Details of a Nationalist Party of America's platform positions on issues from foreign policy to the first amendment. by Billy Roper
(libertarian)
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Foreign Policy
1. Secret Agreements
The Nationalist Party of America (NPA) believes it necessary that our government be prohibited from conducting secret negotiations or entering into secret treaties or agreements in any way binding on the United States.
2. World Government
The Nationalist Party of America (NPA) opposes United States membership in any organization, which in any way infringes on the sovereignty of the United States and its citizens.
3. Foreign Aid
The Nationalist Party of America (NPA) deems it a violation of the right of private property guaranteed under the Constitution for the federal government to deprive the citizens of this nation of their property through taxation or otherwise and make a gift thereof to foreign governments or their citizens.
4. Foreign Trade
The Nationalist Party of America (NPA) is for cutting off all trade, aid and "recognition" of a state, which denies its citizens the right to leave and take their property with them.
5. Military Posture
The Nationalist Party of America (NPA) holds that the United States must maintain an invincible military position, since it is overwhelming military strength and a ready willingness to use it that has constituted throughout the ages the mightiest deterrent to aggression and the greatest bulwark for peace.
6. War
The Nationalist Party of America (NPA) opposes any U.S. military interference in any other country for more than seventy-two hours without a Declaration of War by the Congress.
Right to Government Access
The population should not have to trade its right to transparency for the right to access. Not all answers can be obtained from reading words on a page. People within a governing body should answer to the people. Those who fail to answer to the people are inhibiting democracy in our republic.
Right to Protest
The Nationalist Party of America (NPA) would like to underscore the right to hold a peaceful protest without a permit, per the First Amendment right to peaceable assembly.
While protests should be visible and potentially annoying, they should not disrupt the normal lives of others. However, the definition of "disruptive" is far too broad to allow for a Constitutional exercise of rights. While the Nationalist Party of America (NPA) disagrees with the ideals of groups such as anarchists and communists, we thoroughly support the right to speak out against us, the government, politicians, and the way something is wrong. To paraphrase and apply Voltaire: we do not agree with many protest platforms, though we would defend to the death their right to have them. Unpopular ideas and opinions are the right of all who are free-thinking.
Thomas Jefferson, had this to say about protests against the government:
"... God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion. The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty.... And what country can preserve its liberties, if it's rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to the facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure."
Right to Free Press
Speech is protected under our Constitution, even unpopular speech, though action carries with it consequences. However, recent erosion of the First Amendment by inattentive lawmakers has led to a suppressive ideology that endangers journalistic freedoms (a necessary freedom in order to keep governments, political parties, and every other organization honest).
News agencies, which seek to misreport the news, cannot be trusted to serve the best interests of the people, but there is a difference between news and entertainment. News agencies should have the freedom to decide which is which. However, news agencies should also be restricted from becoming the mouthpieces of special interest.
One of the major issues is the limitation of small media outlets. Big media should not control 80% of the market; there should be a limit to the amount of the market that large networks control in any area.
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I like almost all of this (except the part about secret treaties, as long as my duly elected reps know about them FULLY, I'm fine). But, ah, are you sure your Nolan Chart score is right?
You just, er, stated most of the Government First platform, a statist organization.
