{"id":8956,"date":"2010-10-25T11:04:57","date_gmt":"2010-10-25T11:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2010\/10\/25\/alaska-teabagger-uses-us-milit\/"},"modified":"2010-10-25T11:04:57","modified_gmt":"2010-10-25T11:04:57","slug":"alaska-teabagger-uses-us-milit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/25\/alaska-teabagger-uses-us-milit\/","title":{"rendered":"Alaska Teabagger uses US Military Guards to Detain, Threaten Journalists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And in this case, the teabagger is an actual tea party candidate, in the sense that the Republican Party is the Tea Party and Joe Miller is the Republican Nominee for the Senate.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The editor of the Alaska Dispatch website was arrested by U.S. Senate candidate Joe Miller&#8217;s private security guards Sunday as the editor attempted to interview Miller at the end of a public event in an Anchorage school.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.adn.com\/2010\/10\/17\/1506223\/miller-security-guards-handcuff.html\">source<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Apparently, local police and prosecutors are considering charges.  Against the reporter, of course.<br \/>\n<a href=\"ttp:\/\/www.adn.com\/2010\/10\/17\/v-gallery\/1506223\/miller-security-guards-handcuff.html\"><br \/>\nHere&#8217;s a photo of the guards detaining the journalist.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a video of a guy interviewing the journalist and the &#8216;guards&#8217; coming and harassing the interviewer.<\/p>\n<p>Trespassing on school grounds?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.adn.com\/2010\/10\/18\/1507982\/questions-surround-use-of-security.html#ixzz12pP0iUbe\">Another story. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Oh.  This is why if you don&#8217;t vote you&#8217;re an asshole.  Because this is my infant son&#8217;s future if you let them take over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And in this case, the teabagger is an actual tea party candidate, in the sense that the Republican Party is the Tea Party and Joe Miller is the Republican Nominee for the Senate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-2ks","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8956"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}