I was trying to stay out of this. Honest. I am from California, not Alaska. I don’t even vote in Alaska. Joe Miller is a headache, but he’s not my headache. I got enough problems with Carly so what if I almost bankrupted one of California’s biggest computer companies, vote for me so I can play with YOUR money too! Fiorina.
But then all the stories erupted about Joe’s security team arresting a reporter at a public event and the dog in me woke up and started sniffing.
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Meet Mouse. Mouse is one of the Drop Zone Security Guards who may or may not be personally assigned to Miller, but he is part of the security team so it’s likely (if he wasn’t actually on today’s detail) he’ll pull a shift with the candidate.
Mouse is an ex-marine with an attitude. He’s got self-inflicted holes in his head into which he sticks little sparkly bits of metal, and drawings on his arms from having encouraged some stranger to attack him with pointy needles, most likely the result of a bored or drunken stupor while stationed overseas.
Mouse owns at least two hats that display the word SKIN in artsy-fartsybubble letters. I’m thinking he’s a skinhead wannabe but can’t bring himself to actually shave his head like the big boys. On the other hand, it could just be a pun about where he works on the weekends.
This is Mouse at work. When he’s not on private detail, or armed and working as a bounty hunter for the Drop Zone, or selling guns to other war vets at the Drop Zone’s run-down survivalist shack, he’s a part-time bouncer at a strip club in Anchorge. Nothing wrong with that. Strippers have to eat too. I tended bar in a strip club once. Rough crowds. Nice girls though. They deserve the peace of mind given by a bouncer’s presence.
But this… this is the picture I want you to see. I especially want you to read the caption. It’s from Mouse himself. It’s how he thinks of the enemy. It’s how all militia think of the enemy. And quite frankly, in a military setting it’s appropriate.
But.
Being part of a security detail assigned to babysit a political wannabe in a state that has fewer citizens than the smallest state in America and on American soil – it’s not appropriate at all. And I have a problem, while looking at the tats and piercings and hand-jive cryp signals, thinking this kid or any of the Drop Zone ex-military crew assigned to Joe Miller at the townhall meeting on Sunday is mature enough to mentally distinguish an armed enemy from a loud civilian.
And then I wonder if maybe, just maybe, the camera held by the Alaska Dispatch reporter served as a visual trigger for these militia-minded security guards who seem to always have one foot back in an armed conflict and if they – all of them – reacted to the metal Tony hopfinger was carrying today as if it had been a bazooka and not a camera at all.
There are reasons, good, valid reasons why reputable security companies and law enforcement agencies go to great lengths to carefully scrutinize their applicants and try to filter out those ex-military personnel who either wouldn’t or just couldn’t put a war behind them.
So tonight, I don’t care if you’re a Republican, a Democrat, an Independent or worship goats in the woods – Joe Miller is a clear and present danger to all Americans. His incessant need to exercise poor judgement on every aspect of his campaign, including today’s choice of militia-minded bruisers to act as ‘bodyguards’ at a local town meeting – should be viewed as a blueprint for the complete disaster this man will unleash on the good citizen’s of Alaska, should he be elected to U.S. Senate.
Don’t elect him. I beg you.
To comment on this post, please scroll up to the title “Joe Miller: An Accident Waiting To Happen” and click on the word comments just beneath. Thanks, OzMud
October 19, 2010 at 1:54 am
I too don’t live in Alaska, but have to deal with Carl Paliadino, a thug from western NY.
Don’t elect Joe Miller, Alaska.
If this is how he reacts to a reporter, then how is he going to represent your state, as a police state?
What is Joe Miller afraid of, words, the truth?
Why such an over reaction to a reporter. He had no gun, no knife.
All he wanted was the truth.
Something, apparently, Joe miller does not want to share with you or your fellow Alaskans.
Russian is just on the other side of the ocean from you. Is Joe trying to copy that police state along with the Berlin wall??
Think about it.
October 19, 2010 at 3:50 am
If the comments on this story on the Anchorage Daily News site are any indication, many Alaskans are outraged over this incident and are beginning to question whether Miller is the right candidate to send to Congress. I don’t know what took them so long. I knew Miller was a wacko when I first read his ideas about HCR legislation being unconstitutional, his wanting to privatize Social Security, and his unethical behavior when he was a magistrate in an Alaskan borough, among other things. Republicans need to get over their obsession with having a democrat in the WH and vote on the issues, or they’re going to be much angrier than they presently are as a result of George W. Bush’s policies. None of the Tea Party/corporate-backed candidates are running for office to serve the people. Their main focus is on enriching themselves and the corporatists from whom they’ll be taking their marching orders.
October 19, 2010 at 10:20 am
majii — I was with you until the last eight words. Miller may be taking money, but this unprofessional campaign indicates that he isn’t taking marching orders from anyone. I suspect his backers misjudged him, like everyone else did. They saw conservative, West Point, combat vet and Yale Law School, and didn’t realize he was another Palin with enough skeletons and fresh corpses in the closet to open a private morgue.
October 20, 2010 at 5:09 pm
To whomever wrote this article Dropzone uses multiple Contractors this “Mouse” gentleman has contracted with our organization in the past ie over a year ago but is not and has not been an active Agent with Dropzone for over a year please for the sake of your integrity check with us before posting and we do not and never have sold firearms If you wish to speak facts were all about it but please research before you post