Man opens strip club in 'sovereign nation' south of Twin Cities Associated Press
Published Nov. 18, 2002
STRI19 ELKO, Minn. -- An Ojibwe man has declared a piece of land in this tiny town a sovereign nation, opened a strip club and pledged to fight anyone who tries to mess with either. ``There ain't no way on God's Earth that they're going to stop me,'' said Al LaFontaine, 82, of St. Paul. It's not the first time LaFontaine has said that. In 1959, he offered to sell a third of North Dakota to the Soviet Union and he's put forth a variety of schemes to build casinos on land that he's bought and declared sovereign. Man opens strip club in 'sovereign nation' south of Twin Cities | 
