Platform and Goal of the Alaskan Independence Party

Preamble

We affirm that all political power is inherent in the people; that all government originates with the people, is founded on their will only, is instituted to protect the rights of the individual; that all persons have a natural right to life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness, and the enjoyment of the rewards of their own industry; that all persons are equal and entitled to equal protection under the law. We stand on a firm constitutional foundation.

Platform

We pledge to exert our best efforts to accomplish the following:

To effect full compliance with the constitutions of the United States of America and the State of Alaska.

To support and defend States' Rights, Individual Rights, Property Rights, and the Equal Footing Doctrine as guaranteed by the constitutions of the United States of America and the state of Alaska.

To advocate the convening of a State Constitutional Convention at the constitutionally designated 10 year interval.

To reinforce the unalienable rights endowed by our Creator to Alaska law, by eliminating the use of the word "privilege" in the Alaska statutes.

To amend 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.

To foster a constitutional amendment abolishing and prohibiting all property taxes.

To seek the complete repatriation of the public lands, held by the federal government, to the state and people of Alaska in conformance with Article 1, Section 8, Clause 17, of the federal constitution.

To prohibit all bureaucratic regulations and judicial rulings purporting to have the effect of law, except that which shall be approved by the elected legislature.

To preserve and protect the Alaska Permanent Fund, Permanent fund earnings, earnings reserve fund and individual Permanent Fund Dividends.

To provide for the direct popular election of the attorney general, all judges, and magistrates.

To provide for the development of unrestricted, statewide, surface transportation and utility corridors as needed by the public or any individual.

To affirm and assert every possible right-of-way established under R.S. 2477 of July 26, 1866, before its repeal by the Federal Land Management Policy Act of October 21, 1976.

To support the right of the individual to keep and bear arms.

To support the complete abolition of the concept of sovereign or governmental immunity, so as to restore accountability for public servants.

To support the rights of parents to privately or home school their children.

To support the privatization of government services.

To oppose the borrowing of money by government for any purposes other than for capital improvements.

To strengthen the traditional family and support individual accountability without government interference or regulation.

To support the right of jurors to judge the law as well as the facts, according to their conscience.

To support "Jobs for Alaskans...First!"

Confirmed by Statewide Convention

Fairbanks, Alaska 2008

I'm sick and tired of BOTH sides looking for stupid shit under every rock.

The AIP is not your garden-variety political party, but they are not as whacked-out crazy as many of you portray them. In Alaska, many of the people who call themselves members of that party go to PTA meetings, participate in Fur Rendevouz, go to the movies, work hard everyday at decent jobs, help their neighbors, donate to food banks, contribute to their favorite charities, ice skate, pick cranberries, mow their lawns at midnight in the summer, shop at Carr's, fish on the Kenai, hunt for moose (for food), and lend a hand to those in need. They are NOT all batshit crazy.

All of this damned nastiness to paint everyone who isn't exactly like YOU, as an enemy is one thing that's wrong with this country.

And, many liberals and progressives are showing they are just as intolerant and divisive and nasty as the people they are pointing their fingers at.

I do get it. Those who set out to divide us, have succeeded beyond their wildest dreams.

Now, what has that gotten us? Nowhere.

http://www.slate.com/id/2084009/

The well-bred Weatherman leaders, miscomprehending the origin of their own radicalism, somehow imagined that working-class kids would embrace their extremist creed more readily than bourgeois college students. From Seattle to Detroit to New York, they set up urban communes as bases for organizing the would-be rank and file of the revolution, but predictably they failed to rouse the proletariat. So they turned to what even they themselves now recognize as terrorism. They began building bombs to detonate at sites of their purported oppressors, like a hall in Fort Dix, N.J., that would be hosting an Army dance. But on March 6, 1970, the bomb meant for the American soldiers went off prematurely, blowing up the Greenwich Village town house where its violence-drunk manufacturers were living. Three of them were killed.

...but, that aside.

Criminy sakes, does everything have to be racist?

"incomplete" on their so-called healthcare plans.

Pass the word....

A great selection for Secretary of Energy would be Dr. Joseph Romm.

...because he's resigning his Senate seat as of Sunday, before the lame-duck session convenes to hammer out the auto industry bailout.

Can we hope that after he resigns he'll take a leadership position on this as president-elect?

Ho-fucking-hum.

Just give me the change.

is a liberal!

He's not only not liberal, he's right of center.

Too bad you didn't pay attention, instead of imagining that he was truly progressive.

You donated your money -- you know, as in a "gift" or "contribution." Not a "loan."

(BTW, you should have seen the red flag when Obama refused to be photographed with Gavin Newsome.)