Independent American Party
National Platform

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.

Commentary:

Platform - Citizenship    (National Chairman's Letter - June 2003)

On Patriotism    (National Chairman's Letter - October 2001)

Individual Sovereignty    (National Chairman's Letter - May 2002)
Disease, Victimization, and Personal Responsibility    (by Dr. Phil Stringer)