[This is an email going out to Christians in the 7th District. If you have email addresses for those voters, send them this.]
The press release below is being sent to Christian ministers and workers who care about America and the ideal of "Liberty Under God."
America's Founding Fathers invested "our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor" in their "experiment in liberty," so we should be willing to invest a few minutes to become informed voters.
In case you haven't heard, President Bush, Mexican President Vicente Fox, and Prime Minister Paul Martin of Canada agreed in March of 2005 to merge the U.S. and Mexico and Canada into a new government similar to the European Union, which might be called the "North American Union" or the "United States of North America." Our current Congressman has been a major leader in the creation of these regional governments (such as CAFTA), which will not be accountable to the U.S. Constitution.
America's Founding Fathers would urge you to look at this website:
http://STOPtheSPP.USYour vote for Kevin Craig on November 7 sends a powerful message to our current Congressman (who is safely assured of a landslide re-election) that you support a Christian America and "Liberty Under God."
Thank you for forwarding the following information to Christian voters in Southwest Missouri. You may be wise to do so as a private citizen rather than as a representative of your tax-exempt ministry, because the freedom of religious expression which America's Founding Fathers fought for is now "void where prohibited by law," and your ministry could lose its tax-exempt status. (Keep in mind many Founding Fathers lost their lives, their fortunes, their homes, their businesses, and sometimes sons and daughters. Your risk is minimal in comparison.) See:
http://www.baptiststandard.com/1998/11_11/pages/LBJ.htmlThank you for showing your interest in "Liberty Under God" by reading the information below.
Kevin Craig
Libertarian Party Candidate
U.S. House of Representatives, MO-7th
Powersite, MO 65731-0179
http://www.KevinCraig.US417.334.8927
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Press Release
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Libertarian Candidate Kevin Craig Announces New
Website Asking "Is it a SIN to Vote for Roy Blunt?"
http://IsItaSINtoVoteforRoyBlunt.com------------------------------------
Tens of thousands of conservative Christian voters in Southwest Missouri have "lost their first love" with the Republican Party.
- The Foley Scandal and David Kuo's disclosures have shown that Republican leaders are contemptuous of conservative Christians and willing to put Republican Party interests ahead of Christian values.
- The goals of the "Republican Revolution of 1994" -- smaller government, the de-funding of unconstitutional bureaucracies like the Department of Education, the National Endowment for the Arts, etc. -- have been ignored, and government growth and debt has skyrocketed under Republican leadership.
- "The Republican Party of 2006 is a tired, cranky shell of the aggressive, reformist movement that was swept into office in 1994 on a wave of positive change," Frank Luntz, one of the strategists of the 1994 G.O.P. takeover, wrote last week in a column for TIME.com. "I worked for them. They were friends of mine. These Republicans are not those Republicans."
The race for the U.S. House of Representatives in Missouri's 7th District is one of the least-talked about races in the nation, because the re-election of the incumbent is a virtual certainty. But Kevin Craig (
www.KevinCraig.US), the Libertarian Party candidate, hopes his new website will start a few conversations. Craig is trying to appeal to the Christian voting bloc with a website that asks the question, "
Is it a SIN to vote for Roy Blunt?"
http://IsItaSINtoVoteforRoyBlunt.comThe incumbent, Majority Whip Roy Blunt, was re-elected by a landslide vote in 2004 against a moderate Democrat, Jim Newberry. Blunt faces a more "
fringe" Democrat opponent this year in Jack Truman, a producer of "adult" films, whom conservative Democrats in Southwest Missouri have not rallied behind as they did with Newberry.
Craig claims that if the conservative Christians who signed the Constitution in 1787 could travel through time to 2006, they would be outraged at the unconstitutional growth of the federal government, and its commitment to the secularizing principle of "separation of church and state."
Craig says he wants to "wake up Republicans, get them thinking, and motivate them to use their vote to promote Biblical values rather than a 'double-minded' political party."
Craig acknowledges that most people are surprised to hear the words "sin" and "vote" in the same sentence. His website has numerous quotations from America's Founding Fathers, who viewed political participation as a sacred trust and a religious duty. And a violation of such a duty is the very definition of "sin."
"A government that is not 'Under God' is a government that thinks it *is* God," Craig says. "The messianic state is a modern idolatry."
Craig charges Blunt with violating his oath to "support the Constitution" by voting for unconstitutional and unBiblical government programs. "Those who vote for Blunt must share the blame for a more atheistic and socialistic America."
Libertarians are known for opposing tax increases, government regulation of the economy, and infringements on personal liberties, not for running explicitly Christian campaigns. But it's not just political posturing for Craig, who was a
Chalcedon scholar at the California foundation identified by
Newsweek Magazine as the "think tank" of the "religious right." After passing the California Bar Exam, Craig was denied a license to practice law because his allegiance to God was higher than the allegiance to the government required of an "officer of the court." Craig insisted on putting God above government, and this was unacceptable to the same federal appeals court that prohibited students from saying the words "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance.
Craig then spent several years as co-director of "
Isaiah House," a recovery home for homeless drug addicts. As a Christian he finds no conflict between the teachings of Christ and
Libertarian Party proposals to legalize drugs. "If Jesus wanted someone to stop using drugs, would He send
a heavily-armed SWAT team or Rick Warren?" Craig asks.
According to Craig, the "War on Drugs" is unconstitutional for the same reason alcohol
Prohibition was unconstitutional in 1918 -- "until we
amended the Constitution to give the federal government powers it didn't previously have," he says. "Then those powers were found to have
disastrous side effects: high black-market profits, organized crime, and impure bootleg liquor. Americans then
re-amended the Constitution to take away from the federal government the power to ban alcohol."
"'We the People' have never given the federal government the power to ban the sale and use of drugs like we gave the government the power to ban alcohol."
"Today's 'War on Drugs' is making
billions of dollars for terrorists from Arizona to Afghanistan, who raise funds for terror in a highly-profitable government-created black market. Legalizing drugs would take away a source of profit for international terrorists, and allow addicts who need help to seek it openly -- help which is both medical and spiritual," Craig says. "Those who use alcohol, caffeine, nicotine or marijuana responsibly should have nothing to fear from the government, according to the Constitution."
As someone who was denied an opportunity to take an oath to "support the Constitution" as an attorney, Craig wonders why so many politicians take that same oath and
then ignore it, expanding government power without constitutional authority.
"Keeping one's oath is the heart of the
Third Commandment," Craig says, "and the Framers of the Constitution would point a stern finger at too many leaders in the Republican Party who are ignoring their oath to defend the Constitution."
Education and "The Organic Law" Dealing with meth labs and building more jails is a theme Craig says he hears all across Southwest Missouri. He blames the Republicans for the rise in drug addiction and crime.
"When the U.S. Supreme Court removed voluntary prayer and the Bible from public schools in the early 1960's,
Justice Douglas admitted that 'Religion was once deemed to be a function of the public school system.' But Republicans have followed the secular agenda of the Supreme Court instead of America's Founding Fathers," Craig says.
Justice Douglas cited
The Northwest Ordinance of 1787, the blueprint for the constitutions of states admitted to the union in the 1800's, and part of what legal scholars call our nation's "
organic law." The Ordinance provided in Article III that "Religion, morality, and knowledge being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, schools and the means of education shall forever be encouraged."
Craig says federally-controlled schools teach students to be their own god, and this makes education impossible. "If students are their own authority, why should they submit to the authority of the teacher?" Craig asks. "Class disruption is the natural by-product of schools that will not acknowledge the authority of God."
Craig says the Republican Party was right to demand the abolition of the federal Department of Education in its
Party Platform of 1996, the year Roy Blunt was first elected to Congress. "The Constitution gives no authority at all to the federal government over education, much less does it authorize the federal government to prohibit local schools from acknowledging God and His Commandments," Craig says.
"Take away the federal monopoly on education and polls indicate that more than 80% of parents will choose Christian schools -- and they'll be able to choose from a wide variety of higher-quality educational choices which a competitive Free Market will offer," Craig predicts.
"On the other hand," he warns, "government-imposed secular schools produce a secular culture in which abuse of property (crime) and abuse of drugs (addiction) always flourish. And the federal education budget under Republicans is now
double what it was under Bill Clinton."
Craig cites
a 1972 U.S. Supreme Court case which held that government employees who take the oath to "support the Constitution" are implicitly supporting the nation's "organic law" as well, which includes the Northwest Ordinance and the Declaration of Independence. "Voting to increase the budget of an unconstitutional bureaucracy that rips religion and morality out of local public schools is a violation of one's oath of office," according to Craig.
"Socialism is a Sin" Craig's website claims that "
socialism is a sin," and that Roy Blunt's voting record is more socialist than
Congressman Bernie Sanders of Vermont, an avowed Socialist. "Government expands at the expense of
private property," Craig says, "and government confiscation of property is theft, a violation of
the Eighth Commandment."
The Libertarian Party is widely acknowledged to be the most vocal critic of big government and defender of capitalism and free markets. It also appeals to Democrats with its strong advocacy of civil liberties.
This is Craig's second run against Roy Blunt, but he hopes that this year, in a mid-term election, with no chance for a Democrat victory, tens of thousands of Republicans will cross party lines and use their vote as a way of sending a message to Roy Blunt and Republican leadership to return to the Christian and libertarian values that made America great.
Kevin Craig
Libertarian Party Candidate
U.S. House of Representatives, MO-7th
Powersite, MO 65731-0179
www.KevinCraig.US www.STOPtheSPP.US 417.334.8927
