Here are some of the questions I posed on change.gov, which are more carefully worded than most of those in your candidate questionnaire:
Are you willing to support a new judicial jurisdiction to enable grand juries to investigate and expose the potentially dangerous practices of organizations too large or well-connected to fail, and not just enforce regulations for past abuses?
Are you willing to support legislation requiring voter-verifiable paper trail balloting in congressional elections?
Are you willing to support the opening of grand juries to investigate complaints of private citizens and issue indictments to them to conduct private criminal prosecutions, especially in cases of official misconduct?
Are you willing to support the return to the original standard of due process, set out in Stettinius v. United States, 22 F. Cas. 1322 (1839); 5 Cranch C.C. 573, to argue all issues of law before the jury?
Are you willing to end "civil forfeiture" without conviction of a crime, which has become a major source of corruption and abuse by officials?
Are you willing to support laws to have redistricting done at random by impersonal computer programs without undue influence by politicians on how districts are drawn, either to favor some factions or protect incumbents?
Are you willing to treat the "necessary and proper" clause of the Constitution as authorizing nothing but what it takes to administer other powers, to make an effort, and not anything convenient to get a desired result?
Are you willing to support as a 9th Amendment right the right to the means to supervise public servants by opening public operations and reporting on all operations, revenues, and expenditures?
Are you willing to repeal the unconstitutional statutes making federal reserve notes or other debt instruments legal tender on state territory, instead of gold or silver coin, or support legal tender on other hard basis?
Are you willing to repeal the unconstitutional federal "income" tax on wages, which are equal exchanges for labor and not income, and recognize that the "income tax amendment" was never actually ratified?
Are you willing to support repeal of all federal criminal legislation unconstitutionally alleged to be authorized by the "commerce clause" of the Constitution, which does not authorize criminal penalties?
Are you willing to reform judicial practice to reduce stare decisis to treat precedents as only persuasive and not binding, so that precedents do not become amendments to the Constitution, or wander like drunken sailors?
Are you willing to institute a sortition system to randomly assign judges to cases from among a large pool of candidates, to make the judiciary more independent and less susceptible to political pressure or cronyism?
Are you willing to support judicial rules that require, for any case of law enforcement, that there be strict proof of authority by an unbroken logical chain of derivation from the applicable constituton, U.S. or state?
Are you willing to treat nonstate terrorism as piracy -- warlike acts by nonstate actors -- and require either a congressional declaration or war or letters of marque and reprisal for warlike acts, by anyone?
Are you willing to support an amendment providing that citizens of territories ceded to federal jurisdictions under Art. I Sec. 8 Cl. 17 remain citizens of the ceding states for purposes of voting in federal elections?
Are you willing to repeal federal funding of "child abuse prevention", "restraining order", "juvenile detention", and other programs that divide the money among local cronies, drive abuses, and corrupt judicial process?
Are you willing to support legislation and court decisions to recognize the 9th Amendment right to a presumption of nonauthority of those |
