"By the end of my second term, we will have the first permanent base on the moon and it will be American." - Newt Skywalker
"Does that mean I'm visionary? You betcha." - Newt Palin
Fellow candidates panned the plan because it would cost an insane amount of money. But not only is Newt's plan for lunar statehood completely insane, it's also against the law! Not just any law, but Outer Space Law, the most powerful of all laws, because it comes from, you know, Outer Space.
Gingrich introduced a bill in Congress in 1981 that would offer a path to statehood for a lunar colony of 20,000 residents. His plan for an emphatically American moon colony and resultant 51st Moon State violates the Outer Space Treaty of 1967, which was signed into law by the USSR, UK, and USA. In 1967, the worry was putting nukes on the moon pointed at Moscow or Washington. Now it's harshing Newt's Pink Floyd Droid buzz.
What's funny is, people take Newt seriously, a man who says certifiably crazy stuff like, 'Give me eight years and I'll give you a permanent American moon base,' yet these same people say Ron Paul is a kook. Go figure.
"Does that mean I'm visionary? You betcha." - Newt Palin
Fellow candidates panned the plan because it would cost an insane amount of money. But not only is Newt's plan for lunar statehood completely insane, it's also against the law! Not just any law, but Outer Space Law, the most powerful of all laws, because it comes from, you know, Outer Space.
Gingrich introduced a bill in Congress in 1981 that would offer a path to statehood for a lunar colony of 20,000 residents. His plan for an emphatically American moon colony and resultant 51st Moon State violates the Outer Space Treaty of 1967, which was signed into law by the USSR, UK, and USA. In 1967, the worry was putting nukes on the moon pointed at Moscow or Washington. Now it's harshing Newt's Pink Floyd Droid buzz.
What's funny is, people take Newt seriously, a man who says certifiably crazy stuff like, 'Give me eight years and I'll give you a permanent American moon base,' yet these same people say Ron Paul is a kook. Go figure.