http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Re0vmbtHK8&feature=related
This is a shocking video about the AIP, to which Sarah Palin is closely affiliated. She spoke to their 2008 convention, and attended the 1994 convenetion. Her husband was a member for years, According to the speaker, so was Sarah Palin. More shocking, he indicates that she joined the GOP to further her political goals, but her agenda was still basically the AIP's agenda.. Here's a quote from AIP's founder that will set the stage for this video: “The fires of Hell are frozen glaciers compared to my hatred for the American government, and I won’t be buried under their damn flag!” --- Alaskan Independence Party founder Joe Voegler In the video, the man speaking (with the beard) is Vice Chairman of the AIP, Dexter Clark This is a partial transcript, but you should really listen to it yourself to get the full impact. (BEGIN QUOTE) ...The basic argument of the Alaskan Independence Party has always been the number one plank in our platform - the question of our vote to become a state. So…the most blaring disparity in that vote was the definition of an eligible voter. Among those qualified to cast a ballot were 41,000 American soldiers and 36,000 dependants. Now, to the native population of Alaska, to me, these were occupation troops! And they were made eligible and, in fact encouraged to vote. There were educational meetings held on the military bases. I can’t imagine them telling anyone that anything but that statehood would be very good for the military - in fact they still have 6, 7 big bases and numerous smaller holdings in the state. Statehood would be good for the military. Now can you imagine the international uproar if American troops had all went and got their purple fingers in Iraq? ...': (END OF QUOTE) WOAH! The AIP considers American soldiers in Alaska to be "occupation troops"? He objects to the soldiers being able to vote! He equates American soldiers stationed at American bases in Alaska (Americans and Alaska is part of the U.S.) voting with the scenario of American troops voting in Iraq! This is so wrong on so many levels, it makes me nauseous. Okay, after he calls American soldiers "occupying troops and equates them voting in Alaska with the scenario of them voting in Iraq, he continues with obections to the way statehood was voted-in in Alaska. Not only that, he objects to voters being required to read and write English, which was a requirement of the Voters Right Act at that time. Thats right: he objects to voters being required to read and write English! At about minute 6:00, he discusses how the AIP supported Sarah Palin as governor. AND he says, before she ran for mayor, she was an AIP member. This is the kicker: he indicates that she joined the Republican Party to advance her political career. He also indicates thatthe Republican Party was "pretty well sympathetic" to former AIP membership. Basically, he's saying "Sarah Palin may be a registered GOP but she really --wink, wink--supports the AIP and its agenda. Pardon the hell out of me, but the "pretty well sympathetic" comment is very worrisome. The Republican Party should have kicked her to the curb if they thought she was sympathetic with the AIP's agenda! The AIP is anti-American, views American soldiers stationed in Alaska as "occupying troops," and, in fact, has stated he hates America. (BEGIN QUOTE)...“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. (laughter) 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 to get along and 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.“...(END OF QUOTE) Clark then continues on, discussing the oil industry and how Alaskans are not profiting enough from it (one of Sarah Palin's beliefs), and discusses the ethics investigations of GOP Senator Ted Stevens and GOP congressional rep Don Young. He then goes on to encourage Alaska-independence, Anti-American groups to INFILTRATE THE REPUBLICAN PARTY...groups like "Christian Exodus," an extremist religious group. He goes on to say that even getting a member of a group elected to CITY COUNCIL can advance the Anti- American AIP agenda. You mean, like Sarah Palin was elected onto the City Council? He instructs the listener that anyone can check a box to join the GOP, even though their agenda and goals are counter- productive to the GOP's own agenda and goals. (BEGIN QUOTE)...If there is ever a time that is right for change, this is it. In our own situation, we discussed several options. Do we try and get our case into the International Court of Justice, or to the World Court? Several Native Alaskan organizations are taking that route, independent of us. They want to do it on their own terms. They haven’t realized, in my mind, the potential of their own political party. The pitfalls of an organized political party - you don’t have any control over who joins that party. They put the X next to it on the registration form, and if they join the — go into the primary, and win that primary, they’re your candidate, like it or not. I think Ron Paul has kind of proven that. He’s a dyed -in-the- wool Libertarian. He came to Alaska and spoke as a Libertarian. And he put the Republican label on to get elected. That’s all there is to it. And any one of your organizations should be using that same tactic to infiltrate. I know that Christian Exodus is in favor of it, I know that the Free State Movement is in favor of it. I don’t know that they even care which party it is. Which ever party you see where you can get something done, get into that political party, even though it does have it’s problems. Right now that is one of the only avenues. If you can get a few people on the city council, or a town board, you can have some effect....(END OF QUOTE) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. 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