-Caveat Lector- If any members of this list have *any* doubts about Chuck Schlund's credibility, here is something for you to consider:
> Chuck wrote: The United States was to be broken into 5 countries. "The first division was to be Alaska. Alaska was rich in natural resources and low in population numbers. The resources were so large that they were going to offer the people a check each month in exchange for voting to secede from the United States. In the files we had were the plans to put the governor into office in Alaska and then use him to run the CIA covert operation to split Alaska off of the United States in a separatist movement. Alaska was to be the first state split off the United States in the break up of the United States and was to be kept out of the coming war so its resources would remain mostly intact to be plundered later after the war. (I stopped this while I was working with the FBI)." ==== I did a little investigating and came up with the follwing information: Alaskan Independence Party -- http://www.akip.org/intro.html Although the origins of the Alaskan Independence Party, or AIP, date back to the early 1970s, it wasn't until 1984 that it became an "officially recognized" party by the State of Alaska. Advocating an "Alaska First" policy focused around the land and resource development, the AIP has since emerged as one of the most significant state-level third parties operating in the late 20th century. <SNIP> Ideologically, the AIP is considered to be a hybrid of conservative Republicanism, populism and libertarianism. Among the issues advocated by the party: the direct popular election of the state attorney general and all judges, the right to keep and bear arms, the privatization of government services, the right to home schooling by parents, and a constitutional amendment to ban property taxes. <SNIP> One of the key events in the AIP's history came seven weeks before election day in 1990, when the Party's gubernatorial nominee John Lindauer, a newspaper publisher and former Chancellor of the University of Alaska, and his running-mate Jerry Ward abruptly withdrew from the campaign -- purportedly after the illness of Lindauer's wife. Vogler and Republican State Senator Jack Coghill maneuvered to offer the nomination to Walter J. ("Wally") Hickel, a Republican who had served a half-term as governor from 1966 to 1968 before being named as Secretary of the Interior by President Nixon. Hickel accepted the AIP nomination and filed his candidacy papers a mere hour before the official deadline. In the election, Hickel joined Lowell Weicker of Connecticut that year as one of only six third party candidates in U.S. history to ever win a governor's race. +++++ http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Lobby/4968/homeland.html Independence and Union Movements People have the right to live wherever in the Universe they wish to live, no matter the location of that place. Borders should be no barrier to the freedom of movement of citizens of Earth. Whether individual people change the "country" they live in through immigration, voting blocs change their government through democratic vote, or large regions or groups of people decide to secede from the parent "nation", this right is unalienable. On my secession page I have put links to movements, information, and articles that support or give information on creating new nations out of old (sometimes old nations out of new); getting independence or recognition for a certain group of people in a nation. <SNIP> Alaska - The Alaskan Independence Party wants a referendum for Alaska like the one that they were entitled to in 1958. This time the referendum would have the option of Alaska becoming an independent nation. The party wants independence for the U.S. state of Alaska under a minimal government. +++++ Top: Society: Issues: Secession: United States (78) http://dmoz.org/Society/Issues/Secession/United_States/ Alaskan Independence Party - The largest of the third parties in any of the 50 states, growing by leaps and bounds advocating freedom for Alaska. +++++ http://www.dixienet.org/spatriot/vol6no6/members32.htm Local Independence Movements... contributed by Thomas H. Naylor & Donald Livingston [Charlotte,Vermont, and Atlanta, Georgia] With the end of the Cold War local independence and secession movements have sprung up all over the world-in the former Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, Belgium, Italy, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Spain, Yugoslavia, Indonesia, Canada, the Middle East, and Africa. But such movements in the United States conjure up images of Republic of Texas fanatics, radical redneck racists, and armed neo-Nazi militiamen. Thanks largely to Abraham Lincoln, secession has been viewed as a political pariah since the War for Southern Independence. This is indeed unfortunate, since America would not even exist had it not been for the secession of thirteen independent-minded colonies from England in 1776. <SNIP> The two most influential local independence movements in the United States can be found in our two youngest states, Alaska and Hawaii. 'Dedicated to the peaceful and lawful separation of Alaska from the United States,' the Alaskan Independence Party has over 18,000 members, roughly eight percent of the electorate. The AIP's challenge to Alaskan statehood is based on the claim that the 1958 statehood election was deliberately manipulated by the U.S. government, which wanted to assure an affirmative vote because of Alaska's strategic military importance in the Cold War. The AIP questions the legality of granting voting rights to forty-one thousand military personnel as well as thirty-six thousand of their dependents, who were also eligible to vote in their home states. Many indigenous Americans were disqualified from voting because they could not read or write English. In 1990, the AIP moved from the political sidelines to center stage when Walter J. Hickel was elected governor while running under the AIP label. In May 1993 the AIP petitioned the United Nations complaining of abuses by the U.S. government towards Alaska. The complaint accused the United States of denying the Alaskan people their fundamental right to 'political self determination' and their right to 'use and exploit' the state's wealth and natural resources. The petition requested that the U.N. vote on whether Alaska should remain a state or become an independent nation or commonwealth. ++++++ In summary, the CIA-backed governor who was put into office in Alaska was Walter J. Hickel, [elected in 1990] who previously served as Secretary of the Interior under Richard Nixon in 1969-1970. Chuck Schlund is a HIGHLY credible source!!!! ====== Martin F. Abernathy --- [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Providence, Rhode Island May 10, 2002 <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. 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