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LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Palin, Alaska, Canada & Quebec

Published Sep 21, 2008 9:36 PM

The news business has reported that Governor Palin’s husband was a member of the Alaska Independence Party (AIP), and that Sarah Palin attended the AIP convention in 1994 and 2006. One plank of the AIP platform is the secession of Alaska from the U.S.; another is the annexation by Alaska of western Canada.

At first this may seem bizarre, but perhaps it is not. When the Quebec independence struggle became active in the 1970s, some Wall Street corporations and their political servants discussed annexation of some western Canadian provinces. In 1995, the year after Palin’s first AIP convention, the Canadian Province of Quebec held its second referendum on independence for Quebec, which was voted down by a razor-thin margin. And Governor Palin’s chief achievement to her corporate sponsors was steamrolling through a natural gasoline pipeline from Alaska through western Canada. She even has been filmed at her church asking for prayers for this pipeline.

So the question is—if the Quebec people had voted for independence, would “pit-bull with lipstick” Palin and her ilk have tried to set up an “oil kingdom of the North” in Alaska and part of Canada? It seems that the same corporations that dragged the U.S. into the oil war in Iraq have many more schemes like that in their back pocket.

—Chris Fry
Delmar, N.Y.