The following "All-American 'Original Intent of the Founding Fathers' Purity Pledge" is a brilliant response to the Tea Party's Purity Pledge. It was written by an attorney who "found that a lot of people were not opposing Obama on 'socialist' grounds but on 10th amendment, 'original intent' arguments. The current confirmation hearings for Elena Kagin have seen her opponents wrapping themselves in "original intent" positions."
The All-American
"Original Intent of the Founding Fathers"
Purity Pledge
I, ______________________________, do solemnly swear to uphold the principles of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America, as expressed in the original intent of the documents, declarations and Constitution drafted and approved by the Founding Fathers and heretofore pledge my word that I shall strictly adhere to the following:
Because the Founding Fathers never authorized, intended or anticipated (see 10th Amendment) that a centralized national U.S. government might at some time in the future undertake such activities as (but not limited to): building roads, or supporting agricultural and animal husbandry, or providing financial aid and services in kind to promote private businesses and enterprises, or establishing free public or federally-supported private education at every level, including pre-school, or establishing a standing army and navy in lieu of local and state militias and individual privateers, or allowing women and non real property owners to vote (yet alone allowing negroes to vote), or to federally-fund assistance to the sick, the elderly, the poor, or to federally-fund medical research and the provision of health care services to members of the public, or to provide for the public health through research and treatment in hospitals, clinics and dispensaries, or to assure clean water and proper sewage treatment, or to prohibit citizens from the unrestricted use of their property and lands for any purpose they may find profitable or useful to them, regardless of the impact such uses may have upon the air and water and upon those around them, or to federally-fund and support local and state police, fire and civil defense activities, or build and maintain parks and other public recreational facilities, or to require business owners and shop-keepers to open their businesses and shops to all equally, even negroes, or for that matter, to actually free the slaves, or to "accommodate" retards and the punished-by-God cripples, gimps and physically disabled, or to allow the immigration into this country of non-Northern European Christian peoples, or to federally tax personal income, among numerous other such interventions into the private lives of its citizens, I pledge to eliminate all federally-funded government intervention in my life and to demand that my Congressional representatives vote to repeal any such laws providing for that assistance and funding. I will abstain from the use of and participation in any federally-funded goods, services, benefits or programs, including but not limited to the following:
● Social Security
● Medicare/Medicaid
● State Children’s Health Insurance Programs (S-CHIP)
● Federally-funded and supported police, fire, and emergency services
● Federally-funded and supported roads and highways
● Air Travel (regulated by a centralized federal government agency, the FAA)
● The US Railway System
● Federally-funded and supported public subways and metro systems
● Federally-funded and supported public bus and light rail systems
● Federally-funded and supported rest areas on highways
● Federally-funded and supported sidewalks
● All Federal Government-Funded Local/State Projects (e.g., see Iowa 2009 Federal Senate Appropriations: http://grassley.senate.gov/...
● Federally-funded or supported health services, disease control and pure water and sewer services
● Federally-funded or supported universities and colleges
● Federally-funded or supported primary and secondary schools
● Sesame Street
● Federally-funded or supported anti-drug use education for children
● Federally-funded or supported museums
● Federally-funded or supported libraries
● Federally-funded or supported parks and beaches
● Federally-funded or supported national parks and recreational areas
● Federally-funded or supported zoos
● Federally-Funded and Supported Unemployment Insurance
● Federally-funded or supported municipal garbage and recycling services
● Treatment at any hospital or clinic that ever received funding, of any kind, from the federal government
● Federally-funded or supported medical services and medications that were created or derived from any government grant or research funding
● Byproducts of federally-funded or supported investment such as duct tape and Velcro (federally-funded NASA Inventions)
● Use of the federally-funded and supported Internets, email, and networked computers, as the DoD's ARPANET was the basis for subsequent computer networking
● Foodstuffs, meats, produce and crops that were grown with, fed with, raised with or that contain inputs from crops grown with federally-funded and supported government subsidies
● Clothing made from crops (e.g. cotton) that were grown with or that contain inputs from federally-funded and supported government subsidies
● If a veteran of the federally-funded and supported standing US military, I will forego my federally-funded and supported VA benefits and insist on paying for my own medical care.
I will not tour federally-funded and supported government buildings like the Capitol in Washington, D.C.
I pledge to never take myself, my family, or my children on a tour of the following types of federally-funded and supported locations, including but not limited to:
● Smithsonian Museums such as the Air and Space Museum or Museum of American History
● The federally-funded and supported Washington, Lincoln, and Jefferson Monuments
● The federal government-operated Statue of Liberty
● The Grand Canyon
● The federally-funded and supported World War II and Vietnam Veterans Memorials
● The government-run socialist-propaganda location known as Arlington National Cemetery
● All other federally-funded and supported sites, whether it be in my state or in Washington, DC
I will urge my Member of Congress and Senators to forego their government salary and government-provided healthcare.
I will boycott the products of federally-funded and supported defense contractors such as GE, Lockheed-Martin, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, General Dynamics, Raytheon, Humana, FedEx, General Motors, Honeywell, and hundreds of others that are federally-funded and supported by the central national government to produce goods for our standing national army.
I will protest federally-funded and supported security departments such as the Pentagon, FBI, CIA, Department of Homeland Security, TSA, Department of Justice and their federally-funded and supported employees.
Upon reaching eligible retirement age, I will tear up my federally-funded and supported Social Security checks.
Upon reaching age 65, I will forego Medicare and pay for my own private health insurance until I die.
SWORN ON A BIBLE AND SIGNED THIS DAY OF __________ IN THE YEAR ____.
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Signed Printed Name/Town and State
by Jeanne Scott Matthews
jeanne.matthews@health-politics.com