Joe MIller's Security goons were NOT a licensed security company!

[cleanhippie]

All day yesterday I received numerous tips that "Drop Zone" was not a licensed security firm.

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As you can no doubt see, the license had expired back in December of last year. So while the Drop Zone goons were manhandling Tony Hopfinger on Joe Miller's behalf they were nothing more than hired bullies with no more authority to place anybody under arrest, or put their hands on them, than any other bystander who felt he had the right to infringe on somebody's civil rights. And in this case, on the first amendment rights of a journalist to ask questions of a political candidate.


http://theimmoralminority.blogspot.com/2010/10/joe-millers-security-goons-were-not.html


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Can SOMEONE please explain to me why Miller and/or his thugs have not been charged with a crime?

[spanone]

1. so, they were mr miller's posse, eh? gangland style politics

[malaise]

2. Nah they were just

RETHUGS

[sinkingfeeling]

3. I certainly hope Tony Hopfinger files a civil suit against both Miller and Drop Zone.

[mazzarro]

4. +1

[erodriguez]

5. He should have pressed criminal charges

Illegal detainment = Kidnapping

[Angry Dragon]

6. From another post on DU this morning

From a kpete thread this morning

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4579797

miller pushes woman, knocks her son down, says reporter did not pose threat

[RaleighNCDUer]

7. So, were they just hired thugs, or are they 'true believers' -

Blackshirts?

[Historic NY]

8. Oh, no........I smell money the smell of lawsuit money.

[unhappycamper]

9. The bodyguards were active-duty soldiers at Fort Richardson.

Questions surround Miller's use of security force at school
By RICHARD MAUER
[e-mail]
Published: October 18th, 2010 10:17 PM
Last Modified: October 19th, 2010 07:48 AM

Was Joe Miller required to bring a security detail to his town hall meeting Sunday at Central Middle School?

That's what Miller, the Republican Senate candidate, told two national cable news networks Monday in the wake of the arrest by his security squad of an online journalist at his public event.

But the school district said there was no such requirement made of Miller -- he only had to provide a hall and parking lot monitor, and advise participants of school district courtesy and food rules.

Meanwhile, the Army says that two of the guards who assisted in the arrest of the journalist and who tried to prevent two other reporters from filming the detention were active-duty soldiers moonlighting for Miller's security contractor, the Drop Zone, a Spenard surplus store and protection service.

The soldiers, Spc. Tyler Ellingboe, 22, and Sgt. Alexander Valdez, 31, are assigned to the 3rd Maneuver Enhancement Brigade at Fort Richardson. Maj. Bill Coppernoll, the public affairs officer for the Army in Alaska, said the two soldiers did not have permission from their current chain of command to work for the Drop Zone, but the Army was still researching whether previous company or brigade commanders authorized their employment.

[Scurrilous]

10. K & R

:thumbsup: