Scott:
The following is from Harry Browne's 1996 LP nomination acceptance speech. The entire speech is on Harry's <a href="http://www.harrybrowne2000.org">web site.</a>
So on my first day in office, by Executive Order, I will personally:
* Pardon everyone who has been convicted on a federal, non-violent drug charge.
* Pardon everyone who has been convicted on a federal tax-evasion charge.
* Pardon everyone who has been convicted on any federal gun-control charge.
* Pardon anyone else who has been convicted of any kind of federal victimless crime.
* I will end federal affirmative action immediately. End all federal quotas, set- asides, preferential treatments, and other
discrimination practiced by the federal government.
* I will bring an immediate end to all asset- forfeiture cases, and initiate steps to make restitution to anyone whose property has
been impounded, frozen, or seized by the federal government.
* As Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces, I will quickly and completely bring all American troops back to America. Europe and Japan can pay for their own defense, and they can risk their own sons and daughters in their eternal squabbles. This alone will save billions of dollars a year in taxes, but -- more important -- it will save American lives.
* As Commander in Chief I will remove all American troops from under the command of the United Nations or any foreign power.
* Everything put into the Federal Register by previous Presidents can be taken out by this President. I will put a hold on regulatory
activities while my staff reviews the Constitutionality of all existing
regulations.
*And then I will break for lunch.
Sounds good to me. And Harry, if you're there... lunch is on me.
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How does it become a man to behave toward this American government to-day?
I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.
--Thoreau, "Civil Disobedience"
[This message has been edited by Coinneach (edited May 18, 1999).]
The following is from Harry Browne's 1996 LP nomination acceptance speech. The entire speech is on Harry's <a href="http://www.harrybrowne2000.org">web site.</a>
So on my first day in office, by Executive Order, I will personally:
* Pardon everyone who has been convicted on a federal, non-violent drug charge.
* Pardon everyone who has been convicted on a federal tax-evasion charge.
* Pardon everyone who has been convicted on any federal gun-control charge.
* Pardon anyone else who has been convicted of any kind of federal victimless crime.
* I will end federal affirmative action immediately. End all federal quotas, set- asides, preferential treatments, and other
discrimination practiced by the federal government.
* I will bring an immediate end to all asset- forfeiture cases, and initiate steps to make restitution to anyone whose property has
been impounded, frozen, or seized by the federal government.
* As Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces, I will quickly and completely bring all American troops back to America. Europe and Japan can pay for their own defense, and they can risk their own sons and daughters in their eternal squabbles. This alone will save billions of dollars a year in taxes, but -- more important -- it will save American lives.
* As Commander in Chief I will remove all American troops from under the command of the United Nations or any foreign power.
* Everything put into the Federal Register by previous Presidents can be taken out by this President. I will put a hold on regulatory
activities while my staff reviews the Constitutionality of all existing
regulations.
*And then I will break for lunch.
Sounds good to me. And Harry, if you're there... lunch is on me.
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How does it become a man to behave toward this American government to-day?
I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.
--Thoreau, "Civil Disobedience"
[This message has been edited by Coinneach (edited May 18, 1999).]