Jack Woehr for Congress - Positions
Politicians hugging babies
is so
20th century
... but here goes anyway!
The candidate with 3-1/2-month-old Chiara, daughter of the
photographer Michelle Pesce.
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The most wonderful thing that has happened to me in politics
is this:
I stormed into political activism some years ago with a head
full of my own ideas. Then I started campaigning, and found
myself speaking to hundreds of individuals I had never met
before, each of whom had their own ideas, aspirations,
dreams, sorrows and issues. It was serious "get over
yourself" time for me. What a growth experience!
So nowadays I take positions in light of what I know up until
now. But I'm still learning, so things can change.
Here are some positions. I am slowly filling in this web page
in as I write out each position in a way that is clear and
frank. If you're in a hurry to hear about a particular issues,
[
] about your
concerns.
-
Immigration
- I will work with the President towards normalization
of the status of Mexican immigrants.
-
USA-PATRIOT Act
- "[T]here are always people with a certain kind of
mind who say that you've got to violate the Constitution
or the Bill of Rights or both in some way or
another to make some new law work or to take care of some
new threat." - Pres.
Harry S Truman, quoted by Merle Miller in the 1974
oral biography Plain
Speaking.
- The USA-PATRIOT Act
abrogates the entire Bill of Rights of the United
States Constitution except Amendment VII (suits at common
law).
- G. Jack King, public affairs director of the National
Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, informs me that
much or most of the USA-PATRIOT act was composed
ofrequests made by the Justice Department long before
9/11, requests that Congress and previous presidents had
turned down because of their constitutional implications.
Mr. King and others also point to seminars which the
Justice Department is currently holding to instruct
federal prosecutors how to use USA-PATRIOT in ordinary
domestic criminal investigations.
- I oppose the
USA-PATRIOT act and believe it must be scrapped in
its entirety.
- Any new security
legislation must be carefully vetted to determine
that it actually helps defend America and does not become
primarily a vehicle for expansion of government.
-
War on Drugs
-
I oppose the War on Drugs in all its manifestations.
- The War on
Drugs interferes with the recovery of
substance habitués.
- The War on
Drugs makes
criminals of the ill and suffering.
- The War on
Drugs is a vehicle for criminality
both outside and
inside the government.
- The War on
Drugs is not
about drugs -- rather, it is about
training citizens to give up their liberties for the
"temporary" emergency.
- The War on
Drugs is a crime against
humanity:
basic, simple, kindly humanity.
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