These stories today simply blow my mind.
http://theimmoralminority.blogspot.com/2010/10/joe-miller-looks-to-eastern-bloc.html
Joe Miller Looks to Eastern Bloc Countries for examples of how to keep illegal immigrants out of our country.
I just returned from a Joe Miller Town Hall. (Or an AARP meeting, sometimes it is kind of hard to tell the difference.)
The town hall took place at Central Middle school in the heart of Anchorage, but a number of people in the audience were clearly plants that Joe had brought with him from outside of city limits.
However a few locals did manage to make it into the auditorium, even though the event only showed up on his website a few days ago.
One of those locals, a soft spoken woman, managed to ask Joe about the questions surrounding his military career.
Joe did NOT like having that question asked.
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However it was a question posed to him by a like minded supporter that provided the most jaw dropping moment of the town hall.
A gentleman ask Teabagger Joe how he felt about the illegal immigrant problem, and made sure that everybody understood he was speaking of "illegal" immigrants.
Joe quickly went through his talking points about national security and the illegal activity engaged in by the people coming over the border from Mexico, and then reiterated that the first priority was to build a fence.
Then things got a little surreal.
In his xenophobic zeal Miller asked how hard could it be to build a fence? After all, and this is a direct quote, "If East Germany can do it, we can do it!"
Now just roll that statement around in your brain for a little while.
As many of you are no doubt old enough to remember, the barrier separating East and west Germany was no mere fence. It was called "The Iron Curtain", and it certainly lived up to that name and then some.
This so-called "fence" had armed patrols watching for anybody foolish enough to climb over. And they killed between 100 to 200 people who attempted to get around, or over, the obstacle to reach freedom in the forty or so years of its existence. Is THIS what Joe Miller envisions for the southern borders of California, Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico?
Is this the kind of eyesore he wants to subject people living along the border to, just to keep out people looking for work in this country?
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And then there is this:
Teabagger Joe's "security staff" placed the founder of the Alaska Dispatch under arrest!
Hopfinger was reportedly pressing Miller on whether the candidate had ever been reprimanded for politicking while working at the Fairbanks North Star Borough in 2008. Alaska Dispatch and other media have sued for the release for records related Miller's time at the borough. Various accounts of what happened next generally agree on this course of events:
* Two or three bodyguards told Hopfinger to stop asking questions and to leave the building.
* Hopfinger continued to ask questions while apparently videotaping the candidate.
* Bodyguards told him that if he persisted they would arrest him for trespassing, but refused to identify themselves to Hopfinger.
* Hopfinger asked why he was trespassing, as the event was at a public school. Seconds later, he was then put in arm-bar and later handcuffed and sequestered at one end of a hallway for at least 30 minutes. He was told, "You're under arrest."
* Anchorage Police arrived on the scene shortly after.
Police were still trying to sort things out as this was written.
Unbelievable! What does THIS guy think he needs a security staff for? Nobody wants to hurt him! They just want to ask him questions, which he refuses to answer! Jesus what an arrogant prick!
Both of these stories are being reported in our mainstream press. These continuing fuck-ups by Mr. Miller are bound to have an effect on the election.
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