Christian Exodus asks "Is Sarah Palin an Alaskan Secessionist in Disguise?"

[Shallah Kali]

http://christianexodus.org/index.php?option=com_myblog&show=Is-Sarah-Palin-an-Alaskan-Secessionist-in-Disguise-.html&Itemid=5

The Vice-Presidential candidacy of Sarah Palin was a big surprise. Without actually caring enough to pay attention, I was sort of expecting another run-of-the-mill globalist from the Council on Foreign Relations. Of course I expected McCain to throw a bone to the “religious conservatives”, so I figured it would be someone at least nominally Christian and pro-life.

I was really taken aback to hear of Sarah Palin, since I had learned about her already at the Second North American Secessionist Convention, which I attended in Chattanooga last year with a delegation from Christian Exodus. There Dexter Clark, a hardcore libertarian secessionist from the Alaskan Independence Party, with a distinguished beard and gift for poetic oratory, assured us that she was really one of us, a secessionist in disguise, who had run as a Republican only for the practical purpose of getting elected.

Alaska has always scored high in the potential for independence from the American empire. I used to live in Alaska, and there is a distinct culture of freedom which thrives on the fresh air and majestic natural beauty. When Hawaiians refer to the other states, they call them the “mainland.”, but when Alaskans refer to them, they call them the “Lower 48.” This could be taken to mean those states south of 48 degrees north latitude on the globe, or those 48 states which are further south on the continent, but the not-so-subtle implication is that it refers to the 48 states lesser and inferior to the great State of Alaska.

[Hekate]

1. Very interesting indeed. Keith Olbermann needs to know about this; I hope it gets to him. nt

[snake in the grass]

2. I have often asked myself...

...why they don't say lower 49. True, Hawaii became a state after Alaska, but I would think that they would have modified it. Is it just an anachronism?

[noel711]

3. Palin...AIP? Ya think....?

[yellowcanine]

4. Eh, I wouldn't pay much attention to Christian Exodus. They are the group that wants to create a

Christian Nation in South Carolina. Truly loony tunes.

[Shallah Kali]

6. IMO groups like these must have some attention paid to them. They are breeding grounds for extremist

They say things that most of their kind won't say in public prefering to keep quite about their intentions. How many American's realized there was such much hatred and active racism until Palin and McCain encouragement gave them to nerve to expose themselves? I know the targets of racism never doubted to much of the rest of America doubted. Ignoring it won't make it go away but keeping an eye on things might help those who would oppose extremism prevent them from doing a lot of damage whether it is getting enough people elected to local seats of power to foul up things like women's right to be in control of their own bodies or worst case spew forth another abortion clinic bomber.

[Bluenorthwest]

5. A distinct culture of freedom?

Try a self delusion of freedom! They take twice from the Feds what they pay in tax, and each Alaskan from infancy gets wealth spread from oil companies in the form of yearly checks. Freedom and dependency are not the same thing. Alaskans are free like teenagers are free in their parents house.