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Show The Paper That Dares To Take A Stand .If ) i September 22, 1972 The UTAH INDEPENDENT Page 4 A Choice on The Issues A Real PREAMBLE The American Party of the individuals right of privacy . States of America gratefully acknowledges the Lord God as the Creator, FROM CRIME The American Party pledges full support to local law enforcement in their crusade to control crime; reforms in our judicial system to provide a speedy and just determination in criminal cases; and retention of United ' and Ruler of the Universe and of the Nation, hereby appeals to Him for aid, Preserver, comfort, and continuing guidance in its efforts to preserve this nation as a government of the people, by the people, and for the people in this time of peril. The American Party speaks for the majority of Americans, the productive hard-workin- g, tax-payin- citizens who g constitute the strength of America. No other party speaks for the average American or expresses his concepts, hopes, and goals. The average man today does not think of himself -- in ideological terms, such as liberal and conservative. Rather, the average man thinks in terms of the basic problems which confront him. He is concerned with the opportunity for gainful employment, educational opportunity for his children, the safety of his wife and child on the streets of his community, an equity in taxation which makes him neither the victim of those who by refusing to work have no income to tax, or the who use tax multi-millionair- es loopholes to avoid the payment of any taxes. He is concerned use of his about the never-endin- g sons for gunfodder in futile international involvements. The platform of the American Party is a response to his desires, a voice which speaks for him as no other political party in America today so speaks. No nation can survive if it fails to meet the problems which concern the average citizen . . . To these, the great American people, we offer this platform. . . the historic constitutional right of each State and the federal government to impose capital punishment for aggravated criminal offenses . . . We support local control and financing of our local police forces and will oppose all attempts to establish federal control over them. DRUG ABUSE We oppose legalization of marijuana. We favor strong local and State laws making it a criminal offense with a mandatory jail sentence for anyone convicted of selling or supplying drugs, excepting for prescribed medical purposes. The ultimate source of most hard drugs in the United States is the poppy Helds of Red China. We deplore President Nixons failure to take any meaningful action to stop the flow of hard drugs from Red China to the United States and pledge our support to stop this assault on our American youth. RESPECT FOR LIFE The American Party recognizes that the first and most important role of government at any level is the protection of the right to life. The American Party opposes all atempts to liberalize any laws, which laws, by their very nature, protect the lives of those innocents least able to defend themselves . . . anti-aborti- on GUN CONTROL The Constitution of the LOCAL GOVERNMENT The average man in America today believes voter-controll- in local, institutions of ed government. The American Party is totally committed to the governmental framework embodied in the Constitution of the. United States with its emphasis on a maximum of individual freedom and local autonomy. INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS The American Party speaks for individual freedom . . . We shall steadfastly oppose federal legislation permitting the federal bureaucracy to tell a business man who he must hire or fire, tamper with union seniority lists and apprenticeship programs or invade the United States affords to every citizen the right to keep and bear arms. The lawless always acquire and the result of disarming our citizens, coupled with judicial emasculation of weapons local police protection, would be to leave the average citizen without protection from the lawless. We support a mandatory jail sentence for anyone using a firearm in the commission of a felony. The American Party opposes laws which would deny the right of our citizens to own firearms. WELFARE The American Party is sensitive to the needs of Americas aged, blind and disabled citizens and fully Alpine Specialty Foods Specializing in HERBS VITAMINS Professional Counselling 7793 So. State Midvale, Utah to enable those programs PROTECTION average American wage earner. supports State and local citizens to live in dignity and economic security. We are unalterably opposed to tax-support- subsidies to ed persons who refuse to work, engage in welfare fraud, or utilize their reproductive capacities for the purpose of securing ever large welfare payments able-bodie- d SOCIAL SECURITY The aged have been the .principal victims of an 'irresponsible government-fostere- d inflation. We support legislation to require the federal government to protect Social Security Funds as a special trust, using these funds solely for the purpose of providing benefits to the beneficiaries. We support the removal of the earnings limitation of 62 and over in order that they may earn any amount of additional income . . . INFLATION AGRICULTURE To protect the American farmer from unjust foreign competition, we protest foreign imports from slave nations. LABOR The American Party fully supports the advances made by the working people of America. We shall continue to support the right of workers to organize, bargain collectively, and control the internal affairs of their union organizations without federal government interference. We oppose compulsory federally enforced arbitration on local unions . . . There is no acceptable level of unemployment as is implied by the current philosophies of the Democrat and Republican Parties. The unalterable position of the American Party is that there is opportunity for full employment through the free enterprise system- - Government created the problem of inflation by deficit spending and government must be curbed in such further activity. The American Party supports all steps necessary to halt the inflationary spiral, including putting the federal government basis and on a restoring a sound monetary standard by permitting the individual citizen to own and EDUCATION The American Party fully supports the concept of quality education for every American child. We believe that education is a local responsibility and we are unalterably committed to the preservation of the Party advocates the abolition of the Federal Reserve neighborhood school without federal control or interference. We believe that the educational dollar should be spent for improved classroom instruction, not for unproductive busing of pupils for purposes of social System (a private corporation), experimentation or racial pay-as-you-- go exchange gold, and the American and with together American abolition, the such Party advocates a return to the gold standard . . . The imposition of wage and price controls, ostensibly established to curb inflation, is a fraud upon every citizen of America. We call for the removal of such fraudulent wage and price controls. . balance. We strongly affirm our opposition to such busing, and to the transfer of teachers for such purposes. We also support all necessary voluntary prayer in the public schools. We would protea the right of an individual not to participate, but do not belivc the minority has the right ot bar participation by the majority in desired religious exercises. We will resist any and all attempts by governmental agencies such as H.E.W. and the National Institute on Mental Health et al, to use our educational systems to experiment with, or capture the minds and lives of our children through such programs sex-educatio- and training experimentation. drug our schools under the jurisdiction of parents We favor placing and their local school boards, and school financing by State and local taxation. i REGIONAL GOVERNMENT The American Party is unalterably opposed to the creation of regional government entities which exercise tax and police powers without direa responsibility to the voters and the taxpayers which such agencies are alleged to serve. Too often, the objective of those seeking to create such regional bodies is the destruction or usurpation of the authority of local or State governments. In connection with necessary vigilance on the subjea of regional government, we encourage a private property owners to local collectivist planners. INTERNAL SUBVERSION. The American Party expresses its' undying opposition to the to place their children in private enforcement of the Constitution and laws of the United States. private education including tax setoffs for parents who choose criminal Communist conspiracy and, in that regard, urges the schools. the concept of SOVEREIGN SILVER ANNOUNCES THE NEW and never refuted studies establishing that if the federal government is restricted to its constitutional functions, the present income, estate and gift tax programs can be eliminated at a proven profit of approximately 20 percent to the ng a pure (99.9) silver piece I I weighing one troy oz. I LET USTLAN YOUR I STORAGE SUPPLY I Christiiseas I Penally I Storogi Svpply In the tradition of the hard" money supply once used in the United States, the EAGLE" is solid I YOUR FOOD STORAGE SPECIALISTS value. An objective value now available for the prudent investor. 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