Pubdate: Sun, 22 Sep 2002 Source: Denver Post (CO) Copyright: 2002 The Denver Post Corp Contact: http://www.denverpost.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/122 Author: Rick Stanley Note: Rick Stanley is actually running for the U.S. Senate, contrary to what the Denver Post writes. LESS GOVERNMENT Sunday, September 22, 2002 - What would electing Rick Stanley to the U.S. Senate mean to Colorado and America? First, it would break the 150-year death grip of the Democrats and Republicans on the U.S. Senate. In 2004, other third-party candidates would follow. Stanley would be the deciding vote, deciding the balance of power in the Senate. Stanley, a citizen legislator, would make those decisions based on the Constitution, not the party politics of a professional politician or a lawyer. Stanley has a job already and would only serve one 6-year term. "One-term limits" will create a government by and for the people, per our forefathers' wishes, ending the corruption, fraud and waste of the bloated federal bureaucracy. Stanley would cajole the Senate to repeal all unconstitutional laws passed in the last 150 years. Resurrecting the Constitution is the key to solving all our problems. My election would mean: The Federal Reserve Corporation, which illegally controls our money supply, would be replaced by the constitutionally correct U.S. Treasury. The $7 trillion dollar debt to the Fed would be renounced as a fraud against the American people from the 1913 selling-out of America. The Income Tax and IRS would be abolished, because that is what pays the interest fraud of the federal debt. Federal government services will be funded the same way they have been since 1776, by excise, imposts and duties. Yes, by taxes on gas, liquor, tobacco and products coming into this country. The federal government would be reduced to its constitutional boundaries of a strong military, executive, legislative and judicial branches, and it would follow constitutional principles of common law, not the admiralty martial law principles being used by government at all levels. No more police state. Citizens will be free to possess the means to defend themselves, their homes and property, without fear of being disarmed and imprisoned by government. The end of legislation regarding our individual freedoms, the right to property, free from the predatory practices of government stealing your property and locking your children up in jails for personal- responsibility issues. The end of the second Prohibition, the drug war, which is designed to perpetuate the problem, not make it go away. American sovereignty would be protected by banning the United Nations from our soil and withdrawing from its clutches. End all treaties and trade agreements, withdraw from NATO and stop wasting American assets in fruitless efforts to control other governments. Bring our troops home from the 147 countries in which they serve. Stop sacrificing our sons and daughters in wars designed to further the interests of the globalists who control our government. Stanley will get government off your back, out of your pocket, and prevent the government from taking your property. That's right: FREEDOM from government, per the Constitution. Denver businessman Rick Stanley is the Libertarian gubernatorial nominee. - --- MAP posted-by: Larry Stevens