Sarah Palin's Troopergate Scandal Reveals Her Fundamentalist Street Cred

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When we speak of 'Terrorist' it is funny how no one brings up the Planned Parenthood Clinic Bombings, The assasinations of Doctors, or the Atlanta Olympics pipebombing by these Heretical Religious Fanatics. They were Terrorist long before McVey, or Kazinkski, or Even AQ.
Their Staunch and rigid Doctirnes are comparable to the Talibans and are willing to fund and protect their Terrorists who have attacked and KILLED Americans over the Decades.
Now their Goal is Global Terrorism- 'Pre-emptive Strikes'- Already hit Pakistan, will Iran be next..Or is it Russia, or Bolivia or Venezula, or San Francisco?
Not only can't these 'fundementalist' follow the very Fundementals of the 10 Commandments, They blatantly disregard them.
"thou shall ont Kill" appears to have an * in their edition - 'Unless they have already been Born.'
'Thous shall not Covet their neighbors possessions'...* Unless it will grant you Power and Wealth
'Honor thy mother & Father' * "Unless they are Democrats'
'Make no Graven Images' * Unless it is Jesus on the cross
"Have no other God Before Me' * 'Unless it is your Messiah'- How dare the Religous Right intentional meld Jesus into God..It Is stated very Clearly he was the SON OF GOD (Which we all our)
What these Fanatics appear to practice and expound is Heresy. Funny how under their Doctrine the 'ALMIGHTY' Requires them to do his Dirty Work..Didn't God do his own work throughout the Bible, When did God become so Feeble and reliant on Mere Mortals to carry out any of his Plans? Why would God expect 'Man' to begin 'the End of Days'? If he wanted to end it all (and 'Rapture Anybody') Why not do it and Give the Planet a little Twist to kill the rest?When did God Require Bombs to Punish they 'Wicked'? When did He Revoke All the Commandments and Inform these folks that 'Love thy Neighbor' was not applicable any more? When did God Grant these folks a Human Resources Position- granting ONLY these mortals the Right to Judgement of others and the Right to 'terminate' Others?
When did God become such a Hater of Humanity and Lover of Suffering?
God Never Relinquished his 'Almighty' Status to mere mortals....The only entity which would - and would need to anoint mortals as his 'Warriors'- be one who is Not Mighty, and ultimatley hates Mankind. Who holds a Grudge against Humanity, Who is so Jealous and vindictive??? Who offers such 'Cookies' (Apples) to those who seek to Outwit Gods Plans,Designs Rules?? "Could it be Satan?"
It's time We call a Spade a Spade, Such Cults as Palins,Hagee's, and the rest of the Self Anointed are HERETICS
As an American I give them the Right to Believe and follow whatever they Want- IN THEIR "CHURCHES" BUT I Need Not Allow them Access to Our Halls of Gov't!
By the Way Who ever Said Peter was granted Door Man to Heaven, Who ever said the Throne in the Vatican was Paul's?those who took up the Self Promotion after they highjacked the Religon from Jesus. Peter & Paul were Opportunists and Traitors to Christ, and his teachings. You Know what a 'Rock' can do to - It can Kill, ask David or Goliath.

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The most unfortunate commentary on the whole "Troopergate" investigation is the fact that the people of Alaska as a whole have not stood up to demand that this investigation go forward. Sarah Palin,as governor of Alaska is an elected official who is accountable before both the law and the people. If the people of Alaska had any integrity they would demand that this investigation go forward and that all parties involved provide testimony necessary to resolve the investigation.
The lack of this demand on the part of the people of Alaska only serves to make them complicit in attempts to suppress this investigation and thus "only a pawn in their game."

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Sarah Palin is not McCain's Achilles heel. His weakness is old age.

In article published in June 2008 by Military.com, former POW Phillip Butler, a Navy pilot and U.S. Naval Academy graduate who spent more than eight years in North Vietnam as a prisoner of war, explained why he would not support McCain for the presidency.

"Most of us who survived that experience [being a POW] are now in our late 60’s and 70’s. Sadly, we have died and are dying off at a greater rate than our non-POW contemporaries. We experienced injuries and malnutrition that are coming home to roost. So I believe John’s age (71) and survival expectation are not good for being elected to serve as our President for four or more years."

There are many Republicans who share Butler's concerns, as do the 30% of white Democrats who won't vote for Obama because he's black (according to a recent Yahoo poll). But no matter how well he argues his case, those people will NEVER support him. So Barack must get them to vote AGAINST McCain or not vote at all.

That goal can be accomplished with a simple slogan: "John McCain -- OLD Ideas, OLD Solutions."

Notice I never mentioned his age (72), but the message comes through loud and clear. And should the GOP complain about the inference, it will only bolster suspicions that McCain's best days are behind him.

If you agree with my assessment, tell your friends and family members while there's still time to defeat McCain -- a pandering politician who truly has old ideas, old solutions.

John McCain --OLD Ideas, OLD Solutions

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Sarah Palin was never what the Republicans had in mind. She was hand picked by James Dobson and McCain (the maverick) went right along with the plan. She is making a mockery of our polictical process. An insult to all Americans. We all deserve better. She has no qualifications and is not at all informed about anything. Definitely not a book worm. She still thinks she's a cheerleader. Sorry I never bought into it. We'll have a woman president one day, but she'll get elected for the right reasons. Thanks, ANNA

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culture worries to rest. Right now, there are more important issues such as the economy, environment, foreign policy, etc ...

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DC's white supremacists are more corrupt than Warren Jeffs and his polygamist thugs in Colorado City, Arizona.

I escaped my polygamist husband in 1989, but the religious fundies are taking over America. Where to go next?

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thats politics for you. Its all about WHO you know. Just a fact of life in todays regime!

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Of even more concern is Palin's "lynch-mob" philosophy, which does away with our country's values of fairness in the legal system.

Demonstrated in her behavior in "Troopergate," but also in her comment regarding the U.S. Supreme Court ruling this summer that upheld detainees' rights to the most basic of legal protections against arrest and imprisonment, a habeas corpus petition.

The court ruled that our government cannot just call someone a terrorist, arrest him, and hold him indefinitely without showing some reasonable cause. McCain has called this "one of the worst decisions in the history of this country." Obama has praised it.

"Al-Qaeda terrorists still plot to inflict catastrophic harm on America," said Palin, and then, referring to Barack Obama, quipped: "He's worried that someone won't read them their rights."

The sentiment is on the wrong side of a deep principle, one that we have long honored in this country, that has to do with basic fairness, the rule of law, and ultimately with standing up intelligently to terrorism.

Palin applied the lynch-mob standard: Because a man has been arrested, he is guilty. End of story.

“Fire him!” is her solution to those that do not agree with her fundamentalist views.

Who will be next in this dictatorship that the Palin/McCain ticket will affect?

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Our Sarah is now linked to local Anchorage ayatollah Rev. Jerry Prevo (delegate to Repub convention--separation of church & state?) To get an idea how dangerous these heretics read Bill Moyer's take

You have to give Sarah credit--she is learning the Bush-Cheney-Rove planbook quickly--see Palin Warns Against 'Second Holocaust' by Ahmadinejad

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Our Sarah is now linked to local Anchorage ayatollah Rev. Jerry Prevo (delegate to Repub convention--separation of church & state?) To get an idea how dangerous these heretics are read Bill Moyer's take

You have to give Sarah credit--she is learning the Bush-Cheney-Rove planbook quickly--see Palin Warns Against 'Second Holocaust' by Ahmadinejad

Alaska Veteran & Peace Activist

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This line of thinking has more flips and flops than I saw in the 2008 Olympics. It may all be true, but reading it with an attempt to follow all the convolutions I think may have given me a concussion.

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AlterNet thoughtfully gave us the content of the Alaska Daily News articles---go also to News From the Underground, blog of Mark Crispin Miller (NYU Media professor who knows how to research a story). Evidence strongly suggests that McCain bought Christian Fundamentalist support by accepting Palin at the suggestion of Billy Graham's son Reverend Franklin Graham, a big wheel in Alaskan Christian Fundamentalist circles---and that Palin was also called upon to pay some earnest money by hiring Chuck Kopp, a person obviously known to Graham. McCain and Graham met in June 08, Graham then told media his people would be supporting McCain, and soon after that Palin fired her Commissioner of Public Safety and hired in his place Chuck Kopp, another major Christian Fundamentalist politico-religious Alaskan. Palin was prettied up and prepared for her so-to-speak arranged marriage with McCain. The rest is history. Now a lawsuit has been filed to halt the Troopergate investigation---by a group of Alaska Republicans receiving legal support by the Liberty Legal Institute, a group that exists to fight for the rights of Christian Fundamentalists. The question is why they are interested in civil matters in Alaska. Don't tell me: I think I know.

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Palin made rape victims pay for their own rape kits. A rape kit includes emergency contraception aka morning-after pill. Palin may have removed the kits from her municipal budget for ideological reasons. If this is true, then the argument that she never allowed her personal religious beliefs to affect her governance is baloney.

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Palin is the republican's Barbie Doll. Everybody loves Barbie.

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Folks:
If you are ready to take these facts to the next level, which is bring this information door to door in areas that are sadly in need of enlightenment (the Mid-West, Central California, areas of the South, and the the Western States of Nevada, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, Montana, NM, SD, ND)we may as well get used to the idea of Gramps and Ginger in the White House.

We also should get used to the idea of this country going into a tailspin of religious persecution as these two appoint judges that think like Muslim extremists when it comes to women: if she got pregnant, she must have been a slut. If she got raped by a thug, she must have asked for it because she's a slut. If Uncle George got her pregnant, she's a slut that we keep at home and claim has mono.

And, you can bet your ass that the Christian fanatics are no less determined than any other fanatical group that has gained political power over the milennia. If anyone is foolish enough to believe that those of us who aren't "part of them" are the enemy, wait until they finally get control of this country.

Stalin will look like a girl scout.

So, if you still like to think that we are a country that embraces everyone for their differences, wake up. If you want to give this country four to eight more years to turn back this tide of religious lunacy, then start talking-before its too late.

Start talking to your neighbors, your grocery clerk (they are my favorites), your bartender, whoever will listen. Try not to yell when they come back with something stupid like "Obama will make the country into a facist regime" because they are just repeating what they've been programmed to think.

Bring along something for them to look at, like website addresses. Ask them to look it up for themselves. Tell them you will want to believe them, just ask them to prove it.

You cannot force an elephant to forget that he cannot break that chain on his ankle, but you may be able to show him how to drag the stake out of the ground...

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One of the fallacies that comes with so many of these sort of articles and the following discussions is that people, in reality, find democracy to be of paramount importance. What people want is their own way - like my 6-year-old daughter - not open and honest discussion with those whom they disagree with.

Unfortunately, this 'age of communication' has had the effect of reducing effective interpersonal communication. We get a lot of disbursement of information (not always true nor accurate), and quite a bit of SHOUTING on right-wing radio and in internet discussion groups, but little empathy, or understanding for the other. The lack of personal, face-to-face, empathetic interaction reduces the whole process to propaganda.

Democracy simply isn't the goal of most people anymore. Perhaps as more of our democratic institutions and traditions fall by the wayside, people will wake up and realize that democracy is worth defending - and not by killing in other lands - but by strengthening our own institutions. But for now it seems to be the concern of only a relatively small minority of abstract thinkers.

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Those 30% democrates must read Koran if radicalislam really exist. American voters must also read Koran if not non-esistance radicalislam's shadow will cost American another trillion dollars in wanted wars

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