Tuesday, March 06, 2007

Out of Date, but I'd have joined The REVOLUTION®

Details of the Platform at the link...

INTRODUCTION to The REVOLUTION®:
"The Revolution is a broad-based, non-ideological anti-authoritarian political party/organization. If even the alternative parties like Libertarian and Green seem a bit rigid to you, consider joining us."
15 Point Party Platform for National Politics

# Convert to clean energy now!

# Drug peace! We call for an immediate end to the War on Drugs...

# We will repeal twice as many laws as we pass.

# End corporate rule!

# Radical simplification and reform of the tax system: We call for an end to all Federal Personal Income taxes on an individual's first $100,000 of income...

# You can't own the human genome.

# Close down the prison/industrial complex. Pardon all prisoners who are in for victimless crimes, provided they have no known history of violent activities. Pardon all prisoners listed with Amnesty International.

# Defend civil liberties. For the first time in recent memory, let's have a federal government that respects The Constitution and The Bill of Rights.

# Stop the war on youth. It's time to end absurd zero-tolerance policies in schools, curfews, and other impositions of martial law on the youth of America.

# It's time for a new globalism.

# Stop policing the world.

# Emphasize human rights in foreign policy, and be consistent about it.

# Close down the National Security State. Since the end of World War II, representative democracy has been hostage to the National Security State.

# Put environmental concerns before profits and jobs. On the other hand, put scientific consensus and reason ahead of emotion-based environmentalism.

# Open federally-funded birth control clinics all across the country...

# Allow 'autonomous zones.' Offer ways in which localities and even households can -- with a very few limits -- opt out of the system.

# Study the possibility of replacing demeaning welfare by using government to create an ultimately self-sustaining 'generic' maintenance economy.

# Study the possibility of restructuring the economic/money system toward making money consistent with actual value in an age where money-as-information is excessively abstracted from the creation of real wealth and unfairly favors those who know how to manipulate it.

# Fund a 'Manhattan Project Toward Utopia.'

# Victory Over Horseshit! The political process in America is hostage to certain obvious absurdities that are an embarrassment before the civilized world... Let's have a national government that calls ridiculous horseshit what it is."

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