The 28th Amendment features
the following laws: Public funding of all federal and state
elections, Gun Ownership Rights
Amendment, Gay Rights Amendment, End Birthright Citizenship Amendment. The
other laws in the platform are sunset laws for all federal programs and
agencies, $15/hr. Minimum Wage, Tea Party tax reform VAT tax, civil rights
Black Lives Matter, education reform free junior college, one year government
service at 18, women’s health initiative, Occupy Wall Street financial reform, civil
liberties internet users bill of rights, immigration reform, population
stabilization goals, child protection Act, employment on demand, national
energy plan, national industrial and trade policy, drug treatment on demand and
decriminalization pilot program, end nonlethal weapons human experimentation
28th Amendment platform to renew the American Dream: The
following laws are promises to action that shall apply to all candidates who
wish to ride the coattails of the 28th Amendment. These issues are
designed to maximize voter participation and alter the political landscape over
the course of several election cycles. These proposals are also a call to arms
for civil disobedience.
28th Amendment will publically fund all state and
federal elections, not to exceed a reasonable number of candidates per office.
Elections will utilize the public airwaves, internet, (other) to reach the
largest number of citizens. Elections will take place during a finite period of
time, not to exceed one year. The current system of legalized bribery and
extortion is ended. All public officials who solicit or accept bribes shall be
punished to the fullest extent of the law. Current legislative and other favors
for the understanding or accomplishment of future employment shall be
adjudicated as bribery. All public business shall be transacted transparently
on publically funded property using means paid for by the tax payer. These same
communications and transactions of public business shall be made part of the
public record within 12 years. Willful evasion of transparency constitutes a
violation of law.
Gun Ownership Rights: The Second Amendment is open to
interpretation and is thus tenuous in its provisions. The Amendment to the
Constitution shall codify for all time that all adult citizens shall enjoy the
right of firearm ownership. A gun safety test and written test shall be given,
not to exceed the rigors of the standard automobile license written and driving
test. A state ID will be issued. Persons who wish to own present day legal
military rifles may do so, but must pay a standard yearly fee, not to exceed
the standard cost of the weapon. All persons who have completed US military
training and service are exempt from paying said fee. All gun sales and thefts
shall be reported. Citizens who have been declared mentally incompetent by a
judge must surrender all weapons until the state determines otherwise. Persons
during divorce or separation may have their weapons temporarily taken. Persons
convicted of serious felonies such as assault with a deadly weapon, armed
robbery, illegal possession of a firearm, or other high crimes SHALL
permanently forfeit their gun ownership rights. Cities with a population over
100,000 persons shall prohibit the carrying of firearms of any kind, and may
prohibit all firearm ownership, subject to a felony not to exceed five years
for the first offense. Noninvasive methods of search and detection may be used
to enforce the firearm laws of the city, excepting those methods that pose a
significant health risk. The city government, in coordination with the state,
may issue individual carry permits as they see fit, subject to revocation at
will. The federal government will assist said cities using gun buyback programs
and relevant technologies for passive firearm detection. All ammunition MAY be
fingerprinted or tagged in a manner to allow law enforcement to trace criminal
evidence back to the person who purchased to ammunition.
Gay Rights: all citizens are due equal
protection under the law, including all persons of differing sexual
orientations. This shall include freedom from employment discrimination, as
well as housing, education, and all aspects of public and private life. Sexual
relations between consenting adults shall not be criminalized.
Birthright Citizenship: Birthright Citizenship is revoked:
All persons born to American citizens are naturalized citizens. All persons
born in the US to persons who are not American citizens are not automatically
naturalized citizens. Citizenship is a right and a precious commodity that
shall not be conferred without cause and due process.
Sunset law provisions for all state and
federally funded agencies and programs. Every 12 years each agency must perform
for a designated special commission a self-review of its roles and responsibilities,
including areas where its duties may overlap those of other agencies and the
effect of the agency's loss of funding. The commission may recommend that an
agency be continued in its present form, make recommendations to the
legislature for improvement, consolidate it with another agency, or abolish it,
with its duties either eliminated or transferred to other agencies. This
applies to all government agencies except universities, courts, agencies
established by the Constitution.
One year government service at 18, individual choices for military home guard, international
humanitarian, civilian conservation corps, medical corps, domestic community
service, other. Trade 2yrs of service for 4yrs of college.
Education reform, free junior college to job site
program partnership industry and government pipeline to work. The government
will coordinate with industry the number and type of workers needed for a four
year plan. Government will use the junior college and university system in
tandem with high schools to recruit, educate, train, and supply the number and
type of workers requested by industry. The program will be paid for by the
government and upon completion the employers and employees together will split
25% of the cost of the program. Top 15% of all students go to college, early
graduation at 16 (must pass the GED), free junior college and four year state
school. (Standard IQ tests and academic scores). Junior college tuition is free
for all in state students, paid for 80% by government.
$15/hr. minimum wage, increase $2 per year until $15 is
reached for employers with 80 or more employees. Employment upon demand, right to work for homeless and unemployed
adults and youths. Scale up a program to employ all people in the community seeking
work, from both private and public employers. Wages will be less than minimum
wage so as not to compete with the private sector. 90 day probationary period
applies, three strikes and you’re out. Every two years the bottom 10%, least
effective and productive programs shall be terminated and funding reallocated
to other employers and programs. Once this program is in place elements of the
current welfare state shall be phased out where possible without widespread
hunger and deprivation resulting.
Industrial policy will encourage and subsidize the
return of domestic manufacturing of strategic technology goods, computers,
electronics, aviation, communications, others, using tax policy, energy policy,
and employee training programs. All reasonable efforts shall be made to reindustrialize
a significant portion of the economy and workforce to enhance national security
and economic wellbeing. Where applicable, in the future a carbon tax MAY be
applied to foreign goods produced using fossil fuels such as coal and oil, or
producing widespread deforestation or other similar environmental impacts.
Trade agreements MAY be unilaterally modified using the 50% rule. Domestic
industries deemed too important to lose, after careful consideration, will be
given a protected 50% share of estimated historical/future domestic demand. The
estimated dollar value will be offset by allowing the affected trade partners
the same prerogative, shielding up to 50% of a protected good, be it
agriculture, textiles, electronics, or other. Existing trade authorities will
arbitrate the offsets and estimated values. Infrastructure projects will be
funded to replace and rebuild our neglected bridges, water treatment
facilities, and inner city mass transit projects such as subways and next
generation mass transit.
Occupy Wall Street, Glass Stiegel law reinstated,
offshore corporate untaxed profits repatriation, end flash trading/computerized
trading. Corporations are not people under law. Prosecute 2008 illegal market
activity, financial crimes shall be punished with jail, not just fines. Corporate
death penalty for worst felony repeat offenders. Greater federal subsidies for
universities, 0% loans for university students. Institute more progressive
taxation on billionaires. Employ a small transaction tax for trades on the
stock market. Exclude for profit schools from government funds, including government
student loans.
Black Lives Matter: Top 10% of all inner city minority
and disadvantaged students go to magnet schools, then college, free junior
college and four year state school. (IQ and academic performance). Police body
cameras mandatory, citizen review board MAY fire bottom 1% of police (complaints
and reviews) each year with no return to policing allowed, nonlethal tetanizer
technology use instead of tasers, dedicated mental illness squads, martial arts
proficiency mandatory, retraining on use of force, investigations on all use of
force/deadly force by outside prosecutor similar to an external internal
affairs division. All police officers must complete at least two years of
college education to be considered for employment in a major metropolitan area.
All relevant public records made public within one year. Legalize small amounts
of controlled substances and fully fund drug treatment programs. Establish a
pilot program similar to that of Portugal where illegal drugs are made legal
within a certain jurisdiction and people have access to illegal drugs derived
from plants. Making drugs a public health issue, delivering treatment upon
demand, including free 40 day detox and treatment for all persons under 21
years of age as a cost effective means of approaching the drug epidemic. Since
resources are finite, any adult who has completed three attempts at treatment
is no longer eligible for free treatment.
Tea Party tax reform, IRS reforms, 4 tier system, personal
income: 0, 15%, 25%, 35%, above $1 Billion 50%, only one home deduction,
medical/child 100%, casualty loss, period. Estate taxes remain, above $100
million 90%. Enforcement and collection of corporate tax provisions. A VAT tax
will be implemented on consumption (food and medicine are exempt) to replace
payroll tax.
Voting Rights: The tradition of one man one vote
shall be affirmed. Laws that exclude and discriminate shall be null and void. A
national holiday shall be created to allow maximum participation. All voting
systems shall be designed to be verifiable and foolproof, one example would be
a skew number that is detachable to be retained by the voter, and can be
checked against a paper ballot and can be checked online. Gerrymandering is
illegal, representative districts must be created using the fewest number of
sides or lines possible, specifically a rectangle is the preferred shape. The
purposeful or systematic disenfranchisement of voters using gerrymandering or other
means of voter suppression shall be proscribed by law. Public officials who
actively suppress voter participation shall be held liable to criminal and
civil penalty.
Women’s Health Initiative, women shall receive access to
subsidized child care, neonatal program, extended paid family leave for both
parents, health care programs designed to promote optimal health outcomes for
women. Teenage pregnancy shall be discouraged by early education and birth
control options. Two parent families are preferable for economic reasons and
for child development, and shall be actively encouraged through incentives.
Stated plainly, the state should normalize marriage in the interests of greater
social harmony, and in the face of unacceptable levels of childhood poverty.
Immigration Reform Act, Citizenship in a Democratic
Republic is a priceless right that shall not be given heedlessly to anyone
without careful consideration. Northern Command shall deploy such forces as
needed to secure the southern and or northern border and when certified that
the border control is 99% effective then further reforms shall commence. All
persons in the United States illegally shall register within a 6 month time
frame to be considered for naturalization. Any person who fails to register in
time shall be deported. All persons who entered and are here illegally within
the last ten years 2005 (10yrs) shall be deported without exception. All
persons here illegally with a history of criminal activity or criminal
enterprises and organizations shall be deported. All persons who were born
outside the US and who engage in a systematic pattern of criminal behavior or
who associate with known criminals or criminal enterprises and organizations
shall be deported. All persons here illegally for more than ten years who have
learned English, established a credible work history, and have shown a
willingness to assimilate into American life shall be naturalized within two
years. A national registry shall be created to establish legal citizenship and
all employers shall determine legality in good faith. Failure to do so incurs a
fine and jail time for repeat offenses. All minors here illegally who have
completed five or more years in the school system shall receive citizenship
pending relevant issues related to criminal activity. All said minors who have
completed five years of school who have since reached legal age shall be
granted citizenship pending relevant issues related to criminal activity. No
said minors shall remain if their parents are judged illegal (10 years) excepting
those who procure legal guardians who are citizens or eligible and expectant
for naturalization. Special immigration courts will be established to expedite
these determinations. Judges will be granted reasonable leeway to decide the
merits of individual cases. These determinations may also be made in other
courts. Laws may be enacted restricting the use of public and private
facilities to persons who are here illegally, not to include schools or
hospitals. All foreign born criminals (felons) and those criminal persons in
the US illegally who are inhabiting US jails and prisons, including those
subject to removal, shall become the responsibility of the US government, and
shall be held at federal expense in dedicated federal facilities until such
time as their sentences are served, whereupon they shall be deported. It is
vitally important to the security of the state and its citizens that a large
racial underclass of poor disenfranchised and alienated people shall not be
created. This process is known as Balkanization and is a danger to a free
society. Assimilation, intermarriage, education, and upward social mobility are
the key to avoiding the creation of separate societies that may at some point
conflict. These four aspects shall be encouraged wherever possible in US policy
pertaining to immigration.
Population, immigration, and child
friendly government laws: The people of United States wishing to be responsible and preserve
their quality of life have determined to reduce population expansion and to
stabilize the domestic population near the current level. It is not in the best interests of the people of
the US to become a country of one billion people. The value of human life, like
any precious commodity, goes down as the supply rises. All family and child
related policies will reflect the goal of a birth rate that is at or near
replacement. Immigration policies will become more selective, identifying
skills, knowledge, and abilities that are advantageous to society that may be
sought and easily incorporated. Less emphasis will be given to those immigrants
without the educational and professional attainments judged to be desired.
Educational opportunities for foreign students need not be impeded and should
instead be encouraged as a means of accomplishment and assimilation. Tax
policies, child care opportunities and employment practices shall reflect an
emphasis upon enabling families to more easily shoulder the economic and other
burdens of child birth and child rearing. Two parent families will be
encouraged through positive inducements, and the same positive incentives will
be used to encourage the ideal number of children per couple to realize
population stabilization. Social harmony and standard of living increases are
the goals and outcomes of wise social policy. Assimilation of immigrant
populations and upward social mobility of minority groups will also increase
social harmony. Creation of a vast minority underclass is divisive and
dangerous. Twenty years of stable social structure and policy are designed to
optimize the wellbeing of American society and can only be evaluated over the
course of a generation.
Internet user’s bill of rights, personal privacy statute, personal
information and electronic data are the property of the individual period. Any
and all contracts that do not state clearly in as few words as possible what
the individual receives in return for their personal information are void. All
searches and seizures must be by a warrant. All government security agency and
corporate stored data must otherwise remain private, be kept for 10 years, and
then be destroyed at the conclusion of the 10 year government census. Exceptions
being, after ten years a sealed “time capsule” may be created to be opened in
100 years. Other exceptions, individual names and personal identification can
be removed and data retained for medical study, demographic and historical
needs that show great societal benefit.
Child Protection Act: All convicted adult persons who
engaged in sexual intercourse with a child of ten years or younger (or a
prepubescent child) shall automatically be remanded to a dedicated secure
facility for life, excepting the eventual acquiescence of a certified panel of
experts, the chief law enforcement officer, and governor of the state in
question. A federal DNA database shall be created of all arrested individuals
and these profiles will be stored offline, separately from the names, in two
distinct locations to avoid theft. It will be compulsory to check the database
for all robberies, rapes, and murders. All existing DNA evidence will be
processed using federal funds. All murders and rapes in the US shall be subject
to a federal reward system leading to the arrest and conviction of the
perpetrator. This reward will be void in the case of the reward itself being
the motive or a motive for the crime in question. The final determination of
said reward shall be the Attorney General of the United States.
End nonlethal weapons crimes: Cease crimes by the 704th Military Intelligence
Brigade and the assault on civil society by government. Nonconsensual human
experimentation is being used to test, develop, and perfect anti-personnel
weapons using political activists and whistleblowers. These crimes are a
continuation of human experimentation used to develop nuclear, biological, and
chemical weapons by the DOD going back to the WWII era. Enforce laws that are
true to the Nuremberg Code pertaining to human experimentation. Create a
Congressional commission to hold public hearings. The 704th MIB SHALL revert to
civilian control under the ultimate control and direction of the President of
the United States. A truth and reconciliation commission shall be formed, hold
hearings, receive testimony, and issue a final report.
Next generation energy initiative, All life comes down to energy
systems. It is necessary that the United States possess and operate the most
modern, efficient, and productive form of energy generation that current
technology can supply. The reasons are economic, technological, geopolitical,
and environmental. To wit the federal government will form a government
consortium, a 51/49% public private company to design build and operate 6th
generation nuclear power reactors along the lines of the MSR molten salt
reactors first used experimentally in the US in the 1950’s and 60’s. A single
standardized design of said type of reactors will be built, one that is
certified by the US Dept. of Energy. The
government will mine, refine, and control the fuel supply, sufficient to supply
at least 50-70% of the nation’s electrical energy. The remaining energy will be
created using renewable sources such as hydro, solar, wind, and geothermal. The
MSR design does not produce weapons grade material, is impossible to “melt
down”, and can use existing nuclear waste as fuel that is thereby rendered comparatively
harmless. Electricity costs will be heavily subsidized for a number of years.
These same plant designs shall be exported to other nations to replace the use
of coal and similar fossil fuels. Their construction and operation will be
subsidized by the international community and all user costs will be negligible
for the initial period. Imported energy will be subject to a carbon tax. Energy
export infrastructure for oil and natural gas will be subsidized to supply
allied nations and maintain low prices for fossil carbon energy
internationally.
Marshall
Gregory Thomas 11/13/15
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