First, Joe Miller says that the Berlin Wall is a good thing, and now he has his own merry band of Brownshirts
So, it appears that Alaska Republican Senate nominee has hired hired goons to harass the press in order to prevent them from asking him questions, and they just assaulted and handcuffed a journalist:
The editor of the Alaska Dispatch website was arrested by U.S. Senate candidate Joe Miller’s private security guards Sunday as the editor attempted to interview Miller at the end of a public event in an Anchorage school.
Tony Hopfinger was handcuffed by the guards and detained in a hallway at Central Middle School until Anchorage police came and told the guards to release Hopfinger.
I keep expecting this crowd to burst into Tomorrow Belongs to Me.
Christine O’Donnell may be the sane one of this lot.
Our political culture is broken in some very profound ways, and I have no clue as to how to fix it.
> Our political culture is broken in some very profound ways, and I have no clue as to how to fix it.
Are you sure you won't consider embracing sortition?
Sortition involves pulling any random fool off the streets.
That's what the Teabaggers are doing today.
> Sortition involves pulling any random fool off the streets.
You'll get only as many fools as you have in the population at large. One hopes that the fools are not the majority. If they are, then surely democracy is litterally a fool's errand.
> That's what the Teabaggers are doing today.
No – this bunch is by no means a representative cross section of the population.