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From DailyKos by Georgia10
Does Palin Have A Connection To The AIP?
by georgia10
Mon Sep 01, 2008 at 06:36:58 AM PDT
“I’m an Alaskan, not an American. I’ve got no use for America or her damned institutions.” - Joe Vogler, founder of the Alaskan Independence Party
What is Sarah Palin’s relationship with the Alaskan Independence Party (AIP)?
As user Liz Arnett informs us, Sarah Palin may have some ties with this organization, and organization whose platform includes “complete independence and nationhood status for Alaska.”
Perhaps the question of whether Palin, who’s a 72-year-old heartbeat away from the presidency, may want to make America a 49-state nation is something that should have come up during the vetting process? Of course, given that the vetting process is just now getting underway, that the McCain camp knows about the possibility of this bizarre affiliation is doubtful.
WHAT IS THE ALASKAN INDEPENDENCE PARTY
The Alaskan Independence Party is, according to their website, “no longer a fringe party.” Its views include:
- A belief that “the vote for statehood was invalid because the people were not presented with the range of options available to them” and that “the federal government has since breached the contract for statehood on numerous occasions in over a dozen serious and substantial instances.”
- A belief that there should be a vote on Alaskan secession.
- Remaining “steadfastly opposed to environmental regulations and actively promotes the private ownership and widespread development of Alaskan land.”
- A platform which includes:
[A]mending the Constitution of the State of Alaska so as to re-establish the rights of all Alaskan residents to entry upon all public lands within the state, and to acquire private property interest there in, under fair and reasonable conditions. Such property interest shall include surface and sub-surface patent.
[F]oster a constitutional amendment abolishing and prohibiting all property taxes.
[S]eek[ing] the complete repatriation of the public lands, held by the federal government, to the state and people of Alaska[.]
WHAT IS THE EXTENT OF PALIN’S RELATIONSHIP TO THE AIP?
Clearly, the AIP, although claiming it’s no longer a “fringe group,” advocates for some pretty radical ideas. As Liz Arnett’s diary sets forth, Sarah Palin recorded a nice message to the AIP Convention this year, saying that the party “plays an important role in our state’s politics” and that “we have a great promise to be a self-sufficient state.”
In this clip, AIP Vice Chairman of the AIP, Dexter Clark reveals that:
“Our current governor who I mentioned at the last conference, the one we were hoping would get elected, Sarah Palin, did get elected . . . .and there was a lot of talk about her moving up. She was an AIP member before she got the job as mayor . . .”
Palin was mayor of Wasilla from 1996-2002. But does she still agree with any other parts of the troubling AIP platform?
Since McCain never vetted Palin before putting her on the ticket, it’s now time for her to vetted in the public eye and answer some questions for the American people. Has Sarah Palin, as the officer of the AIP claims, ever been a member of the AIP? Does she believe that Alaskan citizens are entitled to a vote on secession? Does she agree with any stances in the AIP platform?
That a candidate for Vice-President may be affiliated with such a fringe group would be unfathomable, until we remember that, as Christopher Hayes at The Nation reminds us, Palin is no stranger to fringe politics. Pat Buchanan himself beamed at her VP announcement, stating “I’m pretty sure she’s a Buchananite!”
Sarah Palin has some questions to answer. And she has only 64 days to convince the American people that she has the judgment, temperament, and worldview appropriate to be the Vice-President of the United States. And as for John McCain? He has questions to answer as well. Did he know about Palin’s possible connections with this fringe group? Did he even investigate the question? If not, what does that demonstrate about McCain’s judgment?
[...] Palin was once a member of the Alaskan Independence Party a radical separatist group that advocated the secession of Alaska from the United States of [...]
[...] OF AMERICA, CHILDREN & The GREAT RAY CHARLES Too bad Palin wants to seceed from the US: More Palin Questions / Alaska Seceding???? � Suzie-Q You can’t make this shit up. __________________ [...]
wow that is big news, which i have yet to see on the mainstream media sadly.
What’s the big deal? I’d like the entire Northeast to secede. No South, No Bush. It’s pretty simple, really…
queerunity:
There was a story on ABC last night:
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/09/members-of-frin.html
Jeff:
ROTFLMAO
Btw… Wonkette has linked us on this story:
http://wonkette.com/402436/sarah-palin-premature-withdrawal-watch
[...] 2008, I mean Election 2008 Is there a chance that we might be able to elect a Secessionist liar into the White [...]
I do agree with Michael Moore after the last election. Maybe we should create two countries: The United States of Canada, and Jesusland.
Maybe secession is not such a bad thing…. God willing.
[...] all McCain has to do is persuade everyone Palin isn’t a secessionist and make them block she helped move a group hilariously named “Ted filmmaker Excellence In [...]
I saw this story on ABC.com and heard it was picked up also in the New York Times, so maybe the mainstream media is covering this story. Has anyone seen it mentioned on TV?
“The United States of Canada, and Jesusland.”
I lived in Canada about 28 years. I really don’t think that Canada would be interested. Though, I am sure they would welcome a less radicalized government on their borders if Jesusland were to separate from the Union. lol
Recently, in Michigan, Palin thanked the people for taking care of her son, who apparently spent his senior year there. Does anyone know why Ms Perfect Mother Palin’s son did not live with them in Alaska and go to school there? Was it to evade more criminal prosecution? What’s the story?
[...] pollution. It’s not sexist to wonder why an ostensibly mainstream politician would as governor lend her voice to a radical fringe group dedicated to the secession of Alaska from the Union and founded by a man who stated, “I’ve got [...]
The way most people have been behaving and the poor choices and opinions that many Americans have been showing lately, I would gladly join this group. To bad Alaska does not have the ways and means to protect herself! Otherwise I would say succeed and I would join them.
The points most liberals are making are ridiculous and bred without thought. Some people hold opinions and son are held by their opinions.
Have a great life with the choices you have made.
Don’t curse Sarah Failin’ but put the blame on McCain. She is the product of McCain’s desperate move to revitalize his waning campaign, aging stratagem, and the worse GOP-made economic woes.
is her being a member of this party before she became gov. anything similar to barack spending 20 years belonging to a anti white church that preaches “god damn america”? It’s true – I’ve gone to the church and I wasn’t allowed in due to my being white.
It’s funny when the VP candidate is the target of concern more than McCain is – makes me wonder if the dems really undersdtand who they are running against.
America wasn’t in the turmoil it is in now until the democrats took control of congress in 2006 – look up the statistics – do your research. As a senator, Barack had the ability to bring real change…he hasn’t done that – he has focused all his attention on winning a different job – he has abandoned Illinois and he will abandon the country if elected.
I don’t know if this post will make it on the site or not – but if it does I invite anyone to go to youtube and search for obama and military. he has no interest in America except to use it as a portal to something higher (at all of our expense)
[...] 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. [...]