Sarah Palin's video address to the Alaskan Independence Party's March 2008 Convention in Fairbanks:
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From the Alaskan Independence Party's FAQ Page
Q: What is the Alaskan Independence Party?
A: An Alaskan political party whose members advocate a range of solutions to the conflicts between federal and local authority; from advocacy for state's rights, through a return to territorial status, all the way to complete independence and nationhood status for Alaska.
Below the fold you'll find all sorts of fun and interesting things...
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"First Dude", Todd Palin, registered with the Alaskan Independence Party in 1995. "Besides a short period of a few months in 2000 when he changed his registration to undeclared, Todd Palin remained a registered member of AIP until July 2002 when he registered again as an undeclared voter." Source.
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From AIP's FAQ Page:
Q: If Alaska were independent, what would happen to my social security check, federal pension, or military retirement?
A: People receive these checks around the world, regardless of their place of residence. In most cases eligibility for such checks would not be effected by Alaskan independence.
You must love this. Those "Alaskan Independents" want to get shed of the burdens of the U.S. Government, but man-o-man, they still want their checks from the Federal Government.
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The AIP was founded in 1984, but its website doesn't begin listing officers until 1992, when it notes that its then-Chair, and founder, Joe Vogler,
"Disappeared in 1992, body found in may (sic) 1994"
This would be the same Joe Vogler who said, in a 1991 interview:
"The fires of hell are frozen glaciers compared to my hatred for the American government. And I won't be buried under their damn flag."
This would be the same Joe Vogler who (the AIP website fails to note) turned-up dead in a Fairbanks gravel pit, the victim of a "plastic-explosives sale gone bad", according to the man who confessed to his murder.
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No more than 2 clicks away
I took a few minutes to play a game of sorts. I went to the AIP Website's "Links" page and clicked a few of the links provided, just to see what kind of things would turn up. My self-imposed rule was to not click more than once from the original link. In other words, I would limit myself to only 2 clicks, beginning with the Alaskan Independence Party links page. Here're a few things I found:
LINCOLN - 19th CENTURY HITLER.
Oddly, like, really oddly, this site links to one on Zoroastrianism. As well as to this site:
BEELZEBUBBA - Rapist Bill Clinton
"Perhaps Bill Clinton is the Devil. It would explain a lot. Certainly, Hillary Clinton is condemned to her own little hell. Certainly, the voters have closed their eyes and made their pact with the Devil: Keep us prosperous and we won't hold you to any moral or ethical standards. The Mephistophelean scenario has a wonderful logic. It would explain the extraordinary level of human sacrifice around Bill Clinton -- why so many people around him end up dead, jailed, betrayed, shackled, exiled, subpoenaed, depressed, humiliated, broke, ruined and smeared."
From this wonderful site
The AIP links directly to "The League of the South", which notes this on its FAQ page:
The League of the South
Q: Why does the LS seek to protect the Anglo-Celtic core population and culture of the historic South?
A: The Anglo-Celtic peoples settled the South and gave it its dominate culture and civilisation. We believe that the advancement of Anglo-Celtic culture and civilisation is vital in order to preserve our region as we know it. Should this core be destroyed or displaced the South would be made over in an alien image — unfamiliar and inhospitable to our children and grandchildren. We, as Anglo-Celtic Southerners, have a duty to protect that which our ancestors bequeathed to us. If we do not promote our interests then no one will do it for us.
The League of the South
Isn't that charming.
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Then there's . . .
The Texas Nationalist Movement
Another "Country Nutjobs First" group whose website is linked-in to Alaskans for Independence, is the Texas Nationalist Movement. Navigate around its website and find wonderful things like:
"We are nationalists because we see the Free and Independent nation of Texas as the only way to bring all the forces, expertise, resources, and intelligence of the nation of Texas together to preserve and improve our existence, the conditions under which we live and to solve the problems currently facing Texans." Good, friggin' riddance.
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"Texas maintained its ownership and jurisdiction of all it had at the time of its seduction into the USA of Hypocrisy and Lies.
"This is an outright slap in the face of the sovereignty of the individual states!
"It's time for Texas to declare its independence and control its own lands and territory as the free sovereign nation it should have been since 1861!"
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Keep in mind: Sarah Palin addressed the Alaskan Independence Party Convention a little over 6 months ago, happily telling its attendees that she shared its "vision of upholding the Constitution of our great state", nowhere mentioning the Constitution of the United States. She also encouraged AIP to "keep up the good work". In fairness, the AIP's platform states that it seeks to comply with the U.S. Constitution (which many secessionists believe invites or allows secession, mind you), it was just Sarah Palin who made a point not to mention the U.S. Constitution in her address to the AIP several months ago.
And, yet, the AIP site enshrines on its website a long screed from Joe Vogel that concludes:
"We (the Alaskan Independence Party) ask that a courageous member of the United Nations sponsor us to appear before the General Assembly to present our case, that we may be restored to the list of Non-Self-Governing Territories so that we may eventually secure our right to self determination. We would also like to take the matter before the International Court of Justice if such is feasible."
Five years after Vogel published this Manifesto, Todd Palin joined up. He and wife Sarah would attend in 1994, according to former Chairman (and current AIP webmaster) Mark Chryson. Source
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"Palin also spoke to the party's convention in the same hotel in 2006 when she was running for governor, Chryson said." Source
"Dexter Clark, an Alaskan Independence Party vice chairman, brought up Palin's ties to the group in videotaped remarks to the second North American Secessionist Convention in October in Chattanooga, Tenn.
"'She was an AIP member before she got the job as the mayor of a small town,' Clark told the group. 'That was a nonpartisan job. But you get along to go along. She eventually joined the Republican Party."
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Country First. Ha.
Crazy First. Indeed.
BenGoshi
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