Teabag Paranoia

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Joe Miller, Alaska Tea Party Favorite, Wore Bulletproof Vest After GOP Senate Primary Win, Informant Says


WASHINGTON -- Alaska Tea Party favorite Joe Miller wore an bulletproof vest the night he beat Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) to become the Republican Party's 2010 Senate nominee, his former private security guard told The Huffington Post.

"As we're finding out that he's winning, I'm in the bathroom putting a bulletproof vest on the guy," William Fulton said in one of several interviews this week. Describing Miller as "paranoid," Fulton said the underdog conservative was afraid he'd be be targeted at election headquarters in Anchorage on that August night. "It was fucking ridiculous."

Less than two months after primary night, Fulton made headlines of his own when he handcuffed and detained Tony Hopfinger, editor of the Alaska Dispatch, alleging the newsman was trespassing at a public event. Fulton, owner of Drop Zone, a security company/military surplus store/fugitive recovery business, was soon dodging phone calls from reporters all over the country. But there was one person Fulton couldn't ignore: his FBI handler.

Fulton, as it turned out, was a federal informant at the same time he was providing security at events for the Miller campaign. Once members of an Alaska militia were arrested in a plot to kill law enforcement officials in March 2011, Fulton faded from view. .....................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/11/joe-miller-alaska-bulletproof-vest_n_2444137.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000009

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1. that's their vision for our nation -- everybody armed, armored, and afraid, 24/7

what astonishes me is how much traction that vision actually has. It doesn't have majority popularity, but something like 1/4 of citizens seem to buy into it, and it's treated as a non-insane proposal by more than that.