key west
Has anyone camped at key west? how was it there?
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CavemanCharlie wrote:
Is that the place that never really voted to become part of the United States and they call themselves there own country? I saw something about it on TV once. Maybe I'm thinking of somewhere else.
Not quite.
When the US border patrol setup a checkpoint like entering the US for everyone coming out for the Florida Keys in 1982 - it upset a lot of folks.
Mandatory vehicle searches for narcotics and contraband, having to prove one's identity and right to live in the US, etc. Coming from the Keys to mainland Florida was like coming from Mexico to the US.
So folks in Key West decided that if the United States is going to treat us like a foreign country, we might as well be one.
They immediately declared war on the United States, then surrendered moments later and ask for $1 billion in foreign aid.
The joke achieved it's goal. The Border Patrol inspection station was quietly removed.
