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PARTY OVERVIEW

This party has no national agenda, no ideas on international affairs, no moral judgements of anybody or anything. What they do have is an earnest to desire for Alaskans to own and exploit as much of Alaska's resources as possible without the profits running into Federal pockets. And without Federal (and environmental) restriction.

"Gold mining, logging, fishing and hunting. We're for them all!"

 

OFFICIAL PLATFORM STATEMENT
FROM THE OFFICIAL WEB PAGE

Our appeal is simple... We are the only political party in Alaska that has no national agenda or platform. We are simply for Alaska and Alaskans. We stand up for Alaskans against the federal Government and bureaucracy at any level. We fight on behalf of Alaskans to return all government land to private hands. We support smaller and less expensive governments.

Alaska's political system is bankrupt. Our party's fantastic growth coincides with growing voter dissatisfaction with the current two party system. It's not a coincidence that all elections result in more Alaskans signing on with AIP.

1. The Alaska Permanent Fund is for Permanent Fund Dividends only. NOT for State Government Expenses.

2. Land sales: Sell the land or give it to individual Alaskans. Right now!!

3. Gold mining, logging, fishing and hunting. We're for them all! We have to have money and we have to eat, don't we?

Platform

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

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

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

3. To support the liberalization of initiative and referendum procedures to hold legislatures accountable to the will of the people.

4. To call and convene a State Constitutional Convention to address the flaws in the existing State Constitution.

5. 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.

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

7. 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.

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

9. To oppose with rare exception, any secret activities or expenditures of funds of any government agency, state, federal or international.

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

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

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

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

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

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

16. To support the rights of parents to privately or home school their children and to provide them individually the right to access to a proportional share of all money provided for educational purposes as an unrestricted grant for such purposes.

17. To support the privatization of government services.

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

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

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

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

 

THE DARKHORSE2000 FISHY-EYED ASSESSMENT

With strictly regional appeal, the Alaskan Independence Party won't attract much interest outside of Alaska, but some of the more mainstream parties would do well to consider borrowing a few planks from their platform.

- HA


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