National Chairman's Letter

Baldwin & IAP Platform

October 2004

Dear Independent American friends,

In my last Chairman's Letter I focused on Michael A. Peroutka, our presidential endorsee, and compared statements made by him (gleaned from his web site) with the twelve major section headings of our IAP National Platform. Now I would like to do the same with Chuck Baldwin, our Vice Presidential endorsee, with statements gleaned from his web site. Peroutka and Baldwin are the presidential and vice presidential nominees of the Constitution Party.

1. Mr. Baldwin on Christian Heritage: "Our Founding Fathers said that we were created by God and that we were created with certain unalienable rights. My friends, it was the Founding Fathers that brought God into the "rights" proposition. You do not have intrinsic rights and freedoms except that there is a God in heaven that gave them to you! God, not government is the Grantor and Guarantor of freedoms and liberties. Our Founding Fathers recognized that freedoms come from God. These, then, are moral issues."

2. Mr. Baldwin on Family: "My friends, the future of the American nation is at stake here. I repeat, there has never been a nation in human history that once having adopted moral perversion as a normal, legitimate, alternate lifestyle that has survived. There have been nations throughout history that have adopted the sodomite lifestyle into the normal mainstream of that society and in every instance that nation has not survived! They have gone to the ash heap of destruction."

3. Mr. Baldwin on Citizenship: "The real responsibility rests with the American people, however. Ultimately we have the nation that "we the people" tolerate. Do we regard fundamental liberty as relative to the amiability of one's beliefs? Are historic truths now situational to politically correct thinking? Have we traded a nation of law for a nation of opinion polls? Are we willing to sit passively by when tyrannical practices are committed against our neighbors thinking someone will later come to our defense? How much do liberty and the eternal principles laid down in the Declaration of Independence really mean to us?"

4. Mr. Baldwin on Unalienable Rights (~ specifically Life): "Our responsibility to God recognizes the preciousness and sanctity of human life. And those who are the weakest among us, those who are the most vulnerable among us deserve the strongest support. What is weaker than an unborn child? It's a history in the American culture that we protect the women, children, and the aged. It is the job of the strong to protect those that are weak. That is a Biblical tradition. That's a tradition that we historically recognized."

5. Mr. Baldwin on Education: "Today you are being asked to validate the demands of those who would seek to plunge our classrooms into the abyss of secularism. In the name of tolerance and respect left-wing ideologies want to censure any semblance of Christian influence from our schools. Using the mythical separation of church and state (which appears in no official document of our nation) and [like] an eager School Superintendent they are asking you to implement Guidelines which will, in effect, put the finish nails in the coffin of public education."

6. Mr. Baldwin on Economy : (No specific material was found on this topic.)

7. Mr. Baldwin on Society (~ specifically Crime): "The increase in crime has nothing to do with the accessibility of firearms! The problem is liberalism! It started when liberal lawyers and judges removed God from our nation's public schools. Liberal educators who advance amoral ethics exacerbate the problem. Liberal clergymen deny God's word and liberal businessmen finance liberal politicians who are engaged in the biggest take away of God-given freedoms in modern history."

8. Mr. Baldwin on Natural Resources: (No specific material was found on this topic.)

9. Mr. Baldwin on U.S. Constitution: "You see, what difference does it make who wins a presidential or congressional election if neither party will faithfully discharge their duty to the U.S. Constitution? We have seen Republican and Democratic presidents come and go. The same goes for congressmen and senators. Yet, government continues to get bigger and bigger, while freedom gets smaller and smaller. Neither has either major party done anything to reverse the trend toward socialism and globalism."

10. Mr. Baldwin on Government: "Let's not forget that when government becomes your benefactor it also becomes your master. More government means less freedom. Everything government gives on the one hand it takes away on the other hand. Freedom means unlimited opportunity. We don't want the government to give us a handout. All we want is for government to get out of our way. All we want is just the opportunity to live our lives freely under God. That's what the Founding Fathers intended. The opportunity that freedom has afforded us in this great country is astonishing. By the way, it's why the world wants to come to America."

11. Mr. Baldwin on Defense: (No timely material was found on this topic.)

12. Mr. Baldwin on U.S. Sovereignty: "It has always been Satan's intention to unify the nations of the world into one government under his evil control. When the anti-Christ comes during the Tribulation period he's going to come as a great unifier of nations. The global government that we hear so much about today will be fulfilled under the reign of the anti-Christ. Globalism is as much the working of Satan today as it was during his attempt to unite the world with the tower of Babel thousands of years ago."

Mr. Baldwin seems generally in line with our IAP beliefs. I invite you to go to his web site at www.ChuckBaldwinLive.com for his full statements and to view our IAP National Platform at www.usiap.org/Beliefs/Platform.html .

Please consider voting for all our endorsed candidates, some who are IAP candidates on other party tickets, shown on our Candidates page at www.usiap.org/Candidates/CandidatesIndex.html .

For God, Family and Country!

Bruce Bangerter
IAP National Chairman