"Beyond the pale?"
A reference to pale-faced Eastern European Jews ...
Rhian Lubin
“Trump inviting war criminal Putin to America is nauseating enough, but hosting him in Alaska — while Putin's pet propagandists routinely demand it back from the US on state TV — is beyond the pale,” author and commentator Julia Davis wrote on X. “Unless Putin is arrested upon arrival, there's no excuse.”
Many Alaskans are very unhappy with "the Feds" in Alaska for various reasons, and some of them entirely legitimate. However the land swaps to be discussed are between Ukraine and Russia only. Alaska is not up for sale.
Several of the statutes regarding eligibility for dividends Alaska’s sovereign wealth fund, the Alaska Permanent Fund, do encode a very strong anti-U.S. seperatist sentiment among legislators ensconced in Juneau, the state capital which is accessible only by air or sea.
On the other hand, Alaska is home to several strategic U.S. military bases, a presence which officially is very warmly welcomed in the state.
Dig a little deeper, and there is plenty of anti-U.S.-military sentiment as well. Local garrison commanders have acted as "hosts" for "visiting" U.S. soldiers and airmen. On one hand they have been welcoming and hospitable to troops as befits their positions, but on the other hand they have been very presumptuous setting limits and expectations on behavior, enforcing boundaries, and establishing a rather notorious court-martial red-light district within the State and District of Alaska. The anti-American sentiment, such as it exists in the area, is largely anti-Russian as well.
The clause on the quartering of soldiers in Section 20 of Article I of Alaska’s Constitution is nonsensical, and void of any effective meaning. Any soldier who is "quartered" in a house is by definition an "occupant" of that house, whether by permission or consent or any other circumstances of occupation.
No member of the armed forces shall in time of peace be quartered in any house without the consent of the owner or occupant, or in time of war except as prescribed by law. The military shall be in strict subordination to the civil power.
The "strictness" of state laws and military regulations as supposedly applied to U.S. military personnel in the State and District of Alaska is irregular, as is the presumed authority of the state governor over U.S. military forces.
The concepts of "hospitality" and friendliness to "guests" — with the limits that are set and the boundaries that are enforced — remain at odds with full statehood where every U.S. citizen has the right to move or reside in Alaska, and say upon arrival, "This is home, I live here, I am not a guest." The extreme presumptuousness of the hospitality industry remains a significant obstacle to business and residential development in the state.
The Alaska Highway is a very long road littered with vicious cutthroat red-light district gas stations and eating and drinking establishments located in remote inhospitable areas, I really can't lower myself to make any apologies if my boots are heavy, or if my feet stink or if I talk loud in the Great State of Alaska, and those who expect such apologies really don't have any standing to complain of such matters and they really do need to be thrown out of court time and time again.