SaveAnchorage.org is a Masterpiece

The first anniversary of the Save Anchorage group is nearly upon us. As you may have surmised, The Blue Alaskan has been preparing to celebrate the group on that auspicious day, and I do hope you'll join in that celebration on July 10.

Celebrating the group and its previously unknown key figure seems a beautiful and appropriate way to pay homage to a very fine group of individuals who have given Anchorage so much over the past year - like our new Mayor. David Bronson has said that he enjoyed great support from Save Anchorage and who wouldn't want to tout that as a positive?

The Anchorage-based group has blessed us with its numerous posts comparing Berkowitz to Hitler, has threatened violence against city officials, and according to the FBI, a group member stormed the U.S. Capitol on January 6 and posted videos from inside the building into the Facebook group.

But while we wait for the 10th to arrive, it came to my attention that the SaveAnchorage.com website was missing all of the information that had previously been shown on the website, including the Must Read Alaska YouTube link at the bottom of its main page.

Interestingly, this graphic was scrubbed recently from the Free Alaska website, which depicted the below group as a "team."

The SaveAnchorage.com website was created four days after the corresponding Facebook group appeared. Soon, unless something changes between now and July 14, 2021, the domain will expire, although according to internet records, a "Drop Registrar" may scoop the domain up immediately after it becomes available.

For pure kicks, I wanted to see if there were any other domains related to Save Anchorage that might exist or be in the works — and lo and behold I stumbled upon SaveAnchorage.org

It's a masterpiece.

Navigating to the SaveAnchorage.org website instantly re-directs to a 146-page document titled:

The book, hosted on the National Center for Biotechnology Information's website, is described as consisting of various prevention and intervention approaches to increase the resilience of communities and individuals to radicalization toward violent extremism, to provide nonviolent avenues for expressing grievances, and to educate communities about the threat of recruitment and radicalization to violence.

The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) is part of the United States National Library of Medicine, a branch of the National Institutes of Health. It is approved and funded by the government of the United States.

There's no information about who is behind the website which was registered last year, but clearly others are concerned about the totally absolutely non-astroturfed 'movement.'

Happy reading.