{"id":1203,"date":"2008-09-01T20:42:06","date_gmt":"2008-09-02T00:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=1203"},"modified":"2008-09-03T20:14:37","modified_gmt":"2008-09-04T00:14:37","slug":"palin-i-was-for-treason-before-i-was-against-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/09\/01\/palin-i-was-for-treason-before-i-was-against-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Palin: I Was For Treason Before I Was Against It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.abcnews.com\/politicalpunch\/2008\/09\/members-of-frin.html\">This is just hilarious<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Apparently, before Palin snagged the mayorality of the metropolis of Wasilla, she was a paid-up member of the Alaska Independence Party.\u00c2\u00a0 The primary aim of the Alaska Independence Party is, it seems, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.akip.org\/introduction.html\">secession from the United States and nationhood status for Alaska<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Now, as someone who &#8211; as a general rule &#8211; believes that if people want to run off and form their own country they ought to be allowed to, I can&#8217;t say that I&#8217;m personally troubled by this.\u00c2\u00a0 But in light of the hypernationalistic bent of the GOP these days, don&#8217;t you think it should be an issue?\u00c2\u00a0 Or is patriotism <a href=\"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/09\/01\/refusal-to-deal-with-reality-a-core-republican-value\/\">just one more principle they&#8217;ll jettison in pursuit of victory<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> Apparently Palin was *not* a paid up member of the AIP.\u00c2\u00a0 That was her husband, see.\u00c2\u00a0 But she was still <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZwvPNXYrIyI\">&#8220;sharing [their] vision&#8221;<\/a> in 2008.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Ah well.\u00c2\u00a0 That&#8217;ll teach me to rely on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/storyonly\/2008\/9\/3\/174722\/5821\/744\/585058\">the word of a winger party official<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is just hilarious.\u00c2\u00a0 Apparently, before Palin snagged the mayorality of the metropolis of Wasilla, she was a paid-up member of the Alaska Independence Party.\u00c2\u00a0 The primary aim of the Alaska Independence Party is, it seems, secession from the United States and nationhood status for Alaska.\u00c2\u00a0 Now, as someone who &#8211; as a general rule [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-policy","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}