Glenn Greenwald writes Joe Miller's private "guards" were active-duty military.
"One of the more disturbing election incidents took place in Alaska on Sunday night, when private 'guards' working for GOP Senate nominee Joe Miller forcibly detained and handcuffed a journalist as he tried to ask the candidate questions which he did not want to answer."
"This story became much worse yesterday when video was released that was taken by a reporter from the Anchorage Daily News showing that these guards thuggishly threatened at least two other reporters, from ADN, with physical detention as they tried to find out what happened, demanded that they leave or else 'be handcuffed,' and physically blocked them from filming the incident all while threatening to physically remove them from the event, which was advertised to the public."
But revelations today have made the story much, much worse still. ADN now reports that not only was Joe Miller's excuse for why he had hired private guards a lie, but two of the guards who handcuffed the journalist and threatened others are active-duty soldiers in the U.S. military:"
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While I can see reason for some concern that there are stupid thugs in our military, it's not all that surprising. They're self-selecting, after all, so in addition to all the fine men and women who serve with honor, especially when we have had stop-loss for years there's going to be some scum at the bottom of the barrel that doesn't get washed out.
The good thing about this is that they're more likely to suffer consequences of these particular actions as active-duty military personnel than if they were just jackbooted civilian paramilitary wackos.
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