It’s hard out here (in Alaska) to be a pimp (for the NRA)

by David Safier

Saying whatever the NRA and the rest of the extreme right wants you to say can lead to all kinds of problems. Especially, apparently, in Alaska. As I posted awhile back, Alaska Republican Rep. Don Young signed a "Letter of Declaration" about our "God-given right to self defense" and our duty to abolish any government that messes with our right to pack heat.

When Young was talking to Schaeffer Cox, who wrote the declaration, and other members of the Second Amendment Task Force, he was asked what they should do if the government said, either "register certain of our arms or turn them in." Young's response was, "Don't do it … I sincerely mean that, don't turn them in." This from an elected Representative to the United States Congress.

Unfortunately for Young, since then, Schaeffer Cox was arrested in a murder-kidnap plot.

The five are charged with conspiring to commit murder, kidnapping and arson, weapons misconduct, hindering prosecution and tampering with evidence.

Talk about your pallin' around with terrorists!

Then there's Wayne Anthony Ross, who Sarah Palin nominated to be Alaska's attorney general back when she was governor. The legislature rejected him because of his positive statements about the KKK, among other jaw-dropping statements. Ross shared a stage with Cox during a Second Amendment Task Force public forum — more of that pallin' around with terrorists action. And when, after Cox's arrest, one of his group disappeared, the guy who went missing signed his houses over to Ross — for safe keeping, I guess. Friends don't let friends lose their houses just because they're part of a terrorist murder-kidnap plot — or something like that.

The unholy alliances between the "mainstream" Republican Party, the extreme right and the extremely dangerous right are closer now than they have ever been.