If Sarah Palin isn’t a Member of the John Birch Society, She Should be

Sarah Palin has got a pass because the corporate news media has largely let her off the hook for her radical anti-American beliefs.

The mainstream press hasn’t explored the close relationship of Palin and her husband with the extremist, secessionist Alaskan Independence Party (AIP), because the McCain campaign says that she was never officially a "member." Of course, that’s a technicality because the Palins have been close to Alaskan Independence Party members, ideas and conventions, with Governor Palin even sending a videotape welcome to the AIP convention this year in Fairbanks, in which she commends them and indicates that she shares their values. And AIP members were among her earliest promoters for elected office, and Palin hasn’t forgotten them, not by a long shot.

And the corporate media has largely left unexplored Palin’s fanatical "Third Wave" End Times religious beliefs that promote her as a "prayer warrior" destined to take over the U.S. government to turn America into a Christian nation in which the non-believers will be shown the door. Not to mention that Palin has had a minister personally lay hands on her to protect her from witch doctors, has sat through a "Jews for Jesus" presentation in which the speaker espoused an "Elders of Zion" conspiracy theory about Jews, and proclaimed that the Iraq War is divinely inspired. And that’s just for starters.

But the corporate media listens to the campaign evasion that Palin doesn’t officially belong to a church (even though she is tied at the hip, thigh, and ankle bone to the Wasilla Assembly of God) and proclaims, "case closed."

In short, what passes as the mass media in America is acting like it doesn’t have a curious brain in any of its multi-billion dollar corporate body.

Supposing a teenager was caught driving around drunk, smashing into cars, and doing untold damage on numerous occasions. Supposing that whenever the case came to court the teenager’s lawyer pleaded to the judge that the teen could not be guilty of drunken driving because he didn’t have a driver’s license. Supposing the judge dismissed each case by saying, "I don’t know how the young man could be charged with drunken driving when he doesn’t have a license to drive. Case dismissed."

Well, that, "my friends" (to quote John McCain), is the stance of the establishment press – with few exceptions – toward Sarah Palin’s stark raving bonkers extremist views on several fronts.

Now, we have another group that she doesn’t officially belong to, but to whose outlook she clearly subscribes: The John Birch Society. (There is a photo going around the Internet, provided by Palin’s family, of her holding a John Birch Society publication from 1995, but that’s not really evidence of much. The evidence is in her beliefs, not what she has in her hand.)

While in Iowa over the weekend, speaking to a group that reportedly was filled with shouts of "Marxist," "Socialist," and "Communist" every time that Palin mentioned Obama, Palin said:

"See, under a big government, more tax agenda, what you thought was yours would really start belonging to somebody else, to everybody else. If you thought your income, your property, your inventory, your investments were, were yours, they would really collectively belong to everybody. Obama, Barack Obama has an ideological commitment to higher taxes, and I say this based on his record ... Higher taxes, more government, misusing the power to tax leads to government moving into the role of some believing that government then has to take care of us. And government kind of moving into the role as the other half of our family, making decisions for us. Now, they do this in other countries where the people are not free. Let us fight for what is right. John McCain and I, we will put our trust in you."

Whoa, that is certainly crossing over into John Birch Society extra-terrestrial wacko terrain!

So let’s go to the source -- the John Birch Society website -- for this quotation, which mirrors Palin’s, but with correct syntax:

"It is understandable that the severe crisis of traditional family life is fueling our overall cultural breakdown. It is also understandable why revolutionaries who wage war against God and man, and who see the family as an obstacle in their path, would work to subvert and destroy the family. Karl Marx, in his Communist Manifesto, explicitly called for the "abolition of the family." Both before and after Karl Marx, from ancient Sparta where children were taken away from their parents and brought up communally, to Nazi Germany, where the young were forced into the Hitler Youth, totalitarians have tried to supplant the family with the Almighty State. But try as they might, the family, though weakened at times, has never been destroyed."

On the John Birch Society website it also proclaims: "Vibrant and healthy families are essential to securing limited government interference in a free society. Actions which empower families should be encouraged."

Of course, the corporate media will let this Palin John Birch Society affinity pass, because no doubt the McCain campaign will act indignant and say it is insulting to ask if she is a member.

Wake up dummies in the national press corps, membership is not the issue. If a person talks and acts like they are believers in the John Birch Society, membership doesn’t matter.

If Sarah Palin isn’t in the John Birch Society, she should be.

It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure that one out, just a few Google searches.

MARK KARLIN'S EDITOR'S BLOG

And four recent BuzzFlash Editor blogs on the radical GOP Ticket:

The Lynch Mob Politics of McCain-Palin

Sarah Palin is a Manchurian Candidate for One Extremist Splinter Group of the End-Times Crowd

The Terrorists Among Us: McCain and Palin

Sarah Palin Condones Domestic Terrorism by Anti-Abortionists

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