The Notion of Alaska Independence Sometimes Arises

 I met Joe Vogler at a U.A.F. seminar on R.S. 2477 sitting down the table from him. He was the leader of the Alaska Independence Party. Alaska independence could only occur with the disintegration of the United States and it is difficult to speculate about what a future redrawing of borders would look like or who would be in charge or what militaries globally would survive the chaos. Joe Vogler was unfortunately killed and his body discovered in the Fairbanks land fill later. He was buried in Canada. His idea was that Alaska should have had a chance to vote on independence rather than becoming a state, yet he misunderstood the entire criterion of the Alaska purchase and the investment by the United States government in defending and building it up over the decades- including paying for the Matanuska Colony, Captain Healy and his revenue cutter etc.. Fewer than 2000 people lived in Anchorage before the start of W.W. 2. The Federal Government still owns the majority of the state and would defend it as they have before such as in the Second World War's battles of Attu and Kiska when the Japanese invaded. Of course President Trump might choose to privatize federal Alaskan property and sell it for income and redistribute wealth to the rich able to win auctions to buy it.