Posted on 03/29/2014 1:46:33 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Unrest in the nation must be running high if people are looking for ways to pull up stakes and leave the union entirely. Some Texans petitioned the White House to break away in 2012, though not much came of the effort. Possibly my favorite breakaway story was that of the Conch Republic, which seceded from the US in 1982, immediately suing the government for $1B in war damages.
Despite the lack of success on the part of these previous efforts, they all had one thing in common. They weren’t looking to join up with any other nations, but rather to strike out on their own as a new, independent state. But not so the latest effort, reported by our colleagues at Town Hall, where a petition has been submitted to the White House to allow Alaska to secede from the United States and join up with Russia.
Some Alaskans apparently are not opposed to Russian President Vladimir Putins recent annexation of Crimeain fact, they are hoping to be grabbed up next.
More than 30,000 Alaskans have signed the petition Alaska back to Russia, pleading that the White House allow them to secede and join their native land. If the request garners 100,000 signatures by April 20, the White House will make an official response.
I’m not entirely sure how to gauge the heat index for this idea among Alaskans. 30,000 signatures in New York City wouldn’t cover two city blocks, but in Alaska (population less than 3/4 million for the entire state) it starts to sound like an at least marginally beefy number. But are those folks all actually from Alaska? I only ask because I’m not sure how they screen the IP addresses for these things. In any event, perhaps they’d have drawn a bit more support if the originator had employed something that sounded a bit more like… English?
Groups Siberian russians crossed the Isthmus (now the Bering Strait) 16-10 thousand years ago.
Russian began to settle on the Arctic coast, Aleuts inhabited the Aleutian Archipelago.
First visited Alaska August 21, 1732, members of the team boat “St. Gabriel »under the surveyor Gvozdev and assistant navigator I. Fedorov during the expedition Shestakov and DI Pavlutski 1729-1735 years
Vote for secession of Alaska from the United States and joining Russia
On a second read, perhaps it was written by somebody who is a native Russian speaker with English as a second language. Either way, it’s a bit of a puzzler.
I can’t imagine why the rank and file Alaskan would have any interest in changing their status. Dropping out to join another country really only suggests two options. One, as the author offers, leaves you stuck with Vladimir Putin. The other? Canada… and the less said about that the better. The mainland US certainly has no incentive to lose Alaska either. It’s a strategically important location for a variety of reasons, not to mention being a key element in our energy infrastructure. Alaska is a treasure trove of natural wonders and a great tourist destination. On the other side of the balance sheet there is virtually nothing to argue in favor of losing them.
If this petition is coming from nothing more than a general dissatisfaction with either Barack Obama in particular or Washington in general, it’s a drastic overreaction. Obama will be gone soon enough, and if you don’t like the way things are going in DC, elect better people. But stick with the USA, Alaskans. While imperfect, it’s still the best (and pretty much only) game in town.
No, 30k Alaskans didn’t sign it. Anyone can sign it. Most people I know would tell Putin to pound sand! We love our freedom up here!
If Alaska decided to secede from the union, what would our weak, pathetic president do in response? Order missile strikes on Anchorage? Send in our weak, pathetic underfunded army featuring women in combat, homosexuals, and heterosexuals worried about being grabbed in the shower by their homosexual superior officers and maybe by K-Nine Corps dogs whose rights are protected by PETA?
Just as the next three Obama presidential years will be a golden opportunity for Vladimir Putin to take over much of the world with impunity, it will also be an ideal period for secessionist movements in the U.S. to reach their goals.
I see that our nation has been sent into moral and economic decline for 40 years by the most influential and corrupt constituents in both political parties. There have been no real recoveries since. During that process of decline, many who are not long descended from Europe have crept into leadership positions in business, politics and academia.
They never really assimilated. Those of us who see the bottom side of the institutions are those who see more of the ugliness.
Do I recall correctly in that you were a chaplain? I was a combat engineer (light type) in the Guard and am now trying to enjoy peace, quiet, study and small home building, heating and gardening projects. Back to what I was writing in the first paragraph above...
According to the Prophets (not “New Testament”), that will all change during a climax of the corruption (ill gotten gains, gossip, false accusations, officious robberies against common people, may their houses rot...). You see, I’ve gone where the earliest American Protestants nearly went.
There will be no place to keep money or any other kind of wealth at some point in time. That might not be far ahead of a time, where the nations’ armies are brought down shortly after overrunning Jerusalem—especially those nations having more people of descent from certain early tribes.
What most people publicly discussing that event are mistaking, is as to how those armies are brought down and how the malady spreads to the nations—all of ‘em. Many say that nukes are described (the error). Then, the fighting between the ill elite folks in the nations (true).
Study and prayer are good. Have fun, if you like those and low technical pursuits. Let’s be good and enjoy the slide.
There is not a lot of land there privately owned, but they can sell their land to whoever they want to, including Russia.
When will Massachusetts secede and join the new Soviet Union. Oh, they already are part of it?
“A hole”?
If Putin can protect our borders better than Obama and thugs I’m willing to give it a try...
No EPA, no USFW, ...
I call BS since no one else has and suggest instead let’s GIVE Putin Washington, DC.
No, lets pay him to TAKE IT! ....and everyone in it except Cruz, Gowdy and a few others!
Then there’s the Smithsonian and Arlington National and some monuments we REAL Americans are kinda partial to but the rest of it “AMF!”
If Putrid gets Alaska we want all the Palins in Texas. They would never agree to voluntarily live in Russia anyway!
Oregon: Transfer public lands from feds?
by In the news Sunday, October 13. 2013
Sen Doug Whitsett Oregon: Transfer public lands from feds?
by Sen. Doug Whitsett
The United States government owns more than 55 percent of all the acreage in Oregon. A total of more than 53,000 square miles, or 34 million acres, is held in federal title. Oregon has the fifth highest federal ownership percentage among all of the 13 Western states.
There’s national forest that isn’t managed by BLM, too. Caves National Monument or whatever it’s called, maybe other places too. Add state forest and that’s why OR is poverty stricken - that and the commies in Salem. (And Portland/Eugene.)
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Is the Pope Catholic?
Does a bear shower in the woods?
Do Occupy Doofuses smell bad?
Do liberals get brain transplants?
Well when summer comes they will all sober up. :-)
Wonder how many would vote to join Canada?
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