Don't doubt for a moment that Tea Party candidates have facist agendas.
Agendas that include silencing the Fourth Estate.
Witness the detention and handcuffing of a journalist who dared ask questions of Republican Senate nominee Joe Miller at a public forum in Alaska.
Miller's private security guards, off-duty members of the military, grabbed and isolated Alaska Dispatch online editor Tony Hopfinger for repeatedly asking the former government attorney about illegally politicking on the public payroll.
Miller, like other conservative wingnuts on ballots across America, refuses to answer journalist questions or grant interviews except to the GOP mouthpiece, Faux News.
And don't believe the Alaska incident is an isolated case of political goose-stepping.
Several credentialed print and broadcast journalists were arrested and charged with rioting while covering a protest during the 2008 Republican National Committee convention in Minnesota.
Sales of brown shirts, assault weapons and Nazi memorabilia are dramatically increasing in the United States. (24 OCTOBER 2010)