lvc@cbscc.UUCP (Larry Cipriani) (12/10/84)
Here's the second half of the LP platform. The first half was the
previous article. Enjoy,
Larry Cipriani
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4. Balanced Budgets
We support the drive for a constitutional amendment requiring the national
government to balance its budget, and also support similar amendments to
require balanced state budgets. To be effective, a balanced budget
amendment should provide:
a. that neither Congress nor the President is permitted to override
this requirement;
b. that all "off budget funds" are included in the budget;
c. that the budget is balanced exclusively by cutting expenditures and
not by raising taxes; and
d. that no exception is made for periods of national emergency.
5. Monopolies
We condemn all coercive monopolies. We recognize that government is the
source of monopoly, through its grants of legal privilege to special
interests in the economy. In order to abolish monopolies, we advocate
a strict separation of business and State.
"Anti-trust" laws do not prevent monopoly, but foster it by limiting
competition. We therefore call for the repeal of all "anti-trust" laws,
including the Robinson-Patman Act which restricts price discounts, the
Sherman Anti-Trust Act, and the Clayton Anti-Trust Act. We further
call for the abolition of the Federal Trade Commission and the anti-trust
division of the Department of Justice.
We defend the right of individuals to form corporations, cooperatives, and
other types of companies based on voluntary association. Laws of
incorporation should not include grants of monopoly privilege. In
particular, we oppose special limits on the liability of corporations for
damages caused in noncontractual transactions. We also oppose state or
federal limits on the size of private companies and on the right of
companies to merge. We further oppose efforts, in the name of social
responsibility or any other reason, to expand federal chartering of
corporations into a pretext for government control of business.
6. Subsidies
In order to achieve a free economy in which government victimizes no one
for the benefit of anyone else, we oppose all government subsidies to
business, labor, education, agriculture, science, broadcasting, the arts,
sports, and any other special interests. Relief or exemption from
involuntary taxation should not be considered a subsidy. We oppose any
resumption of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, or any similar
plan that would force the taxpayers to subsidize and sustain uneconomic
business enterprises.
7. Tariffs and Quotas
Like subsidies, tariffs and quotas serve only to give special treatment to
favored interests and to diminish the welfare of other individuals. These
measures also reduce the scope of contracts and understanding among
different peoples. We therefore support abolition of all tariffs and
quotas as we as the Tariff Commission and the Customs Court.
8. Public Utilities
We advocate the termination of government-created franchise privileges and
governmental monopolies for such services as garbage collection, fire
protection, electricity, natural gas, telephone, or water supplies.
Furthermore, all rate regulation in these industries should be abolished.
The right to offer such services on the market should not be curtailed
by law.
Domestic Ills
Current problems in such areas as energy, pollution, health care deliver,
decaying cities, and poverty are not solved, but are primarily caused,
by government. The welfare state, supposedly designed to aid the poor,
is in reality a growing parasitic burden on all productive people, and
injuries, rather than benefits the poor themselves.
1. Energy
We oppose all government control of energy pricing, allocation, and production,
such as that imposed by the Department of Energy, state public utility
commission, and state pro-rationing agencies. Thus, we call for the
immediate decontrol of natural gas prices. We also call for the immediate
repeal of the "windfall profits tax", which is really a graduated excise
tax on the production of crude oil, and which cripples the discovery and
production of oil. We oppose all government subsidies for energy research,
development, and operation, including subsidies for solar energy. We call
for the abolition of the Federal Synthetic Fuels Corporation. We further
oppose government subsidies for the development of solar energy.
We oppose all direct and indirect government participation in the nuclear
energy industry, including subsidies, research and development funds,
guaranteed loans, waste disposal subsidies, and federal uranium enrichment
facilities. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission should be abolished;
full liability -- not government agencies -- should regulate nuclear power.
The Price-Anderson Act, through which the government limits liability for
nuclear accidents and furnishes partial payment at taxpayer expense,
should be repealed. Nuclear energy should be denationalized and the
industry's assets transferred to the private sector. Any nuclear power
industry must meet the the of a free market.
We support abolition of the Department of Energy and abolition of its
component agencies, without their transfer elsewhere in the government.
We oppose the creation of any emergency mobilization agency in the energy
field, which would wield dictatorial powers in order to override normal
legal processes. We oppose all government conservation schemes through
the use of taxes, subsidies, and regulations, as well as the dictated
conversion of utilities and other industries to coal or any other fuel.
We oppose any attempt to give the federal government a monopoly over the
importation of oil, or to develop a subsidized government energy
corporation whose privileged status would be used as a yardstick
for condemning private enterprise. We oppose the "strategic storage"
program, any attempt to compel national self-sufficiency in oil, any
extension of cargo preference law to imports, and any attempt to raise
oil tariffs or impose oil import quotas. We oppose all efforts to
nationalize energy companies, or force them to plow back revenues solely
to into energy production and the discovery of energy sources, or prohibit
them from acquiring companies in nonenergy fields. We also oppose all efforts
to break up vertically or horizontally integrated energy companies or force
them to to divest their pipelines.
We consider all attempts to impose an operation or standby program of
gasoline rationing as unworkable, unnecessary, and tyrannical.
We favor the creation of a free market in oil by instituting full property
rights in underground oil and by the repeal of all federal and state controls
over price and output in the petroleum industry. All government-owned
energy resources should be turned over to private ownership.
2. Pollution
Pollution of other people's property is a violation of individual rights.
Present legal principles, particularly the unjust and false concept of
"public property", permit continued degradation of the environment and
continued violation of individual rights. We support the development of
an objective legal system defining property rights to air and water. We call
for a modification of the laws governing such torts as trespass and
nuisance to covert damages done by air, water, radiation, and noise
pollution. We oppose legislative proposals to exempt persons who claim
damage from radiation from having to prove such damage was in fact caused by
radiation. Strict liability, not government agencies and arbitrary
government-standards, should regulate pollution. We therefore demand
the abolition of the Environmental Protection Agency. We also oppose
government-mandated smoking and no-smoking areas in privately owned
businesses.
Toxic waste disposal problems have been created by government policies
that separate liability from property. Rather that making taxpayers pay
for toxic waste clean-ups, individual property owners or, in the case
of corporations, the responsible managers and employees, should be held
strictly liable for material damage done by their property. Claiming
that one has abandoned a piece of property does not absolve one of the
responsibility for actions one has set in motion. We condemn the EPA's
Superfund whose taxing powers are used to penalize all chemical firms,
regardless of their conduct. Such clean-ups are a subsidy of irresponsible
companies at the expense of responsible ones.
3. Consumer Protection
We support strong and effective laws against fraud and misrepresentation.
However, we oppose paternalistic regulations which dictate to consumers,
impose prices, define standards for products, or otherwise restrict
risk-taking and free choice. We oppose governmental promotion or imposition
of the metric system.
We oppose all so-called "consumer protection" legislation which infringes
upon voluntary trade, and call for the abolition of the Consumer Product
Safety Commission. We advocate the repeal of all laws banning or restricting
the advertising of prices, products, or service. We specifically oppose laws
requiring an individual to buy or use so-called "self-protection" equipment
such as safety belts, air bags, or crash helmets.
We advocate the abolition of the Federal Aviation Administration, which has
jeopardized airline safety by arrogating to itself a monopoly of safety
regulation and enforcement.
We advocate the abolition of the Food and Drug Administration and particularly
its policies of mandating specific nutritional requirements and denying
the right of manufacturers to make non-fraudulent claims concerning their
products. We advocate and end to compulsory fluoridation of water
supplies. We specifically oppose government regulation of the price, potency,
or quantity able to be produced or purchased of drugs or other consumer
goods. There should be no laws regarding what substances (nicotine, alcohol,
hallucinogens, narcotics, laetrile, artificial sweetener, vitamin supplements,
or other "drugs") a person may ingest or otherwise use.
4. Education
We advocate the complete separation of education and State. Government
schools lead to the indoctrination of children and interfere with the
free choice of individuals. Government ownership, operation, regulation,
and subsidy of schools and colleges should be ended.
As an interim measure to encourage the growth of private schools and
in education, we support tax credits for tuition and for other expenditures
related to an individual's education. We support the repeal of all taxes
on the income or property of private schools, whether profit or non-profit.
We condemn compulsory education laws, which spawn prisonlike schools with
many of the problems associated with prisons, and we call for the immediate
repeal of such laws.
Until government involvement in education is ended, we support elimination,
within the governmental school system, of forced busing and corporal
punishment. We further support immediate reduction of tax support for
schools, and removal of the burden of school taxes from those not responsible
for the education of children.
5. Population
Recognizing that the American people are not a collective national resource,
we oppose all coercive measures for population control.
We oppose government actions that either compel or prohibit abortion,
sterilization, or any other forms of birth control. Specifically, we
condemn the vicious practice of forced sterilization of welfare recipients
or mentally retarded or "genetically defective" individuals".
We regard the tragedies caused by unplanned, unwanted pregnancies to be
aggravated, if not created, by government policies of censorship, restriction,
regulation, and prohibition. Therefore, we call for the repeal of all laws
that restrict anyone, including children, from engaging in voluntary
exchanges of goods, services or information regarding human sexuality,
reproduction, birth control, or related medical or biological technologies.
We equally oppose government laws and practices that restrict the opportunity
to choose alternatives to abortion.
We support an end to all subsidies for childbearing build into our present
laws, including all welfare plans and the provision of tax-supported services
for children. We urge the elimination of special tax burdens on single people
and couples with few or no children.
6. Transportation
Government interference in transportation is characterized by monopolistic
restriction, corruption, and gross inefficiency. We therefore call for the
dissolution of all government agencies concerned with transportation, including
the Department of Transportation, the Interstate Commerce Commission, the Civil
Aeronautics Board, the Federal Maritime Commission, Conrail, and Amtrak. We
demand the return of America's railroad system to private ownership. We
call for the privatization of the public roads and national highway system.
As interim measures, we advocate an immediate end to government regulation
of private transit organizations and to governmental favors to the
transportation industry. In particular, we support the immediate repeal of
all laws restricting transit competition, such as the granting of taxicab
and bus monopolies and the prohibition of private jitney services. We urge
the immediate deregulation of the trucking industry. Likewise, we advocate
the immediate repeal of the federally imposed 55-mph speed limit.
7. Poverty and Unemployment
Government fiscal and monetary measures that artificially foster business
expansion guarantee an eventual increase in unemployment rather than
curtailing it. We call for the immediate cessation of such policies as well
as any governmental attempts to affect employment levels.
We support repeal of all laws that impede the ability of any person to find
employment, such as minimum wage laws, so-called "protective" labor legislation
for women and children, governmental restrictions on the establishment of
private day-care centers, and the National Labor Relations Act. We deplore
government-fostered forced retirement, which robs the elderly of the right
to work.
We seek the elimination of occupational licensure, which prevents human
beings from working in whatever trade they wish. We call for the abolition
of all federal, state, and local government agencies that restrict entry
into any profession, such as education and law, or regulate its practice.
No worker should be legally penalized for lack of certification, and no
consumer should be legally restrained from hiring unlicensed individuals.
We oppose all government welfare, relief projects, and "aid to the poor"
programs. All these government programs are privacy-invading, paternalistic,
demeaning, and inefficient. The proper source of help for such persons is
the voluntary efforts of private groups and individuals.
To speed the time when governmental programs are replaced by effective
private institutions, we advocate dollar-for-dollar tax credits for all
charitable contributions.
8. Health Care
We advocate the complete separation of medicine and State. Recognizing the
individual's right to self-medication, we seek, the elimination of all
government restrictions on the right of individuals to pursue alternative
forms of health care. Individuals should be free to contract with
practitioners of their choice for all health care services. We oppose
government infringements of the practitioner-patient relationship through
regulatory agencies such as the Professional Standards Review Organization.
We condemn efforts by government to impose a medical orthodoxy on society.
We specifically oppose the attempt by state and local governments to deny
parents the right to choose the option of home births and to discourage the
development of privately funded women's clinics. We call for the repeal of
all laws that restrict the practice of lay midwifery or that permit harassment
of lay midwives and home birth practitioners. We also call for the repeal
of all medical licensing laws, which have raised medical costs while creating
a government-imposed monopoly of doctors and hospitals.
We oppose any form of compulsory National Health Insurance. We favor the
abolition of Medicare and Medicaid programs. We also oppose any state or
federal area planning boards whose stated purpose is to consolidate health
services or avoid their duplication. We support the removal of all government
barriers to medical advertising, including prohibition of publication of
doctor's fees and drug prices. We further support the elimination of
prescription requirements for the dispensing of medicines and other
health-related items.
We favor the deregulation of the health industry. We oppose laws that
limit the freedom of contract of patients and health care professionals, and
laws regulating the supply of legal aid on a contingency fee basis. We also
oppose subsidy of malpractice insurance through public funds. We call for the
repeal of laws forcing health care professionals to render medical services
in emergencies or other situations.
We condemn attempts at the federal, state, or local level to cripple the
advance of science by government restrictions on research. We oppose subsidies
to, or restrictions of, medical education. We call for an end to government
policies compelling individuals to submit to medical experiments, treatment,
and testing. We condemn compulsory hospitalization, compulsory vaccination,
and compulsory fluoridation.
As interim measures, we advocate dollar-for-dollar tax credits to any
individual or group providing health care services to the needy or paying for
such services. Tax credits should also be made available for private grants
to medical education and medical research.
9. Resource Use
Resource management is properly the responsibility and right of the legitimate
owners of land, water, and other natural resources. We oppose government
control of resource use through eminent domain, zoning laws, building codes,
rent control, regional planning, urban renewal, or purchase of development
rights with tax money. Such regulations and programs violate property rights,
discriminate against minorities, create housing shortages, and tend to cause
higher rents.
We advocate the establishment of an efficient and just system of private
water rights, applied to all bodies of water, surface and underground. Such
a system should be build upon a doctrine of first claim and use. The
allocation of water should be governed by unrestricted competition and
unregulated prices. All government restrictions upon private use,
voluntary transfer of water rights, or of the water from such rights, must
be eliminated. Government water rationing and similar despotic controls
can only aggravate the misallocation of water.
We also advocate the privatization of all government and quasi-government
water supply systems. The construction of government water projects should
be transferred to private ownership. We favor the abolition of the Bureau
of Reclamation and the Army Corps of Engineer's civilian functions. We
also favor the abolition of all local water districts and their power to tax.
Only the complete separation of water and State will prevent future water
crises.
We call for the homesteading or other just transfer to private ownership
of federally held lands. We oppose any use of executive orders invoking the
Antiquities Act to set aside public lands. We call for the abolition of
the Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Forest Service. Forced
surface-mining of privately homesteaded lands in which the government has
reserved surface mining rights to itself is a violation of the rights of
the present landholders. We recognize the legitimacy of resource planning
by means of private, voluntary covenants. We oppose creation of any new
government parks or wilderness and recreation areas. Such parks and
areas as already exist should be transferred to non-government ownership.
Pending such transfer, their operating costs should be borne by their users
rather than the taxpayers.
10. Agriculture
America's free market in agriculture, the system that feeds much of the
world, has been plowed under by government intervention. Government
subsidies, regulations, and taxes have encouraged the centralization of
agricultural businesses. Government export policies hold American farmers
hostage to the political whims of both Republican and Democratic
administrations. Government embargoes on grain sales and other obstacles
to free trade have frustrated the development of free and stable trade
relationships between people of the world.
The agricultural problems facing America today are not insoluble, however.
Governmental policies can be reversed. Farmers and consumers alike should
be free from the meddling and counterproductive measures of the federal
government -- free to grow, sell, and buy what they want, in the quantity
they want, when they want. Five steps can be taken immediately:
a. abolition of the Department of Agriculture;
b. elimination of all government farm programs, including price supports,
direct subsidies, and all regulations on agricultural production;
c. deregulation of the transportation industry and abolition of the
Interstate Commerce Commission;
d. repeal of federal inheritance taxes; and
e. ending government involvement in agricultural pest control. A policy
of pest control whereby private individuals or corporations bear full
responsibility for damages they inflict on their neighbors should be
implemented.
11. Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA)
We call for the repeal of the Occupational Safety and Health Act. This law
denies the right to liberty and property to both employer and employee, and
it interferes in their private contractual relations. OSHA's arbitrary and
highhanded actions invade property rights, raise costs, and are an injustice
imposed on business.
12. Social Security
We favor the repeal of the fraudulent, virtually bankrupt, and increasingly
oppressive Social Security system. Pending that repeal, participation in
Social Security should be made voluntary. We note that members of the U.S.
Congress, and certain federal, state, and local government employees, have
been accorded the privilege of non-participation, one which is not accorded
the working men and women of America.
13. Postal Service
We propose the abolition of the governmental Postal Service. The present
system, in addition to being inefficient, encourages government surveillance
of private correspondence. Pending abolition, we call for an end to the
monopoly system and for allowing free competition in all aspects of
postal service.
14. Civil Service
We call for the abolition of the Civil Service system, which entrenches a
permanent and growing bureaucracy upon the land. We recognize that the
Civil Service is inherently a system of concealed patronage. We therefore
recommend return to the Jeffersonian principle of rotation in office.
15. Campaign Finance Laws
We urge the repeal of federal campaign laws, and the immediate abolition
of the despotic Federal Election Commission, which suppresses the
voluntary support of candidates and parties, compel taxpayers to subsidize
politicians and political views they do not support, invade the privacy of
American citizens, and entrench the Republican and Democratic parties. Such
laws are particularly dangerous as they enable the government to control the
elections of its own administrators and beneficiaries, thereby removing it
even further from public accountability. We call for the repeal of restrictive
state laws that effectively prevent new parties and independent candidates from
being on the ballot.
16. None of the Above
In order to expand the range of choice in federal, state, and local
elections of government official, we propose the addition of the alternative
"None of the above is acceptable" to all ballots. In the event that
"None of the above" wins a plurality of votes, the elective office for that
term will remain unfilled and unfunded.
Foreign Affairs
American foreign policy should seed an America at peace with the world and
the defence -- against attack from abroad -- of the lives, liberty, and
prosperity of the American people on American soil. Provision of such
defense must respect the individual rights of people everywhere.
The principle of non-intervention should guide relationships between
governments. The United States government should return to the historic
libertarian tradition of avoiding entangling alliances, abstaining totally
from foreign quarrels and imperialist adventures, and recognizing the right
to unrestricted trade, travel, and immigration.
Diplomatic Policy
1. Negotiations
The important principle in foreign policy should be the elimination of
intervention by the United States government in the affairs of other
nations. We would negotiate with any foreign government without necessarily
conceding moral legitimacy to that government. We favor a drastic reduction
in cost and size of our total diplomatic establishment. In addition, we favor
the repeal of the Logan Act, which prohibits private American citizens from
engaging in diplomatic negotiations with foreign governments.
2. International Travel and Foreign Investment
We recognize that foreign governments might violate the rights of Americans
traveling, living, or owning property abroad, just as those governments
violate the rights of their own citizens. We condemn all such violations,
whether the victims are U.S. citizens or not.
Any effort, however, to extend the protection of the United Stages government
to U.S. citizens when they or their property fall within the jurisdiction
of a foreign government involves potential military intervention. We
therefore call upon the United States government to adhere rigidly to
the principle that all U.S. citizens travel, live, and own property abroad
at their own risk. In particular, we oppose -- as unjust tax-supported
subsidy -- any protection of the foreign investments of U.S. citizens
or businesses.
The issuance of U.S. passports should cease. We look forward to an era
in which American citizens and foreigners can travel anywhere in the world
without a passport. We aim to restore a world in which there are no
passports, visas, or other papers required to cross borders. So long
as U.S. passports are issued, they should be issued to all individuals
without discrimination and should not be revoked for any reason.
3. Human Rights
We condemn the violations of human rights in all nations around the world.
We particularly abhor the widespread and increasing use of torture for
interrogation and punishment. We call upon the world's governments to
fully implement the principles and prescriptions contained in this platform
and thereby usher in a new age of international harmony based upon the
universal reign of liberty.
Until such a global triumph for liberty, we support both political and
revolutionary actions by individuals and groups against governments that
violate rights. We recognize the right of all people to resist tyranny
and defend themselves and their rights. We condemn, however, the use of
force, and especially the use of terrorism, against the innocent, regardless
of whether such acts are committed by governments or by political and
revolutionary groups.
The violation of rights and liberty by government can never justify
foreign intervention by the United States government. Today, no government
is innocent of violating human rights and liberty, and none can approach
the issue with clean hands. In keeping with our goal of peaceful international
relations, we call upon the United States government to cease its hypocrisy
and its sullying of the good name of human rights. Only private individuals
and organizations have any place speaking out on this issue.
4. World Government
We support withdrawal of the United States government from, and an end to
its financial support for, the United Nations. We oppose U.S. government
participation in any world or international government.
5. Secession
We recognize the right to political secession. This includes the right
of secession by political entities, private groups, or individuals. Exercise
of this right, like the exercise of all rights, does not remove legal
and moral obligations not to violate the rights of others.
Military
1. Military Policy
We recognize the necessity for maintaining a sufficient military force to
defend the United States against aggression. We should reduce the overall
cost and size of our total governmental defense establishment.
We call for the withdrawal of all American troops from bases abroad. In
particular, we call for the removal of the U.S. Air Force as well as
ground troops from the Korean peninsula.
We call for withdrawal from multilateral and bilateral commitments to
military intervention (such as to NATO and to South Korea) and for
abandonment of interventionist doctrines (such as the Monroe Doctrine).
We view the mass-destruction potential of modern warfare as the greatest
threat to the lives and liberties of the American people and all the people
of the globe. We favor international negotiations toward general and complete
disarmament down to police levels, provided every necessary precaution is
taken to effectively protect the lives and the rights of the American
people. Particularly important is the mutual disarmament of nuclear weapons
and missiles, and other instruments of indiscriminate mass destruction of
civilians.
2. Presidential War Powers
We call for the reform of the Presidential War Powers Act to end the
President's power to initiate military actions, and for the abrogation
of all Presidential declarations of "state's of emergency". There must be
no further secret commitments and unilateral acts of military intervention
by the Executive Branch.
We favor a Constitutional amendment limiting the presidential role as
Commander-in-Chief to its original meaning, namely that of head of the
armed forces in wartime. The Commander-in-Chief role, correctly understood,
confers no additional authority on the President.
Economic Policy
1. Foreign Aid
We support the elimination of tax-supported military, economic, technical,
and scientific aid to foreign governments or other organizations. We support
the abolition of government underwriting of arms sales. We further support
abolition of federal agencies that make American taxpayers guarantors of
export-related loans, such as the Export-Import Bank and the Commodity Credit
Corporation. We also oppose the participation of the U.S. Government in
international commodity cartels which restrict production, limit technological
innovation, and raise price.
We call for the repeal of all prohibitions on individuals or firms contributing
or selling goods and services to any foreign country or organization.
2. International Money
We favor the withdrawal of the United States from all international paper money
and other inflationary credit schemes. We favor withdrawal from the World
Bank and the International Monetary Fund.
We strongly oppose any bailout of foreign governments or American banks by the
United States, either by means of the International Monetary Fund or through
any other government device.
3. Unowned Resources
We oppose any recognition of fiat claims by national governments or
international bodies to unclaimed territory. Individuals have the right
to homestead unowned resources both within the jurisdictions of national
governments and within such unclaimed territory as the ocean, Antarctica,
and the volume of outer space. We urge the development of objective
international standards for recognizing homesteaded claims to private
ownership of such forms of property as transportation lanes, broadcast
bands, mineral rights, fishing rights, and ocean farming rights. All laws,
treaties, and international agreements that would prevent or restrict
homesteading of unowned resources should be abolished. We specifically
call for an end to U.S. participation in the current Law of the Sea treaty
negotiations because these proceedings exclude private property principles.
International Relations
1. Colonialism
United States colonialism has left a legacy of property confiscation, economic
manipulation, and over-extended defense boundaries. We favor immediate
independence for all colonial dependencies, such as Samoa, Guam, Micronesia,
the Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico, both to free these lands from the
United States, and to free the United State from massive subsidization of them
at taxpayers' expense. Land sized by the U.S. government should be returned
to its rightful owner.
The United States should liquidate its government-run canal operation in
Panama and withdraw all U.S. troops from the Canal Zone.
2. The Middle East
We call upon the United States government to cease all interventions in the
Middle East, including military and economic aid, guarantees, and diplomatic
meddling, and to cease limitation of private foreign aid, both military and
economic. Voluntary cooperation with any economic boycott should not be
treated as a crime.
We oppose the incorporation of the Persian Gulf and the countries surrounding
it into the U.S. defense perimeter. We oppose the creation of new U.S.
bases and sites for the pre-positioning of military material in the Middle
East region. We condemn the stationing of American troops in the Sinai
peninsula as a trip-wire that could easily set off a new world war.
We condemn the expenditure of billions of American tax dollars to buy
Israeli and Egyptian participation in the Camp David Accords.
3. China
We condemn the growing alliance between the United States government and
the People's Republic of China, just as we condemn the previous alliance
with the Republic of China on Taiwan. China should not be considered as
part of America's defense perimeter, nor should the United States government
pursue joint military or diplomatic policies with China in Southeast Asia
or Africa.
4. Southern Africa
We call upon the United States to cease all interventions in Southern
Africa, including military and economic aid, guarantees, and backing of
political groups, and to refrain from restricting American trade and
investment in the region.
5. Space Exploration
We oppose all government restrictions upon voluntary peaceful use of outer
space. We condemn all international attempts to prevent or limit private
exploration, industrialization, and colonization of the moon, planets,
asteroids, satellite orbits, Lagrange libration points, or any other
extraterrestrial resources. We specifically call for the repudiation of
the U.N. Moon Treaty. We support the abolition of the National Aeronautics
and Space Administration and the privatization of all satellites.
Omissions
Our silence about any other particular government law, regulation, ordinance,
directive, edit, control, regulatory agency, activity, or machination should
not be construed to imply approval.
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