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Old 10-18-2010, 02:25 AM
 
Location: Long Island (chief in S Farmingdale)
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Miller is refusing to answer questions from the Alaskan media. So when he gets asked a question, well this happens....


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Alaska Dispatch founder and editor Tony Hopfinger was grabbed and handcuffed by a private security detail working for U.S. Senate candidate Joe Miller on Sunday while trying to ask the Fairbanks Republican questions following a town hall meeting at Central Middle School in Anchorage on Sunday.

Hopfinger was reportedly pressing Miller on whether the candidate had ever been reprimanded for politicking while working at the Fairbanks North Star Borough in 2008. Alaska Dispatch and other media have sued for the release of records related Miller's time at the borough. Various accounts of what happened next generally agree on this course of events:

Two or three bodyguards told Hopfinger to stop asking questions and to leave the building.
Hopfinger continued to ask questions while apparently videotaping the candidate.
Bodyguards told him that if he persisted they would arrest him for trespassing, but refused to identify themselves to Hopfinger.
Hopfinger asked why he was trespassing, as the event was at a public school. Seconds later, he was then put in arm-bar and later handcuffed and sequestered at one end of a hallway for at least 30 minutes. He was told, "You're under arrest."
Anchorage Police arrived on the scene shortly after.
Police were still trying to sort things out as this was written.

The updated part of the story says the Journalist was released by police.

Alaska Dispatch editor detained at Miller event [updated]
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Old 10-21-2010, 12:19 PM
 
Location: Michigan
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More news about this subject.

Alaska candidate’s ‘security’ firm allegedly tied to extremist militia

Alaska Senate candidate Joe Miller's use of private security guards who "arrested" and handcuffed a blogger-journalist following a Miller campaign event on Sunday is continuing to raise questions about the candidate's affiliations.

The latest allegation, which comes from a team of Alaskan bloggers, is that Dropzone Security Services and its owner William F. Fulton -- who led the security detail that detained Alaska Dispatch editor Tony Hopfinger -- are closely tied in with the so-called Alaska Citizens Militia and its leader, right-wing extremist Norm Olson.

Alaska candidate’s ‘security’ firm allegedly tied to extremist militia | Raw Story
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Old 10-21-2010, 12:40 PM
 
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Why aren't the pinheaded-facist-right wing tea partiers screaming out in protest over this strong-arm tactic by one of their fellow pinheaded-facist-right-w...

Oops. Sorry. Got carried away. I guess I have been reading too many bashing threads today in which that type of logic is employed.

Anyway, it does appear to show rather poor judgment on Mr. Miller's part (i.e., hiring such bodyguards).
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Old 10-21-2010, 01:48 PM
 
Location: Long Island (chief in S Farmingdale)
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More news about this subject.

Alaska candidate’s ‘security’ firm allegedly tied to extremist militia

Alaska Senate candidate Joe Miller's use of private security guards who "arrested" and handcuffed a blogger-journalist following a Miller campaign event on Sunday is continuing to raise questions about the candidate's affiliations.

The latest allegation, which comes from a team of Alaskan bloggers, is that Dropzone Security Services and its owner William F. Fulton -- who led the security detail that detained Alaska Dispatch editor Tony Hopfinger -- are closely tied in with the so-called Alaska Citizens Militia and its leader, right-wing extremist Norm Olson.

Alaska candidate’s ‘security’ firm allegedly tied to extremist militia | Raw Story
This thing becomes more and more disturbing the more that comes out.
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