– Nearly 6,200 People Sign White House Petition for Alaska to Secede and Join Russia (The Daily Sheeple, March 22, 2014):
“We the People,” the White House’s online petition website that claims it is “giving all Americans a way to engage their government on the issues that matter to them,” is currently hosting a petition for Alaska to leave the United States and join Russia.
The petition, written by S. V. of Anchorage, simply reads:
Groups Siberian Russians crossed the Isthmus (now the Bering Strait) 16-10 thousand years ago.
Russian began to settle on the Arctic coast, Aleuts inhabited the Aleutian Archipelago.
First visited Alaska August 21, 1732, members of the team boat “St. Gabriel »under the surveyor Gvozdev and assistant navigator I. Fedorov during the expedition Shestakov and DI Pavlutski 1729-1735 years.
Vote for secession of Alaska from the United States and joining Russia.
The over 100,000 people who signed a petition for Texas to secede over a year ago — the threshold that forces the White House to respond on it’s petition website — were basically told no. A White House official claimed that the reason was because our founding fathers established the United States as a “perpetual union” — and the White House has of course overwhelmingly proven how much they respect and care about what the founding fathers thought about how the country should be run, so…
The Alaska petition was just created yesterday. At the time of writing this, 6,198 people have already signed it, which is 15 more people than when I decided to put this up here about ten minutes ago.
– See more at: http://www.thedailysheeple.com/nearly-6200-people-sign-white-house-petition-for-alaska-to-secede-and-join-russia_032014#sthash.bhQQtMtM.dpuf