REMOVING INJUSTICE FROM GOVERNMENT

A FREEDOM BASED SYSTEM

The following is the most fair government system available:

1. People's rights:
   • The right to believe in any religion.
   • The right to exercise religion, provided that it does not harm other or the property of others. But telling about the religion does not harm others.
   • The right to be free from public exposure to non-religious acts forbidden by any religion.
   • The right to keep one's life, unless removed as punishment for a crime.
   • The right to keep one's life as a fetus.
   • The right to keep one's body intact, unless removed as punishment for crime.
   • The right to live in any locality, unless imprisoned as punishment for crime.
   • Freedom from travel restrictions, unless imprisoned or awaiting trial for crime. This includes borders between countries.
   • The right to own any property legally acquired, unless used for crime.
   • Freedom from involuntary servitude, unless used as punishment for a crime.
   • Freedom from conscription into military service.
   • The right to free speech, assembly, and discussion.
   • The right to publish, distribute, and advertize.
   • The right to listen, read, obtain knowledge, and use knowledge.
   • The right to petition the government for change or redress of wrong.
   • The right to sue for restitution for damage caused by government or individual.
   • The right to own and legally use weapons.
   • The right to shoot back at illegally acting police or military.
   • The right to self defense and the defense of others.
   • The right to make one's own medical decisions, without government interference.
   • The right to trade, do business, and make a profit.
   • The right to contact outsiders while imprisoned.
   • The right to legal counsel and advice.
   • Freedom from immigration controls and special citizen status.
   • The right to vote, if over 18 years of age. This is the only place where being a citizen should make a difference.
   • Freedom from forced incrimination by self or spouse.
   • The right to bail, unless probable flight can be shown.
   • The right to call witnesses and gather evidence.
   • The right to a speedy public trial.
   • The right to be free from surveillance in private locations.
   • Freedom from search and seizure without a warrant issued for just cause.
   • Freedom from government monitoring of communications for any reason.
   • Freedom from retroactive laws.
   • Freedom from penalties for exposing government secrecy or wrongdoing.
   • Freedom from laws containing the name of any person or business.
   • Freedom from government competition with private business.
   • Freedom from laws created in any way other than the voting method below.
   • Freedom from discrimination based on race, previous servitude, or origin.
   • Freedom from discrimination based on gender unless the owner's religion requires it.
   • Freedom from discrimination based on religion in non-religious activities.
2. Fair Taxes:
   • A 10% sales tax (see AUTOTAX page).
   • No income tax.
   • No property or excise taxes.
   • No border duties.
   • Added sales tax for gasoline allowed if used for highway purposes.
   • Added sales tax on alcohol and tobacco if used for health purposes.
   • User fees allowed for optional government services not required by law.
   • No other taxes.
   • No tax money spent on nonessentials.
3. Fair Elections:
   • A fair election system (see FAIRELEC page).
   • Elections must not cause voters to have to deviate from their preferences.
   • Voters must be able to vote yes, no, or don't care on each candidate.
   • Voters must be able to vote yes, no, or don't care on each budget item.
   • Voters must be able to vote yes, no, or don't care on each bill to become law.
   • No Choices with more no votes than yes votes may be elected.
4. Fair Justice:
   • Property may be confiscated only if wholly owned by the criminal and used for crime.
   • Confiscated property must be given to charity. It must not be used for government purposes.
   • Innocent co-owners of property used in crime gain the criminal's share of it.
   • Stolen property used in crime must be returned to the rightful owner.
   • Government may seize stolen property only to determine the rightful owner and return it.
   • Stolen property must always be returned to the rightful owner.
   • Police hold in trust all found property, or property of undetermined ownership.
   • Property held in trust by police for ten years shall be given to charity.
   • In no case may government keep, sell, use, or destroy property belonging to others.
   • Evidence gathering methods must not damage or destroy property.
   • Evidence must not be held longer than two weeks without compensation.
   • The state may not keep as evidence any irreplaceable object. It shall photograph and otherwise test it, then return it to the rightful owner in its original condition.
   • Owners decide how to reimburse insurance when stolen property is returned.
   • Thieves must pay double restitution to innocent buyers of stolen property.
   • Thieves must give back all stolen items and pay double restitution to the owner.
   • Malicious damages require triple restitution.
   • Negligent damages require double restitution.
   • The evidence collector must pay triple restitution for destroying property.
   • Damages due to unforeseeable events require actual restitution only.
   • Damages resulting from events beyond anyone's control require no restitution.
   • No damages may be paid to a criminal for the results of illegal activity or flight.
   • If government is at fault, it must pay double all restitutions otherwise merited.
   • Restitution must be doubled if irreplaceable property is destroyed.
   • Bail taken from no show defendants must be used only to find no show defendants.
   • Anyone trying to harm others by perjury gets penalized for the crime alleged.
   • Anyone planting false evidence gets penalized for the crime the evidence indicates.
   • Rapists, adulterers, pedophiles, and other sex criminals must be sterilized.
   • Serial murderers must be executed (insanity shall not be a defense for this crime).
   • Those who commit a murder while awaiting trial for another murder shall be executed.
   • Those who murder as part of a sex crime shall be executed.
   • Those who kill witnesses shall be executed.
   • Those who commit terrorist acts resulting in death shall be executed.
   • Those who commit murder as part of extortion shall be executed.
   • Those who commit armed robbery resulting in death shall be executed.
   • Those who commit murder to collect inheritance or insurance money shall be executed.
   • Those who commit murder for hire shall be executed.
   • Those who hire others to commit murder shall be executed.
   • Those who commit murder as part of another felony shall be executed.
   • Those who kill anyone while trying to flee justice shall be executed.
   • Those who commit murder through torture shall be executed.
   • Self defense, defense of others, and verdict execution are not murder.
   • Severity of penalties must not depend on who was the victim, or whether government was the victim.
   • No time off for good behavior. Instead, extra time for bad behavior.
   • Treason and espionage shall not be crimes.
5. Government must not amass a large amount of property:
   • Government may not take property for uses except transportation right of way land or water supply reservoirs.
   • When taking land, government gives the owner the choice of the fair market value, or other land equally useful to the owner.
   • Government must buy the land given in exchange for the taken land on the open market.
   • For projects other than transportation or water supply, government must buy on the open market.
   • Each government may own only one building for each of these branches of government:
     1. Executive.
     2. Legislative.
     3. Administrative (except law enforcement and military)
   • Government may own more than one building for each of these:
     1. Regional Law enforcement.
     2. Military or police station (maximum of 2% of total land under jurisdiction)
     3. Courthouses.
     4. Correction facilities.*
     5. Post offices.*
     6. Sanitation, sewage disposal, sewers, and trash disposal.*
   • Government may also own these:
     1. Floodplains.*
     2. Parking for government buildings.*
     3. Sanitation, sewage disposal, sewers, and trash disposal.*
     4. Transportation waterways and right of way land.*
   * Competing private entities may not be prohibited or taken.
6. No government, or government funded facility, may own or buy any property listed:
   • Thoughts and votes.
   • Places used for professional sports, convention centers, and hotels.
   • Recreational or dwelling facilities.
   • Anything purchased to prevent or reduce competition to government services.
   • Land purchased to prevent any of: development, private use, or specific use.
   • Real property held in hopes its value will increase.
   • Dwellings, except confiscated property or property bought for other use.
   • Power production, water purification, communications, or other non-waste utilities.
   • Entertainment or recreation facilities.
   • Theaters or auditoriums.
   • Equipment or buildings used to make products.
   • Farmlands and farm products, except for use by correction departments.
   • Any weapons prohibited to the general public.
   • Radio or television production or broadcasting facilities.
   • Land for harvesting natural resources and minerals.
   • Precious metals stored for wealth.
   • Trademarks.
   • Over 1/10 of the radio spectrum.
   • Listening and surveillance devices.
   • Anything the general public cannot buy.
7. None of the following shall be allowed to exist:
   • Patents with periods longer than 10 years.
   • Copyrights with periods longer than 10 years.
   • Schemes to prevent the copying of anything other than money, deeds, and securities.
   • Scrambling of radio and TV signals.
   • Identification numbers.
   • License plates.
   • Tax assessors.
8. The following may not be owned as property, and may be used or copied by anyone:
   • Human Beings (May not be used or copied).
   • Knowledge, ideas, invention rights, recipes, and chemical formulas.
   • Artistic or recreational ideas, rules for games, sporting events.
   • Methods of doing anything.
   • Computer algorithms and code.
   • Scientific, mathematical, statistical, or demographic discoveries or data.
   • Anything sent out on radio waves, sound waves, or light.
   • Radio signals, light, sound, vibrations, thermal energy, wind, and weather.
   • Air, water in lakes and rivers, fire, radiation.
   • Mineral rights (may not be sold separately from the land containing them).
   • Text of government documents, records, and anything else produced by government.
   • Any event done by the government.
   • Airspace and outer space.
9. Government shall be restricted on private property use and control:
   • Government must rent all property rights removed by law for the duration of the law.
   • No administrative lawmaking except where competent expertise is required.
   • Traffic control requires expertise, and must not be left to incompetent legislators.
   • Banks shall pay all checks on known accounts, unless reported stolen or lost.
   • Banks, not sellers, sue or prosecute to recover bad check debts.
   • Government must keep records on ownership and location of all real property.
   • No government may damage or destroy property for any reason.
   • No government may keep records on law abiding people except to pay or license them.
   • No government may require people as individuals to keep records of any kind.
   • No government may make special laws for itself that do not apply to all people.
   • No law shall require safety measures, unless others could be harmed.
10. No law shall make legal distinctions based on any of these weights or measures:
    • Counting numbers.
    • Length and Distance.
    • Area.
    • Volume.
    • Mass.
    • Force, including Weight, except to set safety limits on roads and structures.
    • Velocity.
    • Acceleration.
    • Power.
    • Energy or heat.
    • Temperature.
    • Time of day. (Specific dates are OK)
    • Elapsed time, except to set terms of office, punishment, or vehicle headway.
    • Electrical values.
    • Safety warnings are OK, but prohibitions are not.
11. Traffic laws must provide general safety, not fine edges of legality.
    • Laws must determine types of traffic control devices allowed and how they are used.
    • Engineers, not legislators, must determine actual use of traffic control devices.
    • Any accident not caused by disregard of the law is deemed caused by the road.
    • If a road causes many accidents, it must be changed.
    • Laws must not expect drivers to make subjective judgments of distance or speed.
    • Traffic control devices must not be substituted for hazards removal.
    • Design must concentrate on moving traffic, not stopping it.
    • Speed shall be controlled by traffic calming devices, not police enforcement.
    • Traffic signals must be designed to bring all vehicles to a safe stop.
12. Business must not be unnecessarily regulated, but also must not violate individual rights:
    • No government may control business prices, wages, or location.
    • Private companies may not use government licenses for identification purposes.
    • Banks shall pay all checks on known accounts, unless reported stolen or lost.
    • Banks, not merchants, sue or prosecute to recover bad check debts.
    • No government may require businesses to keep records except for collected sales tax and a ledger.
    • No identification numbers shall be allowed.

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