The phrase “will to power” gets thrown around a lot (by nerds, making nerd talk with each other), but it is probably indicative of something when a person seeking political office seems to have a big hard-on for arresting and imprisoning people. Like, remember when Alaska Senate candidate Joe Miller had his security goons arrest some blogger, despite not strictly speaking having the “legal authority” to do so? Well, perhaps this shouldn’t come as a huge surprise, since immediately before this incident Miller was at a Town Hall meeting, extolling the virtues of the people who built the Berlin Wall.
The obsessive videographers at Talking Points Memo magically made a video of this moment where none existed, combining still photos and audio, Ken Burns-style:
If your cruel corporate masters don’t allow you to watch/listen to politics porn at work, here is what Joe Miller said:
The first thing that has to be done is secure the border … East Germany was very, very able to reduce the flow. Now, obviously, other things were involved. We have the capacity to, as a great nation, secure the border. If East Germany could, we could.
Miller was basing his statement on his experience as a Stasi spy U.S. soldier who had served along the inner German border during the Cold War, during which time he apparently mistakenly believed that he was there to help keep the hordes of migrant West Germans from climbing over the fence to get those lucrative migrant Trabant manufacturing jobs in the glorious East. At West Point, they don’t teach you to look at the direction the machine guns overlooking the kill strip are pointing, apparently! But he knows enough to know that if only we would build a “Mexico Wall” (or “Anti-Mexican Protection Barrier,” to give its official name), our society would be healed and our civilization would go on proudly for centuries, just like East Germany’s did.
We’d like to believe that Joe Miller promoting the good works of an actual Communist dictatorship would not help him with the voters. Wonkette’s first-ever post about Sarah Palin reveals that “Communist” is still a dirty word in Republican circles up there! But we live in a world where someone thought that running an ad with pictures of barbed-wire and guard towers was “reassuring” rather than “sinister” (Rudy Giuliani did this in 2008, and a million Wonkette points to Wonkette hero commenter johnnyzhivago for finding the clip), so probably Joe Miller will win in a landslide and then start building a giant prison he calls “America.” [Talking Points Memo]
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that room looks and sounds like hell on earth.
Judging by the olds there it probably smells like Ben-Gay and ensure farts.
Given that Christine O'Donnell, Sarah Palin and Joe Miller (beneficiaries of Intelligent Design) want to empower idiot local school board's loaded with the likes of Wasilla Bible Church fellows to decide how to indoctrinate our youth, Hell on Earth (aka Central Middle School) is as good place as any to start training the Army of God.
First the TEABAGS want to be like the Saudis, banning the religions they don't like, and now they want us to tear a page out of the East German play book .
Soon they'll be proposing and implementing tax cuts for the middle class like that Nazi Kenyan President of ours. Wait, gaaaaaah….
OH IT'S ALL SO CONFUSING DECIDING WHAT Miller's core values are especially since he hates this government while accepting family welfare payments and employment in the socialist military of the United States.
Not to mention you would think all the WWII vets that made up the audience would have gotten pretty incensed at such an affront to their sacrifice.
Exactly. Here's a guy who had his education paid for by the U.S. government, served for 5 years collecting a government paycheck so he could drink beer, chase tail, and drive really fast cars in one of the best duty assignments available during the Cold War. According to that bastion of unbiased information Wikipedia, he earned a Bronze Star during Gulf War I, but who knows what that means – they give the things out like candy to all the officers who deploy to Iraq and Afghanistan now. His date of matriculation at Yale and the end of his service obligation in the Reserves overlap, so he may have used government education benefits for that, as well.
But ask any of these people why they DESERVE what they got (basic pay, housing allowance, subsistence allowance, today it would be $70-90K/year, most of it tax free) when some poor bastard shouldn't have $5 a day to live off of on food stamps, and they will adamantly tell you until they are blue in the face that they EARNED IT, sitting around drinking coffee while watching some private strip wax the floor.
And yes, that is legal now, but only for a little bit longer.
ein tausend-jahre reich, right around the corner.
still and all, if joe's going to go around making citizen's arrests in the new secure blond-haired blue-eyed amerikan reich, we will want to see his birth certificate. it's nothing personal, but he doesn't look like an american. in fact, he looks suspiciously like a muslin terrist. i'm sure he wouldn't mind if a few of my hired pals detained him in the back room for a while until some things have been sorted out.
Maybe they could have one of those Bush/Cheney approved conversations with him to get him be all truthful and stuff.
Canada is going to build huge wall to make sure the Alaskan fascist batshit crazy stays on our side of the border.
Hell, if Palin gets elected the teabaggers may start erecting a US-Canada wall to stop all the Americans trying to escape to a less dumb country; particularly if Harper loses power up there.
Oh I think a few hockey players with sticks could fix that problem, quickly.
OK, give me my million points!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlWv34YqoQ4&fe...
Yay! I will put a link in the post!
Contributing my vast expertise finding stupid shit on YouTube when I should be doing something productive is the least I can give to my fellow Wonketteers…
Dirty job 2..3..4
I watched it for 14 seconds. It's really not too bad if you have the sound off.
Psssst…It's not just the ignorance Teajadists. Y'all DO realize we mock you because we can see you, right? You're blindingly white. And old. Also.
I hear the trains arrived on time in Italy when Moussolini was in charge.
And the Iraqi Assembly ran quite effortlessly after Aug '79, didn't it?
Make sure you build the U-Fence (Undersee-Fence) around Florida as well. We can't have any Mexican dolphins (or Mexican-Cubans!) infiltrating our water space.
also, oil, youbetcha.
North Korea has the cleanest parks. If they can keep their public spaces clean and graffiti free so can we.
And fabulous parades. No one throws a parade like the North Koreans.
Let's not forget the little ukulele-playing girls that always show up before Mothra.
They also build missiles called "Dongs." If they can build phallic symbols with phallic names, surely the U.S.'s BigWeinerJohnsonRocket (BWJR) can get the funding it deserves. Penis.
so you're telling me if we build this wall, we'll keep out the Mexicans, but we'll be stuck with all our East German Swim Team members? not sold.
A wall won't work. Mexicans seeking a better life will build balloons and float over the border. Their stories will be lovingly told in the Hispanic version of Reader's Digest. The Mexican version of Paul Harvey will talk on his show about the plucky and brave lovers of freedom seeking freedom picking grapes. For wine.
Also, the Berlin Wall separated two halves of one city; the US-Mexico border is almost 2000 miles long. But remember, the Dimocrats want two waste ur tax monies!
I was in Berlin a couple of years after the reunification. It doesn't dawn on a lot of people until they really experience the city that the Wall was not a dividing line, but a complete circle around West Berlin that separated it from all of East Germany, not just East Berlin. That was then; Americans are so ignorant 20 years later that they probably think "The Wall" was the whole border of East and West Germany, if they think at all.
They pick grapes for wine?!!! WTF, BUS them sonzabitches in!!!
Who is Joe planning to shoot at the boarder? Us or just anyone brown? And really how big a problem are Mexicans in Alaska? Are they concerned that they are going to take all the Ice Road Trucker jobs?
One summer a group of AsianLatin illegals came to our fishing hamlet to work. They took a look at our living conditions and felt it beneath them. They never returned.
Joe Miller is an Asian immigrant non-impostor. He doesn't pretend not to be an Asian like Angle, and he doesn't not pretend that he would love to be a Geisha girl not unlike Angle. In summary, Joe Miller and Sharon Angle are not pretending that they aren't Asian sisters-in-hiding.
I threw up a bit in my mouth thinking of Sharon Angle as a Geisha.. thanks.
You know what really worked about that Wall?
The machine guns and guards who had orders of shoot to kill.
Why not combine Raese's plan of a 1000 orbiting sharks with frikken lazers on their heads and use it as combined anti-missile defense and brown people immigration screen? Kill two birds (or one ginormus assed teabagger) with one stone.
Finally Pray tell, Mr "I hate Taxes/Small Gubbiment" how the fuck is US America going to pay for this wall?
Mexican labor.
Through tax cuts of course! Tax cuts are the answer to all of life's needs! Economy down? Lower taxes! Economy going great? Lower taxes!
Why is it so hard for you stoopid libruls to understand basic economics?
This is the thing. According to Joe's analogy, this plan will work perfectly if we can get the Mexicans to build the wall and shoot all the people trying to leave their country.
Thank God somebody's thinkin' straight!
I wonder does Lizzie have a Cold War version of her Gestapo/SS fantasies?
i want to be the big strapping "yank" that speaks french and reeks of espresso and hashish!
Hmmm, maybe Russian Revolution , but not Cold War, so dull and the architecture was hideous, the Nazis had a fantastic Production Designer in Albert Speer, and Hugo Boss made the uniforms for God's sake.
Well, you could be Jane Fonda just back from Vietnam and in terrible need of "punishment," you know. You could be in a cozy cottage-cum-CIA safehouse in Virginia.
And if you posted the video on the internet, imagine how many conservatives would be fapping to that instead of, oh, maybe voting or something.
I'm also now going to "follow" you, but I swear I'm not wearing an SS uniform, ok?
I do believe I could get a wee bit moist for the Hungarian Revolution, helping wounded freedom fighters and being stopped in the streets by burly Soviets.
"Mr. Miller, Tear down this wall!"
Mr. Miller, tear down this wall! Somebody said something like that once, can't remember who.
Ronald Raygun patron saint of most Republicans, but probably considered a RINO by the tea party.
The man's popularity is exceeded only by his deficit spending…
"remember when Alaska Senate candidate Joe Miller had his security goons arrest some blogger, despite not strictly speaking having the “legal authority” to do so"
The Anchorage newspaper is saying that Millers security goons were actually active duty military guys, so he pining for the good old days of East Germany may stretch beyond just discussion of a wall.
http://www.adn.com/2010/10/18/1507982/questions-s...
The sort of hilarious thing about unshaved hobo Joe Miller is that he really can't help but go full-fascist: If he had JUST said West Germany, we could have attributed his nostalgia for the Berlin Wall to hiistory fail. If he had JUST used his hired goons to menace reporters out of the event, we libtards would have complained, but nothing else would have happened. If he had JUST used dishonorably discharged ex-military types, instead of active duty tropps, for his goon squad, he wouldn't have violated state and federal law six ways from Sunday. If he had JUST used company resources and time for politicking, and hadn't also tried to be sneaky by using his co-workers' computers and wiping the caches, none of this stuff would have come up in the first place, and he never would have been exposed as a fascist creep.
Not, of course, that any of this matters, since Idaho North will elect the creepy anyway.
If Americans knew a second language, they'd be free to leave America and leave all these illegals behind.
Miller -> Beard -> Taliban -> Terrorist!!!
Are you saying Miller's wife is a beard?
These freedom-loving fucktards are oddly obsessed with fences, handcuffs and detention of disagreeable (not necessarily lawbreaking) types. Not TOO fucking scary…
Little Joey Miller: Freedum loving FuckTard with a handcuff fetish. Sounds like an underground comic.
Or a rock band
"Mr. Putin, build up this wall! I no longer want to be able to see you from my front porch!"
Wall won't keep him from rearing his head and violating out airspace.
Sounds like a candidate for the "Young Guns".
Hey, this is good news! I always wanted David Bowie to record "Heroes" in Mexican.
I can't wait to smuggle people through the Check Point Chihuahua in the trunk of my VW Bug.
We'll have to import more Messicans to build the wall. Americans are too overweight, lazy and disabled to work outdoors in the hot southwestern climate for minimum wage, no 401(k), no health insurance, no paid holidays, no vacation, etc.
ah but we can do it with blackwater or xwhatever they are called now. it will only cost a trillion dollars and untold rapes and tequila ass-shots, but it will be worth it.
This wall idea makes sense – but it doesn't guard against jetski terrorist by sea or ultralight terrorist by air…. What we need is a giant, imprenatrable bubble over the US – no one comes in – and no one leaves.
http://www.comics101.com/comics101//news/Comics%2...
We already have the technology, just supersize the "Cone of Silence".
"Those who do not know history are condemned to repeat it" – The Chief
So the teabaggers are dressing like SS troops and lusting after East German immigration tactics and we're the fucking Nazi communists? Where's that smarmy bitch Jonah Goldberg hiding anyway?
I think he's trying out for Dancing With the Stasi.
My memory is not so good (due to all the drinking) but weren't the East Germans trying to get OUT of the country–not in?
They were actually drinking quite a bit (of gasoline) as well, so it's possible that they had no fucking idea what they were doing.
To be fair, the goons working for unshaven lunatic Miller's campaign who arrested arrested the reporter were active-duty military, also, so that makes it better, and less like the Stasi.
Wait, no, that makes it worse, and also horribly illegal for at least three reasons? Well, I'm sure the patriotic not-a-militia Oathkeepers will find time in their busy schedule of complaining about the ACS removing children from abusive homes to intervene to protect America from this stuff.
Haha, just kidding about that last part- we all know that the only threat to civil democracy is MAObaMAO.
Ah, but unshaven for how long? Look for Miller to turn to the Soviets for fashion advice next, as the hobo beard is replaced with a stately Stalin Broomstache.
Oh I'm sure if those goons are Oath Keepers the organization will kick them right out for violating their pledge to not carry out clearly unconstitutional orders.
Seriously, if you go to the Oathkeepers' website (not that I'd suggest such a thing for the faint of heart or sense of color palate), just take in the fact that there are lat least a half-dozen posts about that New Hampsire Child Protective thing, and nothing -nothing whatsoever- about Joe Miller illegally detaining reporters using active-duty military personnel, oddly enough.
But, no, the Oathkeepers are totally "non-partisan", and totally "not a militia", because they say these things, on their website.
Honestly, can we get rid of Alaska/Texas (keeping Austin & San Antonio if possible)/South Carolina/Arizona? Aren't they more trouble than they're worth at this point?
Ohio. Throw them in there, too. A State populated by people who think Miracle Whip on white bread is darn fine dining.
Brings to mind a great one liner from my cuz, Will:
I really wanted a mayonnaisse sandwich, but all we had was Miracle Whip…
Everyone's a superhero,
Everyone's a Captain Kirk.
I have but one upvote to give, but in my heart you will always be Der Kommissar.
High marks, though that works better auf Deutsch.
What Mr Miller seems to not understand is that the Berlin Wall was to keep their own citizens from escaping, I don't recall millions of West Germans trying to tunnel their way IN. Stupid cunt, also.
I love when you brit type peoples call dudes "cunts." And "silly," as well. And "git."
I'm partial to "wanker". I think that may be Great Britain's greatest contribution to the English language.
That was the big story the lamestream media didn't want you to hear about — that and the car that runs on water.
True, very true. Cursed by a slight delay!
And by the way, Miller has an Alaska griftard contractor buddy who can give Uncle Sam a great deal on that wall.
8 seconds in, a baby screams. Today, we are all that screaming baby dragged to a TeaParty meet'n'greet with Gerd Wiesler.
So I jump on the wall and yelled at the racists, Hey! what gives you the right
To put up a fence to keep them out or to keep mother nature in
If God was here, he'd tell you to your face, man you're some kinda sinner
Right before they shot your ass off the wall.
Mister Gorbachev, put that wall back up!
I swear, until three years ago, all I knew was that Alaskans still ate whale and had socialized oil drilling. Take this country back!
I long for the days when The Deadliest Catch was our only ambassador to the World.
That room is filled with the cast of the Simpsons!
One can really feel the 'enthusiasm' of the teatards.
And they're from one of the crappy new seasons.
Ich bin ein Beaner.
He's hoping that when he says Germany his constituency will think Beer and Nazis, more favorable memes to his crowd, rather than communists (after all, Russia was better at keeping its citizens confined than was the DDR).
I nominate Rich Iott as UberBorderFuhrer.
Sung to the tune of Don't Fence Me In.
Give me links lots of links give me shiny links of steel
Please fence us in
Build a wall through this broad paranoia that we feel
Just fence us in
Let us be by ourselves behind the razor wire
And turn back Coyotes lest we open fire
Seal us off forever til that race retires…Just fence us in.
Just pour concrete till it straddles that old saddle on the border line
Won't it be sweet when it wanders over yonder
Keeping them from taking mine?
Sure you can say we're anachronistic,
but that will never stop us being jingoistic
This wall is being built upon a crass statistic
Just fence us in
Brilliant! Work of genius! I particularly like the way you rhymed anachronistic and jingoistic.
Do they really count as rhyming? I wasn't sure.
Fuck yeah! Fence us in – for Freedumb!
Isn't it true, though, Mr. Miller, that East Germany's wall was built with the intention of keeping people IN? So, to follow your logic, it is Mexico that should be building a a gigantic concrete barb-wire infested wall, que no?
He can see Nuevo Laredo from his house! Ay carumba!
Isn't the 49th parallel like a tree-line for Messicans?
Wer mauert hat's nötig.
Ah, remember when the Teabaggers were against an overbearing government and demanding their first amendment rights to shout about death panels at any political gathering.. Now, in just a year, they are in favor of a police state, and of candidates who want to have their private militia arrest reporters.
It is so special to see a political movement grow from hatred of Kenyans to outright Fascist Conservatism in just a year. It makes you weep, it really does.
Remember, none of it is ever about overbearing government, unless by "overbearing government", you mean, "government run by a non-white guy." That's all that this has ever been about.
If this guy wins, will he at least buy a suit and a razor?
"Now obviously other things were involved" sounds so much cleaner than "were willing to mow down their own fellow citizens with machine guns." It also has the effect of putting an asterisk into the speech, where we all know good and well the teabaggers hate asterisks! (There's usually just a bunch more dry boring facts involved.)
There was a time when the tyranny, corruption and oppression of a nation led minority groups to abandon it and seek a new land. When the fuck are the Tea Party Patriots going to build their fucking Mayflower and get the hell out? Trust me guys, it'll be more fiscally responsible for you fuckwits to band together, load your Rascals and Hoverounds and wheelie oxygen tanks onto a ship, stock up on Swanson's frozen dinners and just fuck off. Load up a couple of chests full of patriotic lapel pins and 911 bumper stickers to trade with the natives once you find a promised land and you're all set. I hear Somalia is nice this time of year. I'm sure they'd love to have you come in and teach them how to build walls and show them the Word of the Lard. Just imagine, your very own special country with no lieberals, no socialists, no kenyan usurpers, and no lamestream media. Paradise now! And if you don't get around to building that wall, hey, no worries — I'm sure the rest of the world is willing to chip in and build the biggest fucking wall you've ever seen for you if you live. Cheers!
Oh, and buttsecks also, since I kind of forgot to snark.
Antarctica is pretty empty still. Plenty of room for the snow machines, though downside is no indigenous cultures to slaughter.
GOOD LORD, MAN! Will nobody think of the poor penguins? Your cruelty knows no bounds!1!!
In my best Saint Ronnie tones:
Mr. Miller, Rebuild. This. Wall.
You know you keep using the word Constitution, I am not sure you are using that word correctly
“There are three Senate candidates, but only one choice to defend the unborn,” says the DeMint ad’s narrator. “Republican Joe Miller is pro-life, and the only candidate to pledge to oppose taxpayer funded abortion. Scott McAdams and Lisa Murkowski are pro-abortion.”
Okay, not even gonna touch the purposely inflammatory "Pro-Abortion" label, but let's discuss how the Godless Chinese are hoarding all the precious metals that would make the super strong and thin "Womb Wall" possible to thwart the aborting-happy Americans.
Ah, but did East Germany have "Jersey Shore," "Dancing with the Stars," and the Saw films? Game, set, match. USA! USA! USA!
Like Ken Burns, Joe Miller is a national treasure.
Everyone's nickname is "Scooter" in the Teaparty.
But this would mean we would have to shoot US citizen's trying to cross the border into Mexico or Canada.
But only the rich sneak into Cabo, so win-win!
Y'all jus' hatin' cause Joe Miller be one o' DA REAL HONECKERS.
Don't hate, donate… to his campaign.
I have reduced flow – does that make me "OK" in Joe's book?
Length of Berlin wall: 87 miles.
Length of US border with Mexico: 1,969 miles.
Joe Miller's tardiness: priceless.
how often do I have to tell you people to lay off facts and reality!?!?!?! Hell, Miller will want to build a wall around Florida to keep the Haitians out next- and you'll be talking about water and stuff.
Oh Wonkette, how I wish I knew you when you first posted about CRAZY MAVERICK lady Sarah runnin for Chief Executive of the State she would be Governor of.
I wouldn't be so bitter today, and drunk.
This Joe's brilliant!!!!… So, it's Mexico's problem, and we can forget about it…. unlike the illegal name-changing felons who populated Alaska…. is it still illegal/immoral up there to ask where someone's from….?
Joe Miller and Rich Iott are the twin illegitimate spawn of Chuck Norris and Phyllis Schafly. They were conceived in an aerie in Bavaria, imflamed with passion by the strains of Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg.
This definitely has something to do with the Waffen SS.
Also, it's sad that Waffen has such dark connotations because it's fun to say.
When Joe Miller watches "The Sound of Music" he always hopes that, just this time, the Nazi guards will shoot the Von Trapp family.
NORTH KOREA IS BEST KOREA
This just in, Drop Zone's business license was expired and:
William F. Fulton, the owner of Drop Zone, is a local commander and "supply sergeant" of the Alaska Citizens Militia, Palingates blog reported Wednesday. The blog identifies the militia's leader as Norm Olson, the man identified last year by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a "radical among radicals" who had founded the extreme Michigan Militia before setting up shop in Alaska. The center reports that Olson drew widespread attention for stating that Oklahoma City bombing conspirator Terry Nichols had attended a Michigan Militia meeting not long before the bombing.
Way to go, Joe! Hiring a security firm listed with the Southern Poverty Law Center has got to sting.
Well, Alaska isn't southern, isn't impoverished and has no laws. So, what's the problem?
I think Joe is right. We need to finish that danged Alaska-Mexico border fence and staff it with Stasi guards.
"The obsessive videographers at Talking Points Memo magically made a video of this moment where none existed, combining still photos and audio, Ken Burns-style: "
Actually, an Anchorage blogger (me) got the original audio and photos and made the video. TPM gave me credit as did the vast majority of blogs that reposted the video.
You can see the original post about the Central Middle School town hall meeting with the video at What Do I Know> plus other posts on the Alaska US Senate race among many other topics.
Thanks for posting the video, but please give proper credit next time.
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