Democratic Caucuses - Let's Talk!

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Precinct Caucuses- March 21, 2006

At our precinct caucuses on March 21st, we’ll have the opportunity to submit our ideas for our Democratic Party Platform. These are my suggestions. Feedback and suggestions are welcome!

1. Be it resolved that, given the close ties between those elected officials who make policy and the beneficiaries of those policies, our military efforts shall immediately be de-Haliburtonized, that our soldiers shall resume those tasks that they have traditionally been trained to do and that these tasks shall be removed from the control of private corporations to which they have recently been outsourced.

2. Be it resolved that, given the close ties between those elected officials who make policy and the beneficiaries of those policies, our efforts supporting the reconstruction of Afghanistan and Iraq shall immediately be de-Haliburtonized, and that contracts supporting the reconstruction of Afghanistan and Iraq shall be awarded to local established corporations with established long-term residency in each separate country being restored, that an international body be created to oversee the contract issuance and work progress governed therby, and that our Armed Forces shall be repatriated as expeditiously as possible.

3. Be it resolved that the United States of America should join and support the World Criminal Court.

4. Be it resolved that all Digital Recorder Equipment used for voting in any public election must, as a minimum, produce a voter-verifiable record, meet all NIST requirements for data encryption and security, and that it be independently auditable with respect to source code, reliability, and vote integrity.

5. Be it resolved that, given the demonstrated rampant corruption of some elected officials, any official accepting a gift of value of more than $100 from a person or institution intending to affect legislation or policy shall be stripped of his or her citizenship, deprived of property, flogged naked though the streets, and sent into exile.

6. Be it resolved that any Democrat, elected to office, who supports or defends torture or lends support to those who defend the use of torture, is no Democrat. Let him be anathematized.

7. Be it resolved that any person, elected to office, who supports the enlargement of government authority at the expense of the Civil liberties outlined by the Bill of Rights, is no Patriot. Let him be cast into the outer darkness.

8. Be it resolved that, given that the surveillance of American citizens without independent oversight is unconstitutional, a Special Prosecutor shall be appointed to investigate and prosecute anyone found to have authorized such.

9. Be it resolved that individuals, without regard to citizenship or location, who under the control and authority of the United States of America shall also enjoy the Civil Liberties guaranteed by the Bill of Rights.

10. Be it resolved that Americans are responsible for their own security and that it is irresponsible and traitorous to sell that duty to corporations of other nations.

11. Be it resolved that same-sex marriage and flag desecration will not bring our nation to ruin faster than irresponsible fiscal policies, war-mongering, and a growing disparity between the desperate working poor and the influential self-serving ultra-rich. The former are red-herring issues meant to distract from the real and serious later problems. Only fools fight in a burning house.