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Join thousands of other Americans for Human Rights and sign Human Rights First’s petition to the presidential candidates asking them to commit to ending policies that have led to torture and tarnished the United States:
Elect to End Torture 08 is a nonpartisan campaign to make sure that the next President puts an end to policies allowing torture and cruel treatment and adopts a strong national security policy that is consistent with the laws and values of our nation.
Let’s get this monster out of office.
The Liberty Amendment? Huh? I had never heard of it, until I stumbled across it on digg.com.
Essentially, the proposed amendment would:
give back to the Constitution its full force and effect in limiting the powers and activities of the Federal Government and restoring those powers reserved to the States and to the people.
The text of the amendment reads as follows:
Section 1. The Government of the United States shall not engage in any business, professional, commercial, financial or industrial enterprise except as specified in the Constitution.
Section 2. The constitution or laws of any State, or the laws of the United States shall not be subject to the terms of any foreign or domestic agreement which would abrogate this amendment.
Section 3. The activities of the United States Government which violate the intent and purpose of this amendment shall, within a period of three years from the date of the ratification of this amendment, be liquidated and the properties and facilities affected shall be sold.
Section 4. Three years after the ratification of this amendment the sixteenth article of amendments to the Constitution of the United States shall stand repealed and thereafter Congress shall not levy taxes on personal incomes, estates, and/or gifts.
Very interesting. I don’t know if I could even imagine the impact! Apparently, nine states have already endorsed it, which is a good sign. Unfortunately, there are only four years left to take action.
So, without further ado…
Check out the Liberty Amendment site, and take action today:
Cut and paste the contents of the Liberty Amendment - Sample Letter into your email program, modify appropriately, and send to your Senators and Representatives today!
Please note: most of these politicians make it really hard to contact them. You’re supposed to use the contact forms on their sites. Direct emails I’ve sent have been rejected.
I’m ever surprised and disappointed by the lack of voter turnout. It just seems silly that people choose not to vote, for whatever reason, then spend their lives complaining about the very things they could have voted about.
Perhaps we take things for granted in this country. Perhaps if we lived under a dictatorship we might realize what we had…
On a positive note, it was nice to see a line of unregistered first-time voters stretching out of the voting hall. There is hope.
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