- This article concerns the political party that was founded in 2003. For other parties using similar names, see Patriot Party.
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| Party Chairman | Richard A. Taylor |
| Senate Leader | None |
| House Leader | None |
| Founded | 2003 |
| Headquarters | Ashland, Oregon |
| Political ideology | Jeffersonian political philosophy |
| Political position | Fiscal: Right-wing Local Control, Enumerative, Consensual Taxation Social: Right-wing Protection of Inalienable Rights, States Rights and Local Community Control (but non-interventionist) |
| International affiliation | None |
| Colour(s) | Red, white, and blue |
| Website | AmericanPatriotParty |
The American Patriot Party was founded on March 1, 2003 by several U.S. citizens who want to return the United States to their conception of the original intent of the Founding Fathers and within the framework of the original U.S. Constitution. This party is Jeffersonian in nature, and is structured such that the national party is just a coordinating and assistance organization to the various state Patriot Parties. In contrast, most U.S. political parties are structured in a national party to state party chain of command. The platform of the national party is the Declaration of Independence, U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Significant changes occurred in the American Patriot Party in early 2006. After struggles within national party leadership during 2005, Party Chairman Bryon K. Pulliam and Party founder/National Secretary Brian Nichols shut down the party's national offices, temporarily leaving the party without a national center. In early 2006, the Oregon State Patriot Party resumed the establishment of the party and the role of assisting the organization of the American Patriot Party in other states.
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Platform
Declaration of Independence, historical definitions of freedom, Constitution of the United States as defined by the founders in the Constitutional debates.
Fiscal policy
The American Patriot Party supports reducing the role of the United States federal government through reducing the federal involvement with the states thereby cutting double layered bureaucratic regulation, removal of unions and manipulation from within all government agencies and departments (state and federal) to establish local community control, force reduction of spending, and replacing the income tax with an automated Anonymity Tax (no names no numbers toll tax) for states and counties; establish an import tax collected by states for federal revenues; Such taxation established to remove the IRS and federal collection of revenues from the American public. This division and form of tax collection removes all other forms of taxation, save for limited use and voluntary taxes (not poll determined) within the states and counties; Its leaders are strong advocates of abolishing all other forms of federal taxation, including the income tax; They view most current regular federal expenditures, such as those for health care, education, and welfare, as unconstitutional under Article 1 Section 8 of the Constitution and the Tenth Amendment. The party supports paying off the federal debt through a systematic elimination of further borrowing and what they consider unconstitutional programs and agencies such as the Department of Education and the Department of Health and Human Services. The party opposes most foreign aid except in life and death situations or in water deployment projects to aid in self sufficiency; The party is adamant about the United States termination of its participation in international lending institutions and the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, and the Export-Import Bank and to place all monetary control into the hands of the United States where comprehensive monthly national audit reports will be published throughout all 50 United States and its Territories. It also urges the government to immediately terminate all subsidies, tax preferences, and investment guarantees that encourage U.S. businesses to invest in foreign property; and to seek to collect all foreign debts owed to it.
Foreign policy
Additionally, the party favors a non-interventionist foreign policy. It advocates immediate withdraw of the United States from the United Nations reducing the United Nations to simply a room to where each country will decide how it will react independently to any situation; and withdraw from all other multinational and international organizations. Proposes immediate withdrawal of the United States from most current treaties, such as the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs (GATT), and the World Trade Organization. The party promotes free trade without federal taxation within the United States and free trade activity but taxable international trade collected by the states at ports of call to support the national defense and delegated functions of the federal government. The party also believes in removing federal and state mandated zoning of local communities, federal EPA and other harsh restrictions, while states retain practical building codes and county and state DEQ. Proposes county controls over social collectives to protect private enterprise, promotes highly localized monopoly laws to limit land and water control by large collectives such as fictitious individuals (corporations), Unions, Special Interests, environmental land trusts and aims to stop the expansion of federal lands within the states, further transferring all federal lands into the ownership and control of the counties to reduce double layered bureaucracies.
Immigration policy
The party opposes illegal immigration and also seeks a cautious policy on legal immigration that does not place unnecessary limits. They propose that the federal government and states restore immigration policies and that states implement them. That all potential immigrants before becoming US citizens speak fluent English and have no less than one year of education on early history of inalienable rights and laws of the United States including of the Declaration of Independence, Constitution and Constitutional debates. Visitors must possess insurance prior to entering the United States, including for birth so not to become a burden on the states they enter; Further any such can be disqualified from admission to the U.S. if, on the grounds of health, criminality or financial dependence, they would impose an improper burden on the United States, any state, or any citizen of the United States. Additionally, they oppose the provision of welfare subsidies and other taxpayer-supported benefits to illegal aliens, and reject the practice of bestowing U.S. citizenship on children born to non US citizens while in this country after establishing a date to this refusal. The party is not opposed to granting amnesty to illegal aliens already living and working in the United States so long as they immediately take steps to becoming US citizens, but further defers this to the states that they reside. The party sees the need for leniency and the understanding that the actual "tax burden" of this country is not paid by the wealthiest, but by the lowest income; This as taxes are by nature of the present tax system, are (and especially during inflation) deferred to those purchasers of products with the lowest income (see also Anonymity Tax). The American Patriot party calls for and entry tax to be collected at the border to adequately support the states to patrol their own borders. It rejects the need of federal military intervention to state issues except in the case of foreign military or armed invasion and under request of the that independent state. It places the responsibility of the state, county and local communities to maintain independent and well disciplined equipped militias as intended in the constitution to secure the free and independent state.
Social policy
States rights and local community control; federal government that is limited to its original delegated powers. The party supports a States' right to administer the death penalty to those convicted of capital crimes which, it should be noted, are not necessarily limited to murder but usually equate to such in modern American society. The American Patriot Party recognizes inalienable rights of all persons as what natures God and God Entitle them, clearly presented within the Declaration of Independence and further established by previous historical documents that define natural rights Magna Carta 1215, Rights of the Colonists 1774, John Locke 1689, English Bill of Rights, Virginia Declaration of Rights, Constitutional Debates and Founders letters. Such rights cannot be removed, even voluntarily from ones person. These pervade into issues of, among others, morality and usury and present barriers that are defined; Presenting within their stands based on historical documentation that freedom is defined and not simply anything one wants it to be. The party presents that America is not a complete sectarian society, as civil society to be civil must have its foundations in Judeo - Christianity: Rights of the Colonists: Just and true liberty, equal and impartial liberty in matters spiritual and temporal, is a thing that all Men are clearly entitled to, by the eternal and immutable laws Of God and nature, as well as by the law of Nations, & all well grounded municipal laws, which "must have their foundation in the former".-- " " In so much that Mr. Locke has asserted, and proved beyond the possibility of contradiction on any solid ground, that such toleration ought to be extended to all whose doctrines are not subversive of society. Samuel Adams, Rights of the Colonists: 1772 If men through fear, fraud or mistake, should in terms renounce and give up any essential natural right, the eternal law of reason and the great end of society, would absolutely vacate such renunciation; the right to freedom being the gift of God Almighty, it is not in the power of Man to alienate this gift, and voluntarily become a slave. Voluntary relinquishment of any natural right is a definition of slavery and of voluntary slavery, as neither of these can exist without the other. Involuntary servitude is when one accepts a voluntary status as slave through intimidation short of death; A speech by Patrick Henry exemplifying this when he presented Give me liberty or give me death! It is the party stance that in a truly free country, that natural rights and God given rights cannot be alienated from the person, not even voluntarily; This, as he who takes upon himself to accept such relinquishment by another, engages in slavery; He who relinquishes those rights engages in voluntary slavery. Both are defined as forms of slavery and are expressly prohibited within the United States under the United States Constitution. The Constitution of the United States: Amendment XIII [Proposed 1865; Ratified 1865] Section. 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. Section. 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. John Locke, Essay Concerning The True Original, Extent, and End of Civil Government: 128. For in the state of Nature to omit the liberty he has of innocent delights, a man has two powers. The first is to do whatsoever he thinks fit for the preservation of himself and others within the permission of the law of Nature; by which law, common to them all, he and all the rest of mankind are one community, make up one society distinct from all other creatures, and were it not for the corruption and viciousness of degenerate men, there would be no need of any other, no necessity that men should separate from this great and natural community, and associate into lesser combinations. The other power a man has in the state of Nature is the power to punish the crimes committed against that law. Both these he gives up when he joins in a private, if I may so call it, or particular political society, and incorporates into any commonwealth separate from the rest of mankind. 129. The first power- viz., of doing whatsoever he thought fit for the preservation of himself and the rest of mankind, he gives up to be regulated by laws made by the society, so far forth as the preservation of himself and the rest of that society shall require; which laws of the society in many things confine the liberty he had by the law of Nature. 130. Secondly, the power of punishing he wholly gives up, and engages his natural force, which he might before employ in the execution of the law of Nature, by his own single authority, as he thought fit, to assist the executive power of the society as the law thereof shall require. For being now in a new state, wherein he is to enjoy many conveniences from the labor, assistance, and society of others in the same community, as well as protection from its whole strength, he is to part also with as much of his natural liberty, in providing for himself, as the good, prosperity, and safety of the society shall require, which is not only necessary but just, since the other members of the society do the like. 131. But though men when they enter into society give up the equality, liberty, and executive power they had in the state of Nature into the hands of the society, to be so far disposed of by the legislative as the good of the society shall require, yet it being only with an intention in every one the better to preserve himself, his liberty and property (for no rational creature can be supposed to change his condition with an intention to be worse), the power of the society or legislative constituted by them can never be supposed to extend farther than the common good, but is obliged to secure every one's property by providing against those three defects above mentioned that made the state of Nature so unsafe and uneasy. And so, whoever has the legislative or supreme power of any commonwealth, is bound to govern by established standing laws, promulgated and known to the people, and not by extemporary decrees, by indifferent and upright judges, who are to decide controversies by those laws; and to employ the force of the community at home only in the execution of such laws, or abroad to prevent or redress foreign injuries and secure the community from inroads and invasion. And all this to be directed to no other end but the peace, safety, and public good of the people. See also: Rights of the Colonists As with the Constitution Party, the American Patriot Party opposes government recognition of same-sex unions, and believes state and local governments have the right to criminalize "offensive public sexual behavior"; Homosexuality is termed as a unnatural and mentally destructive habit that violates the natural rights of another; as its participants have the physical ability of natural relations as nature had intended, but choose or have been indoctrinated not to; This is a voluntary relinquishment of a natural right and acceptance of such, which is inconsistent with the laws of freedom, placing it within the context of both voluntary slavery and slavery. The party further opposes pornography, believing the state and local governments possess the power to take a stand against it. The party stand is to protect privacy, but also to promote local community laws that allow greater powers to victims in civil courts to prosecute sodomy and past indoctrination of the innocent so to create an unfavorable atmosphere for those who misuse, deal in and market the destruction human lives. The party maintains that citizens, local communities, county and state governments have the responsibility in preserving standards of decency in America. This is a local community, county and state power to regulate the crimes of slavery, voluntary slavery, sodomy and prostitution. Samuel Adams: Liberty will not long survive the total extinction of morals. And: As long as the people are virtuous they cannot be subdued; but when once they lose their virtue they will be ready to surrender their liberties to the first external or internal invader.... If virtue and knowledge are diffused among the people, they will never be enslaved. This will be their great security . Views gambling as a pastime that can be destructive and contributing to crime, but places it's allowance, limitations or prohibition in the hands of the states and local county communities; Such, with the power remove at a moment when a community or state finds it becomes or creates a criminal, or other aspect that is adverse their civil society; Is not opposed to state lotteries which are voluntary, for which earnings are distributed first to general health and education, then to highways. Opposed to any funds being placed into the control of private, state or federal environmental land trusts or other purchases that remove property from purchase and ownership by actual individuals; and is opposed to its use for state or local parks which should only derive their limited funds from park use (use tax) fees; That winnings are well dispersed and can never be "rolled over" but must distribute all winnings at each drawing cycle. The party supports state and local county drug laws against mind altering and recreational drugs, limiting federal anti-drug laws to illegal importation and foreign actions against smugglers of such; See: Article 1 Section 8 and Amendment 10. The party supports the right to bear arms unconditionally, and views the Second Amendment to the Constitution as restricting the federal government from establishing any restriction. The word "arms" establishes "powers", not restricted to guns. The party supports the rights of unrestricted purchase, sale, transport and carrying of all types and forms of firearms, whether concealed or not, for establishing individual security and to secure each free independent state. It further proposes the removal of the federal ATF and the USA PATRIOT Act which is an act that has absolutely nothing to do with American patriotism. The party supports strong state and local militias independent of the federal government as defined in the Constitutional debates: APP News letter referencing Constitutional Debate : MONDAY, June 16, 1788.[1 [Elliot misprinted this as Monday, June 14, 1788.] The party believes that charity is, and must be kept completely voluntary, whether state requested by ballot (if approved to ask for voluntary funds from the public) or other. The party opposes federal restrictions on, or subsidization of, medical treatments; Any such funding should be within the jurisdiction of state and local community governments through voluntary donations. The party supports English as the official language for all governmental business, opposes bilingual ballots, and insists that those who wish to take part in the electoral process and governance of the US be required to read and comprehend basic English as a precondition of citizenship.
Abortion stance
The American Patriot Party's official stance on abortion is first to defer the powers to local communities with a general opposition to both early and late-term abortions for convenience or in connection with criminal activity (prostitution). Party promotes education to victims from both church and state, and protection of victim's right to choose in the cases of rape, incest as the state cannot place itself as a third party to impose involuntary servitude of a victim in forcing the victim to serve a criminal and bare the criminal a prince and perpetuity for his crime; Establishes however that such cases must be reported early and that there is a time limit as to this protection. Protections are also extended of abortions performed to save the life of the mother or in cases of grievously deformed fetuses.
Federalism
The party supports the repeal of the Sixteenth Amendment, which allows Congress to tax individual income, as it is in direct conflict with the 17th Grievance of the Declaration of Independence which establishes taxation without consent as tyranny; The party asserts the rights of states to secede without interference from the Federal Government as clearly indicated within the Constitutional debates as a additional safeguard to their defense. See: American Patriot Party on the Foundation of Inalienable Rights Declaration of Independence: When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. This Right is actually derived from earlier rights established in the Rights of the Colonists: All Men have a Right to remain in a State of Nature as long as they please: And in case of intolerable oppression, civil or religious, to leave the society they belong to, and enter into another.-- The intent is clearly defined by the Founders. APP News letter referencing Constitutional Debate : MONDAY, June 16, 1788.[1 [Elliot misprinted this as Monday, June 14, 1788.] James Madison: An observation fell from a gentleman, on the same side with myself, which deserves to be attended to.*** If we be dissatisfied with the national government, if we "should choose to renounce {415} it, this is an additional safeguard to our defence. The party is opposed to giving social security numbers to children at birth as it is directly in opposition to the freedom of choice. See John Locke A Letter Concerning Civil Government : 118. ...that a child is born a subject of no country nor government. He is under his father's tuition and authority till he come to age of discretion, and then he is a free man, at liberty what government he will put himself under, what body politic he will unite himself to. 119. Every man being, as has been showed, naturally free, and nothing being able to put him into subjection to any earthly power, but only his own consent.
Ballot access
The American Patriot Party is not on ballot in any states to date having begun in 2003 and had begun reorganization in early 2006.
External links
- The American Patriot Party, New National website
- The Oregon Patriot Party, National State website
- CDF Civil Defense Force, Echelons
- American Patriot Party Independent States Parties
- Oregon State Elections Division of the American Patriot Party - National, State, County Candidates and Endorsements]
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