[Grovenet] AIP

[Steven]

You should get out more. There was the State of Jackson. There are folks
that want Connecticut to secede. Also some groups in California want to
break away.
Or is your thought that this kind of discussion is more waco than the
democrats?

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> Behalf Of Steele, Mike
> Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2008 9:14 AM
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> Subject: [Grovenet] AIP
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> Speaking of political parties as we have been doing on Grovenet
> recently, here's an interesting tidbit about Sarah Palin, McCain's VP
> choice. She was at one time a member of the Alaska Independence Party (I
> wonder how they pronounce the acronym, AIP?)...to wit, from Daily
> Kos/Liz Arnett:
>
>
> *  ...the AIP is a political party in Alaska whose motto is "Alaska
> First."  Its goal is to have a vote on Alaska's state status so that
> Alaskans may decide whether the state should secede, become a territory,
> become a commonwealth, or remain a state.
>
> *  The AIP has what most Americans would qualify as radical views on the
> relationship between the federal government and Alaska, including a
> belief that the federal government should be dissolved if gun rights are
> ever abolished or curtailed, a belief that the federal government is in
> breach of the Constitution, and complete opposition to environmental
> regulations and public ownership of Alaskan land.
>
> *  Yesterday night, it was is confirmed that Sarah Palin and her husband
> were members of the AIP at least in 1994. Indeed, Palin reportedly
> attended the AIP convention.
>
> *  In 2007, the Vice Chairman of the AIP, Dexter Clark, not only
> referenced Palin's membership, but also said that since she joined the
> GOP, "she is pretty well sympathetic to her former membership."  Clark
> also goes on to discuss the need to "infiltrate" the major parties.
>
> *  In 2008, Palin recorded a message for the AIP's annual convention,
> stating that Alaska has "a great promise to be a self-sufficient state"
> and encouraging them to "keep up the good work."
>
>
> I thought we had settled this matter of secession, more or less, when
> General Lee surrendered to General Grant at Appomattox.  But then
> perhaps Sen. McCain was sleeping through that part of his history class
> at the Naval Academy-so, Palin and AIP would not have registered on his
> 72-year-old brain.
>
> --Mike
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