Founder of Palin's first political party: Don't bury me under the American Flag

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Vogler

Joe Vogler (1913-1993) was the founder of the Alaskan Independence Party and active in politics, regularly running for public office in Alaska for many years. . . .

Vogler was murdered under suspicious circumstances in 1993. Manfried West confessed to the killing the following year. Vogler was buried in Dawson City, Yukon Territory, Canada, fulfulling a wish that he not be buried under the American flag. His second wife, Doris, who died of cancer in January 1992, is buried next to him.

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1. Bonus quote:

"I'm an Alaskan, not an American. I've got no use for America or her damned institutions."
Joe Vogler (AIP founder)

http://www.akip.org/introduction.html

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2. COUNTRY FIRST!!!!!!! McCain-Palin '08

Palin: "Oh shit, Vice President of America? Not Alaska? Oh shit. Yup Yup"

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3. "Alaska First" is the motto of the AIP. n/t

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4. I know! I was playing! :) I guess I should be nicer and not

make fun of Sarah as being a ditz, huh?

By the way, those quotes from the AIP dude are just about as bad as they can get. There is no way that they fully vetted Palin. What a train wreck.