Sleeping With a Secessionist

Sarah "Sleeping with a Secessionist" Palin has her own radical associations that she has never fully answered to. If Barack Obama is (in her words) not telling the "full truth" about Bill Ayers, I definitely want Ms. Palin to fully and completely answer to her views on her husband's membership in a party that still supports the Southern Confederacy and their so-called "right" to secede from the Union.

Barack Obama has denounced both his former pastor and has called Ayers' actions "deplorable." Sarah Palin has yet to answer about her views regarding the Alaskan Independence Party and whether she agrees or disagrees with them.

Joe Vogler, the founder of the Alaskan Independence Party [AIP] even took his case for Alaskan separatism before the United Nations under sponsorship from the Islamic Republic of Iran!

From Salon.com:

The AIP was born of the vision of “Old Joe” Vogler, a hard-bitten former gold miner who hated the government of the United States almost as much as he hated wolves and environmentalists. His resentment peaked during the early 1970s when the federal government began installing Alaska’s oil and gas pipeline. Fueled by raw rage — “The United States has made a colony of Alaska,” he told author John McPhee in 1977 — Vogler declared a maverick candidacy for the governorship in 1982. Though he lost, Old Joe became a force to be reckoned with, as well as a constant source of amusement for Alaska’s political class. During a gubernatorial debate in 1982, Vogler proposed using nuclear weapons to obliterate the glaciers blocking roadways to Juneau. “There’s gold under there!” he exclaimed.

Vogler made another failed run for the governor’s mansion in 1986. But the AIP’s fortunes shifted suddenly four years later when Vogler convinced Richard Nixon’s former interior secretary, Wally Hickel, to run for governor under his party’s banner. Hickel coasted to victory, outflanking a moderate Republican and a centrist Democrat. An archconservative Republican running under the AIP candidate, Jack Coghill, was elected lieutenant governor.

Hickel’s subsequent failure as governor to press for a vote on Alaskan independence rankled Old Joe. With sponsorship from the Islamic Republic of Iran, Vogler was scheduled to present his case for Alaskan secession before the United Nations General Assembly in the late spring of 1993. But before he could, Old Joe’s long, strange political career ended tragically that May when he was murdered by a fellow secessionist.

Sarah Palin's associate and current AIP chairman Mark Chryson discusses his views on AIP and the confederacy:

This has meant rubbing shoulders and forging alliances with outright white supremacists and far-right theocrats, particularly those who dominate the proceedings at such gatherings as the North American Secessionist conventions, which AIP delegates have attended in recent years. The AIP’s affiliation with neo-Confederate organizations is motivated as much by ideological affinity as by organizational convenience. Indeed, Chryson makes no secret of his sympathy for the Lost Cause. “Should the Confederate states have been allowed to separate and go their peaceful ways?” Chryson asked rhetorically. “Yes. The War of Northern Aggression, or the Civil War, or the War Between the States — however you want to refer to it — was not about slavery, it was about states’ rights.”

Chryson brags that Ms. Palin had an open-door policy to him once she got into office, and that he was instrumental in helping shape public policy in Alaska.

Read the full article here


And here's a video excerpt of the Chryson interview:



Click here to read my previous posts on the Alaskan Independence Party.

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