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this is classic Nazi Germany crap- "private property" claims just like the Sate Fair, only this time it's a "private affair" in a public school and it's a political event billed as a town hall?....
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Alaska Dispatch founder and editor Tony Hopfinger was grabbed and handcuffed by a private security detail working for U.S. Senate candidate Joe Miller on Sunday while trying to ask the Fairbanks Republican questions following a town hall meeting at Central Middle School in Anchorage on Sunday.
Hopfinger was reportedly pressing Miller on whether the candidate had ever been reprimanded for politicking while working at the Fairbanks North Star Borough in 2008. Alaska Dispatch and other media have sued for the release of records related Miller's time at the borough. Various accounts of what happened next generally agree on this course of events:
* Two or three bodyguards told Hopfinger to stop asking questions and to leave the building. * Hopfinger continued to ask questions while apparently videotaping the candidate. * Bodyguards told him that if he persisted they would arrest him for trespassing, but refused to identify themselves to Hopfinger. * Hopfinger asked why he was trespassing, as the event was at a public school. Seconds later, he was then put in arm-bar and later handcuffed and sequestered at one end of a hallway for at least 30 minutes. He was told, "You're under arrest." * Anchorage Police arrived on the scene shortly after.
Police were still trying to sort things out as this was written.
Miller had been at the school for a town hall meeting. State Sen. Fred Dyson, a Republican from Eagle River, appeared there to praise Miller, as did at least one other speaker. Miller than spent about forty-five minutes fielding questions from an audience that had been invited by Miller supporters. Hopfinger, who had learned at the last minute of Miller's planned appearance at the public school, ducked into a hallway after the meeting to pose his own questions to Miller.
Miller last week at the Dena'ina Center announced after an on-camera interview with Greta van Susteren of Fox News that he wasn't going to talk to the Alaska media anymore.
the TParty people only want to be talked to and interview by FOX? LOL... this oughta be good when they get to office... i can see it now.. FOX will again have the only news that's fit to print
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They act no different than Pelosis goons. Nothing new here!
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That is true, some TP members shy from the media. However, you cant blame the TP for all of it. The media is so nasty to them, I wouldnt want to talk either.
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