Tuesday, September 02, 2008

Reject and Denounce

We've got verification that Palin's husband was a member of the Alaska Independence Party from 1996 to 2002. On top of that...

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."


Palin first attended the AIP's convention in 1994, only 3 years after Vogler gave the above interview and has actively courted their support over the course of her career. Presumably she'll now have to reject and denounce her husband.

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