Check this out:
Long-Standing Feud in Alaska Embroils Palin
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/30/AR2008083002366.html?hpid=topnews
Some excerpts:
Quote:Interviews with principals involved in the dispute and a review of court documents and police internal affairs reports reveal that Palin has been deeply involved in alerting state officials to her family's personal turmoil.
The trouble between Wooten and the governor's sister broke into the open after an alleged incident in February 2005. Palin told an internal affairs investigator that she overheard on a speakerphone Wooten arguing with her sister and threatening to kill their father. Fearful for her family members' lives, Palin said she drove to her sister's house and watched the argument through a window. . . .
. . . the alleged argument occurred after Palin's sister, who uses her previous married name of Molly McCann, questioned Wooten about her husband attending a trooper-sponsored event in January with another woman. . . .
She [PALIN] said she left for a meeting without calling police.
The article reports that the alleged death threat to Palin's father took place in February 2005 and that Palin's sister filed for divorce in April 2005. The very day the divorce action was filed was the day that Palin's sister and Palin's father called the state police to make allegations concerning the argument that took place in February. What may we reasonably infer from that?
Palin was interviewed about the alleged incident a month after her sister filed for divorce. Palin claimed that she allegedly overheard the alleged threat on speaker phone. Allegedly fearful for people's LIVES, she drove over to her sister's house and peeped through a window and eavesdropped on the fight.
What reasonable inferences can we draw from that? If any reasonable person truly overheard frightening death threats and was truly in fear for other people's lives, what would he/she do? A) Make a frantic call to 911; or B) go on a window peeping excursion?
Concerning the window peeping, Palin told the interviewer that she thought her brother-in-law was "gonna blow it." But, instead of taking any action to protect her family, she left to attend a meeting and didn't bother to call the police. Accordingly, how credible are her allegations? What reasonable inferences can we make? Was she really window peeping and eavesdropping because she was in fear for LIVES or because she wanted to hear the juicy details about the alleged affair? If she really thought her brother-in-law was going to snap and go on a killing spree, why did she just walk away? From the circumstances as a whole, we may reasonably infer that window-peeping Palin thought the whole thing was hilarious and then went off to her meeting.
In AUGUST 2005 (six months AFTER the February window peeping incident), and during the course of a messy divorce between Palin's sister and brother-in-law, Palin sent an angry, three-page e-mail to Col. Julia Grimes, head of the state police in an attempt to get her brother-in-law fired. Here's what she reported in that firey, accusation-laden email:
Quote:"Wooten's words were, 'I will kill him. He'll eat a [expletive] lead bullet, I'll shoot him,' if our father got the attorney to help Molly," Palin said in an e-mail she wrote in August 2005 to the chief of the state police. "I heard this death threat, my 16-year-old son heard it (Track Palin), Molly heard it, as did their small children. Wooten spoke with his Trooper gun on his hip in an extremely intimidating fashion, leaving no doubt he is serious about taking someone's life who disagrees with him."
. . .""My concern is that the public's faith in the Troopers will continue to diminish as more residents express concerns regarding the apparent lack of action towards a Trooper whom is described by many as 'a ticking time bomb' and a 'loose cannon.' "
Palin noted, "Wooten is my brother-in-law, but this information is forwarded to you objectively," and asked Grimes to treat the information objectively.
Keeping Wooten on the police force, Palin wrote, "would lead a rational person to believe there is a problem inside the organization."
OBJECTIVE? That's bullshit. If Palin truly believed in February 2005 that there was NO DOUBT that Wooten would take someone's life . . . she would have called the police THEN. But, she didn't. She nonchalantly walked away from that window--away from the frightening horror of what she allegedly overheard and saw--and went a meeting. Why did she do that? Because what she is alleging NEVER HAPPENED. We may reasonably believe that she is making it up to destroy her brother-in-law. She's vindictive and she's a liar.
