| At no time since the creation of our nation have | | | | Oil Reserves: |
| we been further from the founding principles laid | | | | With the oil crisis looming over all of us, what is |
| for this great nation. The concept of limited self | | | | Mr. Baldwin's position? He stated: "...We will untap |
| government, separation of powers between the | | | | the vast reserves that reside under the soil of |
| branches of government, and the supremacy of | | | | Alaska. We have more oil under Alaska than in |
| the state and the citizen over the federal | | | | Saudi Arabia, We do not need OPEC." |
| government, seems to have been lost. | | | | "We will drill Alaskan oil, we will drill for the oil in |
| The next president of the United States will | | | | the Dakotas, we will drill for oil in the Gulf of |
| determine whether we continue down the path to | | | | Mexico." |
| certain destruction of liberty and self | | | | Law Enforcement: |
| determination, or a return toward smaller | | | | Mr. Baldwin's view on law enforcement was |
| government and increased liberty -- we cannot | | | | summed up by saying: "Law enforcement is, for |
| have both. As government grows, liberty is | | | | the most part, the property of the states and |
| diminished, because government rules by force; | | | | local communities and that's where law |
| and the more power it takes, the more force is | | | | enforcement belongs, not in Washington DC." |
| applied until only compliance to the will of the | | | | "No longer will we allow the FBI or the BLM or any |
| rulers remain. | | | | of those alphabet police agencies from |
| When making the decision of who to vote for this | | | | Washington DC to bully and to dictate local and |
| November, weigh the facts based on freedom | | | | state police agencies." |
| and responsibility. | | | | Health Care: |
| Some will tell you that casting a vote for a third | | | | Another hot topic this election year is health care; |
| party candidate is a wasted vote or a vote for | | | | Candidate Baldwin stated: "I strongly support the |
| the opposition. This is more often said by | | | | freedom of choice of practitioner and treatment |
| someone who is willing to stand up for evil. They | | | | for all citizens for their health care." |
| may also use the phrase "voting for the lesser of | | | | His web site states: "Government regulation and |
| two evils." In my opinion, voting for the lesser of | | | | subsidy constitutes a threat to both the quality |
| the two evils is still a vote for evil. We should | | | | and availability of patient-oriented health care and |
| vote our conscience based on fact and rational | | | | treatment. Hospitals, doctors, and other health |
| thought not just to be on the winning side, we | | | | care providers should be accountable to patients - |
| want to be on the side of what is right. | | | | not to politicians, insurance bureaucrats, or HMO |
| With these thoughts in mind I would like to | | | | Administrators." |
| present the positions of Candidate Chuck Baldwin | | | | His web site goes on to say: "The federal |
| to aid you in gaining that knowledge. (Wherever | | | | government has no Constitutional provision to |
| possible, I have tried to use the candidates own | | | | regulate or restrict the freedom of the people to |
| words.) | | | | have access to medical care, supplies or |
| Illegal Immigration and Border Security: | | | | treatments. I, therefore, support the elimination of |
| Mr. Baldwin has stated: "I support construction of | | | | the federal Food and Drug Administration, as it |
| a fence to secure our borders, but a Baldwin | | | | has been the federal agency primarily responsible |
| Administration will not wait for the construction of | | | | for prohibiting beneficial products, treatments, and |
| a fence in order to seal and secure our borders. | | | | technologies here in the United States that are |
| We will utilize whatever force is necessary, | | | | freely available in much of the rest of the civilized |
| including regular military personnel, to effectively | | | | world." |
| secure our borders immediately." | | | | United Nations and world courts: |
| "Employers in America who knowingly hire illegal | | | | Mr. Baldwin's position on the United Nations and |
| aliens are prosecuted to the fullest extent of the | | | | America's involvement are illustrated in his |
| law." | | | | comments as: "The United Nations will have to |
| "As President, I would enforce our visa rules. This | | | | find a new address, when I am President of |
| means anyone who overstays their visa or | | | | these United States all funding for the United |
| otherwise violates U.S. law is immediately | | | | Nations stops!" |
| deported. | | | | "I strongly oppose American participation in any |
| "There will be no "path to citizenship" given to any | | | | form of world government organization, including |
| illegal alien. That means no amnesty. | | | | any world court." |
| "I would end birthright citizenship for illegal aliens. | | | | "As President I will terminated United States |
| There would be no "anchor babies." | | | | membership in the United Nations, and its |
| "I will "support our U.S. Border Patrol, not with | | | | subsidiary organizations, and terminate U.S. |
| meaningless words, but with action." | | | | participation in all so-called U.N. peace keeping |
| "The day before my inauguration as President will | | | | operations and I would bar the United Nations, and |
| be the last day that Mr. Ramos and Mr. Campean | | | | its subsidiaries, from further operation, including |
| will have to spend in prison." | | | | the raising of finds, on United States territory." |
| Iraq War: | | | | "American troops must serve only under |
| On the Iraq war Mr. Baldwin has stated the | | | | American commanders; and as long as I am |
| following: "I would begin the process of safely | | | | President American forces will never serve under |
| extracting our troops from Iraq. In the first place, | | | | the flag of the United Nations or any foreign |
| our troops are no longer fighting a war, they are | | | | country." |
| an occupation force, which occupies a sovereign | | | | Taxation: |
| country. And this is being done without a | | | | On taxation he has stated: "When I become |
| Declaration of War." | | | | President, I will work feverishly to overturn the |
| "...the invasion and occupation of Iraq was | | | | Sixteenth Amendment, which would repeal the |
| absolutely unnecessary... President Bush should | | | | Income Tax. And, no, I would not promote a |
| have supported Ron Paul's bill, H.R. 3076, the | | | | national sales tax." |
| September 11 Marque and Reprisal Act of 2001. | | | | "I would also repeal the "death tax," inheritance |
| This is the constitutional way to deal with rogue | | | | taxes, and property taxes." |
| terrorist organizations. This is the way President | | | | "We are bankrupting our country with this |
| Thomas Jefferson responded to the Barbary | | | | incessant and burdensome tax system." |
| pirates." Which would have given "the President | | | | "I favor a tariff-based revenue system, originally |
| the authority to respond with appropriate force to | | | | implemented by our founding fathers, and which |
| those non-state actors who wage aggression | | | | was the policy of the United States during most |
| against the United States while limiting his | | | | of our nation's history." |
| authority to only those responsible for the | | | | Federal Reserve: |
| atrocities of that day. | | | | Mr. Baldwins position on the Federal reserve is: "I |
| "When I become President empire building and | | | | would work to expunge the Federal Reserve and |
| playing policeman of the world will come to an | | | | to restore the American economy to sound |
| immediate halt and the United States of America | | | | money." |
| will once again begin conducting itself as the | | | | "No system of 'debt money' should ever again be |
| Republic it was meant to be." | | | | imposed on the people of the United States." |
| The Patriot Act: | | | | "We will work to restore a debt free, interest |
| "I would repeal it." He went on to state that he | | | | free money system that works for the people of |
| believed, as did Benjamin Franklin, that those willing | | | | this country and not for the benefit of the |
| to give up liberty for security will have neither. | | | | international banking cartel." |
| The Second Amendment: | | | | "A Chuck Baldwin Presidency would signal the end |
| Mr. Baldwin's views on the Second Amendment: | | | | of the stranglehold that the modern day |
| "The Second Amendment Protects Our Liberty | | | | moneychangers have over our economy and |
| To help keep your family safe and your country | | | | provide the opportunity for a rebirth of the |
| free, go buy a gun." | | | | American dream. |
| "The right to keep and bear arms is guaranteed | | | | National Defense: |
| by the Second Amendment to the Constitution; it | | | | The following statements illustrate Mr. Baldwin's |
| may not properly be infringed upon or denied. | | | | positions on National Defense: "We will have a |
| Therefore, a Baldwin Administration will uphold the | | | | national defense that is second to none, with |
| right of the citizens to keep and bear arms and | | | | armed forces that serve only under our flag, |
| will oppose attempts to prohibit ownership of guns | | | | whose mission is to defend these United States |
| by law-abiding citizens, and, further, will stand | | | | of America." |
| against all laws which would require the | | | | "The goal of the U.S. security policy is to defend |
| registration of guns or ammunition." | | | | the national security interests of these United |
| "Judge Roy Moore, recently noted that 'Our | | | | States. Therefore, except in time of declared |
| ancestors firmly believed in God-given 'unalienable | | | | war, for the purposes of state security, no state |
| rights' and had no reservation about using guns, | | | | national guard or reserve troops shall be called |
| when necessary, to defend those rights against | | | | upon to support or conduct operations in foreign |
| tyrannical oppression. Before there was a | | | | theatres." |
| Constitution, our guns guaranteed the rights God | | | | "I will always give our troops my full support and |
| had already given us, including the right to bear | | | | will make it the highest priority of my |
| arms. The Constitution was written and designed | | | | administration to make sure that our soldiers are |
| to protect, not preclude, those very rights.' | | | | well-trained, well-equipped and well-led." |
| "In conclusion I would again quote Judge Moore, | | | | "As President I will never deploy American troops |
| who wrote, 'Liberty and freedom are gifts of | | | | into combat without a declaration of war by |
| God, and not the government. The means by | | | | Congress, pursuant to Article I, Section 8 of the |
| which we secure those gifts are ultimately in the | | | | U.S. Constitution." |
| hands and the "arms" of the people.'" | | | | "In a Baldwin Administration, the armed forces of |
| "Countless assaults against the right of the people | | | | the United States will always serve under the flag |
| to keep and bear arms by both Republicans and | | | | of the United States and the mission of our |
| Democrats over the years have taken a toll | | | | armed forces will always be to provide for the |
| through draconian gun laws and oppressive | | | | common defense for these United States of |
| legislation which has slowly and steadily chipped | | | | America." |
| away at Americans' vital, God-given right to | | | | The vast majority of the information I have |
| self-defense." | | | | found on Candidate Baldwin has shown him to be |
| Abortion: | | | | a true constitutional patriot. He shows a conviction |
| A very touchy issue of today is abortion; Mr. | | | | to the founding principles of limited self |
| Baldwin has stated the following: "I will use the | | | | government, non-interventionist position on foreign |
| bully pulpit of the Presidency to demand that | | | | affairs, and a belief in the Judeo-Christian ethic |
| Congress enact Dr. Ron Paul's Sanctity of Life Act | | | | that has made this country so great. |
| which would set forth that every unborn child is a | | | | I will not tell you who you should vote for, that |
| 'person' under the Constitution, entitled to equal | | | | decision must be made by each American citizen. |
| protection of the law and therefore, no unborn | | | | It is the responsibility of every American to be |
| child could be killed without due process of law." | | | | active in the affairs of government, to know the |
| "Under my administration, we could end legal | | | | state of the Union and the issues that confront |
| abortion in a matter of days, not decades. And if | | | | the American people. |
| Congress refuses to pass Dr. Paul's bill, I will use | | | | Once you have researched the issues and the |
| the constitutional power of the Presidency to | | | | candidates, you must weigh them against your |
| deny funds to protect abortion clinics. Either way, | | | | own beliefs, knowledge, and convictions and |
| legalized abortion ends when I take office." | | | | choose which candidate you believe supports your |
| Governmental Departments: | | | | position. Do not be swayed by the talking heads |
| Mr. Baldwin's comment concerning excutive | | | | telling you that you must vote for either |
| departments: "If I become president of these | | | | Democrat or Republic parties or you are wasting |
| United States we will see to it that the | | | | your vote. The only wasted vote is the one cast |
| Department of Education, the Department of | | | | in ignorance, for the person casting it is doing so |
| Energy, the Department of Commerce, and | | | | as if it was a lottery he hopes to win, and when |
| several other departments will be eviscerated. | | | | we look at the odds, it is not in our favor. |
| They're history!" | | | | |