National Chairman's Letter

IAP Principles 5 thru 9

February 2005

Dear Independent American friends,

I wish to continue in this letter with quotes or commentary on our IAP national Principles. I will now touch on the middle five of the thirteen principles.

5. We affirm that the Constitution denies government the power to take from the individual either his life, liberty, or his property except by due process of law in accordance with moral law; that the same moral law which governs the actions of men when acting alone is also applicable when they act in concert with others.

Abortion has become America's means of birth control. It is our response to a breakdown in moral values. It is our echo to Hitler’s "Final Solution" for the unwanted. It is our exceedingly great national shame. A government that shuns the protection of human life, will ultimately eschew all of our rights.

There are two kinds of liberty: the enduring freedom that our Founding Fathers envisioned; and the short-term freedom that most libertarians have in mind. The first comes, not from the right to choose, but the making of right-choices. The second is wrought with negative consequences that ends with individual loss of life or liberty, or the captivity or destruction of a nation.

Americans today are in financial bondage. Our personal wealth is being eaten by high usury on personal loans, excessive taxation, and inflation. We are ravaged by an Internal Revenue Service, a system of fractional banking, and government forfeiture of property.

6. We are hereby resolved that under no circumstances shall the freedoms guaranteed by the Bill of Rights be infringed. We are opposed to any attempt to deny the people of their right to bear arms, to practice their religion, to worship and pray to God as they choose, and to own and control private property.

Jefferson said, "When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government."

Many agree that the U.S. Supreme Court twisted the intent and meaning of the First Amendment as a pretext for banning school prayers in the 1960s, followed by school bans on Bible study, posting of the Ten Commandments, nativity scenes by elementary schoolers, Christian songs in Christmas programs, high school graduation prayers, and maybe now the Pledge of Allegiance.

7. We are unalterably opposed to and regard it as an unconstitutional usurpation of power for government to own or control the means of producing and distributing goods and services in competition with private enterprise.

A century ago, Americans had the highest standard of living in the world. Under laissez faire we produced, with less than six percent of the earth's population, over half of the commodities in the world. We had no federal personal income tax and no Federal Reserve System. And the American people -- not government -- spurred our nation on to economic greatness.

John Maynard Keynes, a British Fabian economist, advocated the control of the means of production and the money and credit supply, rather than government ownership. Hitler and Mussolini showed that government doesn't "need" to own property if it controls it.

Thanks to government controls: In the United States unemployment, poverty and bankruptcies have skyrocketed. WTO, NAFTA and GATT treaties have reduced our economic self-sufficiency and independence. Two percent of the people control 90% of the wealth in America.

8. Article I Section 8 of the Constitution for the United States grants Congress the power "To coin money, regulate the value thereof, ...." That power to coin money has been illegally transferred to the Federal Reserve System which has established a money system based on debt and bondage. We call for the abolishment of the unconstitutional Federal Reserve System and a restoration of a debt-free money system in accordance with the Constitution for the United States.

The 5th plank of the Communist Manifesto calls for "Centralization of credit in the hands of the State, by means of a national bank with State capital and an exclusive monopoly". This was implemented by the insidious Federal Reserve Act of 1913.

Thomas Jefferson said: "If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their money, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks], will deprive the people of their property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered."

9. We believe that each state is sovereign in performing those functions reserved to it by the U.S. Constitution and it is a usurpation of power for the Federal Government to regulate or control the states in performing their functions.

The Tenth or States' Rights Amendment in the Bill of Rights reads: "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."

Thomas Jefferson said: "I ask for no straining of words against the general government, nor yet against the states. I believe the states can best govern our home concerns and the general government our foreign ones. I wish, therefore, to see maintained that wholesome distribution of powers established by the Constitution for the limitation of both; and never to see all offices transferred to Washington."

For God, Family and Country!

Bruce Bangerter
IAP National Chairman