“That Damn Flag”

by tristero

The Sarah Palin story gets more and more sickening the more you find out about her. Turns out the founder of the secessionist group Palin and her husband joined – the one discussed by Digby in this recent post – and which Palin courted after she was governor literally hates the American government and the flag. Here is the ideology of the woman St. John McCain, the straight-talking maverick bullshit artist extraordinaire, chose as his running mate:

The founder of the Alaska Independence Party — a group that has been courted over the years by Sarah Palin, and one her husband was a member of for roughly seven years — once professed his “hatred for the American government” and cursed the American flag as a “damn flag.”

The AIP founder, Joe Vogler, made the comments in 1991, in an interview that’s now housed at the Oral History Program in the Rasmuson Library at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks.

“The fires of hell are frozen glaciers compared to my hatred for the American government,” Vogler said in the interview, in which he talked extensively about his desire for Alaskan secession, the key goal of the AIP.

“And I won’t be buried under their damn flag,” Vogler continued in the interview, which also touched on his disappointment with the American judicial system. “I’ll be buried in Dawson. And when Alaska is an independent nation they can bring my bones home.”

At another point, Volger advocated renouncing allegiance to the United States. In the course of denouncing Federal regulation over land, he said:

“And then you get mad. And you say, the hell with them. And you renounce allegiance, and you pledge your efforts, your effects, your honor, your life to Alaska.”

Y’wanna listen to this creep spout his garbage? Go to Josh’s post linked above; he’s got a link.

Because the political cost to the Republicans is so steep, I’m pretty sure she won’t go, but my God, I wish she’d conclude that she must, for once telling the truth that she’s doing it for her family. But she won’t. She’s too far down the rabbit hole. She’s a little like Jerry Boykin seeing God’s Divine Will directing her life.

She has absolutely no business – none whatsoever – being in national politics.

Update: Democratic Strategist adds a new wrinkle: direct ties between Palin’s ex-party and some radical theocrats.

UPDATE Added link to Digby’s earlier post.