Alan Keyes/the Declaration Alliance

reading email from another perspective is interesting. the following is a summary from the pages i ran from the Declaration Alliance which declares the "glorious Declaration of Independence is the American creed of our civic religion"

the site is interesting and should provoke some deep thought. Alan Keyes provides a basic working agenda for the alliance. check the site for more and do some research of your own

some of the declaration alliance's main points were interesting if not controversial; some are fairly sane, even correct and/or acceptable; some cause concern by what is NOT stated. my favorite quotations are 4, 7, 9, 12, 13, 14, 18, 19, 20, 21. possibly many could be starting points for a discussion. for instance, if sexual orientation is a behavior problem, how are behavior problems treated? jail, ostracism, surgery, death, fines...



1. "as a free people, our way of life depends upon certain moral ideas". as a matter of personal conscience" Keyes believes that "Christianity most perfectly embodies those ideas"

2. the Declaration "makes a clear statement about the ultimate source of authority" for rights. "God, the Creator, the author of the laws of nature, is that source"

3. "...the income tax itself must be abolished because it is incompatible with the moral self-government of a free people"

4. "the income tax is an inherently communistic tax, . . ."

"the elimination of the income tax will make tax-privileged 'retirement' accounts irrelevant--all savings will be tax free. so while we favor the transitional policy of replacing Social Security with individually-controlled tax-free investment accounts, the ultimate solution to the problem of long-term and retirement savings is to return responsibility for this crucial function to the citizens. . . "

"the the income tax is a 20th century socialist experiment that has failed"
[hence the desire to repeal the amendment]

5. "as long as our courts sanction murder in the womb, our justice system will be filled with the consequences of violence in our streets, schools, workplaces, and homes"

6. "our nation cannot succumb to the sophistries of those who would allow the withering of our essential liberties in the pursuit of security or material success"

7. "medical procedures resulting in the death of the unborn child, except as un unintended consequence of efforts to save the mother's physical life, are impermissible"

8. "we need the family farm for its indispensable value in sustaining our nation's strong moral character"

9. "we..oppose as unconstitutional and undeclarationist the McCain/Feingold/Shays-Meehan bill signed by Pres. George W. Bush, and we urge all grassroots Americans to lobby tenaciously for its rejection at the U.S. Supreme Court"

"there must be no financial contributions whatsoever from any entities that are not actual, breathing voters"

10. "The World Trade Organization undermines America's sovereign international economic interests"

11. "...we cannot stand with those so-called conservatives who believe that 'free trade'is more important than free government, or the 'fiscal conservatives' who seem to believe that money and economic advantage matter more than our right to constitutional, elective self-determination. Trade socialism must be defeated root and branch, even when it is called 'free trade'

12. "the root principle of a government guarantee of health care is that we are not a self-governing people, but must have the necessities of our lives provided by the government. If we accept this principle, there is no natural limit to the corrosive solicitude of government" [i like that phrase corrosive solicitude]

13. "the government of the U.S. should not have 'medical research priorities'"

14. "it is wrong to treat sexual orientation like race, for race is a condition beyond the individual's control. sexual orientation, however, involves behavior, especially in response to passion.

15. "our leaders have failed in one of their most basic constitutional responsibilities--to provide for the common defense--because too many special interests profit from open borders. illegal immigration is excused for economic reasons"

16. "disruption of the right of property is threatened additionally by the so-called 'rights' of animals, trees, and streams than on the legitimate and essential needs of mankind--extreme notions that increasingly strip human beings of normal and reasonable economic opportunity"

17. "'separation of church and state' doctrine is a misinterpretation'. . .the 1st amendment 'does not forbid all religious influence upon politics or society'

18. "a strong case can be made..that it is a fundamental DUTY of the free citizen to keep and bear arms"

"..a people that cannot be trusted with guns cannot be trusted with the much more dangerous powers of self-government. the gun control agenda is thus an implicit denial of the human capacity for self-government and is tyrannical in principle"

"if we make the judgment that our rights are being systematically violated, we have not merely the right, but the duty, to resist and overthrow the power responsible"

19. "government money is increasingly used to enforce a low quality, crass form of vocationalism in the School-to-Work scheme. . ."

"we must break the government monopoly on public education"

20. "a national sales tax would put the American citizen back in control of fiscal policy. the best way to curtail government spending is to cut taxes, because they can't spend what they don't get. with a sales tax, we could deny funds to a spendthrift government--and give ourselves a tax cut--whenever we make the private choice to alter our spending and saving habits."

21. "it is more important that the US should survive in freedom than that the United Nations should survive at all" [sounds like Angle doesn't it?]

22. "we must end government programs like the family-destroying welfare system and sex-education courses that encourage promiscuity"