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==10. FREEDOM OF RELIGION== | ==10. FREEDOM OF RELIGION== | ||
We defend the rights of individuals to engage in (or abstain from) | We defend the rights of individuals to engage in (or abstain from) any religious activities that do not violate the rights of others. In order to defend religious freedom, we advocate a strict separation of church and State. We oppose government actions that either did or attack any religion. We oppose taxation of church property lot the same reason we, oppose all taxation. | ||
freedom | |||
property lot the same reason we, oppose all taxation. | |||
We condemn the attempts by parents or any | We condemn the attempts by parents or any others — via kidnappings, conservatorships, or instruction under confinement — to force children to conform to their parents‘ or any others‘ religious views. Government harassment or obstruction of unconventional religious groups for their beliefs or nonviolent activities must end. | ||
their parents‘ or any others‘ religious | |||
must end. | |||
11. THE RIGHT TO PROPERTY | ==11. THE RIGHT TO PROPERTY== | ||
There is no | There is no conflict between property rights and human rights. Indeed, property rights are the rights of humans with respect to property, and as such, are entitled to the same respect and protection as all other human rights. | ||
entitled to the same respect and protection as all other human rights. | |||
Moreover. all human rights are property rights | Moreover. all human rights are property rights, too. Such rights as the freedom from involuntary servitude and the freedom of speech and press are based on self—ownership. Our bodies are our property every bit as much as is justly acquired land or material objects. | ||
from involuntary | |||
self—ownership. Our bodies are our property every bit as much as is justly | We further hold that the owners of property have the full right to control, use, dispose of, or in any manner enjoy, their property without interference, until and unless the exercise of their control infringes the valid rights of others. We oppose all violations of the right to private property, liberty of contract, and freedom of trade done in the name of national security. We also condemn current government efforts to regulate or ban the use of property in the name of aesthetic values, riskiness, moral standards, cost—benefit estimates, or the promotion or restriction of economic growth. | ||
We demand an end to the taxation of privately owned real property, which actually makes the State the owner of all lands and forces individuals to rent their homes and places of business from the State. We condemn recent attempts to employ eminent domain to municipalize sports teams or to try to force them to stay in their present location. | |||
Where property, including land, has been taken from its rightful owners by government or private action in violation of individual rights, we favor restitution to the rightful owners. Speciï¬cally, we call for the return of lands taken from Americans of Japanese ancestry during the Second World War. | |||
==12. PROTECTION OF PRIVACY== | |||
The individual‘s privacy, property, and right to speak or not to speak should not be infringed by the government. The government should not use electronic or other means of covert surveillance of an individual's actions or private property without the consent of the owner or occupant. Correspondence, bank and other ï¬nancial transactions and records, doctors‘ and lawyers‘ communications, employment records, and the like should not be open to review by government without the consent of all parties involved in those actions. So long as the National Census and all federal, state, and other government agencies‘ compilations of data on an individual continue to exist, they should be conducted only with the consent of the persons from whom the data are sought. | |||
We oppose the issuance by the government of an identity card, to be required for any purpose, such as for employment, voting, or border crossings. | |||
==13. GOVERNMENT SECRECY== | |||
We condemn the government's use of secret classiï¬cations to keep from the public information that it should have. We favor substituting a system in which no individual may be convicted for violating government secrecy classiï¬cations unless the government discharges its burden of proving that the publication: | |||
a. violated the right of privacy of those who have been coerced into revealing confidential or proprietary information to government agents. or | |||
b. disclosed defensive military plans so as to materially impair the capability to respond to attack. | |||
It should always be a defense to such prosecution that information divulged shows that the government has violated the law. | |||
==14. INTERNAL SECURITY AND CIVIL LIBERTIES== | |||
We call for the abolition of all federal secret police agencies. In particular, we seek the abolition of the Central Intelligence Agency and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and we call for a return to the American tradition of local law enforcement. We support Congressional investigation of criminal activities of the CIA and of wrongdoing by other government agencies. | |||
We support the abolition of the subpoena power as used by Congressional committees against individuals or ï¬rms. We hail the abolition of the House Internal Security Committee and call for the destruction of its files on private individuals and groups. We also call for the abolition of the Senate Subcommittee on Internal Security. | |||
==15. THE RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS== | |||
Maintaining our belief in the inviolability of the right to keep and bear arms. we oppose all laws at any level of government restricting the ownership, manufacture, transfer, or sale of firearms or ammunition. We oppose all laws requiring registration of firearms or ammunition. We also oppose any government efforts to ban or restrict the use of tear gas, “mace,†or other non-firearm protective devices. We further oppose all attempts to ban weapons or ammunition on the grounds that they are risky and unsafe. | |||
We support repeal of the National Firearms Act of 1935 and the Federal Gun Control Act of 1968, and we demand the immediate abolition of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms. | |||
We favor the repeal of laws banning the concealment of weapons or prohibiting pocket weapons. We also oppose the banning of inexpensive handguns (“Saturday night specials"). | |||
==16. CONSCRIPTION AND THE MILITARY== | |||
Recognizing that registration is the ï¬rst step toward full conscription, we oppose all attempts at compulsory registration of any person and all schemes for automatic registration through government invasions of the privacy of school, motor vehicle, or other records. We call for the abolition of the still-functioning elements of the Selective Service System, believing that impressment of individuals into the armed forces is involuntary servitude. We call for the destruction of all files in computer-readable or hard—copy form compiled by the Selective Service System. We also oppose any form of national service. such as a compulsory youth labor program. | |||
We oppose adding women to the pool of those eligible for and subject to the draft, not because we think that as a rule women are unfit for combat, but because we believe that this step enlarges the number of people Subjected to governmental tyranny. | |||
We support the immediate and unconditional exoneration of all who have been accused or convicted of draft evasion, desertion from the military, and other acts of resistance to such transgressions as imperialistic wars and aggressive acts of the military. Members of the military should have the same right to quit their jobs as other persons. | |||
We call for the end of the Defense Department practice of discharging armed forces personnel for homosexual conduct. We further call for retraction of all less-than-honorable discharges previously assigned for such reasons and deletion of such information from military personnel files. | |||
We recommend the repeal of the Uniform Code of Military Justice and the recognition and equal protection of the rights of armed forces members. This will promote thereby the morale. dignity. and sense of justice within the military. | |||
==17. UNIONS AND COLLECTIVE BARGAINING== | |||
We support the right of free persons to voluntarily establish, associate in, or not associate in, labor unions. An employer should have the right to recognize, or refuse to recognize, a union as the collective bargaining agent of some or all of his or her employees. | |||
We oppose government interference in bargaining, such as compulsory arbitration or imposing an obligation to bargain. Therefore we urge repeal of the National Labor Relations Act, and all the state Right to Work Laws, which prohibit employers from making voluntary contracts with unions. We oppose all government back—to—work orders as imposing a form of forced labor. | |||
Workers and employers should have the right to organize secondary boycotts if they so choose. Nevertheless, boycotts or strikes do not justify the initiation of violence against other workers, employers, strikebreakers, and innocent bystanders. | |||
==18. IMMIGRATION== | |||
We hold that human rights should not be denied or abridged on the basis of nationality. We condemn massive roundups of Hispanic Americans and others by the federal government in its hunt for individuals not possessing required government documents. We strongly oppose all measures that would punish employers who hire undocumented workers. Such measures repress enterprise, harass workers, and systematically discourage employers from hiring Hispanics. | |||
Undocumented non—citizens should not be denied the fundamental freedom to labor and to move about unmolested. Furthermore, immigration must not | |||
be restricted for reasons of race, religious or political creed, age, or sexual preference. | |||
We therefore call for the elimination of all restrictions on immigration, the abolition of the Immigration and Naturalization Service and the Border Patrol, and a declaration of full amnesty for all people who have entered the country illegally. We oppose government welfare payments to non-citizens just as we oppose government welfare payments to all other persons. | |||
Because we support the right of workers to cross borders without harassment, we oppose all government-mandated "temporary worker" plans. Specifically, we condemn attempts to revive the Bracero Program as government imposition of second-class status on Mexican-born workers. | |||
We welcome all refugees to our shores and condemn the efforts of US. ofï¬cials to Create a new “Berlin Wall“ which would keep them captive. We condemn the US. government‘s policy of barring those refugees from our shores and preventing Americans from assisting their passage to help them escape tyranny or improve their economic prospects. | |||
==19. DISCRIMINATION== | |||
No individual rights should be denied or abridged by the laws of the United States or any state or locality on account of sex, race, color, creed, age, national origin, or sexual preference. Protective labor laws, Selective Service laws, and other laws that violate rights selectively should be repealed entirely rather than being extended to all groups. | |||
Discrimination imposed by the government has brought disruption in normal relationships of peoples, set neighbor against neighbor, created gross injustices, and diminished human potential. Anti-discrimination enforced by the government is the reverse side of the coin and will for the same reasons create the same problems. Consequently, we oppose any governmental attempts to regulate private discrimination, including discrimination in employment, housing, and privately owned so»called public accommodations. The right to trade includes the right not to trade—for any reasons whatsoever. | |||