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A project of USA Political Action
This is what I stand for:
- The first three words of the Declaration of Independence - "We the people" - have been forgotten and/or ignored by the government for too long.
- The three inalienable rights promulgated in the Declaration of Independence - Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness - have been repeatedly and consistently chipped away by the government for too long.
- The United States Constitution is the supreme law of the land. Any rule or law that seeks to override or undermine the Constitution is an attempt to overthrow the authority of the Constitution, and therefore both unconstitutional, and null and void; and can be considered - and prosecuted as - an act of treason.
- A crime occurs when someone initiates the use of force against another person. IF THERE IS NO VICTIM, THERE IS NO CRIME - and if there is no crime, outlawing an activity is a criminal act - by the government - against the people.
- Without individual responsibility, society cannot survive: Unless each and every person assumes responsibility for their own actions, they are attempting to foist the burden of their errors on the surrounding populace - which is, in fact, a crime against society. Likewise, society can not and must not attempt to assume responsibility for those who refuse to carry the weight of protecting their own rights and maintaining their own existence.
Some of the things I plan to change:
- SPAM has become an excessive burden on Internet mail users, requiring
hundreds of millions of man-hours per year to deal with it. To combat
the problem, I plan to:
- criminalize mail header forgery, if used to disguise where the SPAM actually originated, specifically as identity theft.
- impose trade sanctions against countries that harbor spammers, including Internet blockage, if necessary.
- introduce legislation enabling SPAM recipients to sue spammers for their lost time, with exponentially increasing settlement amounts for repeat offenders.
- The right of the people to peaceably assemble shall not be abridged - which means police MAY NOT break up a peaceful, quiet private party of adults - even if it is 4 o'clock in the morning.
- Prior restraint is a fundamentally flawed concept,
and cannot be the basis of any law or government action: If a person
can be punished before they have committed a crime, we have to
outlaw table knives - because someone might use one to stab the person
next to them; we have to outlaw chairs - because someone might pick one
up and club the person next to them; in fact, we have to outlaw society
itself - because the only time a crime occurs is in the course of human
interaction, and the only way to effectively eliminate any
chance of a crime occurring is to prevent people from meeting or
speaking to each other.
Since the concept of prior restraint is so readily demonstrable as being fundamentally flawed, any law based on it is fundamentally flawed and must be immediately rescinded. - The right to travel in public without question in the peaceful conduct of your own affairs when you are not intruding on the rights of others is such a FUNDAMENTAL part of freedom that any nation where that right is compromised cannot be called a free country. The founding fathers of the United States of America undoubtedly considered this RIGHT to be such an obvious necessity that it was not explicitly listed in the Constitution or Bill of Rights. As a consequence, the Right to Travel has been being eroded by governments at nearly every level in this country. Recognition of Right to Travel MUST be restored, by amendment of the Constitution, if necessary.
- Any government - including the United States Federal government - MUST work within a balanced budget, or it is looting the economy of the governed, a process which will inevitably result in economic collapse. The Federal government MUST cut spending, raise taxes, or both, to balance its budget to prevent the economic disaster toward which it is currently leading the country.
- There's one simple change that will turn the U.S. Post Office into a profitable operation and simultaneously allow postage rates to decrease: Charge U.S. postage for all mail received from overseas. There is no reason why American merchants should be subsidizing delivery of their foreign competitors' goods, especially when that cost causes the economic disadvantage it does now. If the Post Office is going to deliver mail, it has to charge the same rates for every piece of mail, no matter where it came from!
- At present, there is no way for "We the People" to amend the United States Constitution without legislative approval. I intend to seek a Constitutional amendment which will enable a direct popular vote to amend the Constitution without any government intervention.
A few of my opinions:
- Given its horrendous track record with regards to civil liberties, China should NOT have a "favored trading partner" status: In fact, any trade with China should have tax burdens imposed.
- "Revenue enhancement" is nothing more than ROBBERY, and any government or agency involved in such activities is open to criminal prosecution.
- America is an English-speaking country. If you want to live and work here, learn the language: Don't expect everyone around you to learn yours so you can converse with them; do NOT even consider attempting to force them to hire a translator to understand what you think you need to say.
- Consenting adults should be allowed to do amongst themselves what the consenting adults consent to, as long as they're not intruding on the rights of others not directly involved with their consentual activity.
- Suicide is NOT a crime unless it is attempted or done in a manner that is intended to injure others: A crime doesn't occur unless force is initiated against another person, something a "peaceful" suicide does not do.
- Marijuana is a less dangerous drug than is alcohol, and should have lesser penalties imposed for its possession and use: When was the last time you heard of some guy getting high and going home to beat up his old lady? It doesn't happen!! Can the same thing be said about the actions of a drunk?
My political philosophy:
In 2000, while reading a science fiction magazine, I came across a piece in which Dr. Jerry Pournelle presented his view of the political spectrum - a plane, rather than the simplistic left-right linear scale most frequenly cited. His diagram, a version of which is shown at right, is described in a manner remarkably like what I remember reading on a page entitled The Pournelle Political Axes.
Quoting Dr. Pournelle from that page:
Some years ago I set out to replace the old model with one that made more sense. I studied a number of political philosophies and tried to see what underlying concepts separated them from their political enemies. Eventually I came up with two variables. ... my two have this property: they map every major political philosophy and movement onto one unique place.
The two I chose are "Attitude toward the State," and "Attitude toward planned social progress".
The first is easy to understand: what think you of government? Is it an object of idolatry, a positive good, necessary evil, or unmitigated evil? Obviously that forms a spectrum, with various anarchists at the left end and reactionary monarchists at the right. The American political parties tend to fall toward the middle.
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That variable works; but it doesn't pull all the political theories each into a unique place. They overlap. Which means we need another variable.
"Attitude toward planned social progress" can be translated "rationalism"; it is the belief that society has "problems," and these can be "solved"; we can take arms against a sea of troubles.
Given this planar view of the political landscape, it's easy to identify where my philosophy falls: The upper left corner can be called "Rational Anarchy" - the best form of government is no government, but that can only work if everyone thinks about what they are doing, assumes responsibility for their own actions, support of their own existence, and defense of their rights, and takes care to avoid intruding on the rights of others.
Obviously, expecting the world to actually work like that would be a seriously flawed presumption: Everyone, to some degree or another, falls short of those ideals. How much government is required to make society work is a measure of how far from the mark the "average" person falls.
I would like to live in a world where governments are unnecessary, and therefore don't exist. However, since that isn't possible, I believe that government should be kept to the minimum required to realize a peaceful, healthy and growing society.
In his editorial remarks on the above-cited page, Jim Baen notes:
one can define "reasonable" as any position no farther from 3/3' than one's own: those farther out in one's own quadrant are pleasantly dotty; those farther out in another, unpleasantly so . . .
I also remember a similar postulate put forth stating that one's tolerance of other political opinions can be measured by the distance between one's own map position and that of the "other" party: The closer you are to the center of the diagram, the lower your acceptance of other views as being valid ideologies, and vice versa. Where Democrats and Republicans are nearly on top of each other in the center of the scale, neither party is willing to accept other views of the world. Being in one of the far corners, I can at least understand different opinions and where they are coming from, even when I vehemently disagree with them.
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