National Platform
of the
Independent American Party

(Adopted by National Committee 3 August 2002; revised 18 January 2003, 2 August 2003, 17 January 2004, 17 July 2004, 16 April 2005 and

8 October 2005)

INTRODUCTION

We, Independent Americans of the United States, out of great love for God, our families, our country and Constitution, do proclaim:

1.  [Christian Heritage]  We believe that Jesus Christ is the God of this land; that we are fundamentally a Christian nation; and that only by faith in and obedience to God shall we be preserved as a great nation.

2.  [Family]  We believe that families are the fundamental building blocks of a moral society; that traditional family values are the strength of our nation; and that Christian principles are the key to strong homes in America.

3.  [Citizenship]  We believe that patriotism, civic duty and good character are essential to personal liberty and responsibility in America.

4.  [Unalienable Rights]  We believe that God has endowed men with certain unalienable rights, such as life, liberty and property; that these rights are guaranteed by the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution; and that it is the function of government to protect these rights.

5.  [Education]  We believe that Christian principles originally were the foundation of our educational system; and that they should again be made the center of American education.

6.  [Economy]  We believe that "free enterprise" is the best economic system for America; that taxation should be limited to those methods provided for in the original Constitution; and that our nation must return to a debt-free monetary system in accordance with the Constitution.

7.  [Society]  We believe that government has no Constitutional authority to convert to socialism; that state and local governments have the right and moral obligation to discourage drug and alcohol use and gambling in their jurisdictions; and that the safety of law-abiding citizens must take precedence over the rights of criminals.

8.  [Natural Resources]  We believe protection of the environment should be a state responsibility; that there must be a dynamic balance between energy development and conservation; and that there are safe and inexpensive alternative energy sources that should be developed.

9.  [U.S. Constitution]  We believe that the Constitution for the United States was prepared and adopted by men under inspiration from Almighty God; that it is a solemn compact created by the people of the states of this nation; and that it was made only for a moral and religious people.

10.  [Government]  We believe that the sole function of government is to protect life, liberty and property; that the federal government is an agent of the states and the people; and that each state is sovereign in performing those functions reserved to it by the U.S. Constitution.

11. [Defense] We believe that a strong defense establishment is essential to the preservation of our nation; that America must not commit its military to any international organization; and that no foreign military bases should be allowed on American soil.

12. [U.S. Sovereignty] We believe that a sovereign America is necessary for us to maintain our freedom and way of life; that we must withdraw from all international agreements that diminish our sovereignty; and that we must resist all efforts to draw us into a global government.

We claim that our Christian heritage, the traditional family, patriotism, and our unalienable rights are under attack; that our educational, economic and social institutions, and use of natural resources, have been perverted by those who would destroy our way of life; and that our Constitution, republican form of government, national security, and national sovereignty are hanging by a thread.

We declare that the Independent American Party is the only political institution that embraces the principles necessary for the restoration of our traditional way of life. We, therefore, present this Platform as a guideline to our beliefs and strategies for preserving our nation and our freedom, for ourselves and for our posterity.

PREAMBLE

We affirm that the foundations of our country were spiritual: We testify that the Constitution for the United States of America was established as an inspired ensign and standard of liberty for all. It is the only constitution based foremost upon the rights and liberties of a free and independent people. Our God-given rights are superior to government, placing government as the servant of the people and not their master. We revere the founding documents of America, honor the men who framed them, and ascribe all honor and glory to the God who inspired them. We claim, second to worshiping God, that our greatest responsibility as Americans is vigilance in protecting our God-given Constitution and rights, both for ourselves and our posterity.

We assert that we are in a Constitutional crisis. The major provisions of the Constitution are being compromised and our God-given rights are being intruded upon or eliminated at an alarming rate. The original intent of our educational, economic, social, and political institutions are becoming perverted. The rights and nature of our national sovereignty, Judeo-Christian heritage, and traditional family values are under attack. We solemnly declare that our Constitution, liberties, and national sovereignty currently hang by a thread. We assert that institutionalized corruption and the loss of our rights and liberties are unconstitutional, unacceptable and inexcusable.

The Founding Fathers established this nation as a Constitutional Republic, not a democracy. We claim that our Constitutional Republic can still be fully restored by lawful means, but only to the extent that "We The People" stand united and vigilant, in the cause of freedom.

"The people [not government]... are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty." – Thomas Jefferson

Purpose of the Independent American Party

• To uphold and revere our Constitution in the tradition of our Founding Fathers as the only and supreme law of this land.
• To restore our Constitutional Republic, restore Constitutional Law, and restore all rights, liberties, and properties rightfully belonging to the people and to the states.
• To identify and reverse legislation, case law, regulations, and treaties, etc., that are unconstitutional or an offense to God and our Founding Fathers.
• To permanently restore American sovereignty and independence from foreign entanglements, and mandates.
• To return the control of government back to the people as intended.
• To greatly minimize taxes, and to limit the size, power, and function of government to the intended constraints established within the original Constitution and Bill of Rights.
• To advance the principles of freedom, patriotism, and traditional family values.
• To preserve and honor our Judeo-Christian heritage, and the rights of all religions.
• To identify and defeat all efforts to undermine and overthrow the Constitution.
• To achieve at all levels in government, superior ethics, integrity and accountability.
• To restore fair and responsible redress of grievances, as allowed in the Constitution.
• To unite the independent votes, the silent majority, grassroots organizations, and other patriots and lovers of liberty under one umbrella, while keeping our separate identities, standing united as sovereign people.

1.  CHRISTIAN HERITAGE

God

We honor and recognize the Creator as the giver of our rights and liberties (Declaration of Independence). We believe that to maintain freedom, our political institutions must be founded upon faith in God and upon moral law. (John Adams, Thomas Jefferson)

We believe that religion is basic to good government. We believe in keeping religion in government, while keeping government out of religion.

We affirm that the Constitution makes no reference to "separation of church and state." We support the original meaning and intent of Jefferson's separation of church and state, which prohibits the government from establishing a national religion (e.g., Church of the U.S.), and prohibits government intrusion into religion. We maintain that government has violated both intents by its nationwide promotion of Secular Humanism (declared by court decree as a religion), and by court decisions which limit the free exercise of religion.

We fully support the first official Presidential Proclamation issued in the United States: "...it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will... that we may unite in most humbly offering our prayers and supplications to the great Lord and Ruler of Nations... [and] to promote the knowledge and practice of true religion and virtue..." (George Washington, October 3, 1789).

Christian Nation

We acknowledge that America is historically and demographically a Christian nation tolerant of all religions. We hold that deeming our Constitution as a Christian and religious document is the strongest defense in preserving all God-given and Constitutional rights, and the rights of all religions.

We believe the First Amendment protects the right to publicly acknowledge God, pray, read the Bible, display the Ten Commandments, etc. in all public buildings, and to freely exercise our various religions, without government interference.

We recognize the Bible (America's first school textbook) as the primary source of principles upon which our laws and Constitution are founded.

We fully support our national motto "IN GOD WE TRUST" and oppose any efforts to remove it from our coins and currency. We oppose removing the name God, or references to Him, from buildings, songs, historical documents, or from the Pledge of Allegiance.

Paganism

We oppose Secular Humanism, paganism and Satan worship, not in terms of freedom of speech, nor as an attack on religious beliefs, but in terms of the ultimate negative impact upon families, communities, the survival of our Nation, and the erosion of those principles and values which have made this Country great.

2.  FAMILY

Traditional Family

We recognize that the traditional family unit, not the government, is best suited to promote character development, the advancement of morality, education, integrity, honor, personal responsibility, patriotism, citizenship, service, respect and tolerance for differences in religion, race, and culture.

We recognize that marriage is meant to be a sacred and lawful union of one man and one woman. We encourage laws which strengthen and support the traditional family and its values. We support the parents' fundamental right and responsibility to nurture, educate, and discipline their children. We affirm the rights and duties of families in the care of their elderly and disabled members. Assumption of any of these responsibilities by any government agency usurps the fundamental rights of families.

We oppose the intrusion into the family by any government agency unless absolutely necessary to protect children or adults from truly abusive situations. Even in these situations, the due process of law must be accorded all parties involved. We maintain that there should be no presumption of guilt based on "anonymous" tips, and that those accused must have their Constitutional right honored to face their accusers in a court of law. The regulation of child care is not a legitimate function of government, but is an unconstitutional intrusion into the private affairs of American families.

Morality

We favor voluntary promotion of moral values in the entertainment media, including the Internet, television, radio, music, motion pictures, reading material, and the arts. We favor the promotion, by schools, the media and clergy, of abstinence from non-marital sex.

We oppose homosexuality, same-sex marriages, sexual exploitation of children, fornication, incest, beastiality, sodomy, adultery, pornography, etc., and deem them threats to traditional family values and as abominations to the Creator.

We see perversion and immorality as the primary cause behind the fall of all great nations. We maintain that people engaging in acts of homosexuality have no special legal rights or privileges, and those living in such relationships have no legal familial rights or privileges, such as adoption of children and legitimacy of marriage.

We support legislation that protects the family from mounting influences which weaken the family unit. While respecting individual rights and agency, we oppose legitimizing immorality. Neither Congress nor the federal courts should infringe upon the rights of state and local governments to enact constitutional laws restricting public obscenity, pornography, and illicit sex acts, especially prostitution and homosexuality.

3.  CITIZENSHIP

Patriotism

We consider patriotism as a manifestation of how we express our love for this great country and each other; its ideals and potentials in protecting and preserving our Constitution, freedom, and all other fundamental rights and heritage for our family and posterity.

We maintain that the need and urgency for active patriotism on a national scale are even greater today than in the battle for our rights, freedoms, and independence from Great Britain, or in any war since then.

We advocate involvement by each citizen to protect our heritage, the Bill of Rights, the Constitution, and our national sovereignty and independence which are each under severe legislative and political attack. (With today's escalation in government tyranny, we are less free, more heavily taxed, and governed worse than our ancestors while under British rule.)

We affirm that patriotism does not mean blind submission to government, but rather vigilant action in the preservation and perpetuation of our rights and liberties against government infringement, and against those in or out of government attempting to pervert or overthrow our Constitution and national independence.

Since the American flag is the symbol of our freedom and the sacrifice of countless Americans, we strongly oppose any desecration of the flag.

Civic Duty

We favor community service, civic and political involvement, and an understanding of the Constitution.

We consider it the duty of every American to inform self and others of the domestic enemies to freedom, to sound the alert, and to stand up for America while freedom can still be preserved.

We maintain that it is the civic duty of all Americans to be vocal and vigilant in returning the size and powers of the federal government to the limits of the Constitution, and in restoring all rights and powers belonging to the states and to the people.

We favor informed and responsible voting. We also hold that continuing to vote the status quo will perpetuate the same corruption, advance the overthrow of our Constitution, and guarantee the surrender of all rights, liberties and national independence to the tyranny and despotism of the U.N. and the controls of economic globalists in any new world order.

We assert that it is our patriotic and protected civic duty, when the government becomes destructive of our rights and liberties, to alter or replace that form of government by Constitutional means.

4.  UNALIENABLE RIGHTS

Life

We advocate the security and protection of all human life, including the unborn, disabled, infirm, and aged. We affirm that life begins in the womb and not at the point of delivery, and that the fetus is a human being with the same unalienable rights as all mankind. We are opposed to abortion with rare exceptions. We are opposed to partial-birth abortion, which is clearly infanticide. We oppose cloning of human life. We oppose the distribution and use of all abortion-type pharmaceuticals.

The paramount responsibility of our government is to protect the life and all other rights of each person within its jurisdiction. We oppose government funding and support, at any level, of any organization or entity, foreign or domestic, which advocates, encourages or participates in the practice of abortion.

Liberty

We claim the inherent and individual right to keep and bear arms, as guaranteed by the 2nd Amendment, is fundamental to safeguard life, liberty, and property, to discourage and defend against tyranny, and to preserve the security and independence of person, state and nation.

We support the religious liberties of all people and of all religious persuasions. We support the rights of private organizations to determine their own membership, volunteers, and employment based on their oaths and creeds.

We oppose legislation that allows the federal government to suspend our God-given Rights or that prevents the people from suing government agents for violating citizens' civil or fundamental rights during times of war, national disasters, national emergencies, or declarations of martial law, etc. We oppose the 1933 War Powers and Emergencies Act for its attempt to suspend the Constitution.

Property

We deem it a violation of the right of private property guaranteed under the Constitution for government to forcibly deprive citizens of their property through taxation or otherwise.

We assert that our 5th Amendment property rights limit the federal power of an eminent domain solely to the purchase of private property at fair market value for legitimate public use, and not for purposes such as urban renewal, environmental protection, or historic preservation.

We maintain that government must be strictly limited in its powers to intrude upon the private property of individual citizens, and that there be no search or seizure of persons, places or things without due process of law.

5.  EDUCATION

Values

We favor the advancement of patriotism, vigilance, allegiance, and an awareness of the duties, rights and privileges of citizenship, along with the rights and limitations of government. We favor promoting awareness and understanding of current political threats to our Constitution, national sovereignty and independence, and to our personal rights and freedoms.

We believe that our educational institutions must be founded upon faith in God and upon moral law, and a respect for all religions without advancing or suppressing any. We urge the elimination from our schools of Secular Humanism, which undermines faith in God, religious loyalties and family values, and attempts to eradicate all concepts of right and wrong by claiming there is no God to account to. We favor teaching abstinence from all sexual activity outside the bonds of marriage.

Stewardship

We assert that parents have the fundamental right to choose the type and location of school they deem best for their children. We maintain that parents have the right to inspect or challenge school policy, textbooks, subject matter, and privacy-invading surveys, etc. We encourage parents to take a more active part in their children's education.

We maintain that education is a parental and local responsibility. We support local determination of education standards, curriculum, textbooks, library books, and election of education leaders.

We assert that there are no provisions for federal or international involvement in schooling or education found in the Constitution. We favor abolishment of all federal and U.N. education programs that have a mandatory effect in the United States, and any organizations which usurp parental or local control, and favor the repeal of all legislation for such. We therefore call for the abolishment of the U.S. Department of Education.

Nongovernment Schools

We maintain that returning the control and financing of education to localities and families, and opening the system to choice and competition, are the only viable options to guarantee the freedom and upward mobility of our students. We encourage participation in home schools, private or religious schools, charter schools, and public-private partnership schools.

We support English as the official national language, and favor nonfederal funding of bilingual tutors to assist as needed. We favor eliminating from the school curricula all grants, controls, mandates or agendas sponsored or promoted by national or global organizations.

6.  ECONOMY

Free Enterprise

We favor terminating government competition with free enterprise, including government ownership, subsidy, bailout, and direct control of businesses. We support divesting the government of its commercial enterprises, and selling them to competitive, American owned private businesses. We oppose governmental wage and price controls because they interfere with free enterprise and market-driven competition. We oppose agricultural and business subsidy programs as both unconstitutional and unnecessary.

We maintain that no services, essential to public need, should be jeopardized by strike or collective bargaining. We favor the elimination of OSHA, which has acted as judge, jury, and prosecutor in violation of the Bill of Rights. We deem their guidelines as advisory only for employers and insurance companies. We favor Right-to-Work laws.

Taxation

We maintain that there is an urgent need for substantial tax reforms that would eliminate income, property and estate taxes, and taxes on necessities to lighten tax payer burdens and curb wasteful government spending. For example, we oppose the use of tax dollars to finance art, literature, speech or actions. We support the elimination of the National Endowment for the Arts.

We maintain that the Internal Revenue Service has used its powers arbitrarily, punitively and tyrannically to harass and sometimes devastate honest tax payers. We favor eliminating the IRS and repealing the 16th Amendment, thus restoring the original Constitutional scope and intent of taxation.

Money and Banking

We affirm that the Federal Reserve is a private business, owned primarily by international bankers, operating under the deception of a government entity, which annually extorts, for their personal use, hundreds of billions of dollars in interest on the national debt from the American public with government cooperation.

We believe the power to issue money should be taken from the Federal Reserve (and its banks) and restored to Congress and the people to whom that power rightfully belongs. We favor a total reform of the banking and credit card industry which currently exploits from us an average of 26% of our lifetime earnings in usury or interest.

We favor the repeal of the National Bank Act (Federal Reserve Act), and favor the seizure and audit of the Federal Reserve System, the outlawing of fractional reserve banking, and disavowal of Federal Reserve claims upon us and our properties for the national debt.

We favor investigation into and prosecution of all American banks, corporations, and their owners, etc., who participate in unconstitutional and treasonous activities via a global economic system.

(Proposed addition)

The Constitutional meaning of money - Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution:  "The Congress shall have Power...

To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures;"

Coined money holds INTRINSIC VALUE.  Paper money does not.  It can be devalued.  Much can be said about our dollar.

 

7.  SOCIETY

Vigilance

Thomas Jefferson stated: "The people [not government] ... are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty."

We maintain that every citizen now has an elevated responsibility to become more aware of the threats to -- and to be more personally involved in the preservation of -- our God-given rights and freedom. We oppose any government control over personal vigilance and patriotism.

Entitlement Programs

We maintain that there is no Constitutional authority for federal entitlement programs. We deem these programs as needlessly expensive, ineffective, riddled with fraud and corruption; these serve only to advance socialism. We assert that the responsibility for personal welfare should be assumed first by the individual and family, then by church and other charitable organizations.

While the federal government must honor its commitment to those who have paid into Social Security, health care or welfare, we favor the voluntary participation only, and a gradual phaseout of those systems.

We favor free enterprise and competition between practitioners and health care providers. We support the people's right to choose any modality of health care.

Substance Abuse and Gambling

We recognize that alcohol, drugs and gambling are among the chief causes of broken homes, poverty, juvenile crime, political corruption, and wasted lives.

We favor only state and local legislation which provides stronger deterrents against committing crimes under the influence of alcohol or illegal drugs.

We consider gambling as a threat to the financial stability of the home. We oppose government sponsorship, involvement in, or promotion of gambling, e.g., lotteries, or subsidization of tribal casinos, etc.

Crime

We hold that the safety of law-abiding citizens, and the preservation of their properties are fundamental God-given rights, which take precedence over the rights of criminals.

We support only Constitutional provisions for the apprehension, speedy trial, and fitting punishment for criminal acts. We favor criminals being required to perform useful work to defray the costs of their imprisonment, and, where possible, to provide restitution to their victims. We favor capital punishment when appropriate.

We support the independence of local law enforcement from federal intrusion and control. We oppose federalization of crimes which fall under state jurisdiction. We recognize the sheriff as the ultimate authority of law enforcement for each county.

8.  NATURAL RESOURCES

Environment

We favor the dynamic balance between development and conservation. We assert that areas mined or explored should be restored to their original condition or better. We favor the preservation of our forests by replanting, healthy management, and the use and development of alternative materials.

We deem protection of the environment as a function and responsibility falling under state jurisdiction, rather than national or global organizations. Therefore, we favor the elimination of the Environmental Protection Agency, the Wilderness Act, the federal Endangered Species Act, federal wetland legislation, and all federal government and international interference in state environmental and land matters.

We oppose federal ownership or management of any properties not specified in the Constitution. We also call for the repeal of all executive orders and treaties allowing U.N. control or governance over U.S. land and 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.

We favor abolishing the wasteful and unconstitutional U.S. Department of Energy. We favor the following: Advancement of technologies that would decrease air pollution; incentives for scientific advancement, rather than pollution penalties imposed upon the technology-dependent public; decreasing the demand on foreign oil, through the use of our own reservoirs, capped wells, and sources yet untapped; and state and local incentives to advance alternatives superior to oil and gas.

9.  U.S. CONSTITUTION

Inspired Document

We believe that the Constitution for the United States was prepared and adopted by men under inspiration from Almighty God. We believe it is a solemn compact created by the people of the states of this nation, which all officers of government, at all levels, are duty-bound by oath to protect and defend. We believe that the separation of the Legislative, Executive and Judicial branches must be restored and remain well defined. We believe that concentration of power into one branch will destroy the Constitution and human liberties.

We recognize the Constitution, not the government, as the supreme law of the land designed specifically to assist the people in ruling and restricting the government. We reaffirm that the Founders established a representative Constitutional Republic, not a democracy, believing in the rule of law as the best protection of God-given rights against infringement by the rule of man or majority will.

Branches of Government

We consider all laws that delegate legislative authority to regulatory agencies, and other organizations or branches of government, as unconstitutional. We favor repeal of the 17th Amendment that destroyed one of our checks and balances, by transferring the election of senators from the state legislatures to the populace. We oppose congressional legislation in matters rightfully falling under state jurisdiction.

We favor voiding all executive orders that conflict with the Constitution or represent abuse of power. We favor the repeal of the so-called USA Patriot Act, Homeland Security Act, and other legislation, that in any way represents an attack upon state's rights, the Bill of Rights, or the U.S. Constitution.

We favor limiting the courts to their proper function of adjudication. We oppose the widespread illegal practice of judicial legislation. We favor Congress utilizing its authority (Article III, section 2) to prohibit the courts from hearing cases it deems outside the scope of federal jurisdiction.

Bill of Rights

We hold that all rights are God-given and intended as inseparable from the people. We therefore demand the restoration of all rights guaranteed by the Bill of Rights, which have been trampled upon unconstitutionally by government; such as the right to school prayer, Bible study in schools, public posting of the Ten Commandments, private ownership of guns, protection of life for the unborn, and all other rights belonging to the states and to the people.

Constitutional Convention

We oppose any attempts for a Constitutional Convention (or Con-Con) for any reason, because of the potential to rewrite the entire Constitution by less than inspired men. We are opposed to any Conference of States that may be used as a veiled Constitutional convention.

10.  GOVERNMENT

Function

We believe that to maintain freedom, our political institutions must be founded upon faith in God and upon moral laws and principles embodied in the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution for the United States, 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 believe it imperative to achieve a substantial reduction in government size and budget at all levels while maintaining a strong and efficient national defense. We also 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.

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 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 governments 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., as enumerated in, but limited by, the Constitution. We support the return to the states of all lands unconstitutionally seized, acquired or controlled by the federal government (10th Amendment), and those taken unconstitutionally as tribute 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-party monopoly which discriminates against all other parties. 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

War and Conflicts

The Constitution—the supreme law of the land—requires a Congressional declaration in order to make war. We maintain that without proper justification to Congress, U.S. forces should not be engaged in conflict unless our nation or its citizens are in danger.

It is unconstitutional for U.S. military and law enforcement members to serve under the command of the United Nations or any other foreign entity. We honor the right of our military and law enforcement personnel to refuse any order or command that conflicts with their sworn oath and duty to protect and defend the Constitution.

We say with John Quincy Adams: "[We go] not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. [We are] the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. [We are] the champion and vindicator only of [our] own."

Our Troops

We love, honor, sustain and pray for our troops in all branches who are called upon to put their lives at risk or pay the ultimate price in the service of our country.

While asserting that our able-bodied men will voluntarily come to the aid of our country to protect her people and her liberties, or her allies, or her legitimate interests overseas, we oppose the draft for three reasons: (1) Conscription runs contrary to being a citizen of a free country. (2) Those who have access to the "right" connections are able to evade or otherwise receive preferential treatment with regard to duty. (3) For decades the draft has been abused and American lives sacrificed to accomplish U.N. and globalist agendas rather than to establish true freedom.

Readiness

We favor military defense budgets, technology capabilities, supplies, storage, and manpower sufficient to fight multiple wars against multiple enemies for several consecutive years. 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 oppose any wasteful spending of military funds, and the spending of those funds without a fair and open bidding process.

The militia of the United States of America is defined as "The People" by the Founding Fathers. We support the promotion of a well organized and regulated militia in every state and community. A well organized and regulated militia is a natural and needed defense against sudden invasion by those individuals who would seek to overthrow our nation or pervert our Constitution. The 2nd Amendment guarantees the right of each individual to keep and bear arms. We oppose and consider as treason all efforts to regulate the use of personal firearms or disarm our citizenry. We oppose the closure of needed military bases, disarmament of missiles and downsizing of America's defense forces.

National Security

We are opposed to anti-terrorist legislation which has resulted in the loss of personal freedom and civil rights, such as Homeland Security and the USA Patriot Acts. We oppose the use of military forces in local and state matters and the creation of a nationalized police state. We further oppose usurpation of authority by any federal agency with respect to the Posse-Comitatus Act regarding state and local jurisdiction, sovereignty, authority, and control over the National Guard. We are opposed to destroying Constitutional checks and balances, destroying our Bill of Rights, or granting unconstitutional authority to the Executive Branch, under the guise and pretense of offering greater national security.

We oppose the surrendering or committing of our military to the control of any international organization, for example, a global police force. We oppose allowing U.N. or foreign military forces 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 demand its return. It is a risk to national security since both ends of the canal are now under Red Chinese military presence. It is a Constitutional requirement that the federal government protect the states from foreign invasion, both military and immigrant.

12.  U.S. SOVEREIGNTY

Sovereign America

We maintain that true sovereignty lies in the people themselves as the ultimate source and grantor of government authority. We recognize the states and the people as the true sovereigns over the federal government, holding all powers, rights, and authorities not granted to the federal government by the Constitution. The 10th Amendment mandates that the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial branches of government are subservient to the states and to the people.

We say with Abraham Lincoln: "We the people are the rightful masters of Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow men who pervert the Constitution."

We affirm that the Constitution for the United States is the supreme law of the land. We assert that the United States is, and must remain, a free and independent nation not subject to international laws or treaties inconsistent with, or that would usurp, the U.S. Constitution.

We favor U.S. withdrawal from any treaty or organization, etc., that infringes upon or threatens the sovereignty and independence of the United States. We favor the ratification of the Bricker Amendment, which would reassert and protect the primacy of the U.S. Constitution.

International Relations

We oppose the concept of Most Favored Nation status, especially when used to obtain favor with regimes whose goals conflict with the vital interests of the United States of America. We oppose any and all efforts by the federal government to regulate and govern other countries and provinces of the world, or efforts to dethrone their leaders.

We oppose all international trade agreements which diminish America's economic self-sufficiency, sovereignty, independence, or exportation of our jobs. We support the withdrawal of funding and support of the United States from the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), the World Trade Organization (WTO), the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and the repeal of Fast Track authority given to the President.

We also oppose the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA), the Free Trade Area of The Americas (FTAA), and any and all other trade agreements that are detrimental to the sovereignty and borders of the 50 union states.

Global Government

We reaffirm to the world our declaration of permanent independence and sovereignty as a free nation, and our unalterable opposition to the current movement toward a one world government, New World Order or Globalization. We assert that the consequences of implementing the New World Order or Globalization will be the loss of our national sovereignty and independence, the permanent surrender of our God-given rights and freedoms, the end of personal sovereignty and agency, and a life of slavery and oppression under tyrants and despots.

We favor the immediate withdrawal of the United States from the United Nations, and the immediate removal of all United Nations presence from the United States. We oppose participation in a global army, global taxation, international criminal courts, and all forms of tyranny, foreign or domestic.