The Lynch Mob Politics of McCain-Palin

October 10

We watched an interview on "The Daily Show" the other night of patrons at a Wasilla bar responding to the vice presidential debate, and it wasn’t funny.

The Sarah Palin fans were racists, homophobic and one even wished for John McCain’s death if he gets elected so Palin could become president.

There was the raw smell of scary stupid ignorance in the air, and even Jon Stewart could barely conceal his disgust with what was supposed to be a comic sketch.

Palin has been going around the nation inciting mobs with the kind of emotional appeals (although in a more coded form) that one used to find at segregationist rallies. A video of some rabidly ignorant crowd at a Palin speech in Ohio has gone viral on the Internet, and it’s a brief and scary insight into the reality that the ugly, bigoted heart of America’s dark underside is still beating strong – and has just gotten a second life with the incendiary direction of the McCain campaign.

Given that the mainstream media has still not picked up on the video of Sarah Palin welcoming, this year in 2008, the Alaskan Independence Party to their yearly meeting –- which we have posted on BuzzFlash several times -– it is hard to understand how the irony of a governor who has clearly documented close ties to a group that regards the United States as an "occupying force" gets away with the ugly farce of basically calling Obama a terrorist. (Yes, it’s in coded language, but that is what Palin and McCain are doing, inciting the fears of the "dark other," the man with the middle name of "Hussein.") One of the bigots at the Palin Ohio rally said that terrorism was in Obama’s "bloodline." This is the kind of talk that brought Hitler to power.

In 2008, the McCain campaign has decided to use the Salem Witch Trials as its model for running for the highest office in our great land.

The mainstream media is taking little note of the dangerous, combustible gasoline that McCain and especially Palin are pouring on the raw wounds of racism in America, although the Washington Post managed to pen a story on October 10th, "Anger Is Crowd's Overarching Emotion at McCain Rally"

But the clear and present emotion was not anger, but hate. That’s a big difference, and the Washington Post apparently thought it might offend bigoted voters by outing the truth.

Palin is entirely at home with egging on the notion of "the other," which is -- the basis of racial, ethnic and religious bloodshed – because it is what she is at home with in Wasilla and her stealth relationship with the Alaskan Independence Party. In many ways, short of a few sane holdouts, Wasilla is like taking a small rural white Alabama town and relocating it north of Anchorage.

What remains astonishing is that the corporate media still won’t acknowledge the videotape that proves Palin’s comfortable relationship with the Alaska Independence Party and research that proves that while Palin may not have technically been a registered AIP member, she worked closely with them, their leaders, and supported many of their goals. This is just documented fact, and no one can refute her effusive welcoming video to the AIP’s 2008 convention.

The AIP is a party of hate, hate for America, hate for the concept of the United States. Given some military equipment and they would probably be armed insurrectionists.

An Alaskan blog notes this of the AIP, and this is just an appetizer of how extremist Sarah's pals are, by quoting its vice chairman, Dexter Clark:

“Our current governor, we mentioned at the last conference, the one we were hoping would get elected, Sarah Palin, did get elected. There’s a joke, she’s a pretty good looking gal, there’s a joke goes around we’re the coldest state with the hottest governor. (laughter) And there was a lot of talk about her moving up. She was an AIP member before she got the job as a mayor of a small town — that was a non-partisan job. But to get along and go along — she eventually joined the Republican Party, where she had all kinds of problems with their ethics, and well, I won’t go into that. She also had about an 80% approval rating, and is pretty well sympathetic to her former membership.“

Some other excerpts from the Alaskan blog worthy of note: 

And finally, here’s the quote of the day from AIP founder Joe Vogler.

“The fires of Hell are frozen glaciers compared to my hatred for the American government, and I won’t be buried under their damn flag! I’ll be buried in Dawson, and when Alaska is an independent nation, they can bring my bones home.”

Reverend Wright suddenly sounds stunningly patriotic.

The entry concludes: "If Senator Obama had made such an address to an Illinois secessionist party, or any other group who wanted to make off with 13% of the nation's oil supply, what would be said about his patriotism?" 

(The corporate media has dismissed discussion of Palin's strong ties to AIP and its leaders because no one can prove that she was a "member."  But that's a canard, because there is irrefutable evidence of her strong ongoing relationship to AIP and specific leaders of AIP.  She attended two AIP conventions and sent a video welcome to a third one this year.  Plus, her husband was actually a member.  Also, just because she is officially a registered Republican, it wouldn't prevent her from being a supporter of AIP, which she is, not would it prevent her from being a de facto member of AIP, without declaring it as her party.  Membership or support and party declaration are two different things.)

Two authors for Salon also recently exposed Palin’s early ties to the AIP and how the AIP helped Palin get elected mayor of the hamlet known as Wasilla. Yesterday, we documented on BuzzFlash the irrefutable audio and video evidence that Palin was recruited as a "spiritual warrior" to reclaim first Wasilla, then the Alaskan state government and now the American government for the end-times crowd who believe in banishing "non-believers" from our nation.

We can’t imagine a greater threat among the four executive branch candidates to the Constitutional democracy of America than Sarah Palin, who incites mobs to descend to their lowest denominator of bigotry, racism, prejudice and hate.

Her goals are radical, and if McCain were elected, if he didn’t die soon enough for some Palin supporters, one of them might just shoot him. That’s the kind of hate and lynch mob mentality that Sarah Palin brings out in the crowds that she incites.

We saw this ugliness in our nation in the hate-filled pro-segregation crowds in the ‘60s. We thought that era of national disgrace was behind us, but with Sarah Palin and John McCain, we are finding that it can be ratcheted back up to a whole new level.

And we haven’t even gotten to the inside of the Trojan Horse that is Sarah Palin, the merger of church and state into an army of "spiritual warriors," marching as did the Crusaders toward the forced establishment of a state religion that will hasten end times.

We wish that we here at BuzzFlash were some over-the-top conspiracy lunatics, but we aren’t. We wish for the sake of the nation that we were, but the evidence that the corporate press won’t discuss proves otherwise.

All you have to do is talk to some of the radical religious and political extremists in Alaska and then roll the videotape. It’s right before your eyes to see.

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