The Citizens of the United States of America need their own version of a Magna Carta!
What sets my candidacy apart from the others in the 8th Congressional District race is:
· The Ten Commandments as a vision statement for world peace and reaffirmation of societal relationships in America.
· Using the military to secure our borders and process illegal immigration.
· Repealing the 16 th amendment to the Constitution and replacing payroll taxation with a flat tax on consumption at the time of purchase.
· Elimination of the Social Security Program for non-enrolled persons.
· Two years of national service.
· English as the only language for United States.
· Reintroduction of the military draft to meet increasing global commitments.
· Elimination of retirement benefits for Members of Congress.
The backbone of my candidacy is the Ten Commandments.
I believe it can be used as vision statement for world peace and as linchpin in American society for personal responsibility and integrity. In either situation, this document is a foundation for peaceful conduct, community stability and individual integrity by which human interaction can be easily understood and measured.
I view the role of Moses with this document as a politician who finally got fed up with petty bickering and fighting between different religious factions that was upsetting social order. So in effect, he laid down a “civil law” explaining how his conversation with God determined how various religious factions were going to conduct their relationships between each other. Perhaps this was the first example of “one upmanship,” how could one argue with God?
The statement of the first of the first four commandments was to give equal status to all religious beliefs because each was subservient to a God above all gods. The next three commandments – keep holy the Sabbath, taking the Lord’s name in vain and making graven images were admonitions on how not to use specific religious beliefs against each other. In effect, use your religious practice and times of worship for peaceful purposes, not to wage war against your neighbor; creating a basis for peaceful coexistence despite belief differences.
The remaining 6 commandments described people to people relationships and people to property relationships. These six items are the basis for all of our contracts and civil law today.
They establish - the family relationship of man and woman, relationships between families, recognize the privacy of property and labor, personal integrity and individual responsibility.
Given the disarray of international relationships and accompanying hostile conflicts, the financial misconduct of international and domestic elected leaders and corporate executives, why not use this straightforward document as a basis to start the international process to return to a peaceful world and to reestablish individual responsibility for personal conduct in society?
Congress needs to get back to legislating according to Constitutional basics: managing domestic affairs and setting the President on a better path for managing United States conduct and involvement in world commerce, treaty obligations and military commitments in foreign nations.
The relationship of the Federal Reserve, the National Security Council and the World Bank in world politics and domestic politics is frightening. Their combined actions either individually or in concert are the equivalent of financial imperialism of developing nations. These three organizations are not elected by the public and are not under the direct control of Congress. There is minimal oversight by Congress after presidential appointments are confirmed and budgets are approved. Federal Reserve pronouncements and shifts in monetary policy have domestic and world wide repercussions because the respective values of currency float in relationship to one another. The World Bank as an extension of U.S. foreign policy as determined by the National Security Council is beyond the oversight of Congress. They make loans and forgive debts of foreign nations that have tax implications for American taxpayers.
I believe our influx of illegal immigration is a result of failures of GATT, NAFTA, CAFTA and FTAA. None of these programs with all of the money that has been provided by the World Bank and devoted to infrastructure improvements in developing nations has produced either domestic stability, reduced poverty, improved health or created a middle class that is invested or committed to sustaining their homeland sovereignty.
The uncontrolled human migration from Central and South America has become the latest race card to divide Americans. The non-solution to the problem has been for the administration to shift the burden to Congress for policy development and funding. However, the preoccupation of Congress is partisan bickering that consumes time, preventing the development of a successful consensus for problem solving of illegal immigration, flow of drugs into the U.S., successful assimilation of illegals and legals and their attendant costs by receiving communities.
We are given another red herring to discuss – universal health coverage. The argument is the traditional pitting of the “haves” vs the “have not’s.”
It has become clouded because of Tort Reform and other rising costs associated with health care but not in the delivery of health care; namely: excess profits, fraud, incorrect billing and 3rd party administrative overhead.
I stand with Israel!
I stand with Israel because their struggle is America’s struggle.
I stand with Israel because their struggle is hope for the world, that belligerence is not acceptible in international relations.
I stand with Israel because they understand, as America experienced, that the cost of peace is precious. Those costs include human life lost or maimed; resources of time, talent, creativity and economic resources are redirected away from every day needs and human betterment.
I stand with Israel because they know first hand the importance of faith as the compass in time of darkness and as the last reservoir of strength when there are no other resources or friends available.
By way of contrast, in America’s current domestic and international challenges we have allowed the ACLU to break our morale compass - faith!
The ACLU has wrongly used our court system to regulate the definition of family; interfere with parental responsibility; destroy self esteem with entitlements; clog our courts with illegal immigration issues; misdirect social entitlements to non-citizens; and interfere with our military mission against the terrorists.
I stand with Americans that want to reclaim our morale compass and revalidate the principles that were the backbone of the U.S. Constitution.
I have chosen the 10 Commandments as the backbone of my campaign to be a vision statement for world peace and to address the social decay and degradation of personal responsibility brought about by the almost 80 years legal assualts on American culture by the ACLU! We should no longer endure Supreme Court decisions replacing the ballot box.
I respectfully request your voting support for my candidacy to become a Member of Congress.
I have chosen to run for Congress because I am disappointed with the lack of vigor in the representation of our voices in Washington. My candidacy is the American legacy of an interested individual making a difference for us all. I am spending less than $5000.00, the Federal Election Commission reporting amount, to demonstrate that running for Congress does not require millions of dollars.
My belief is that, “Good ideas, a well spoken message written by the candidate and hard work will get me elected!”
I am refusing any cash donations in the primary and requesting any donations be made to a community organization that is sending care packages to our military men and women. (For example, St. Gregory’s Episcopal Church in Deerfield, Illinois, where I attend, has been sending these care packages monthly for almost a year.) These exceptional Americans need all of the community support and caring we can provide.
With your cash contributions to a community organization, you will help sustain the morale of our service men and women during their difficult deployment.
With your active support, I will get elected.
Please consider these comments: Voting has always been an American citizen responsibility. The citizens of United States of America enjoy a successful democracy. To sustain these freedoms and continue the legacy for our children and returning service men and women; we all need to vote!
So, let’s validate the sacrifices of our service men and women as they commit their lives to share the value of democracy through out the world, with a 100% American voter participation!
Thank you. James Creighton Mitchell, Jr.
