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Alaska Clash Over Resources and Rights Heats Up

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus3/29/2011 8:49:45 pm PDT

From the link:

The same week that the Department of Law released its report, Mr. Parnell, addressing a Rotary Club meeting in Fairbanks, Alaska, outlined what his office called his “strategy to fight federal overreach.

The irony of an “Alaskan” complaining about “federal overreach”.

Alaska, the state, is “federal overreach.” A state whose creation was engineered by monied interests in the lower 48 and whose accession to the US was accomplished without proper consent of the natives. A state where federal funds keep the economy from totally collapsing back to subsistence.