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Changes made to the

Independent American Party
National Platform

The following revisions were made to the National Platform of the Independent American Party by the National Committee, acting as the National Convention, during the National Committee business meeting held January 17, 2004 in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Changes were made to sections 8, 10 and 11 as follows:

 

8. NATURAL RESOURCES

Energy

We favor the development of safe and inexpensive alternative energy sources, such as wind, fuel cells and solar power. We support the prudent and efficient use of other natural resources such as coal, shale oil, oil sands, and agricultural products, for the production of power and synthetic fuels. We also support the private construction and use of nuclear energy facilities through free market enterprise.

 

10. GOVERNMENT

Function

We believe that to maintain freedom, our political institutions must be founded upon faith in nature's God and upon moral laws as declared and principles embodied in the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution for the United States, and the Bill of Rights. the Bill of Rights, and the Holy Scriptures. We believe that the function of government is to protect life, liberty, property, and the fundamental and God-given rights of the people, and that anything more than this is usurpation and oppression. We therefore favor believe it imperative to achieve a substantial reduction in government size and budget, budget at all levels except national defense. We also favor exposing and eliminating deem it imperative to expose and eliminate government promotion of all principles, policies and agendas that threaten our Constitution including Socialism, Marxism, Fascism, Nazism, and Secular Humanism.

We support a requirement that all government positions, agencies, activities, etc. be held fully accountable to moral and Constitutional law. We oppose sovereign immunity claims at the federal, state and local level that remove government and its agents from accountability. We advocate and promote the supervision of public servants by the people they are elected to represent.

Bureaucracy

We favor abolishing regional governments, run by appointed bureaucrats, that impose direct federal control on metropolitan areas and undermine state and local sovereignty. We favor the abolishment of all federal regulatory agencies that falsely assume unconstitutional federal agencies and entities which usurp legislative, executive and judicial powers. We advocate and promote the supervision of public servants by the people they are elected to represent.

States Rights

We assert that the Constitution guarantees all powers, not delegated to the federal government, belong to the states or the people. We maintain that additional federal powers are available only by Constitutional Amendment. It is self-evident that no state or local government can accept funds from the federal government and remain independent in performing their sovereign functions. We oppose intrusion of the federal government in areas that rightfully belong to the states. We favor abolishing federal control of all lands, except for necessary forts, military bases, post offices, etc. etc., as enumerated in, but limited by by, the Constitution. We support the return to the states of all lands unconstitutionally seized by the federal government, seized, acquired or controlled by the federal government (10th Amendment), and those taken unconstitutionally as tribute in order for that state to join the Union.

Elections

We support the right of every citizen to seek public office in accordance with the qualifications and principles set forth in the U.S. Constitution. We oppose unfair ballot access laws that favor the two major parties and discriminate two-party monopoly which discriminates against all other parties. We favor abolishing the Federal Election Commission, and support restoring control and verification of the electoral process at the state and local level. We oppose the use of tax money for financing political campaigns or political party activities. We favor abolishing the Federal Election Commission, and support restoring control and verification of the electoral process at the state and local level. We oppose any amendment to abolish the electoral college, which would destroy another of our checks and balances. We favor criminal prosecution for vote fraud and electronic manipulation of vote tallies.

 

11. DEFENSE

Readiness

We favor increasing our military defense budget, military defense budgets, technology capabilities, supplies, storage, and manpower sufficient to fight multiple wars against multiple enemies for several consecutive years. However, we We oppose any wasteful spending of military funds. We support the withdrawal from any treaty or program that restricts full development and deployment of an effective and strategic state-of-the-art defense system for land, sea, air, or space.

We support the promotion of well organized or regulated militias (the people), (the right of the people themselves to keep and bear arms) in every state and community, as a natural and needed defense against sudden and inevitable invasions, and against those who would overthrow or pervert our Constitution. We oppose all treasonous and consider as treason all efforts to disarm our citizenry of personal firearms, reduce our military budget, close military bases, disarm our missiles, and downsize and weaken America's defense forces, since these efforts weaken our readiness, and guarantee our defeat.

National Security

We are opposed to the current anti-terrorist legislation, the Office of Homeland Security, and the USA Patriot Act, legislation (the Office of Homeland Security and the USA Patriot Act), because of the loss of personal freedoms and civil rights, rights. the confiscation of personal firearms, We oppose the use of military forces in local and state matters, matters and the creation of a nationalized police state. We further oppose federal usurpation of state authority and local jurisdiction, sovereignty, and authority, and their control over the National Guard, creation of a nationalized police state, and requiring citizens to become spies on each other. Guard. We are opposed to destroying Constitutional checks and balances, destroying our Bill of Rights, or granting unconstitutional authority to the executive branch, Executive Branch, under the guise and pretense of offering greater national security.

We oppose the surrendering or committing of our military and firepower to the control of any international organization. E.g., a global police force. organization, for example, a global police force. We oppose allowing U.N. or foreign military forces over in our air space, in our harbors, or on American soil or territories. We oppose the establishment of foreign military bases in the United States.

We declare the Panama Canal giveaway as unconstitutional and illegal, and consider demand its return. it It is a risk to national security since both ends of the canal are now under the management of Red Chinese owned businesses. Red Chinese military presence. We favor tighter border controls, and enforcement of existing immigration laws. It is a Constitutional requirement that the federal government protect the states from foreign invasion, both military and immigrant.

 

Notes:

Changes to the Life subsection of the Unalienable Rights section were considered but not passed.

Changes to the Substance Abuse and Gambling subsection of the Society section were considered but not passed.

Changes to the Foreign Wars subsection of the Defense section were considered but not passed.