Which candidate can provide what an independent voter wants? While I don’t speak for any other independent voter, I can speak to my own wants for my country.
I want to be safe from my own government’s intrusion into my emails, telephone calls, financial affairs, and other elements of my privacy.
I want to be secure in my possessions knowing that no one can ’sneak and peak’ in my house without probable cause.
I want National Security Letters to be illegal.
I want the Department of Homeland Security to be reduced in scope and law enforcement actions not related to legal and illegal entry removed from their purview.
I want action to restore habeas corpus for any person apprehended on American-controlled territory unless they are designated prisoners-of-war. This includes embassies, military bases, rented or ceded land to the American government, and foreign land under military jurisdiction.
I want prisoners-of-war to be foreign individuals that are defined by their attacks, plans, intents, and commission of acts against the United States regardless of nationality, ethnicity, race, or religion.
I want charges brought against any detainee under US control, anywhere they are held or detained, within 30 days of the start of their control by US officials. I accept that prisoners captured on a battlefield will undergo a military tribunal to ascertain their threat. Once identified as prisoner-of-war, criminal, or designated as no threat then all international treaties signed by the US government are in force.
I want military personnel to guard government personnel. No security contractors.
I want rendition to be a covert operation and not a routine matter as it is today.
I want a constitutional amendment on privacy.
I want the borders controlled from intrusion by smugglers, refugees, and illegal entrants.
I want to wear my shoes the whole time I am in the airport.
I want my country safe from its own government again.
I want a review of President Bush’s instructions and decisions, secret and otherwise, by a joint legislative and judicial committee with public disclosure of unconstitutional and illegal decisions issued (or applied).
I want a balanced budget.
I want a reduction in national debt.
I want corporate welfare reduced 25% in 4 years.
I want foreign aid reduced 25% in 4 years.
I want an Alternative Minimum Tax applied to corporations. Let the Board of Directors reduce CEO salaries to pay for it.
I want an independent judicial oversight body created to handle ethics violations in Congress.
I want 3 Senators per state, one which is appointed by the State , and two elected as they are now.
There are more ‘wants’, but I think this is enough for the next four years.
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Robert Villa // September 9, 2008 at 8:54 pm
(1.) I want American middle class to be able to make a better living.
(2.) Our military be given the necessary weapons to do a excellent job. Do not have there hands tied behind their back.
(3.) I want a safe entrance and exit path for our military in time of war.
(4.)Take care of our troops when they come home. Make sure they have the necessary medical help they need.
(5.) Corporate America get so many breaks to operate.
(6.) Find every source of energy so we are not dependent on foreigners.
(7.) Make Congress and the PRESIDENT understand they work for the AMERICAN PEOPLE.
(8.) Never to have our American People have to choose between gas or food to survive.
(9.) To Limit Lobbyist in Congress.
(10) We make the media understand that the American People’s money should help to make our people and nation prosperous. And not to make people think they should not be able to be helped by their govt.
(11.) Let Congress to keep their hands out of Social Security and to put the money back into Social Security if they borrow money from it.
(12.) We need change for a no do Congress, They have to listen to the people
ReasonableCitizen // September 10, 2008 at 5:22 am
That is a good list. Thanks for stopping by.