Neiwart offers an
in-depth examination of the crucial role played in Palin>s political
career by two members of the secessionist Alaska Independence Party
(AIP).
When Blumenthal appeared on Thursday>s Rachel Maddow Show, he began by
explaining that AIP -- which has links to both neo-Confederate parties
in the South and the theocratic Constitutional Party -- serves as "a
haven for anti-government extremists, anti-government militia members,
and conspiratorial figures who believe that the United States
government plans to implement a New World Order."
AIP advocates secession from the United States, and its founder, Joe
Vogler, is known for having proclaiming "I>m an Alaskan, not an
American. I>ve got no use for America or her damned institutions."
The extent of Palin>s connection to AIP has previously been uncertain.
Her husband Todd was a member of the party until 2002, but although
Palin attended some conventions and sent them a message earlier this
year saying, "Keep up the good work," she herself never belonged to
the group.
The Atlantic>s Marc Ambinder suggested a week ago that Todd Palin>s
membership in AIP should not be an issue, writing that "Maybe Todd
Palin didn>t believe in all of the principles the AIP espoused...
indeed, the AIP seems to be a bit of a cultural relic in Alaska, a
quirky old friend. ... That [Sarah] didn>t dump him because he
associated with some dum-dum secessionists is probably a sign of good
judgment."
http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/10/wm_ayers_v_todd_palin_tal
es_fr.php
However, Blumenthal told Maddow that when he and co-author David
Neiwert, who has been investigating anti-government militias since the
1990>s, interviewed people in Palin>s home town of Wasilla, they found
that "Sarah Palin is far more intimately associated with the extreme
right-wing fringe of Alaska than the media has acknowledged or than
she is willing to acknowledge." http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/
Blumenthal said that Palin used former AIP chairman Mark Chryson and a
local John Birch Society activist known as "Black Helicopter" Steve
Stoll "to advance her political career on a local and state level --
and she sought to reward them with plum political appointments."
In 1996, Chryson and Stoll helped Palin with her campaign of negative,
character-based attacks on the incumbent mayor, and after Palin was
elected she attempted to appoint Stoll to the seat she had formerly
held on the Wasilla city council.
That appointment was blocked by another council member, who considered
Stoll a "violent influence," but Palin continued to work with Chryson
and Stoll on various initiatives.
Chryson now says, "Every time I showed up her door was open. And that
policy continued when she became governor."
________________________________________________________
Harry
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Thanks for all your good works, Harry.
can you say.. President Obama ?
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