No man is an island, but Albert LaFontaine says his strip
club is.
The Ojibwe man bought a former pizza parlor in tiny Elko
in early October, declared the land a sovereign Indian nation and said he’ll
ignore any government’s attempt to close it.
“There ain’t no way on God’s Earth that they’re going to
stop me,” said LaFontaine, of St. Paul. It’s not the first time LaFontaine has
said that.
The 82-year-old man who in 1959 offered to sell a third
of North Dakota to the Soviet Union has put forth a variety of schemes to build
casinos on land that he’s bought and declared sovereign. [Full story]
I’m surprised the Clinton administration didn’t send an
Ambassador.
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