Sarah Palin's radical right-wing mentors
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On the afternoon of Sept. 24 in downtown Palmer, Alaska, as the sun began to sink behind the snowcapped mountains that flank the picturesque Mat-Su Valley, 51-year-old Mark Chryson sat for an hour on a park bench, reveling in tales of his days as chairman of the Alaska Independence Party. The stocky, gray-haired computer technician waxed nostalgic about quixotic battles to eliminate taxes, support the "traditional family" and secede from the United States.
So long as Alaska remained under the boot of the federal government, said Chryson, the AIP had to stand on guard to stymie a New World Order. He invited a Salon reporter to see a few items inside his pickup truck that were intended for his personal protection. "This here is my attack dog," he said with a chuckle, handing the reporter an exuberant 8-pound papillon from his passenger seat. "Her name is Suzy." Then he pulled a 9-millimeter Makarov PM pistol -- once the standard-issue sidearm for Soviet cops -- out of his glove compartment. "I've got enough weaponry to raise a small army in my basement," he said, clutching the gun in his palm. "Then again, so do most Alaskans." But Chryson added a message of reassurance to residents of that faraway place some Alaskans call "the 48." "We want to go our separate ways," he said, "but we are not going to kill you."
Though Chryson belongs to a fringe political party, one that advocates the secession of Alaska from the Union, and that organizes with other like-minded secessionist movements from Canada to the Deep South, he is not without peculiar influence in state politics, especially the rise of Sarah Palin. An obscure figure outside of Alaska, Chryson has been a political fixture in the hometown of the Republican vice-presidential nominee for over a decade. During the 1990s, when Chryson directed the AIP, he and another radical right-winger, Steve Stoll, played a quiet but pivotal role in electing Palin as mayor of Wasilla and shaping her political agenda afterward. Both Stoll and Chryson not only contributed to Palin's campaign financially, they played major behind-the-scenes roles in the Palin camp before, during and after her victory.
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Whoa. Talk about your strangest of strange bedfellows.
To be sure, I'll pass this one along.
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This guy sounds exactly like any other paranoid megalomaniacal cult leader. Whether it's Kim Jong of North Korea, or some weird Mormon cult leader, or Daviv Koresh, Ruby Ridge, Pat Robertson, Hagee....they are all reading off the exact same script!
1) They all require guns! Lot's and lot's of guns because (according to their paranoid self-aggrandizing delusions) there is a war coming and they have a "special destiny" to stop it.
2) They and they alone have the "answers" and anyone that suggests likewise is obviously an enemy
3) Any form of authority -- any! -- is simply an earthly manifestation of a grand cosmological struggle designed specifically to impede their "special destiny" Thus the FDA's ruling that cow milk should be free of cancer causing toxins isn't a good idea, but rather the work of the Devil and secession from the country (or destruction of the institution via a Timothy Mcvey style bombing) is the only logical response to such out-of-control tyranny!
More and more I am respecting the Amish.
They too lead lives very similiar to a cult, but they live WITHIN society and WITHIN the law and they practice total non-violence and don't believe in guns.
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wow.....I didn't know Sarah Palin supported terrorists! (pure sarcasm)
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- dragon1984
- 1 month ago
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were Alaska to cede from the Union, the USA would rightfully wish to protect it's rights to the assets of the place.
There is the starting point of the cash paid to russia for the land. It belongs to the USA. The mineral rights, therefore, belong to the USA.
It seems unlikely that the USA would forgo these mineral and oil rights.
In short, you would have a war. One that your small arsenal of guns in the basement would not really help you with. (Can you last a couple of Alaskan winters locked down in your house?)
The leaders of that war would be charged with treason.
So, SP is buddy-buddy with those who would advocate treason?
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she supports terrorist and burning witches at the stake.
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it give an angle to the election that is not discussed
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Hey, gang. Imagine my surprise when I looked up the word "Liberal" in my thesaurus.
Liberal: ...generous, abundant, lavish, broadminded, tolerant, enlightened, charitable among others. Not bad, eh?
Conservative: ...stingy, miserly, reactionary, regressive, bigoted, prejudiced, biased, narrow-minded and more. Ouch!
Considering that, and the track record of conservatives (anti-women voting, anti-blacks voting, pro-segregation, pro-Vietnam War, anti-Head Start, etc.) you can see why I'd be embarrassed to call myself a conservative.
So with all those accurate, flattering words to describe "liberal"... And all those appropriate, hateful words to describe it's antonym, "conservative"...
After I stopped laughing at the irony, I knew I had to make a t-shirt out of it.
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- Vierotchka
- 1 month ago
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Here's a scan of the Roget's Thesaurus where I got the definition from, and the inside page.
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- Vierotchka
- 1 month ago
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And here's a scan of page 389, where the word "liberal" appears.
Note: Circled in blue is the definition of "liberal" and the antonym (opposite meaning- for any right wingers out there ;-) , of liberal... "conservative"
(Yeah, bummer that the definition is broken up at the bottom of the first column and the top of the second...)
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- Vierotchka
- 1 month ago
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But the patched together enlargement above (with highlights for clarification) shows the graphic to be 100% accurate and factual! TOO funny!
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- Vierotchka
- 1 month ago
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So you see, allenhigby, liberalism is not and never was a cult, let alone a dangerous one.
Guess who is the stupid one here... (hint - it is not any of the liberals)
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- Vierotchka
- 1 month ago
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EXCELLENT EXPOSE of how ignorant 'conservatives' have tried to debase our language.
LIBERAL is a great word! It means FREE! Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Voltaire, Patrick Henry ---all of them LIBERALS!
To be conservative is to be stingy and, in Hitler's case, a Nazi.
BTW --the guy who wrote the Second Amendment was James Madison --A LIBERAL!!!!!!
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Was Mr Chryson a member of a terrorist group like the Weathermen.
Obama's political mentor Bill Ayers was.
Has the Alaska Independence Party killed any innocent people like the Weathermen?
the answer is no.
The Alaska Independence Party is a political party seeking political solutions to issues of states rights.
For instance, the state of Alaska can not ship directly to foriegn countries. Alaska must ship their goods through one of the lower forty eight states.
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mo1y, I have to ask you again...
Again, Bill Ayers political mentor... where did you read this? How many were killed by the weather underground? One of their members actually died making a bomb... but how many deaths were they responsible for?
