Sarah Palin supports Alaskan move to secede from Union

Very few of us in the "lower 48" know of the AIP -- Alaska
Independence Party. The AIP claims that the vote in favor of
statehood back in 1959 was illegal because the definition of "eligible
voter" was skewed -- or some such horse***. The AIP proposes that
Alaska secede from the Union and have another vote.

When we Southerners tried to secede, we were attacked by the full
force of the federal government. Now, we have a candidate for Vice-
President who proposes secession. When does the Second Civil War
start?

Sarah Palin supports the AIP as shown in these transcripts of her
appearance before the AIP convention in


Palin's comments at 2008 AIP convention:

-- quote

I’m Governor Sarah Palin and I am delighted to welcome you to the 2008
Alaskan Independence Party Convention in the golden heart city of
Fairbanks. Your party plays an important role in our state’s
politics. I’ve always said that competition is so good, and that
applies to political parties as well. I share your party’s vision of
upholding the constitution of our great state. My administration
remains focused on reining in government growth so individual liberty
and opportunity can expand. I know you agree with that. We have a
great promise to be a self-sufficient state, made up of the hardest-
working, most grateful Americans in our nation. So as your convention
gets underway I hope that you all are inspired by remembering that all
those years ago, it was in this same city that Alaska’s constitution
was born. And it was founded on hope and trust and liberty and
opportunity. I carry that message of opportunity forward in my
administration, as we continue to move our state ahead and create
positive change. So I say good luck on a successful and inspiring
convention. Keep up the good work, and God bless you.

-- end quote

-- quoting Dexter Clark, AIP Vice-Chairman:

.....My name is Dexter Clark, I am the vice chairman of the Alaskan
Independence Party, in ???, which is slightly bigger than Texas all by
itself. We like to joke that if you guys don’t behave yourselves
there’ll be two states in Alaska, and you’ll be the third largest
state. If you were to interpose the map of Alaska on the US it
would overlap both northern and southern borders and almost reach to
both coasts. (Intro of his wife and where they’re from). The Alaskan
Independence Party was established by Joe and Dora Colbert (?) and
officially recognized as a political party by the state of Alaska rule
25 years ago. Within 10 years of that recognition, the party
nominated a governor and a lieutenant governor and they were elected.
Before their term was over, Mrs. Goldberg? passed away and Mr. ?? was
assassinated. After the tragedy of losing our leader, almost all
political observers in Alaska said that’s the end of the AIP, we don’t
have to worry about them any more. But the basic argument of the
Alaskan Independence Party has always been, the number one plank in
our platform, is the question of our vote to become a state. The most
glaring disparity in that vote was the definition of an eligible
voter. Among those qualified to cast a ballot were 41,000 American
soldiers and their 36,000 dependents. Now to the native population of
Alaska, to me, these were occupation troops, and they were made
eligible, in fact encouraged to vote, there were educational meetings
held on the military bases. I can’t imagine them telling anyone that
anything but that statehood would be very good for the military, in
fact they still have 6-7 big bases and numerous smaller holdings in
this state. Statehood would be good for the military. Now can you
imagine the international uproar if the American troops had all went
and got their purple fingers in Iraq? There would have been ...that’s
not an election, that’s imposing your rule.
Another thing that research revealed had to do with the United
Nations. President Truman signed the UN Charter making it the law of
the land whether you like it or not. And among their provisions, they
had a provision or a committee that deals with what they call a non-
self-governing territory, which Guam and Puerto Rico to this day are
still reported by the United States, Virgin Islands is another one,
American Samoa, they report every year to this committee that these
are our territories that are not governing themselves, and the
committee that came up with the rules of how you would change that
relationship imposed certain restrictions, and among those was that
when a poll was held there should be more than one choice on the
ballot. Specifically, they state three of the four following choices
should be on that ballot, and that is to remain a territory - just
keep your relationship the same, become a commonwealth which has all
of its own advantages and disadvantages, to become a state, or to
become an independent nation. When the ballot appeared before
Alaskans it had statehood yes or no, and under the voters rights Act
at that time, you had to be able to read and write English to vote,
which pretty much took care of any of the native population having any
vote in the election whatsoever.
Now a letter that Joe (?) received, showed me, Mr. Vogler(?) had
finally gotten a sponsor before this committee, this committee in
charge of non-self-governing territories, to take a look at these
discrepancies. Of course that door was closed with his death, that
was a personal letter to him, and we’ve seen a copy of it, and it was
dated within the week of his death.
The AIP now has 13,689 registered voters as members, that’s not our
count, that’s the State of Alaska, they count them for us, we don’t
have to keep track of them. That’s a little more than 300 up from
last year’s conference. Our current governor, we mentioned at the
last conference, the one we were hoping would get elected, Sarah
Palin, did get elected. There’s a joke, she’s a pretty good looking
gal, there’s a joke goes around we’re the coldest state with the
hottest governor. And there was a lot of talk about her moving up.
She was an AIP member before she got the job as a mayor of a small
town – that was a non-partisan job. But you get along to go along –
she eventually joined the Republican Party, where she had all kinds of
problems with their ethics, and well, I won’t go into that. She also
had about an 80% approval rating, and is pretty well sympathetic to
her former membership. Both of our senators to the American Congress
are under investigation and there are pretty good stories going
around. One is under sealed indictment and this is the result of the
oil lobby(?), there is bribery and fraud charges and oil money is
buying what they want in Alaska. The royalty share in Alaska of oil,
I don’t know if you have the numbers in front of you what your own
state gets like Texas..., in Alaska the royalty share is 12.5%! I
mean ?? sharecropper did better than that. The people of Alaska from
what I’ve heard in this room and several other areas are fed up. And
if ever there was a time that is ripe for change, this is it. On our
own situation, we’ve discussed several options. Do we try to get our
case into the International Court of Justice? Or to the World Court?
Several of the native Alaskan organizations are taking that route
independent of us. They want to do it on their terms. They haven’t
realized in my mind what the potential of their own political party
which there are pitfalls of an organized political party. You don’t
have any control over who joins that party. They put the X next to it
on the registration form, and if they go to the primary and win that
primary, they’re your candidate, like it or not. I think Ron Paul has
kinda proven that – he’s a dyed-in-the wool libertarian, he came to
Alaska and spoke as a libertarian, and put the Republican label on it
to get elected, that’s all there is to it. And any one of your
organizations should be using that same tactic. You should infiltrate
– I know the Christian Exodus(?) is in favor of it, the Free State
movement is in favor of it – I don’t think they even care which party
it is. Whichever party in that area you can get something done, get
into that political party, even though it does have its problems.
Right now that is one of the only avenues. And you get a few people
on a city council or a ??? you can have some effect. I kind of
digressed there a little bit.

-- another portion of the quote from Clark

But the problem remains that you have to be at the table in the
existing political realm – you have to be a Demopublican or a
Republicrat is what we call it. But the bottom line is the situation
is completely out of hand, the decay of the federal government is
totally complete. What has been forgotten in American is that America
was at one time a union of sovereign states that surrendered a certain
part of their rights to the federal government, and most importantly
retained the rest of them – all the rest of them. That’s completely
full circle to now where if it isn’t enumerated, you don’t have them,
instead of the original concept where if it wasn’t on the list, it’s
yours. The federal government is just plain a monster. States are
just lines on a map and they’re trying to erase them as quickly as
they can, including some of the international ones to the north and
the south. The government can do no wrong. They’re not wrong in
Iraq. There’s nothing that they ever admit that they’re wrong to. We
had a situation on a road in Alaska where it ended up that we had
deed, title, conveyed to the state, on statehood? We had the deed in
our hand in front of the judge and the judge looked at us and said,
well, that transfer was either illegal or inadvertent. Now if I go
too fast down this road and get a speeding ticket, can I get away with
telling the cop, oh that was inadvertent, I didn’t mean to go that
fast. You're not going to get away with it, but the government can do
it. But part of the reason that many of us are in this room is that
the wrong they do reflects on us. When we travel, we’ve learned – we
don’t say we’re Americans. We say we’re Alaskans, and it’s a totally
different situation. We’ve gone into classrooms in Fairbanks and do
presentations to the high school all the way down to the elementary
school. And when we speak at the high school and we talk to these
youngsters and tell them they’re different, they already know. And
when we talk about America, there are kids in that class doing this
(shows thumbs down), and when we say Alaskan, they’re thumbs are up.
And they’re the ones I’m worried about. We have to save – they talk
about all these lock ups and minerals and stuff – that doesn’t bother
me too much, but with the situation the way it is now, we’re going to
have to leave those young people something to pay the bills they’re
running up. And the longer this situation continues, the harder it’s
going to become for a peaceful solution. So that’s why it’s so
important that everyone in this room brings what they have and we try
to work something out. We’re well into an economic war. WWIII has
been going on for about 20 years and the money is the main weapon.
If you can get your opponent to spend all his money and have nothing
left, devalue his money so that there’s nothing left, you’ve won that
war, without ever firing a shot. And as Ben? said before, and I don’t
remember who said it first, but I know I’ve said it before, and as a
gold miner in Alaska, I’ve stood in front of a group of my fellow
miners, and I told them that we have to hang(?) together, or they’re
going to pick us off one by one. Well, the gold miners that I know
are as independent, if not more so, than I am, and we all heard what I
said, but nobody listens. They’re not coming after me today, they’re
not trying to shut me down, your water’s dirtier than mine, you don’t
know how to mine. All these different inter-relationships between
individuals involved prevented us from becoming that core(?). We
tried different organizations – none of them seemed to work. So the
long and the short of that is that the areas that we mined in the
1980s there was about 150 small mom and pop gold mines. Today, less
than 10. In the meantime, more than 5 of the mega corporate mines
have been established to take their place. So the idea is the guy
that lost his own mine is going to go up on the hill and work for the
big outfit. And I know many of you have seen the same thing happen to
the small businesses and industries in your own areas, your home
states. Now my biggest question is how can we all put our efforts
together with one common goal in mind? What can we agree on? And one
of the things that came to my mind – both of these secessionist
conventions have been held in cities with brick buildings – both old
and new – and they all have their own story to tell. But every time I
see that, I think for a minute of the men who built those buildings.
They stated with a pile of bricks about this big (gestures to his chin
level). And they put those bricks together, there was no machine to
put 10 bricks down at a time, every one of those bricks was put in
place by hand, cemented in one by one. And the result is a very sound
and usable building. But they had to have one thing before they
started, or it would never have happened. They needed a plan. They
needed to know where all those bricks fit, where the windows would go,
where the doors would go. Without that plan, they would have had no
building. I believe here each of us are bringing our own little bag
of bricks. And we’re hoping to build a sanctuary, I think, for liberty
out of those bricks, and it’s our duty to devise a way to fit those
bricks together. Thank you. Applause.

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And this is what we want as VP????

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