The Palins' un-American activities (Salon hit piece)

Salon ^ | 10/7/08 | David Talbot

[steve-b]

"My government is my worst enemy. I'm going to fight them with any means at hand."

This was former revolutionary terrorist Bill Ayers back in his old Weather Underground days, right? Imagine what Sarah Palin is going to do with this incendiary quote as she tears into Barack Obama this week.

Only one problem. The quote is from Joe Vogler, the raging anti-American who founded the Alaska Independence Party. Inconveniently for Palin, that's the very same secessionist party that her husband, Todd, belonged to for seven years and that she sent a shout-out to as Alaska governor earlier this year. ("Keep up the good work," Palin told AIP members. "And God bless you.")...

Vogler's greatest moment of glory was to be his 1993 appearance before the United Nations to denounce United States "tyranny" before the entire world and to demand Alaska's freedom. The Alaska secessionist had persuaded the government of Iran to sponsor his anti-American harangue.

That's right ... Iran. The Islamic dictatorship. The taker of American hostages. The rogue nation that McCain and Palin have excoriated Obama for suggesting we diplomatically engage. That Iran.

AIP leaders allege that Vogler, who was murdered that year by a fellow secessionist, was taken out by powerful forces in the U.S. before he could reach his U.N. platform. "The United States government would have been deeply embarrassed," by Vogler's U.N. speech, darkly suggests Clark. "And we can't have that, can we?"

The Republican ticket is working hard this week to make Barack Obama's tenuous connection to graying, '60s revolutionary Bill Ayers a major campaign issue. But the Palins' connection to anti-American extremism is much more central to their political biographies....

[Jeff Head]

Un-American this Salon:

SARAH PALIN IS DRAWING HUGE CROWDS AT RALLIES ALL ACROSS THE NATION

[princeofdarkness]

My God, they are so grasping at straws.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Working for Salon is what I’d call an “un-American activity.” The gay lobby sure is ganging up on Sarah.

[TonyInOhio]

When did the Alaska Independence Party bomb the Pentagon?

How many police officers did the Alaska Independence Party murder?

I thought so.

[84rules]

The myth of Governor Palin’s membership in that party has been busted. Why even post this here?

[RDTF]

Because they are

[Right Wing Assault]

And how many bombs did Palin set off? Hmmm? And how many people did he kill? Hmmm? And how many times did he get arrested? Etc.

[steve-b]

Her husband was the actual Party member; she just gave speeches and stuff like that.

[what's up]

Was Joe Vogler a terrorist?

Didn't think so.

[jessduntno]

AIP leaders allege that Vogler, who was murdered that year by a fellow secessionist, was taken out by powerful forces in the U.S. before he could reach his U.N. platform. “The United States government would have been deeply embarrassed,” by Vogler’s U.N. speech, darkly suggests Clark. “And we can’t have that, can we?”

Shouldn’t this post have had a
“Tin Foil Hat” Alert?

[Anima Mundi]

Wow-this possibly opens a whole new door of associations, which is to say the spouse of the candidate. Wonder what Michele Obama has?

[ravingnutter]

Because DU has started a mass e-mail campaign on this issue and so it needs to be publicly debunked AGAIN. She NEVER was a member.

[frankiep]

When did the Alaska Independence Party bomb the Pentagon? How many police officers did the Alaska Independence Party murder?

Such trivialities don't matter to the whine and cheese crowd. To them this is no different than terrorism. It's the same disgusting, twisted mentality that says that we deserved what we got on 9/11, or that Jeremiah Wright has a point when he says what he says. These people have absolutely NO concept of decency, morality, or of what is right and wrong. No wonder then that they want to see Obama in the White House.

[skeeter]

Hilarious.

[ravingnutter]

Ayers can be hung around her neck too...

Michelle Obama organized a University of Chicago panel about Bill Ayers's crime book in November 1997, just as the battle over the juvenile justice bill was heating up. That panel featured appearances by some of the key figures discussed in Ayers's book, along with Obama himself, who was identified in the press release as "working to block proposed legislation that would throw more juvenile offenders into the adult system." In effect, then, this public event was a joint Obama-Ayers effort to sink the juvenile justice bill-Obama's decision to plug Ayers's book in the Chicago Tribune the following month was part of the same political effort.

Weekly Standard

Here is a screen shot from the University Website:

[steve-b]

Was Joe Vogler a terrorist?

So it would seem -- I don't know of too many respectable citizens who end up murdered in a plastic-explosives deal gone bad.

[xcamel]

This has been debunked sooooo many times it's not even funny anymore...

[San Jacinto]

Alaska would be crazy NOT to secede, if they could make it stick.

Same goes for Texas.

Not going to happen in the foreseeable future, but ....