Joe Miller’s private security force ‘arrests’ and handcuffs progressive blogger
October 18, 2010From the land that gave us Sarah Palin — who in turn gave us Tea Party extremists like Miller — comes a TP story that deserves reposting by all progressive bloggers:
Private security guards hired by Alaska GOP Senate candidate Joe Miller handcuffed a progressive blogger and claimed that the blogger was “under arrest” after the blogger asked Miller a question about why he was disciplined in a previous job:
Miller — aka “Mr. Noun, Verb and Unconstitutional” — is best known for decreeing that laws he disagrees with must be unconstitutional. Miller has previously claimed that the federalminimum wage, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, unemployment benefits, and even federal child labor laws violate the Constitution — although his opposition to these programs hasn’t prevented him from tapping into them whenever his family qualified for benefits.
In other words, Miller really only follows one rule: “whatever Joe Miller wants; that’s the rule.”
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A private security force hired by Joe Miller (R-AK) detains a blogger that asked Miller a critical question
The editor of the Alaska Dispatch website was arrested by U.S. Senate candidate Joe Miller’s private security guards Sunday as the editor attempted to interview Miller at the end of a public event in an Anchorage school.
Tony Hopfinger was handcuffed by the guards and detained in a hallway at Central Middle School until Anchorage police came and told the guards to release Hopfinger. [...]
One of the guards grabbed Hopfinger’s video camera. Later, Hopfinger said that when he got the camera back, the segment covering the span of the arrest was missing. An Anchorage police officer offered to take the camera into custody and have it examined in the crime lab to investigate whether evidence had been destroyed, but Hopfinger declined. He said he needed the camera and the remaining video for his work.
The guard who grabbed the camera said Hopfinger had dropped it in the scuffle and denied erasing anything. The guard wouldn’t give his name.
While Hopfinger was still in handcuffs, the guards attempted to prevent other reporters from talking to him and threatened them too with arrest for trespass. A Daily News reporter interviewed Hopfinger anyway. No other reporters were arrested, though a few shoving matches and chest bumps ensued as the guards attempted to cordon off Hopfinger and block photographs and videos from being taken of the bizarre school scene.Miller’s belief that he can hire a goon squad to falsely arrest people who disagree with him is, sadly, part of a much larger pattern. “This behavior is particularly disturbing, especially for someone who claims to be a ‘constitutional conservative,’” Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), who is waging a write-in campaign against Miller, said.
Miller — aka “Mr. Noun, Verb and Unconstitutional” — is best known for decreeing that laws he disagrees with must be unconstitutional. Miller has previously claimed that the federalminimum wage, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, unemployment benefits, and even federal child labor laws violate the Constitution — although his opposition to these programs hasn’t prevented him from tapping into them whenever his family qualified for benefits.
In other words, Miller really only follows one rule: “whatever Joe Miller wants; that’s the rule.”
– A Think Progress cross-post. Wikipedia entry on ‘macaca‘.
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an eerie throwback to Germany in 1934.
according to Wiki at
http://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/ Joe_Miller_(Alaska_politician)
Scarry. I thought one Chuck Norris was more than enough.
Is anyone out there listening, or is everyone too busy playing with their iPads and iPods, obsessing over the NFL games, and other ephemera?
Yeah… that’s what I thought.
Anyway, I went to a coffeeshop today here in Colorado and was behind a gal in line who was covered in tattoos and talking with great volume on her cellphone (while holding up the line) about how she lied about her kid being sick to get off work and a million other things I wouldn’t admit to myself alone in the dark, if that were my life, yet alone in public. The barrista, a sweet sensible looking girl, exchanged a look with me that clearly asked the same question I had – are humans devolving? This is in answer to Lou Grinzo’s Is anyone out there listening, or is everyone too busy playing with their iPads and iPods…
The footage may be inadmissible in a court of law, but let’s see how it fares in the court of public opinion.
– frank
Did you know that ‘Wayne’ is the most common name for serial killers? No foolin’!
Oct 14 2010
Democrat Scott McAdams is pulling closer to Republican Joe Miller and write-in candidate Lisa Murkowski in Alaska’s Senate race, according to a new poll by the conservative Club for Growth (CFG) that was released Thursday.
Miller, who defeated the Murkowski, the sitting incumbent senator, in the August primary, had 33 percent support in the telephone survey of 400 likely voters. Murkowski had 31 percent, and McAdams had a surprising 27 percent.
http://dailycaller.com/ 2010/ 10/ 14/ new-poll-by-conservative-group-shows-democrat-closing-in-on-alaska-senate-race/
Miller’s obviously got some kind of major ego problem; draping himself with a fantasy security detail is diagnostic of megalomania, surely.
Skin heads shave their heads.
People who cut their own hair use clippers with 1/4″, 3/8″, or 1/2″ guards.
No friend or spouse would do that to someone that they liked.
All three guards pictured are shaved on the sides, but longer on the top. That screams military. No policeman or security guard around here would have a haircut like theirs. IMHO
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