FelixEstrella wrote:You guys are slipping. It took 3 pages of posts to derail this thread? THREE PAGES! Back it my day, we've jack a thread in 2 posts. Young whippersnappers.
HA! I used to derail my own threads in the first post!
Buncha amateurs they let in here..
HTRN
HTRN, I would tell you that you are an evil fucker, but you probably get that a lot ~ Netpackrat
Describing what HTRN does as "antics" is like describing the wreck of the Titanic as "a minor boating incident" ~ First Shirt
DougWojtowicz wrote:
Here's an idea, sell Alaska back to Russia. Or Canada.
Then NPR can watch all of his freedoms vaporize now that he's NO LONGER AMERICAN.
How about give us the fair vote for or against statehood that we were denied 50 years ago, where we can choose to become a state, or an independent commonwealth, or one of a couple other options that escape me at the moment. This time let all of the natives vote in it, and don't let the military who is stationed here vote. Last time, the military (which at the time, may have outnumbered actual Alaskans, or were at least enough to skew the results) was told to go vote, and how to vote (for statehood).
Netpackrat: I didn't say the military had to leave, just that they shouldn't have been allowed to vote in the election that determined whether or not we became a state, or something else.
So, soldiers and airmen who were citizens of existing states (in the lower 48) were allowed/commanded to vote for Alaskan statehood? Sounds a little strange. Wonder if the same thing happened in the Oklahoma Territory or other Statehood elections? Or, was anyone physically present in Alaska Territory allowed to vote, despite being a citizen of another state.
Hmmm, soldiers not being allowed to vote just because their job in Alaska Territory is transient in nature, just like many of the civilians who were up there at that time. Next thing we might have seen would have been signs commanding dogs and soldiers to keep off the lawn.
A weak government usually remains a servant of citizens, while a strong government usually becomes the master of its subjects.
- paraphrased from several sources
