http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/9/2/0033/80749
Palin's Former Party Links to White Supremacists
by Larry Madill <http://larry-madill.dailykos.com>
Mon Sep 01, 2008 at 09:00:33 PM PDT
As has been rumored for days now and confirmed by ABC News
<http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/09/members-of-frin.html>,
Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska, now John McCain's V.P. Pick, was once a
member of the far right, fringe Alaska Independence Party.
It also seems that the Alaska Independence Party (AIP) is also
affiliated with, or have at least "rubbed shoulders" with some of the
worst elements of the Southern White Supremacist movement as identified
by the Southern Poverty Law Center <http://www.splcenter.org/>.
While nothing I've found ties Sarah Palin directly to any White
Supremacist Organization, her membership in the Alaska Independence
Party, and AIP's relationship with other explicitly racist secessionist
groups, raises some more serious questions about Sarah Palin's judgment,
character, and her own political beliefs.
* Larry Madill's diary <http://Larry-Madill.dailykos.com/> :: ::
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As I am sure every knows by know, the AIP's main goal is for Alaska to
secede from the U.S.A. and become its own country. To achieve this goal
the Alaska Independence Party finds itself in some fairly shady company;
company such as the Neo-Confederate, White Supremacist "League of the
South" <http://dixienet.org/New%20Site/index.shtml>, whose founder, J
Michael Hill, according to a Southern Poverty Law Center Intelligence
Report <http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?pid=453>,
once said,
"It is time for us, as Southern whites, to look to our own well
being and defense against these thugs,"
speaking of an attack s on white women by African American and Hispanic
youth. Adding,
"Moreover, it is time we demand that respectable members of the
'minority community' control their debased 'brothers and sisters.'
If they refuse, then we can only believe that they secretly condone
such behavior. Let us not flinch when our enemies call us 'racists'"
On October 3rd and 4th, 2007, almost a year into now Republican Sarah
Palin's first year as Alaska's Governor, the Alaska Independence Party
attended The Second North American Secessionist Convention
<http://middleburyinstitute.org/secessionconvention2007.html>, sponsored
by the League of the South and the Middlebury Institute, in Chattanooga,
Tennesse. The gather also include the Free Hawaii Party, and several
other minor groups
<http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=915> including,
Christian Exodus, a theocracy-minded outfit headed by a former
league leader from Texas; and the Abbeville Institute, which was
established by Donald Livingston in 2003 after he finally left the
League of the South due to its "political baggage." Livingston's
institute is devoted to the "Southern tradition," including what it
describes as the ignored "achievements of white people in the South."
However, The League of the South was the spark-plug behind the gathering
of Secessionist Groups that members of the Alaskan Independence Party
cheerfully attended. The League of the South is an organization that,
again in the words of The Southern Poverty Law Center's Summer 2008
Intelligence report, entitled "North Meets South"
<http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=915> is...
The Alabama-based group is against interracial marriage, believes
the old Confederacy never surrendered, and wants to reestablish "the
cultural dominance of the Anglo-Celtic people and their
institutions" in a newly seceded South. It seeks to accord different
classes of people differing legal rights in what sounds very much
like a medieval theocracy of lords, serfs and clerics. League
intellectuals have defended both slavery (which was "God-ordained")
and segregation, a policy described as protecting the genetic
"integrity" of both blacks and whites. Right after Hurricane
Katrina, league members put up "whites only" housing offers,
including one from Alabama offering a trailer to a "white family of
three or four," and another from Tennessee offering to temporarily
house a "White Christian family."
Yet the Alaska Independence Party has no problem rubbing shoulders with
White Supremacists groups such as the League of the South. In fact AIP's
Vice Chair, Dexter Clark, who went to the 2007 Second North American
Secessionist Convention, went out of his way to legitimize groups like
the League of the South when interviewed by the Anchorage Press
<http://www.anchoragepress.com/site/basicarticle.asp?ID=310>:
"We're not talking about a bunch of Klans-people walking around with
white sheets and pointed hats," Dexter said. "These are some pretty
legitimate people with some legitimate concerns about our government."
Give you two guesses who Dexter Clark's wife is? Give up? Dexter Clark's
wife is Lynette Clarke, chairman of the AIP, who also attended the 2007
Second North American Secessionist Convention as an ambassador, and the
person who identified Sarah Palin as a member of the Alaskan
Independence in the late 90s to ABC News
<http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/09/members-of-frin.html>.
Dexter Clark can also be seen in this video, extolling the virtues of
Sarah Palin, and implying she is still sympathetic to the AIP (about six
minutes in):
Download video! <javascript:void(0);>
(Hat Tip to Marc Ambinder's blog at The Atlantic
<http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/09/the_alaska_independence_party.php>
for the video, although he incorrectly identifies Dexter Clark as Dexter
Carter)
When you lay down with dogs you get up with fleas, and right now the
Alaskan Independence Party is covered in a lot of Fleas in White Sheets.
It is clear that, by their willingness to associate with and legitimize
White Supremacist organizations like the League of the South, the
Alaska Independence Party is more than just a "fringe party", it is an
extremist party that openly and freely associates with elements of the
White Supremacist movement. I would also venture out on a limb and say
this sympathy towards elements of the Racist Secessionist movement did
not spring to life in 2007, it is a sympathy that has most likely been
present since the party's inception.
So what does Sarah Palin know and when did she know it? Why did she join
the AIP precisely? Does she still endorse AIP's ridiculous Secessionist
Platform? Why, after the AIP publicly associated itself with known White
Supremacist Organizations, did Sarah Palin record the greeting
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwvPNXYrIyI> for AIP's Convention
earlier this year? And is she prepared to "reject and denounce" her
former political party and its links to the Southern White Supremacist
Movement?
--
Linda
*http://freedetainees.org <http://freedetainees.org/>
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