TEN COMMANDMENTS FOR GOVERNMENT

THE COMMANDMENTS

Do not interfere with religion, unless others are endangered physically.
Do not exalt government officials above others.
Do not act in secret.
Honor fully the rights of individuals, unless removed as punishment for a crime.
Do not attempt to substitute government for family functions.
Restrict capital punishment to crimes deserving death.
Do not let immoral sex go unpunished.
Do not steal from people through taxes.
Protect witnesses from threats.
Do nothing to the economy.

DISCUSSION

Do not interfere with religion unless others are endangered physically. Endangered physically means a threat to another person's life, limb, health, or property.
- Do not do anything, or require that anything be done, if it violates any religious belief.
- Special government supports for abortion, homosexuality, sexual freedom, one world religion, one world government, environmentalism (a form of earth worship), and socialism are violations, because each of these violates at least one religion.
- Keeping records on the law-abiding, requiring identification numbers, prayer bans, sign bans, public display bans, bans on materials needed for services, putting zoning regulations on churches, and taxing donations are also violations of this.
- Government shall not prohibit any religious belief.
Do not exalt government officials above others.
- Government shall put its own interests last, not first.
- Never exempt officials from laws that affect other people.
- Never take rights away for any reason other than as punishment for a crime.
- Treason shall not be a crime.
Do not act in secret. Keep all government functions, including the military, open to public scrutiny.
- Government shall not keep any secrets except those protecting people from harm, and protecting the privacy of individuals.
- Espionage shall not be a crime.
Honor fully the rights of individuals, unless removed as punishment for a crime.
- These include rights to:
  1. religious freedom
  2. free speech
  3. free assembly
  4. free petition
  5. public voting on officials
  6. public voting on government budgets
  7. fully secret ballot
  8. The Independent Voting System (ballot with YES, NO, and ABSTAIN choices on each candidate or budget item)
  9. habeas corpus
  10. counsel at trial
  11. subpoena power
  12. trial by jury
  13. right to remain silent
  14. weapon ownership
  15. weapon possession
  16. using weapons against corrupt officials
  17. citizen's arrest
  18. due process
  19. keep life, liberty, limb, health, property, papers, and effects
  20. choice of occupation (but not right to be hired)
  21. privacy (keeping others from knowing your affairs)
  22. travel
  23. throw messy substances at politicians
- These rights include freedom from:
  1. taxation of necessities to life
  2. government records on law-abiding people
  3. self incrimination
  4. repeated trial on same or different charges after acquittal
  5. ex-post-facto laws, and retroactive taxes or laws
  6. conscription
  7. penalties for lack of citizen status
  8. forced medicine
  9. border customs
  10. passports and visas
  11. identification cards
  12. required tattoos or other permanent means of identification
  13. searches without descriptive warrants
  14. being held incommunicado
  15. health threats
  16. weapon bans or licenses
  17. destruction of property
  18. possession bans
  19. bureaucrats and administrative law
  20. economic bans
  21. redistribution of income
  22. monopolies
  23. forced union membership
  24. patents and copyrights
  25. product secrecy
  26. copy protection schemes
  27. product planned obsolescence
  28. lack of interchangeability of recording media
  29. state controlled education
  30. officials exceeding legal authority
  31. prohibitions of battery where permanent injury is absent
Do not attempt to substitute government for family functions.
- government must not control or operate education.
- government must not define corporal punishment as abuse
- government must not make it more affordable to break up a family.
Restrict capital punishment to crimes deserving death.
- Murder shall be a capital offense, under any of the following conditions:
  1. Serial murder (insanity shall not be a defense for this crime)
  2. Second murder offense after arrest for first murder
  3. Murder as part of a sex crime
  4. Witness murder
  5. Terrorist acts resulting in death
  6. Murder as part of extortion
  7. Armed robbery resulting in death
  8. Murder to collect inheritance or insurance money
  9. Murder for hire
  10. Hiring murder
  11. Murder as part of another felony
  12. Murder to flee justice
  13. Murder through torture
- Capital crimes shall never include:
  1. treason
  2. killing in defense of self or others acting lawfully
  3. killing a government official acting illegally
  4. killing a government official making an appearance of illegal action
  5. battling police who are acting illegally
  6. battling a military acting illegally
  7. tax evasion
  8. espionage
  9. accidental death
  10. killing burglar
  11. killing animals
  12. ecological damage
  13. killing an invading force
  14. any crime involving only money
Do not let immoral sex go unpunished.
- Sex crimes shall include:
  1. adultery
  2. rape
  3. incest
  4. sodomy
  5. bestiality
  6. bigamy
  7. sex with child
  8. public nudity
  9. prostitution (sex as contract consideration)
  10. sex as a condition of employment
  11. sex demanded as part of extortion
  12. false sexual innuendo used for extortion
  13. photography of sex acts
  14. multiple sex partners
  15. violation of penalties for sex violations
  16. alienation of affection (acting to break up someone else's marriage)
  17. inciting unlawful sex acts
  18. sex outside of marriage
  19. false accusation of adultery by spouse
  20. false accusation of nonvirginity
  21. creating pornography
- Punishment for all sex crimes shall include mandatory jail time
Do not steal from people through taxes.
- A single sales tax on new goods may be used to fund only necessary government functions.
- Non-essential items must never be funded with tax money. Use voluntary contributions instead.
- The total tax levied on any individual may not exceed a total of TEN percent. This is the sum of taxes for all levels of government.
- No taxes, nor any government fees, may be placed on any of the following:
  1. edibles
  2. dwellings, or rental of dwellings
  3. clothing
  4. farming
  5. medicine
  6. transportation
  7. purchase of vehicles
  8. ownership of property
  9. state of marriage
  10. justice (unless found guilty, at fault, or having made a false accusation)
  11. anything else necessary to maintain life.
Protect witnesses from threats. Make the penalty for witness killing be death.
- The death penalty is for not only for the actual killers, but also for any persons hiring or ordering it.
- Government must never threaten witnesses, no matter what they have seen.
- Threatening a witness is suborning perjury.
- Bribing a witness is suborning perjury. The witness may keep the bribe and treat it as a gift, providing the witness reports the bribe and does not let it change his testimony.
- Hiding witnesses is not a valid substitute. Allow a witness to make a deposition that is valid as testimony if the witness is killed.
- The penalty for perjury shall be to do to the perjurer what would have been done to the victim of the perjury.
Do nothing to the economy.
- Do not use the law to set prices, values, wages, tariffs, supports, quotas, limits, patents, copyrights, duties, economic bans, or regulations.
- An exception is that devices used to reproduce sound, picture, video, or information recordings must remain available in stores as long as such recordings exist.

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