Posted by
Travis G. Phillips on Wednesday, April 30, 2008 11:00:00 PM
With a few words deleted others changed, I have reposted a Party
platform I found online. Here are the planks. Let me know if you figure
out who it belongs to.
1. We demand the union of all people, on the basis of the right of the self-determination of peoples, to form a great country.
2.
We demand equality of rights for the people in its dealings with other
nations, and abolition of the Peace Treaties of Versailles and St.
Germain.
3. We demand land and territory (colonies) for the nourishment of our people and for settling our surplus population.
4. None but members of the nation may be citizens of the State. No alien, therefore, may be a member of the nation.
5.
Anyone who is not a citizen of the State may live in this country only
as a guest and must be regarded as being subject to the Alien Laws.
6.
The right of voting on the leadership and laws of the State is to be
enjoyed by the citizens of the State alone. We demand, therefore, that
all official positions, of whatever kind, whether in the government,
the provinces, or the small communities, shall be held by citizens of
the State alone. We oppose the corrupt parliamentary custom of filling
posts merely with a view to party considerations, and without reference
to character or ability.
7. We demand that the State shall make
it its first duty to promote the industry and livelihood of the
citizens of the State. If it is not possible to nourish the entire
population of the State, foreign national (non-citizens of the State)
must be excluded from the country.
8. All further alien
immigration must be prevented. We demand that all aliens who entered
the country subsequently to a certain date, shall be required forthwith
to depart from the country.
9. All citizens of the State shall possess equal rights and duties.
10.
It must be the first duty of every citizen of the State to perform
mental or physical work. The activities of the individual must not
clash with the interests of the whole, but must proceed within the
framework of the community and must be for the general good.
We Demand Therefore:
11. Abolition of incomes unearned by work. BREAKING OF THE THRALDOM OF INTEREST.
12.
In view of the enormous sacrifice of life and property demanded of a
nation by every war, personal enrichment through war must be regarded
as a crime against the nation. We demand, therefore, the total
confiscation of all war profits.
13. We demand the nationalization of all businesses which have (hitherto) been amalgamated (into trusts).
14. We demand that there shall be profit sharing in the great industries.
15. We demand a generous development of provision for old age.
16.
We demand the creation and maintenance of a healthy middle class,
immediate communalization of the large department stores and their
lease at a low rate to small traders, and that the most careful
consideration shall be shown to all small traders in purveying to the
State, the provinces, or smaller communities.
17. We demand a
land reform suitable to our national requirements, the passing of a law
for the confiscation without compensation of land for communal
purposes, the abolition of interest on land mortgages, and prohibition
of all speculation in land.
18. We demand ruthless war upon
all those whose activities are injurious to the common interest. Sordid
criminals against the nation, usurers, profiteers, etc., must be
punished with death, whatever their creed or race.
19. We demand that the Roman law, which serves the materialistic world order, shall be replaced by a this country's common law.
20.
With the aim of opening to every capable and industrious person the
possibility of higher education and consequent advancement to leading
positions, the State must consider a thorough reconstruction of our
national system of education. The curriculum of all educational
establishments must be brought into line with the requirements of
practical life. Directly the mind begins to develop the schools must
aim at teaching the pupil to understand the idea of the State (State
sociology). We demand the education of specially gifted children of
poor parents, whatever their class or occupation, at the expense of the
State.
21. The State must apply itself to raising the standard
of health in the nation by protecting mothers and infants, prohibiting
child labor, and increasing bodily efficiency by legally obligatory
gymnastics and sports, and by extensive support of clubs engaged in the
physical training of the young.
22. We demand the abolition of mercenary troops and the formation of a national army.
23.
We demand legal warfare against conscious political lies and their
dissemination in the press. In order to facilitate the creation of a
national press we demand that: (a) all editors, and their co-workers,
of newspapers employing the common language must be members of the
nation; (b) special permission from the State shall be necessary before
non-common language newspapers may appear (these need not necessarily
be printed in the common language); ( c ) aliens shall be prohibited by
law from participating financially in or influencing newspapers, and
the penalty for contravention of the shall be suppression of any such
newspaper, and immediate deportation of the alien involved. It must be
forbidden to publish newspapers which are damaging to the national
welfare. We demand the legal prosecution of all tendencies in art and
literature which exert a destructive influence on our national life and
the closing of institutions which militate against the above-mentioned
requirements.
24. We demand liberty for all religious
denominations in the State, so far as they are not a danger to it and
do not militate against the moral and ethical feelings of the people.
The Party, as such, stands for positive Christianity, but does not bind
itself in the matter of creed to any particular confession. It combats
the materialist spirit within and without us, and is convinced that our
nation can achieve permanent recovery from within only on the
principle: THE COMMON INTEREST BEFORE SELF-INTEREST
25. That all
the foregoing requirements may be realized we demand the creation of a
strong, central national authority; unconditional authority of the
central legislative body over the entire country and its organizations
in general; and the formation of diets and vocational chambers for the
purpose of executing the general laws promulgated by the government in
the various States of the Confederation. The leaders of the Party swear
to proceed regardless of consequences - if necessary at the sacrifice
of their lives - toward the fulfillment of the foregoing Planks.
Do you know where it came from? Take a wild guess. Here's a hint--- I'm sure all you leftists out there think it a fine program.