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We support withdrawal of the United States government from, and an end to its ï¬nancial support for, the United Nations. We oppose U.S. government | We support withdrawal of the United States government from, and an end to its ï¬nancial support for, the United Nations. We oppose U.S. government | ||
participation in any world or international 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 other 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 sufï¬cient 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 action, and for the abrogation of all Presidential declarations of "states 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 prices. | |||
We call for the repeal of all prohibitions on individuals or ï¬rms 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 governmental device. | |||
==3. UNOWNED RESOURCES== | |||
We oppose any recognition of flat 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, ï¬shing 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 conï¬scation, 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 United States dominance, and to free the United States from massive subsidization of them at taxpayers‘ expense. Land seized by the U.S. government should be returned to its rightful owners. | |||
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 materiel in the Middle East region. We condemn the stationing of American military 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 speciï¬cally 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 artiï¬cial satellites. | |||
=OMISSIONS= | |||
Our silence about any other particular government law, regulation, ordinance, directive, edict, control, regulatory agency, activity, or machination should not be construed to imply approval. | |||
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Source: http://marketliberal.org/LP/Platforms/1983_09%20LP%20Platform.pdf | Source: http://marketliberal.org/LP/Platforms/1983_09%20LP%20Platform.pdf | ||
OCR | OCR by Ken Moellman 1/16/2017 | ||