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Grassroots Revolution for Change

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To initiate change in our great nation in the effort to restore a constitutional government originally created to preserve the liberties and freedoms granted by our creator, it takes individuals en masse to simply stand up for themselves and demand accountability from their elected officials on the local, state and national levels. It must come as no surprise that the only thing that professional politicians fear while in office is losing their jobs. We the People must hold them accountable.

How do we do that? By listening. By researching. By learning who our representatives are and by dictating to them the policy that we, as their employers dictate to them.

After witnessing an embarrassing response and relief effort after hurricane Katrina, We must ask our elected representatives why our tax dollars couldn't do better. After the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that private citizens can use the police power of government to seize privately held property, it is time for all Americans to use the privilege of the ballot box to hold our representatives accountable.

It doesn't take a complicated platform. It doesn't take solving world hunger. It takes a message, a mandate in its simplest form and hard stance from the governed. Below is a platform that all Americans can embrace. It is not a red platform, nor a blue platform. It doesn't address a social agenda, with the exception of federal funding. It's an agenda that demands our congressional candidates take a step outside their party boxes and roll up their sleeves and work for the success of a people, not the success of a government.

Read the six point platform below. If you can support at least four of the six points, and commit to holding our representatives accountable by only supporting candidates who will support this platform, please feel free to register and help us build the brick wall for change. When the campaign season starts in 2008, we will be armed to let the congressional candidates know they will be accountable for their agendas, and congressional votes. Here is the platform:

On Taxes

Whereas the American public has a bigger burden to fund government on all levels than to provide for itself, it's families and ...

Whereas the current Federal Income Tax code is more than 60,000 pages, is cumbersome, and self contradicing and ...

Whereas the Victory Tax was supposed to be repealed after the end of World War II and ...

Whereas the Federal Income Tax currently punishes achievers and promotes mediocraty among the citizenry . . We therefore will promote and support the following:
  1. an effort to repeal the 16th Amendment of the United States Constitution
  2. an effort to repeal the Federal Reserve Act
  3. an effort to repeal The Internal Revenue Act of 1913 and all laws which drive social behavior through Tax Legislation
  4. an effort to eliminate all Federal Income Taxes under Title 26 of the United States Code.
  5. an effort to eliminate the Internal Revenue Service
On the war against Islamic Facsism

There are mixed emotions on the United States efforts in Iraq. However, the global war against Islamic Radicalism is a very real problem with very real consequences if left unchecked. Therefore we will support and promote candidates who will:
  1. support and authorize spending that provides for the Common Defence
  2. support and authorize spending that enables the prosecution of the War on Terror
  3. commits to staying in the fight as long as it takes to repel terrorists and their agendas
  4. commits to protecting United States borders to stop illegal immigration
  5. will not bow to public opinion by cutting and running in this global war
On Homeland Security

A secure Homeland begins at the borders and at our ports. That means two things; closing our borders to illegal immigrants and using state militia or National Guard to do so. Border states (both Northern and Southern) must also be active in closing the borders to illegal immigration.

A secure Homeland does not mean creating a Department of Homeland Security. It does not mean federalizing airport screeners, and federal employers screening bus stations and public sporting events.

A state militia with the sole intent of protecting this country and the several states from invasion is the key ingredient to our national security

Energy independence is also key to our national security. As long as America is dependant on foreign energy controlled by Islamic states, or dictators, our country's economic security is in jeopardy.

Therefore we will support candidates who will
  1. support legislation to remove the Transport Security Agency from federal payrolls
  2. support the several states' or private sponsorship of border patrols (i.e. Minute Men Projects)
  3. support domestic extraction of oil and natural gas reserves
  4. increase energy refining capacity
  5. decrease the dependence of foreign rogue nations for energy sources
Sources:
  1. Edwin Vieira
On Judicial Activism

Congress and the Senate have the constitutional authority to rein in an out of control judiciary. An out of control judiciary has assumed power that was never authorized by the United States Constitution and both houses of Congress should use the authority granted to them to re-establish the balance of the three branches of Government. Article III Section I of the Constitution grants Congress the authority to establish and decommission Courts, and place the Supreme Court under its jurisdiction, while the Senate has the authority to block federal judicial nominations through a thorough vetting and confirmation process.

Federal Justices have one concrete responsibility, to apply the constitution to each case before it. In recent cases, justices have looked to the laws of other countries, and international law. The court has applied what could be deemed as social acceptance, or the popular vote to their decision making process. Their responsibilities do not include making new law, and do not include applying international law to the cases before. Therefore, we will endorse candidates who will commit to:
  1. Use the constitutional authority granted to them to rein in judicial activism
  2. Support legislation, including proposed constitutional amendments, to overturn or render court decisions that result in a violation of inalienable rights to life, liberty, property, and the right to be left alone
  3. Thoroughly vet all judicial nominees to prevent the placement of activist judges on federal courts

Sources:
  1. Hoover Institute
On Federal Spending!

Federal authority to spend is outlined in the Constitution. The current federal budget is 2.6 trillion dollars with politically designed funding for projects not authorized by the Constitution. Our president called for a cut in funding for programs that don't work and programs that are redundant. Congress failed to act on that call to action. Federal spending is at an all time high, and it is time to rein in an oversized federal government.

Therefore we will support and promote candidates who will commit to:
  1. A dramatic reduction in the Federal Budget, not simply a reduction in the rate of growth
  2. Cut existing social programs that don't work, or are redundant in nature
  3. Cut or phase out existing social programs that are not Constitutionally authorized
  4. Pass legislation that requires any new spending bill to be accompanied with the constitutional authority to spend
  5. Limit pork barrel spending
Sources:
On Social Security and Medicare

In 1935, Congress passed the Social Security Act which authorized forced contributions from the wages of all Americans and their employers for the funding of old age retirement accounts. It is no secret that this Social Security program has as little as 13 years of solvency left.

There are questions as to whether the Federal Government has the constitutional authority to fund an "old age" insurance program. That argument has its roots dating back to two of the authors of the Federalists Papers, James Madison and Alexander Hamilton. Madison believed that the Federal Government had a limited power to tax, and Hamilton believed there was a General Welfare clause that allowed such federal taxation and funding.

The current Social Security programs is doomed to failure, and will eventually collapse under the weight of the demands upon it. Recognizing that eliminating the program altogether will affect the people who have been subjected to the funding of the program and now rely on the perceived benefits, it is imperative that the program not be dissolved, but radically reformed to support today's demand as well as future demands on the system.

Therefore, we will:
  1. support candidates that will seek to reform the Social Security Program and create personal and privatized retirement accounts for future generations of Americans with the ultimate goal of removing any involvement of its funding from the American people through federal taxation.

"The ideal government of all reflective men, from Aristotle onward, is one which lets the individual alone."
~ H.L. Mencken ~
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"Evil triumphs when good men do nothing." -Sir Edmund Burke