My name is Duke Riley. I am acting as a liaison for the Laird Kingdom Liberation Army (LKLA). The LKLA wishes to inform you that prior to Citgo’s purchase of Petty’s Island it was illegally seized from its proper owners by conspiring efforts of arson and fraud by the Crew Levick Oil Company, the Pennsylvania Railroad Company and the U.S. government. The Laird Kingdom was established in 1855 by King Ralston Laird. The island was a territory legally acquired by the Laird Kingdom by way of both Pennsylvania and New Jersey adverse possession law. Over the next 50 years, the Kingdom invited struggling immigrants to the island and helped them to prosper.
— Duke Riley, excerpted from his letter to Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez concerning Petty Island, which is located in the Delaware River between Philadelphia and Camden, NJ. Last year, Chávez announced that Venezuelan Government (owner of CITGO) will donate the island to New Jersey with the stipulation that it be maintained as a nature reserve and education center. (Via C-Monster.)
