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The Hayseed Manifesto

(received from a reader)

"Since I am one of the many little hayseed peons representing the
ideological Right, please allow me the presumption to speak for what my
fellow hayseed peons want. You could call it the 'Hayseed Manifesto':

* We want more freedom, and less watered-down socialism lobbed at us with phony labels like 'compassionate conservatism'.

* We want stricter adherence to the Bill of Rights; each and every
Amendment--including the Tenth Amendment.

* We want a smaller government, not a Federal Leviathan.

* We demand the repeal of all federal gun laws passed since 1981.

* We demand an end to the misbegotten War On Drugs.

* We want a demilitarization of the police forces in this country, and
federal reinforcement of the Posse Comitatus Act.

* We want a reversal of much of the damage done in the past decade involving Federal land grabs, national monuments, and Presidential executive orders.

* We demand the long-overdue--and long-promised--dissolution of the
Departments of Energy and Education, and we want the taxpayer funds for
National Endowment for the Arts cut off permanently.

* We have had enough of the GOP's judicial appointments, who vote on issue after issue like liberal Democrats. We want jurists who do not use the bench to make law, but instead protect the Bill of Rights.

* We demand that the 16th Amendment be repealed; effective immediately.

* We want a coherent foreign policy again; we do not trust Russia or China,
or any of their Washington apologists. We demand an immediate embargo on trade with China until such time that they learn to behave like a civilized
nation.

* We are sick to death of the dictates of the United Nations being shoved
down our throats; we demand that this meaningless international organization trouble our country no more. The only flag our soldiers should ever salute is the Stars and Stripes.

- Columnist Kevin Tuma, etherzone.com