Never in world history has a man offered the following pledge:
Government threatens our nation. It spends beyond its legitimate functions. Its taxes fund the destruction of our liberties. It seeks domination and control over vast areas of our lives. From how much water flows through our toilets to what we can see on our televisions in our homes, from what we are taught in school to how we communicate, from how we invest to how much we can spend on ourselves, our families, and our businesses, the government is darkly present, regulating our lives. The invisible hand is the hand of the state.
It is involved in every industry. Yet, it cannot balance its own budget, prevent its own scandals, or do its most basic tasks, like fight crime and deter foreign enemies from striking us. The vastness of its debts shall enslave our own generation. Gun-run schools manufacture brazenly lazy, violent, ignorant, and resentful youth, a citizenry destined for third-world status. Something must be done.
Our government needs to be taught a lesson: obedience to our rights.
We need a president who will whip our government into shape instead of lay one into the rights and freedoms of the citizens.
We know how many regulations there are, how much government spends, and how much it taxes. These are all measurable facts.
As president, I vow to reduce government spending, taxes, debt, and regulations under penalty of death.
You may ask the reason for this pledge. I answer that no man has credibility to reduce the state unless he is willing to pay the ultimate price for not reducing it.
There is no time for weak men to be our leaders. We are at war. We are fighting for our survival as a nation, a free nation, not a two-bit homeland. Establishment conservatives and liberals have created mess after mess. The GOP has lost all credibility in limiting government spending or regulations. The GOP can't suddenly regain credibility even from its own supporters. The public isn't stupid. Their 2008 candidates support the expansion of government into our lives each in their own way, as do the socialist liberals. America will not get on track with 18 delinquents. The public demands freedom from an extraordinary commitment, an iron-clad guarantee, in return for their support.
To get on track, we must ask, will we be on track if government spends less, pays down the debt, and cuts taxes? Will we be on track if we have a president who takes the pro-freedom side, the side of the citizens, on every issue? Will we be on track with a man who pledges his life to get the job done?
That will put us on track. That will give us liberty.
What else does it mean for our nation to be on track? On what other road do we find success, peace, and prosperity—the American Dream—than the road of liberty?
To have liberty we must have credibility.
So, I make this pledge to my fellow Americans for their just and serious consideration.
Never in American history has a man stood for President with the guts to make America free. I guarantee you with my very life that I'll get the job done, or else I get the punishment a weak and criminal president deserves. I pledge my life to your rights.
The current presidential candidates have one thing in common: they lactate with ignorance and power-lust.
Power-lust is the vicious desire to violate the moral absolutes of individual rights. It takes many forms. Some of the leading candidates want to nationalize our healthcare system. Others vow to ban medical research when the latest technologies offer so much promise. Still others vow to abolish our right to decide what to read, hear, or say as citizens. They are not fit to be leaders. Rights are moral absolutes. We need a president who explains why. We need a president who understands and values our rights. Rights are values, moral values, moral absolutes. Try living without them! It gets harder and harder as the state suffocates you, your livelihood, and the nation. We need a president who appreciates the connection between human freedom and human health, happiness, and prosperity.
We need a president with a will to live to fight our wars to the swift finish and deliver us to liberty.
Do our politicians know what rights are? Do they care?
You see the connection between your freedom and your health and happiness every time you buy food at the supermarket. If the government nationalized the farms, we would have famine, as they did in Soviet Russia. When the state imposes wage and price controls, as it did during the last oil crisis, the pumps went dry. A health care famine is exists in Cuba, and you can see, as government takes over more and more control of our own healthcare system, the same famine is emerging here. If they nationalize doctors, nurses, and hospitals, or impose wage and price controls, what can you do for yourself or your children when death is banging down the door?
You see, the difference between Soviet Russia and America is the difference between life and death. When the Soviets ruled 3/4 of the earth, the world was in a Dark Age. Today, new threats from another Dark Age seek to impose a new totalitarianism where communism left off. America is a secular republic, not the theocratic dictatorship some republicans, like Rick Santorum, imagined it to be, or the Islamofascists hope it will be.
If we have a will to live, we will never submit to anything.
It is not human to submit. It is the dignity of Man to express his will to live.
It must be stressed that the world, indeed America, is divided between those who have a will to live versus those who don't. It is divided between those who want life to measure up to their health, happiness, and freedom versus those who loathe health, happiness, and all that can come with freedom.
Most enjoy the wonders of work and human ingenuity; others pine for a pre-capitalist age, a pre-industrial age, a pre-secular age, a pre-historic age. What they seek is a nipple in the Garden of Eden. There are those who fear life, loathe their own lives, and cringe at the modern world. They find suicide an apt expression of their inner state.
Then, there are those who have zest for life, who want to live long and prosper with good friends, good neighbors, and enjoy what life can be on this earth. They find work to be a nutrient of life and welfare disgusting. In the zest for life they find its meaning.
Nothing in the known universe is as precious as a human with a will to live. The universe is so big, so large, so old, and eternal. There are billions of stars residing in billions of galaxies that are billions of miles away. How rare, indeed, is a man with a will to live among the stars and the billions who walk the earth!
Of all nations that sought to protect, foster, and instill a will to live, to achieve personal happiness, to cultivate one's mind, to achieve a unique American Dream, there is but one.
A nation with a will to live is unconquerable by the dictators and the powerlusters. I have a will to live. It is my moral compass. It is the moral compass of the Founding Fathers and any man or woman who seeks to make the most of their life.
If we have a will to live, we will vanquish our enemies in short order, not slow bleed. Life is too precious to waste time in war. If we have a will to live, we will make changes to quickly to get us on track. We should reform and replace the Iraq government exclusively with young Iraqis who have the courage to unite Iraq in freedom and security, instead of power-lust, power grabs, mindless terrorism, primitive tribalism, and putrid theocracy. If Iraq is to be an oasis for freedom in the Middle East, it needs a constitution that guarantees it, lead by people who believe it. Freedom brings peace, not Sharia.
Reconstruct freedom and you reconstruct peace. On this Bush failed. He turned Iraq into a fiasco like Katrina. No one in American history has blown themselves up because the power went out. No amount of aid will stop terrorism. You cannot buy off the suicidal. You must instill the will to live. Freedom is the only system that lures, inspires, and champions the will to live.
If we have a will to live, we will restore liberty as the object of government instead of dependency, not merely in Iraq, but in America. We will instill resiliency to the state instead of obedience to authority. We will foster a nation that seeks to make life measure up to health, happiness, and freedom. We can't forfeit our rights and freedoms in the name of security, or the children, or the impoverished, or those who can't help themselves and those who refuse to help themselves. I will not invent a new pretext to take away your freedom. I will expose the pretexts that now exist to preserve the freedoms we have.
Basically, I'm a writer by profession. I've worked at Walmart, but my real efforts were to find wisdom and apply it. I've produced my own books. One was called The Morally Good Politician. A morally good politician respects and protects our rights consistently. Another was about cloning. I wanted to dispel the Frankenstein fear-mongering about the latest scientific enterprises. I also wrote a book about how to create the world's first tax free city. (www.taxfreesociety.com) I'd like to do that far more so than administer the presidency. But I know how important it is to get America on track, and I know that my pledge will raise the standards for what we should expect of our presidential candidates. If I only improve our expectations, I will have helped put us on track to finding morally good politicians.
I hope above all to make America far freer than I than I found it.
To the American People, I vow to use my skills, intelligence, powers of persuasion, my creativity, my energy, my life to reduce the taxes and shackles that burden us all.
I'm not rich. I'm not famous. I'm not the son of a president, an admiral, or a senator. I have never slept with a president and thus, I am not qualified in the traditional sense to expect the presidency to fall into my hands.
All I have is my will to live and my pledge to live up to the rights and freedoms of all Americans.
There is no higher or more important qualification.
Would other candidates guarantee under penalty of death that their support for national socialist healthcare won't destroy our healthcare system? Would they guarantee under penalty of death that their environmentalist caps on energy use and production won't destroy American lives? Would they guarantee anything under penalty of death?
Now you know there is but one man and one choice for President.
We could solve so many of our nation's problems if we only took the path of freedom. We could unite, instead of divide, if freedom was the goal of all politicians and citizens. We should agree that freedom ought to be the supreme law of our land.
Have the present candidates made their vows to respect our rights, or are they just brutes who yearn to throw their weight around and give orders? Do they believe the American is born with a saddle on his back that fits his or her ass perfectly? Or do they have contempt for those who would have the American people crawling on all fours? Our priapistic politicians lactate with powerlust; the Jeffersonian antidote is our will to sweep them aside in favor of human beings enamored with rights and enchanted by freedom.
This isn't just a no-new taxes pledge, but rather a pledge to be a truly American, instead of a European, president. The American people know that our last three presidents have wasted our nation's time. We need a hard-core pro-freedom president at least once a generation to remind us as a nation what we are. We'll have fun if I'm president.
Everyone claims to support the troops. Better yet, support the conviction that man ought to be free. That's what they're fighting for after all.
What is the point of fighting and dying for freedom only to have the citizens you're fighting for willingly give their freedoms up? Be an inspiration to the troops. Show them that you resolve to fight for freedom here at home so that they have a free country to return home to. Inspire them by treasuring and enjoying your freedom.
I know that every soldier who has died in Iraq has proven by his actions to be a fighter for America's freedom. Show some resiliency to the state yourself! Whereas they risk their lives to defend America abroad, we can only hope someone would defend America's freedom here at home, and take a pledge of such significance, as to shame our politicians into obedience to our liberties, and command our nation to rise to a new day.
Alas, I stand alone—with my will to live and my pledge to your freedom.
Lorenz Kraus
May 28, 2007
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