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Voluntary Future Front; Primum non nocere
Topic Started: Apr 9 2014, 12:52 PM (128 Views)
LoveValley
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After reviewing the proposed ALR party, Love Valley desires to see a more ideologically consistent, individual-centered party, devoid of the corrupting pragmatism of the neolibertarians. Thus, the Platform responds, in many ways, to that of the ALR.

Proposed Platform of the Voluntary Future Front

Individual Rights Guarantee:
Nation-states should be subordinated to the regional government in one sense: that being that the regional government, in the event a nation-state unjustly infringes on the individual rights of its citizens, should serve as a corrective force to the offending nation-state. Otherwise, neither nation-states nor regional government should have any power to take any action. Anywhere you see it expressed in this platform that the VFF believes a nation-state should not have the right or authority to do a thing, the VFF believes member nations of the region have a moral duty to correct an offending nation-state that attempts to overreach and usurp individual rights.

Free Speech:
The VFF believes that no government - regional, national, or sub-national - may pass any law restricting any manner of speech, including the criminalization of speech in any fashion. Speech includes the expenditure of money and the gifting or donation of goods and services.

Economics:
The VFF is based solidly in Austrian economics, and believes that no member nation in the region should be permitted to impose barriers to trade. Individual citizens may, at their discretion, refuse to trade with any person or entity they please, but that decision should not be imposed on any individual by any nation-state. The VFF discourages all forms of taxation, aside from voluntary user fees and licenses. No government, regional or national, should pass laws regulating commerce.

Education:
The VFF believes that no government, whether regional or national, should have any say in education.

Healthcare:
No regional or national government should have any role in health care.

Drugs:
The VFF believes that no government, whether regional or national, should pass laws preventing an individual from making a personal determination as to whether they should use, grow, or sell narcotics.

Energy:
No regional or national government should have any role in energy production, development, or usage.

Environment:
No regional or national government should pass any regulation concerning the environment or natural resources.

Property Rights:
Property is an extension of the individual, and any assault against property is an assault against the individual.

Justice:
No government should establish their own judicial systems, leaving the arbitration and litigation of cases, criminal and civil, to private courts, arbitrators, judges, and mediators. The rights of Contract are the primary basis for law, but beyond a mere policy statement, private Courts shall determine their own jurisprudence, in consultation with and upon mutual agreement by the litigants. Crimes should be prosecuted on private warrants, investigated by private investigators, and tried before private juries.

Welfare:
No regional or national government should have any role in providing for its citizens' basic needs.

Abortion:
No regional or national government should have any role in the abortion issue, leaving such decisions up to individuals.

Guns:
Individuals have a civil right to own and carry any form of weaponry, and no regional or national government should attempt to limit this absolute right.

Marriage:
No regional or national government should have any role in marriage, which is the essence of private contract.

Defense:
Defense of the region should be provided only on a volunteer basis by the nation-states and individuals involved. No standing army should be established at the Regional level, although groups of individuals who show interest, may form Private Protective Forces that include members from their nation-state, as well as other nation-states, without fear of being regulated by any regional or nation-state government.

Privacy:
The VFF believes that no government intelligence or law enforcement community ought to exist, instead being replaced by private initiatives. Given the delicate balance between individual interests in this real, the VFF believes individuals will best be served by taking responsibility for their own privacy, and that the baseline rule should be that an individual has an absolute right to privacy in their home, unless that individual contracts around that baseline right.

[Editor's note: In essence, the VFF is a sort of "evangelical anarcho-capitalist" party; that is, one that seeks to do away with all government, except for the sole purpose of regulating subordinate territories so that said subordinate territories do not unduly impinge on the rights of the individual. The VFF heartily disagrees with the ALR's assertion that the nation-state should have primacy over the region, due to the fact that this sort of antiquated states' rights argument places the individual last, with the nation-state and then region before him/her.]
Edited by LoveValley, Apr 9 2014, 10:06 PM.
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LoveValley
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I have updated, cleaned up, and added to the platform draft. Comments, criticism, etc. are welcome. Except from filthy Liberal Reformers!
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Netonia

LoveValley
Apr 10 2014, 11:03 AM
I have updated, cleaned up, and added to the platform draft. Comments, criticism, etc. are welcome. Except from filthy Liberal Reformers!
What if the filthy liberal reformers bring chips and dip? Could we still eat the chips and dip?
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LoveValley
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Netonia
Apr 10 2014, 09:47 PM
LoveValley
Apr 10 2014, 11:03 AM
I have updated, cleaned up, and added to the platform draft. Comments, criticism, etc. are welcome. Except from filthy Liberal Reformers!
What if the filthy liberal reformers bring chips and dip? Could we still eat the chips and dip?
Aren't you one of those ALRites? Well, at least the ALR pretends to be libertarian, unlike those Progressives...
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Schaesberg
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You're pretty close to what I'd want, though being more of a minarchist rather than an anarcho-capitalist, I see the courts being one of the few government responsibilities.
Edited by Schaesberg, Apr 13 2014, 05:41 PM.
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LoveValley
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So...members. Well, let me make a list:

Love Valley
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...
Anyone?
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medicus

So, aren't there basically only two statements that matter in this platform? (Both being in the first paragraph under "Individual Rights Guarantee")

1) Nation-states... in the event a nation-state unjustly infringes on the individual rights of its citizens, should serve as a corrective force to the offending nation-state.

And isn't that pretty vague? (By which I mean: pretty much guaranteed to result in conflicting interpretation of intent as well as of action required, thereby destined to cause more problems than it solves).

And:

2) Otherwise, neither nation-states nor regional government should have any power to take any action.

And doesn't the rest of the "platform simply identify a handful of specific things in which the government has no role. (Namely, speech, economics, education, healthcare, drugs, energy, environmental issues, justice, welfare, abortion issues, gun issues, marriage, defense or privacy.)

All of which leaves me with the question: What's the point? How is saying "we have a government which has no role at all" of more value or use than simply saying "you know what; we have no government"

But hey - anarchy rules!
Edited by medicus, Apr 22 2014, 07:29 PM.
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LoveValley
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You're generally right - it's just enforced anarchy, i.e.: the region serves solely to ensure that no government begins to exist. As for why the rest of the stuff - the VFF was the second party established, so it was done that way to point-counterpoint the ALR.
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