The Palins??? un-American activities - Part II
Vogler wasn???t just a blowhard either. He put his secessionist ideas into action, working to build AIP membership to 20,000 ??? an impressive figure by Alaska standards ??? and to elect party member Walter Hickel as governor in 1990.
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.
Imagine the uproar if Michelle Obama was revealed to have joined a black nationalist party whose founder preached armed secession from the United States and who enlisted the government of Iran in his cause? The Obama campaign would probably not have survived such an explosive revelation. Particularly if Barack Obama himself was videotaped giving the anti-American secessionists his wholehearted support just months ago.
Where???s the outrage, Sarah Palin has been asking this week, in her attacks on Obama???s fuzzy ties to Ayers? The question is more appropriate when applied to her own disturbing associations.









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