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  • Welcome to the America of the looney right wing tea party. Do what we say or our private facist police state will arrest you.

  • This was staged. I sat next to Mr. Hopfinger at the town hall meeting. He appeared to be grinning repeatedly at his friends, but did not attempt to ask questions at the meeting even though anyone could ask questions. He waited until the event was over, went to the hall & was rude & aggressive. He assaulted someone who was between him & Joe as Joe was leaving. No wonder he didn't want the police to examine his video camera!

  • @DillonDee1 They did rent the place, and as such the venue was private, but what would you prefer, a candidate using taxpayer dollars to use city police to work a private event, or a candidate using his campaign money? Whether he truly needed it or not is irrelevant. It's not a 1st amendment deal, and it's not fascism... it was a guy who hired a company that acted (without his knowledge since he left) inappropriately.

  • These "security" officers need to go to jail!

    You dont get to handcuff other citizens just because you think youre a better Amercan than they are.

    Classsic right wing fascist technique!!

  • @mrekbass not to pick sides b/c i could realy care less who gets in but that journalist pushed the security first, they didn't handcuff the guy b/c they think they are better American's, where did you get that info?

  • If you want to do this, you need to rent the place & hire off-duty policemen.

    You can't handcuff someone legally on public property with security guards.

    But maybe this is the kind of crap we can come to expect from the Tea Party.

  • Like most activist journalists, this Hopfinger fellow has a long history of mental illness. Sadly, he's a danger to himself and others.

  • It reminds me of another political upstart with facial hair, except he had a funny mustach and his goons wore brown shirts. I have never seen anything like this in America, jornalist getting arrested for being aggressive and asking questions. Journalism is the only profession protected in constitution.

  • Joe Miller could've avoided this by paying rent.

    Instead, to save money he elected to just get a permit to hold the Town Hall meeting on public property.

    To then try to have security people "arrest" and handcuff someone for trying to ask questions was illegal.

    Is this the Freedom the Tea Party speaks of?

  • What are you chumps gonna do when Palin wins in 2012 ? Commit suicide maybe ? LOL

  • @hobo59 Take your fascist agenda back to East Berlin and take Palin and Job Killer Miller with you.

  • @SteelMartini LOL

  • @mushroomhead777

    yes dumb ass 'from the FEDERAL government' from taking total control over the whole US education system.

    Your another product of FAILED high school drop out. that not know the difference between local and federal governments.

    Go back to watching you're gay porn because you know nothing of what you are talking about here.

  • @mushroomhead777 damn kid his so called questions were about his wife and kids and nothing to do with him or the issues. if it'll been me, the news would have been reporting (by real reporters) that we had to go to the hospital to get my foot out of his ass.

  • @mushroomhead777

    I didn't know that government computers were capable of overthrowing a state GOP chairman. Shit, I knew computers could do a lot, but I didn't know they could do that!!!!!

    I guess my employer should discipline or fire me for looking at political websites in my free time so that years down the road, desperate political opponents can make a mountain out of a molehill out of the issue.

  • VOTE FOR WOMENS RIGHTS!

  • Tea Baggers are the WORSE thing to happen to American since WW II. Sarah Palin is a lying, fame-whore, money-grubbing megolomaniac. Rush Limbaugh, the 'unofficial' head of the RePUKElicans is a hatriot blowhard freak who should be charged with treason.

  • Why would we go to some crackpot conspiracy theorists' blog when we can get the story from sane people?

    No reply necessary, it's rhetorical. 

  • this is Palin territory...

    Miller wins in a landslide...

  • The security was his biggest mistake - these guys just cost him a senate seat. He is just too radical. This is unacceptable. I like his strong stand on gun rights, but I can't vote for this guy. I think he will always be just be entangled in conflict. These guys not only likely took Joes senate seat from the race, but Sarah's strong endorsement of Joe is now stained by this debacle, and this could have an effect on the big race in 2012. I will wait for the rest of the story - its coming...

  • Good for Mr Miller, if this had been a liberal politician and a dipshit reporter pushed his way in and became a security threat. They would be taking him out back and giving him a little boot stomp party !

  • @hobo59 and that has happened ... when exactly ?

  • @mushroomhead777 He admitted in an article I saw that he pushed the security detail. Push a guard/cop and regardless of which side of the political aisle they are on, you're likely to be asked to leave, cuffs or no cuffs.

  • Is this the kind of man with ideas as devious as these that we need? Have we not overcome tyranny? This joe is a danger to our rights and our country! Just look what he did to a reporter that asked him a question! Does that not speak volumes?? Is it not a complete eye opener? Mr. Hopfinger should sue this joe and his goons! No, pardon me, he must! I for one beg him to do so because a jerk like that is dangerous and must be stopped!!

    Axel Burgheim

  • Mexicans that try to better their lives might actually cross the US boarders for similar reasons and this joe wants to shoot them?? East Germany put up electric fences and mine traps, armed patrols with orders to shoot on sight without warning were a reality and they did kill people, yes they did! It was disgusting and one of the reasons why the wall came down! Freedom is loved by the people!! So i ask you, is joes version of america the kind of america we want to be?

  • Arresting a reporter for asking a critical question??

    Is this incident not something that we remember from Stalins Russia, hitlers 3 reich, China, Burma, South Africas Apartheid, East Germany etc.??

    Indeed, we have great things to look forward to with this joe, don't we? When i was a youngster living in Germany (and i still remember this very clearly) guards at the eastern German boarder would shoot people that tried to cross the boarder to come to the west, because it meant freedom to them!!

  • @aburgheim

    Actually, had it been in Judeo-Marxist Russia, the reporter would have been tortured and murdered and so would his entire family.

  • The guy was being rude, disrespectful and was interrupting an event he was a guest at. He was asked to leave but figured he'd try to push a security guard. He knew what he was doing. Don't make this guy out to be some martyr for freedom of the press. He got exactly what he wanted, more press for a 3rd rate online diary.

  • Anti-abortion forces within the Tea Party - see Sarah Palin, Joe Miller, DeMint - can wait to get in power so they can arrest & haul away pro-choice people -- may create a few jobs, but not many.

  • Joe Miller should change his name to Joe Stalin.

  • Miller wins in a landslide... eat shit libturds

    (big huge fart) oh man... i gotta go drop the obamas off at the pool!

  • @252925j

    This wasn't Miller's office, but a public school where a public event had taken place.

    "Real SS?" Why only comparisons to Nazis and never to the Judeo Marxists thugs in the Stasi in East Germany?

  • @mushroomhead777

    Gues you don't believe in looking nothing up. Just like a progressive communist lying bastard. The school that he held the event in set up the event. They want someone to help keep the federal government from taking total control over the nations education system.

  • @mushroomhead777 not to much for your "lawyer up", what about the millions obama got from the middle east in gift card that were worth up to $2 million.

    Guess you progressive communist don't mind aslong as it for your lord and master.

    oR the fact that all the democrat leaders in congress have become multi millionaires in just 4 years time. While making only congressional pay.

  • Miller doesn't want people to know about his past work record because while on the clock he used his computer at work for his campaign efforts and was disciplined.

    Wonder how he will work in Washington for now?

  • @redfistaor no these nut jobs calling themselves media or a reporter, ask question about his private life. No questions of the issues.

    Then after reading the whole story and watch a few video's, I come to find he was where he didn't belong. he was told to leave and got mad and strated pushing people.

    Yes this was planned. i say the next time obama sends his mobster to do this crap, he go his self.

  • @redfistaor

    Oh no, Miller used a government computer to access a political website. I say lock him up and throw away the key. Of course Marxists like yourself have no problem with Barry Soetoro using Air Force One to fly to campaign events. You have no problem with Barry Soetoro, Nancy Pelosi, and Harry Reid spending TRILLIONS of my money, my children's money, and my grandchildren's money in vote-bribing welfare schemes.

  • @fubecabr Marxist like me? You must have a crystal ball or God spoke to right? I do have a problem with John McCain, John Boehner and Mitch McConnell spending Trillions of dollars of our money and then faining protest when the election cycle starts.

    But you can continue see one side of the paradium and you will be just fine.

  • @fubecabr Laugh Out Loud!

  • Hahaha I was wondering where all the Libturd teens were hanging out at YT. Now I find them here having a circle jerk of self amused debauchery, LOL ! So Some left wing blogger becomes so much of a nuisance Millers off duty Police officer security team hooks him up for being a security threat and you little piss ants start frothing at the mouth and cumming all over your buddies hands huh ? LMAO

  • @hobo59 You are immature and disgusting.

  • @HolyCity2012 LOL says the kid with the Joker/Palin avatar !

  • Miller's views are so extreme he doesn't want them all publicly exposed.

  • @DillonDee1

    Obama is the most leftist President or Senator the country has ever had. The only people I can think of that are more extreme are Lenin, Stalin, Mao, and Trotsky.

  • @fubecabr Laugh Out Loud x 2!

  • Thanks Republican Tea Bagger's for a look into what the US will look like if you nut jobs get in office.

    Have the Tea Baggers ever heard of the US Constitution? What's that Mr Orwell? It only applies to PiGs......

  • joe Miller: " we are against BIG government" ... Oops! " I wanted to say we are for HUGE government at state level. We like to silent the press, we believe that the solution for illegal immigration is to create the East Berlin wall, we are against abortion in case of rape/incest in Alaska, the state with the highest rape/incest rate among all the industrialized countries, we want to privatize social secutity and medicare and eliminate the minimum wage, so all the jobs go to illegal immigrants.

  • Let's hope Alaska secedes and joins Russia.

  • It's the Alaska Hoparazzi.

  • What about the cop that was there explaining to the pinhead that it was a private function in a space that was rented for the purpose of a private function??? Why was that cop facilitating the bodyguards???? Because....IT WAS PERFECTLY LEGAL!!!

  • Handcuffing the press ... does anyone doubt that this will only increase if they are elected?

  • pushing is assault. what would you expect the democratic "private para miltary police" to do if I was trying to push my way towards the candidate? Why dont you guys see this for what it is, and stop trying to further divide this country with this kind of left wing wishful thinking? Its like you guys want there to be a big civil war or something. Be careful what you wish for. because there are a lot more moderates in this country than there are LWnutjobs and RW wackos. We're getting a little p'o

  • I am filing a lawsuit against U.S. Senate Candidate Kelly Ayotte and the NH and Nashua GOP. The Mayor gave me a First Amendment Commendation, I have written for a daily (Indy Star) and edited a weekly (Ohio Call & Post) and practiced First Amendment Civil Rights law, but I got Kelly's GOON squads on video 3x times threatening to arrest me.

    Search "Ayotte + Mexican Standoff" on YouTube or visit KingCast65 channel.

    Lawsuit: Google "Kelly Ayotte GOP lawsuit"

    KingCast -- Reel News for Real People

  • "The elements of the false arrest-imprisonment tort are (1) a restraint upon the plaintiff's freedom, (2) without proper legal authority." Hazen v. Municipality of Anchorage, 718 P.2d 456, 461 (Alaska 1986).

    I hope Hopfinger files a lawsuit.

  • This is just one more reason while I'll vote for the Democratic Party for every position on the ballot. Hell even the dogcatcher deserves his job over anyone who totes the line for these Republicans! Support everyone and anyone over these tea baggers!!! Vote for EQUALITY, DEMOCRACY, AND FREEDOM OF SPEECH!!!

  • Joe Miller & His Security Goons should be prosecuted harshly For False imprisonment & kidnapping

  • WATCH THE FOLLOW-UP CLIP: watch?v=KA-PUdg5sMg

  • @PalinPalooza This should have never happened. It is a violation of the 1st ammendment of the constitution. 

  • scary...

  • A video about a nobody (Tony Hopfinger).

  • @kenhillrides more like a video who had their Constitutional rights violated. Funny how you teabaggers yell about the Constitution until it doesn't coincide with your agenda. That is its intended purpose you moron. Wake up and stop sucking on that tainted tea.

  • Great. A video that shows nothing, and it's about a nobody. By nobody, I mean Tony Hopfinger.

  • @kenhillrides So we should illegally arrest "nobody" people. Dumb!

  • @kenhillrides Why do you keep repeating the same wilted phrase over and over. I responded to your other identical comment. You are a pathetic loser who needs history lessons badly.

  • Oh yeah we see what kind of government they're fighting for.

  • @DrWizardMan What? You're a troll right? You guys are fighting oppressive tyrannical government by killing the people who don't agree with you? And then you guys usually make comparisons of liberal policies to Nazi Germany? Holy shit this is blowing my mind.

  • Of course tea baggers would defend this, but if Obama ever said he wasn't doing Fixed noise interviews they would shit their pants. Double standards are just one of many things ruining this country.

  • The guy was arrested for being for being a harassing fool. Go to The Anchorage Daily News for the truth!

  • @TangledThorns You can't arrest somebody if you're not a cop. These guys should be thrown in jail.

  • @DrWizardMan

    Sad you cheer on the very Republican party their supporters and TEABAGGERS

    that

    would handcuff you just as well as any 'lib'.

  • After watching this two words come to mind: Brown and Shirts

  • @DrWizardMan ......and you make my previous point for me. I don't agree with conservatives or the Tea Party, but I certainly don't wish them dead. People like you should never be allowed to have power.

  • This is the future of America. You say anything against the Tea Party, they wrap themselves in the cloak of constitution yet drag you to their chambers of torture.

    You may laugh but this is coming to your neighborhoods. Do your part and vote for sane Republican, Democratic, or Independent candidates not these radical Tea Partiers.

  • @ninuxy Could NOT have said it better myself.

  • Miller is a COWARD and a THUG.

    GOP = NSDAP

  • Ironic that this took place at a public school, since Miller wants to abolish public education (and only the rich & elite will be allowed to read & write).

    Yet another public service that Miller has used for his personal gain while wanting to deny it to everyone else.

  • Given enough rope the Palin group will hang themselves!

  • @edro3638 ...or us.

  • Adolf Hitler founded the Schutzstaffel (SS) in April of 1925, as a group of personal bodyguards. As time went on, this small band of bodyguards grew from 300 members in 1925 to 50,000 in 1933 when Hitler took office

  • Rand does not worship Aqua Buddha. Think about it....a water bong sitting on a shelf has a fat belly and some pot-heads refer to it as an Aqua Buddha. Rand wasn't trying to get this young child to worship Buddha, he was trying to force her to take drugs. No problem....move along.

  • When you repress questions, you repress truth. When you repress truth, it leads to poor-informed decisions. That's why the Founding Fathers gave us freedom of speech, including the press. Apparently, Joe Miller is trying to get voters to make poorly-informed decisions at the polls.

  • GOP=Nazis. I can't believe I'm seeing this in my own country. Truly awful. I guess they only want free speech if you are on the right.

    What's next? Anyone who looks intelligent or wears glasses will be executed, as in Cambodia?

  • Welcome to the future. When Republicans rule, we will further regress into a feudal tyranny, where private unaccountable mercenary forces will quell free speech rights, and the corporate oligarchy will exert complete and total control over U.S. citizens, who will be relegated to the status of bonded serfs. We have the Reagan revolution, the Roberts court, and Wall Street market fundamentalists and their priest class (Austrians and other right-wing libertarians) to thank for this, by the way.

  • @Aspire2RationalAgent Yep, the far right Christian fascist theocracy is almost complete, they just have to elect the tea bagger republican morons are it's checkmate!

    The American Taliban. If you don't click your heels just like the rest of these regressive morons then they will arrest you for being a threat to their reign of terror.

  • Miller's a certifiable nut.

  • This is what fascism looks like Teabaggers. Not those lies Glen Beck tells you every day.

    Each and everyone of you would take away all of our Constitutional Rights in the name of the Constitution. To a one, you are loathsome scum who desecrate the Constitution, dishonor the memory of Patriots who died for our freedoms, and are the thralls of the Corporations that own your very souls. They are making a special place in Hell just for you.

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  • someone w/ a gun should have interceded!!!

  • They're not even cops. So how the hell can they cuff someone and detain him?

    And a journalist no less? You're not allowed to ask questions of a candidate when they're out in public now? Isn't that literally the job description of a journalist? Asking questions you don't want to answer?

  • unlawful detention.... KIDNAPPING... FEDERAL CHARGES NEED @ B FILED!!

    goddamn sheep - do something! don't just stand there filming!!!

  • This is the type of treatment that Miller wants to inflict on all of us. No public schools. No Social Security. No accountability. No freedom. No hope.

    Just nightsticks, handcuffs, and fear.

  • That is the max. Americans can do. Talk and talk without action. When the spirit die the liberty and freedom dies with it too. That was one of the perfect example.

  • This is kidnapping!

  • @chronicman06

    Kidnapping requires you take them somewhere. If you point a gun and someone's head and tell them to stay there, it's not kidnapping. You have to change locations, take them against their will to another location. Not twenty feet away location but you know, at least across the street.

    This is just unlawful arrest and possibly unlawful detainment.

  • @mblackadder50 NO NO NO - kidnapping does NOT require any movement whatsoever!!! simple unlawful detention. PLUS - he was taken away against his will. That F'n "security guard" HAS NO AUTHORITY TO DETAIN or ARREST!!!! This is not a 'citizens arrest' its KIDNAPPING. try that kind of crap on me and I'd B braking bones!

  • America, a shithole full of fucking fat ass morons both repubs and dems .,

    Good thing those bastards are going down the tubes. 

    Most of them are clueless how bad their fucking bankers are fucking them. hahaha

    Good riddance to America.

    Won't be long now.

  • Remember kids: Freedom of Speech only applies if you're on the right!

  • Finally they catch an Obamathug on camera! Good thing those security guards slammed him against a wall and cuffed him. Otherwise he might have started asking the candidate some questions! Just more proof that freedom isn't free!

  • Miller knows that if it's not broadcast on Fox News, it didn't happen.

  • If for any reason you were considering purchasing a brown shirt, buy it NOW.

    With the Teapublican goons and thugs out and about, they'll be in short supply.

  • Obviously, reporters in Alaska need heavily armed guards to protect their First Amendment rights. Only then will the hired thugs begin to get the picture. This Miller scumbag, who has said (while on TV at the Propaganda Ministry) that he has "drawn a line in the sand" and that he refuses to answer questions about his background AND doesn't talk to the Alaska media because their "issues are irrelevant", comes right out of Germany, circa 1932.

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  • The authoritarian mindset at work. It has zero tolerance for freedom of speech or freedom of the press. Media is a tool to be co-opted for propaganda purposes, and any challenge, dissent, or departure from orthodox ideology is to be quashed using whatever means necessary.

  • pushing is assault. what would you expect the democratic "private para miltary police" to do if I was trying to push my way towards the candidate? Why dont you guys see this for what it is, and stop trying to further divide this country with this kind of left wing wishful thinking? Its like you guys want there to be a big civil war or something. Be careful what you wish for. because there are a lot more moderates in this country than there are LWnutjobs and RW wackos. We're getting a little p'o.

  • GOP = NSDAP

  • Evidence of durance vile

    With a good lawyer this guy could make some serious money in a lawsuit.

  • All the security guards have to say is that the editor was using "hate" speech and the case will be dismissed!

  • Tea Baggers are not only ignorant of the issues, but ignorant of the law.

    Now they have even their own personal Nazi brownshirts to protect their fragile egoes from the truth.

  • Al the security guards have to say is that the editor was using "hate" speech and the case will be dismissed!

  • Now if the guards pushed him and he keep on persisting with the camera it was up to the property owner to come out and claim that he was trespassing. Getting your rights violated happens with both parties. The editor had a right to ask questions and should know what her can and can't do. He pobably will not be charge for anything which is right. But he should have known better to keep his distance.In the guards eyes he is a nusance and pushed him and when he pushed back he became a threat.

  • Some of your people are blind as bats. This is from Raw Story . Tony Hopfinger, editor of the online Alaska Dispatch, tells KTUU-TV that security pushed him as he tried to question Joe Miller on Sunday. He says he pushed back and that guards then detained him, accusing him of trespassing at the public event in Anchorage.... HIM PUSHING BACK IS WHAT GOT HIM INTO TROUBLE... If someone pushes me I would push back but don't go around saying that someone violated your rights when get physical.

  • He looks like he was handcuffed by what? the SS? Public event in a public building. Miller's security must be from Blackwater; not accountable to anyone.

  • "Arrested" for trespassing at a public event? Wow, now that's an interpretation of trespass law I wasn't aware of.

    I hope Hopfinger sues Miller for everything he's worth.

  • The nazi Teabaggers and their brownshirts..

  • The tea party:  The "thug" in Rethuglican...

  • I'm making a copy of the video before youtube illegally removes it

  • Joe Miller is Nazi Scum.

  • Spread the word about this illegal attempt to silence the press. Blog it, share it...whatever you have to do

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