I’m an Alaskan, not an American. I’ve got no use for America or her damned institutions.”
Joe Vogler , founder of the Alaskan Independence Party
You would think that someone with questionable associations of their own wouldn’t be lobbing charges of “palling around with terrorists” at the other guy.
While Sarah Palin has been on stages across the nation making accusations of how Barack Obama is so unhappy with America that he’s palling around with terrorists, some journalists have been hard at work finding out who are Palin’s own pals.
Although I think it’s fairly well known that Sarah Palin has some ties to the Alaska Independence Party, I’m not sure that people realize her allegiances apparently extend to the present day.
And here is a a videotape of a speech given by Dexter Clark, a vice chairman of the AIP at their convention. It’s a long video, you can skip to approximately 5:55 to see the pertinent parts. Here’s a quote from that video in which Mr. Clark talks about Sarah Palin:
“Our current governor, we mentioned at the last conference, the one we were hoping would get elected, Sarah Palin, did get elected. There’s a joke, she’s a pretty good looking gal, there’s a joke goes around we’re the coldest state with the hottest governor. And there was a lot of talk about her moving up. She was an AIP member before she got the job as a mayor of a small town — that was a non-partisan job. But you get along to go along — she eventually joined the Republican Party, where she had all kinds of problems with their ethics, and well, I won’t go into that. She also had about an 80% approval rating, and is pretty well sympathetic to her former membership.”
Here is some interesting information and quotes from Joe Vogler, the Alaska Indepence Party founder:
“The fires of hell are frozen glaciers compared to my hatred for the American government,” Vogler said in the interview, in which he talked extensively about his desire for Alaskan secession, the key goal of the AIP.
“And I won’t be buried under their damn flag,” Vogler continued in the interview, which also touched on his disappointment with the American judicial system. “I’ll be buried in Dawson. And when Alaska is an independent nation they can bring my bones home.”
At another point, Volger advocated renouncing allegiance to the United States. In the course of denouncing Federal regulation over land, he said:
“And then you get mad. And you say, the hell with them. And you renounce allegiance, and you pledge your efforts, your effects, your honor, your life to Alaska.
This is a very good article on Salon.com - Meet Sarah Palin’s Radical Right Wing Mentors
The article is long, so if you don’t want to take the time to read the entire thing (although I recommend you do), here is an interview from MSNBC with one of the article’s authors and it gives some of the article’s highlights.
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