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Joe Miller denies connection to jailed Alaska militia leaderOn March 12, JoeMiller.us, the web site of 2010 Republican U.S. Senate candidate Joe Miller, sent out a public announcement to e-mail subscribers denying connection to an Alaska militia leader arrested this week near Fairbanks. The release seems to dispute a phrase from a recent Reuters report about the raid and arrests of five people in Fairbanks earlier this week for, among other charges, allegedly plotting to murder multiple Alaska State Troopers and a federal judge. In the statement of distance, Miller refers to an Anchorage Daily News news aggregate item centrally linking readers to a September 2010 Salon.com article quoting militia leader Schaeffer Cox, among those arrested in the recent raid. The aggregate item notes that Cox criticised Miller in the interview for seeking office, but doesn't mention that Salon also paraphrases Cox saying that, at the time of publication anyway, he "personally knows and likes" Miller. Miller's message is presented below without alteration.
"in no way condones any lawless behavior". Except by himself. All of which means what? That ADN swings left and would like nothing better than to tag Joe Miller with Shaeffer Cox? That Salon.com works fine as a foil for this? That Shaeffer Cox is hanging out on the right and has decided not to share the world with people who don't think like him? That Joe Miller is over there someplace with him, but not with him? What a waste of electrons. How about a little journalism regarding the media's sudden abandonment of the Libyan people to the predations of Mohamar Quadafi to concentrate instead on fresh blood in Japan 24 hours a day instead? Joe Miller was looking for support and he wasn't too picky about where it came from. What sensibile politician would allow his campaign Hummer to be followed by guys with big bellies and wayyyyyy too much fire power? If the Bloods or Crips had tried that, do you think they would be walking the streets today? "and in no way condones any lawless behavior." except for his own. I wrote my comment before I read the ones already here. I burst out laughing when I saw yours. I wrote the same thing :) Joe does not condone any lawless behavior? How about when his goon bodyguard arrested Tony Hopfinger, I don't recall him condemning that action. Miller's carefully crafted response reveal that he has no contact with Cox subsequent to his run-ins with the law early last year. (When he was quickly charged with choking his wife, then with a weapons violation.) So obviously, there were contacts prior to a year ago that Miller is anxious to avoid, like so many other things in his past that were revealed during the campaign. Here's the whole quote: Schaeffer Cox of Fairbanks, the young commander of the Alaska Peacemakers Militia (what he calls a "pro-violence, anti-aggression" group), told Salon in an interview that he personally knows and likes Miller, but he doesn't consider himself a supporter. "He's going to try to run things in a more conservative way, but he's still trying to run things -- so he has the same fundamental problem of all the other politicians," Cox said. As for the open-carry display by Miller supporters at the community parade over the summer, the men shown in the now-famous video are members of the Anchorage Second Amendment Task Force, a gun rights group. It endorsed Miller after he showed up at a forum over the summer that Murkowski declined to attend, task force official Chuck Green told Salon. Members "like[d] Miller's straight forward answers to questions." He said "some of the guys in the forum decided to attend the parade supporting Miller. It's ... as simple as that." There is a post from July on an Alaska gun rights message board announcing that, "Joe Miller who is running for the US Senate has an entry in this parade. He is looking for Firearms Owners to come and march Open Carry with him. I and many others will be there to support him." |
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