Read this from Firedoglake: Sarah Palin And The AIP: Not So Fast With The Exonerations, Please
And this from Salon: The Palins’ un-American activities
From telephusion at YouTube:
FACT CHECKING:
Sarah & Todd Palin are secessionists — they have both been involved with the AIP (Alaska Independence Party). AIP’s goal is for Alaska to break away from the US.
Documented, confirmed: during 1995-2002 Todd Palin was a registered member of the Alaskan Independence Party.
Sarah Palin wasn’t just palin’ around with a registered secessionist — she’d been sleeping with ‘em.
But Sarah has been involved with the AIP herself. She and the McCain campaign have claimed that she is not a “member” and has not been a “member”, and used her Republican party registration to back those claims. They intimidated AIP chair Lynette Clark into recanting her claim that Sarah Palin was a “member”. BUT multiple other AIP members have claimed that she was a member.
ABC News on September 2, 2008: former AIP official — Mark Chryson, chairman of the AIP from 1995 to 2002 — tells ABC News that “Palin was at the convention in 1994. She was there.”There is unequivocal evidence on video that other AIP leaders are certain that Sarah Palin was an AIP member and sympathizer from the time before she was Wasilla mayor.
Dexter Clark, vice chairman of the Alaska Independence party, told party officials in 2006 that: “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.”For video documentation, see:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xmt0rL…A McCain spokesman acknowledges that Sarah Palin was at the AIP convention “in Wasilla in 2000 as a courtesy since she was mayor.”
Sarah Palin openly acknowledges having campaigned at the AIP convention in 2006.
As Governor she recorded a clearly supportive welcome to the 2008 AIP Convention.
“Your party plays an important role in our states politics … keep up the good work, and God bless you.”
(clips of that 2008 welcome are in the video on this page, as well as in the video linked above)
More evidence:
http://blip.tv/file/1231145Todd, definitely a registered member for over 6 years. Sarah, definitely participating at AIP conventions in 1994, 2000, 2006, and and 2008.
Perhaps Sarah’s 2-facedness (or multi-facedness) convinced the AIP’ers that she was a kindred spirit, while in reality she was only a lying opportunist. But the closer we look, especially given Todd’s undisputed registered membership, the more it becomes clear that the commonality of belief and aims goes much deeper.
Now we are beginning to see why Palin is so good at saying whatever she’s been programmed to say by those behind her — pathological liar, with much deeper aims than have been made public.
Either way, her being a heartbeat away from the Presidency is an unacceptable risk.
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ESPECIALLY READ THE LAST SECTION:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Vogler
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IMPORTANT:
http://firedoglake.com/2008/09/10/sar…The AIP is clearly a secessionist movement. It had delegates both at the First North American Secession Convention in 2006, but also at the Second North American Secession Convention in 2007 alongside fellow members the League of the South (the most prominent neo-Confederate organization and an SPLC-designated hate group); the Republic of Texas (a militia/Patriot group whose members at one time engaged in an armed standoff with Texas law enforcement); and Christian Exodus (which advocates creating an all-white homeland, either in South Carolina or in Idaho, depending on whos in charge). You can also find links to these groups at AIPs links page.
In other words, this is a group that works alongside acknowledged racists and far-right radicals in pursuit of an agenda that is by definition extremist that is, secession.
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6 Comments
October 7, 2008 at 2:59 pm
Are we going to see this on TV ads? Sure hope so. Good work, Shayne.
October 7, 2008 at 3:34 pm
House, did you go to YouTube and see all the info that guy has on this under information?
October 7, 2008 at 4:33 pm
Is this the same AIP that enlisted Iran to help spread anti-American rhetoric? Hum… could this be treason?
October 7, 2008 at 4:44 pm
Whether or not this scum was technically a member of the AIP, obviously she is a sympathizer and supporter, otherwise she would not be on video kicking off the convention. It’s kind of like Lieberman saying he’s not a Republican even though he spoke at the Republican convention. It’s his actions, not his voter registration card, that prove his sympathies.
And if she had any convictions or bulldog toughness, she wouldn’t be married to a guy with such views unless she was a sympathizer.
Come on, if you sleep with a dog you can’t claim you’re a cat. Either you’re into bestiality, or you’re a bitch. Those are the only two options.
Can you imagine if this it was Michelle Obama kicking off a convention of black separatists instead of Sarah Palin kicking off a convention of Alaskan separatists? The righties would demand Obama’s head on a stick. Tell me why Palin should get a free pass on this.
October 7, 2008 at 5:05 pm
Cats, I think the Salon article covered that:
http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2008/10/07/palins_unamerican/
October 8, 2008 at 1:20 am
Shayne, I will look at that here in the early, thanks
Gorn, I have seen many cats sleep with dogs. Not sleep, sleep, but sleep.