I mentioned Tim McVey in comparison to Sarah Palin, and some here were horrified by that. Maybe that was a little extreme. I should have compared her with his enabler, the late Idaho Congressperson Helen Chenoweth-Hage, who died in 1999.
When Dennis Kucinich tried to impeach Dick Cheney last year, he mentioned his oath of office. "protect, persever, and defend the constitution", but he was wrong on that. The oath of office for officials other than the president doesn't mention that, but instead goes on about defending the constitution from "all enemies foreign and domestic." WE know all about foreign enemies, but what about domestic?
Timothy McVey comes to mind, and I know, Sarah Palin isn't a mass murderer. But what of his enablers? Those who support and defend them are almost as bad. Rep. Helen Chenoweth-Hage of Idaho, who died in 1999 as a result of a car accident was one such enabler. She was the spokeswoman for those who would qualify as domestic enemies under the oath of office. The militias and the seccessionists. She even held hearings on, get this, "black helicopters," which militia members believed were filled with United Nations-sponsored storm troopers eager to swoop into the broken-down ranches of the rural West and impose international law. " (I got that from the Washington Post.)
She defended McVey and his ilk, after the Ok-city bombing. She never blew up anything or shot anyone, but she was a terrorist just the same. Oaky, terrorist sympathizer.
The Alaska Independence party is no different from any of the other domestic enemies groups except they got on the ballot. A couple of their leaders were murdered by other party members, they have a clearly anti-American agenda and believe in a whole bunch of bullshit. They have an enabler in the form of the Governor of the State, something not even Idaho has.
When a federal official, such as a cabinet secretary or a senator swears to defend the constitution against "all enemies foreign and domestic" Palin and her ilk are what they are talking about.