Joe Miller is fond of private security.
In the Spring of 2008, Joe Miller showed up wearing Eric Estrada circa 1984 mirrored sunglasses, with security guards in a staged coup d'état of the leadership of the Alaska Republican Party. He lost. Randy Ruedrich still stands supreme as the party Chair, and now supports the man who once tried to oust him.
Fast forward to July 4, 2010 -- US Senate candidate Joe Miller's supporters marched with assault rifles and campaign signs.
The Alaska Dispatch has been doggedly pursuing a story on why Joe Miller lost his job several months after the attempted takeover encouraged by then-governor Sarah Palin. All indicators point toward Miller using the computer resources of his employer, the Fairbanks North Star Borough, to rig some sort of vote, and then clearing out the cache to conceal that fact.
On Sunday, Joe Miller, candidate for US Senate, held a town hall meeting at a middle school in Anchorage. When asked about illegal immigration, Miller offered up: Build a wall! "If the East Germans could do it, so can we!"
Really? The Stasi? I know Palin said we could see Russia from Alaska, but East Germany is pushing it.
Tony Hopfinger, editor at the Alaska Dispatch and host of a US Senate debate scheduled for Monday evening, followed Joe Miller into the hallway after the debate to ask additional questions. At a press conference last week, Miller announced he would no longer be taking questions about his past, but has continued advertising his past accomplishments; military combat service, Yale Law School, federal magistrate, etc.
According to Hopfinger:
1. Hopfinger had been trying to ask Miller questions when two or three guards told him to leave or risk being charged with trespassing.
2. When Hopfinger continued to try to ask questions, one of the guards put the reporter in an arm-bar and then handcuffed him.3. Hopfinger was released after police arrived.
4. The reporter was on public property where a public event was being held at the time of the incident.
5. Miller has been adamant about his desire to avoid talking to the Alaska media, but no one in the working press in Alaska has ever before seen a candidate go to this length to avoid questions.
It is bizarre enough to have a reporter "arrested" by private security, but those of us who drive past The Drop Zone, the business behind Miller's security, every day aren't surprised by their over-reach or connection to Joe Miller.
The only thing more extreme than the weather and wildlife in Alaska is the politics. The Drop Zone was a sponsor of Palin apologist and former radio host, Eddie Burke. The DZ bragged to patrons about their security squad being littered with former Blackwater operatives. Not disclosing full names and a preference for cash transactions were commonplace. A poster of President Obama as the Joker hangs in their front window.
"Bill", identified in news accounts of this story, is William Fulton. He is the owner of the Drop Zone. Bill was photographed in front of the Alaska 9/11 Glenn Beck-Sarah Palin rally after accosting and pointing a finger at a protester while shouting in her face, "Socialist!" The woman's sign said, "Don't be stupid Alaskans, Don't Vote Joe Miller, We Deserve Better...", and she held her own against the verbal onslaught. (see picture below)
Bill loves Glenn Beck and was heard saying, "Glenn talks to the crazies," who are his best customers.
Extremists aren't rare in Alaska. Through Todd Palin, the nation became aware of the Alaska secessionist group known as the Alaska Independence Party. Norm Olson, who was ousted from the Michigan Militia for being too radical, set up camp in Nikiski and started the Alaska Militia.
I think Scott McAdams, the Democratic candidate on the ticket opposing Joe Miller, put it best: "@JoeWMiller - in case you were unaware, the Constitution also applies to reporters."
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Why would anyone vote for him? How would they know anything about him?
"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
Whom is she supposed to welcome, if we have a wall around us?
Nope, this whole story is about the Republicans kind of coming unglued, and losing a lot of popular support, and now you see these folks circling the wagons. Problem is, frontier days are kind of over, it's a new century, world getting more crowded by the day, politics becoming more complex, and now all these people have these 'education' things, and it's getting harder and harder for people like Beck to gain an audience...nevermind Palin and Miller et. al. Oh, and this 'internet' thing, where people can inform themselves? Well, that's just the Devil, right there.
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Hey Joe,
I can’t understand why so many think your idea of an East German-like wall to secure our borders would be goofy. It works-- how many illegal Nicaraguans and Haitians did East Germany have, right? And it would make all those Americans trying to get out stay put where they belong. And this is a shovel-ready project, building those guard towers, minefields, barbed wire barriers, etc. I’m sure we could hire those unemployed experienced ex-Stasi and their German shepherds for peanuts too. We could even send down those Wiking SS Division re-enactors to help out, led by Rich Iott, the GOP nominee for Congress from Ohio. Unless I hear otherwise from you, my local group will print t-shirts with your picture and name and the slogan “Build the Berlin Wall Right Here.” Keep generating those way, way, out of the box ideas.
I look foward to the tee-shirts.
ROFLMFAO
What is the connection?
Nor the PRESENT. Nor the FUTURE.
His life is not the proverbial "Open book".
What a waste of a Yale Law Degree.
DISBARMENT FIRST. Then CRIMINAL INDICTMENT.
This is off-topic, but something has been nagging me for some time. When Joe Miller's wife is standing next to him while he is at a podium making a statement, she looks every bit the battered wife. It has struck me every time I've seen her in photos and videos. Obviously, there may be nothing to it, but the outward signs are very similar to women who have been battered. Laura
AMERICAN EVANGELIBAN - started along with EVERYTHING ELSE, in the time of Reagan.
VOTE DEMOCRATIC.
If so, this needs to come to light...given the founder, Norm Olsen's pat connections to Michigan militia, McVeigh and Terry Nichols.
Someone on another post hinted at a deeper connection to McVeigh...
The one major "extreme" aspect of those people is that they EACH TAKE MORE TXPAYER MONEY
from the rest of the country, more freebie, gratis, gimme-gimme-gimme your taxpayer money - and oh, then please try to think of me as a "rugged individualist who thinks for myself".