Hatred For The American Government
Simply imagine the uproar if an associate of Barack Obama voiced such an opinion of the United States – the gnashing of teeth could be heard as far away as the moon.
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.”
Simply imagine if somebody, like a preacher at the church Obama attended, for instance1, claimed to hate America and despise the American flag. You wouldn’t even hear of any more hurricane news, the coverage would be so vigorous. However, since Sarah Palin is a Republican, such connections are not worthy of much discussion.
If you want to hear the audio of Joe Vogler, click here [MP3] Too bad there isn’t any video of the event.
Footnotes:- Reverend Jeremiah Wright, remember him? [↩]
[...] September 2nd, I wrote about the same incident as David Talbot: Simply imagine the uproar if an associate of Barack Obama voiced such an opinion of the United [...]
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8 Oct 08 at 10:18 pm
Rep’s have got their minds closed to SP, what’s she does is excused and someone else’s fault! JM and her have had SO MANY “free-passes” no one seems to care…
CARE PEOPLE, Vote Obama/Biden Nov 4th!!!
14 Oct 08 at 2:53 pm