Sean Parnell is getting all uppity over management of federal lands and waters. Here's what I wrote the Anchorage Daily News, which will probably not be published, if recent history is any indication:
So our governor ("Parnell warns of too much federal control," ADN Jan. 8) is getting all Rick Perry (Texas' guv) on the feds. Parnell's (empty, of course) threat: "We want our state back and we will take it back." Is this a small-man's-syndrome thing? Has Parnell been taking lessons from Kim Il Sung? Is his tossing of the "states' rights" card an early reelection gambit? Finally, does Parnell not know that federal lands in this state are held in trust for all Americans, and that neither he, nor I nor any Alaskan has any more say in how those lands (and waters) are managed than a little old lady living in Ohio? Like it or no, that's the way it is, guv. You should concentrate on doing a good job of managing what we already have.
Bill Siedler,
Wasilla
Maybe I'm just getting more mouthy because we plan to leave the "Greatland" soon, but teaching (and learning) Alaska History has shown me that without the federal largess that has flowed in Alaska since 1900, we'd be like Al Capp's "Lower Slobbovia" and still a province of Guggenheim, JP Morgan and the salmon syndicate.
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