So why didn’t the media catch this……..?
Category: Baby Patterns
One of the biggest political rallies to ever been held wasn’t even televised?? I’m confused. The people in Alaska held a rally against Sarah Palin and they came out in a big way! So if her own state doesn’t believe in her, why should we??? And why didn’t the media report on this???
http://www.ktuu.com/Global/story.asp?S=8996315
[The] Alaska Women Reject Palin rally was to
be held outside on the lawn
in front of the Loussac Library in midtown
Anchorage . Home made signs
were encouraged, and the idea was to make a statement that Sarah Palin
does not speak for all
Alaska women, or men. I had no idea what to
expect.
The rally was organized by a small group of women, talking over coffee.
It made me wonder what other things have started with small groups of
women talking over coffee. It’s probably an impressive list. These
women hatched the plan, printed up flyers, posted them around town, and
sent
notices to local media outlets. One of those media outlets was
KBYR radio, home of Eddie Burke, a long-time uber-conservative
Anchorage
talk show host. Turns out that Eddie Burke not only announced the
rally, but called the people who planned to attend the rally ‘a bunch of
socialist baby-killing maggots,’ and read the home phone numbers of the
organizers aloud over the air, urging listeners to call and tell them
what they thought. The women, of course, received some nasty, harassing
and threatening messages.
I felt a bit apprehensive. I’d been disappointed before by the turnout
at other rallies. Basically, in
Anchorage , if you can get 25 people to
show up at an event, it’s a success. So, I thought to myself, if we can
actually get 100 people there that aren’t sent by Eddie Burke, we’ll be
doing good. A real statement will have been made. I confess, I still
had a mental image of 15 demonstrators surrounded by hundreds of
menacing ‘socialist baby-killing maggot’ haters.
It’s a good thing I wasn’t tailgating when I saw the crowd in front of
the library or I would have ended up in somebody’s trunk. When I got
there, about 20 minutes early, the line of sign wavers stretched the
full length of the library grounds, along the edge of the road, 6 or 7
people deep! I could hardly find a place to park. I nabbed one of the
last spots in the library lot, and as I got out of the car and started
walking, people seemed to join in from every direction, carrying signs.
Never, have I seen anything like it in my 17 and a half years living in
Anchorage . The organizers had someone walk the rally with a counter,
and they clicked off well over 1400 people (not including the 90
counter-demonstrators). This was the biggest political rally ever, in
the history of the state. I was absolutely
stunned. The second most
amazing thing is how many people honked and gave the thumbs up as they
drove by. And even those that didn’t honk looked wide-eyed and
awe-struck at the huge crowd that was growing by the minute. This just
doesn’t happen here.
Then, the infamous Eddie Burke showed up. He tried to talk to the
media, and was
instantly surrounded by a group of 20 people who started
shouting O-BA-MA so loud he couldn’t be heard. Then passing cars started
honking in a rhythmic pattern of 3, like the Obama chant, while the
crowd cheered, hooted and waved their signs high.
So, if you’ve been doing the math… Yes. The
Alaska Women Reject
Palin rally was significantly bigger than Palin’s rally that got all the
national media coverage! So take heart, sit back, and enjoy the photo
gallery. Feel free to spread the pictures around to anyone who needs to
know that Sarah Palin most definitely does not speak for all Alaskans.
The citizens of Alaska , who know her best, have things to say.
Probably because Alaska as a whole is still heavily Republican. Go to electoral-vote.com and see for yourself – still very Rep. There are always more libs in a big city in even the most conservative states. I’m sure the same could happen in Houston TX, Phoenix AZ, etc. These demonstrators do not represent the majority of Alaska, obviously.
These organizers just represent themselves and try to attract more into thinking the same that it the sole purpose of a rally. But evidently there are more people looking the other way. They had nerve enough to organize,they need the nerve to face the consequences. Now the police are saying that Burke instigated this by saying nothing wrong. What he has done was legitimate, but now it’s wrong or is in violation of the law, ONLY IN AMERICA.
Because the corporate media serves corporate interests
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYlyb1Bx9Ic
and Palin is the darling of the corporate right. Why?
Well because what attention has been paid in the mass media to this political connection( Alaska party) has centered largely on the “Alaska first” motto of the party, which stands in formal contradiction to the McCain campaign’s slogan of “country first.” Far more significant, however, is the fact that the AIP is the Alaskan affiliate of the Constitution Party, an ultra- rightist electoral party that emerged out of the militia movement, anti-tax extremism and the Christian fundamentalist right.
The Constitution Party puts forward a program that can be accurately described as theocratic fascism. Its commits the party “to restore American jurisprudence to its original Biblical common-law foundations.” This is the program commonly identified with a movement known as “dominion theology,” which demands the subordination of every government and institution to Christian fundamentalism, not only in the US but all over the world, together with the outlawing of all other religions and the suppression of atheism.
In addition to establishing severe criminal penalties, including death, for homosexuals, doctors who perform abortions and adulterers, the believers in this Biblical state also propose a social agenda that dovetails completely with the aims of the most reactionary sections of big business. It calls for the elimination of virtually every social reform instituted over more than a century, including minimum-wage laws, Social Security, environmental and health and safety regulations, public education and virtually any form of public assistance.
There is little doubt that Palin is extremely close to these elements. Revelations that have surfaced in recent weeks include the fact that she ran for mayor of Wasilla, a town of barely 5,000, on a right-wing Christian agenda opposing abortion and promoting gun rights, while including in her literature the promise that her victory meant the town “will have our first Christian mayor.”
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/sep2008/pali-s04.shtml
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=10167
A fascist movement could not win a significant popular base in America by marching under swastika banners or peddling Nordic racial myths. It will have its own peculiar national character, utilizing Christian fundamentalism as well as racism and nativism. But if the external trappings will differ from that of the German Nazis or the movements of Mussolini in Italy and Franco in Spain, the historical significance of fascism is the same: it represents the effort of the ruling class, under conditions where the old bourgeois-democratic methods of rule have broken down, to defend its property and power by whipping up a mass movement and hurling it against the democratic rights and organized resistance of the working class.