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Subj : Re: Kirk for President
To   : alt.tv.star-trek.tos
From : Wouter Valentijn
Date : Sun Sep 18 2005 16:46:28

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos

The Merry Piper wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Sep 2005 10:11:39 -0400, ToolPackinMama
> <laura@lauragoodwin.org> wrote:
>
>> The Merry Piper wrote:
>>
>>> William Shatner is a Canadian.  Kirk is (will be) an American, born
>>> in Iowa.
>>
>> Well, Iowa will still be there by then, but maybe it won't be
>> "American" anymore.  Kirk never called himself "American".  He
>> called himself an Earth-man.  He was proud to be from the United
>> Earth (a founding member of the United Federation of Planets).
>
> Perhaps he felt by telling people he was from Iowa he was implicitly
> stating he was American?  When I've met persons from other countries
> on-line I tell them I'm a Texan but that doesn't mean I don't consider
> myself a US citizen.
>
> Further, Kirk was familiar enough with historical US documents to
> understand them even while being badly mangled.
>
> And he was a big fan of the US "Old West."
>
> And his hero was Abe Lincoln.
>
> None of these are iron-clad proof but they are good indicators.

Did anyone here ever read Clive Cussler novels?
About the forming of the United States of Canada?
The US (minus some southern states) and Canada (minus Quebec) merge into one 
new country. This based on an old document in which the UK promised to give 
Canada away to the US. It was something like that.

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