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Constitution Party's Peroutka vows to stop procedure on '1st day in office'
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Posted: May 28, 2004
1:00 a.m. Eastern
By Ron Strom
© 2004 WorldNetDaily.com
Constitution Party presidential candidate Michael A. Peroutka is making an extraordinary campaign promise: He vows to end abortion on his "first day in office."
Describing himself as 100 percent pro-life with "no exceptions," Peroutka, a lawyer by profession, explained his plan to WorldNetDaily.
Peroutka claims that, despite the landmark Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade, abortion is "already against the law."
"What is lacking is really a commitment to end abortion, not the tools and the ability to do it," he told WND.
To end abortion "immediately," he said, the president would simply have to declare the personhood of the unborn from the moment of conception. The executive branch, which holds the law-enforcement function of government, could then enforce that personhood through the U.S. attorneys, he says.
After making the declaration of personhood, Peroutka explains, he would then appoint new U.S. attorneys throughout the nation, as did President Clinton upon entering the presidency.
"U.S. Attorneys could be appointed who understood that the unborn child is a person under the Fifth Amendment and shall not be deprived of life, liberty or property without due process," he said. "So I believe that it is doable on Day 1."
The candidate says the new government lawyers would then "prosecute those who would deny that personhood," such as operators of abortion clinics.
The personhood declaration could be accomplished, he said, through an executive order.
Regarding the Roe v. Wade decision, Peroutka said, "[Majority opinion writer Justice] Blackmun said that if the unborn were declared to be a person, that would be the end of the issue they couldn't be deprived of life without due process."
Since abortion, according to Peroutka, is already against the law, he says a Human Life Amendment to the Constitution is not needed.
"What we need to do is return to a proper understanding of what the Constitution already says," he stated.
Peroutka declared his position on abortion in a speech announcing his candidacy in February: "As president, I would do everything in my power to end the national disgrace of abortion."
Claiming President Bush has failed to do enough for the unborn, Peroutka declared: "On abortion, a president particularly a Christian president should use his bully pulpit to change public and congressional opinion. And as president, I would do this."
Originally posted by rtwngAvngr
What is his foreign policy?
Would you begin the immediate pull-out of all military from Iraq?
Simply yes, we will begin the immediate removal of all troops, in all 152 countries in which they are presently engaged in "police action" or active warfare, under United States command or foreign command. It is that simple. I provided to www.vote-smart.org the following statement:
Article I §8 of the U.S. Constitution does not grant to Congress the power of "nation building." No where in the entire charter was any branch of Government, not even the President, granted the authority to intermeddle with the affairs of one nation for the benefit of these United States. If I am elected President, I will heed the advice of our first President, George Washington, given in his Farewell Address of September 19, 1796:
Observe good faith and justice toward all Nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all. Religion and morality enjoin this conduct; and can it be that good policy does not also enjoin it?...
In the execution of such a plan, nothing is more essential than that permanent, inveterate antipathies against particular Nations and passionate attachment for others should be excluded ...
The Great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign Nations is in extending our commercial relations to have with them as little political connection as possible. So far as we have already formed engagements let them be fulfilled, with perfect good faith. Here, let us stop.
American foreign policy will no longer include so many foreign entanglements, and the children within these United States will not be committed to engage in a war to "free" any people. No longer will these United States seek regime change nor the concept of spreading democracy through warfare.
What are your views on taxes?
As Justice Marshall said, The power to tax involves the power to kill. State and federal governments get you when you earn a living by a confiscatory tax on your income. The only way to evade that tax is to become jobless. While not the federal government, State and local governments tax your property. Since you are a physical being, you must reside somewhere. The only way to evade that tax is to become homeless, or cease to exist.
The two keys of governmental taxation in America are taxations on necessity you have to work and you have to live somewhere. Such taxation is contradictory to the dignity of human life and unConstitutional. The Congress was never authorized to commit a direct taxation.
Furthermore, since some people earn more, and others own more, they pay more in taxation but receive no greater benefit or rights from the government. This is taxation without representation.
What is more offensive, those who are on the dole have representation without taxation, which is as offensive to American governance as the cry of our Founders.
How will you fund the Federal government?
If the United States government would resolve itself to do nothing more that what is Constitutionally permissible, it could easily be funded with an import tariff. Perchance there is a deficit, the Constitutional remedy would be to apportion the deficit amongst the states.
Are you Tough on Crime?
The United States Constitution only gave the Federal government power over three areas the punishment of counterfeiting, felonies on the high seas and treason. Everything else is properly within the jurisdiction of state and local governments.
However, it is inherently contradictory to the dignity of human liberty to cage a man for his life as punishment. I would encourage the States to establish Justice in their criminal system by establishing the policy that crimes should be remedied by restitution or execution.
Do you support a popular vote or the electoral college?
One of the genius actions of our Founders was the creation of the Electoral College. But that has been perverted by vocal minorities in consolidated population centers. However, the solution is not to move toward a popular vote. It is rather to embrace the Electoral College as it was conceived.
Do you remember that USA Today red and blue map after the 2000 elections? It was the major cities in the States of New York, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, &c. that made those States cast 100% of their electoral vote to the Democrat nominee. If the States would honor their local principles, they could simply apportion their electors by Congressional District. That way, one heavily partisan population center cannot impose its opinion on the rest of the State.
Will you secure the borders?
Please see my filmed position statements on immigration. However, briefly I can tell you this the borders will be secure. If necessary, I will build a wall on the Southern border to prevent illegal aliens from overrunning our Southwest, putting an enormous burden on the border States.
The INS will be required to deport any illegal alien upon finding him within these United States.
How much property should the Federal government own?
No more that what is Constitutionally permissible, which is to say whatever is necessary to house our military and the 10 square miles that now composes Washington, D.C. Thus, the livelihood the citizens will be secured from a federal take-over of their land.
Originally posted by rtwngAvngr
Oh I see he WILL put Israel, a true ally, on an equal footing with terrorist sponsoring nations. What a bad, bad idea.
Originally posted by NewGuy
No, he will stop FUNDING them. As it says, trade is a different issue than charity.
Originally posted by rtwngAvngr
They'll be wiped out without our military funding. I'm talking about funding too. I'm not referring to trade.
Originally posted by NewGuy
If America and the EU continue down the current path, what makes you think the outcome will be any different?
Originally posted by rtwngAvngr
The fact that I don't believe in fate. I see your emphasis on biblican prophecy for what it is, an attempt to reduce americans to a malleable state of apathy.
Originally posted by NewGuy
:rotflmao:
If I placed a belief with Politics or America BEFORE the Bible and God in terms of importance, you might have been right.
Originally posted by rtwngAvngr
What's your goal? get your head chopped off so you can rule with christ for a thousand years? Let the evil pact between the muslim world and the socialists coninue to deny liberties around the world?
Originally posted by NewGuy
My Goal?
I just want to live my life the way I should with an absolute adherance to what is RIGHT and in full opposition to what is wrong.
If our Constitution is the HIGHEST authority in the land, I judge all else by it.
If God is higher than that, I treat the chain of command as such.
I have no personal agenda but to cut through fog and show what is really going on if others need to know.
Originally posted by NewGuy
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=38691
The article is much longer. This is the party I most closely allign with as well.
Originally posted by rtwngAvngr
Plus you want to instill in americans a sense of apathy by promoting the biblical mythology of the endtimes.
We all want to live according to right and wrong, answering that way is a bunch of rhetorical shit and you know it.
Sell your apathy to some libs who'll actually buy it.
Originally posted by dilloduck
And you just pick this info out at random? cmon---its ok to have an agenda.
Originally posted by brneyedgrl80
I just cannot agree with Peroutka on his views about abortion. I understand that some agree with him, but stuff like that just ticks me off.
