“There have been no minor
party or independent candidates
on the statewide ballot in Alabama in over a decade (except that
independent presidential candidates
have qualified, because they only
need 5,000 signatures and that petition
is not due until August 30th vs the almost 45000 sigs required to qualify as a minor Party candidate due in March).” And this
“In 2010, Alabama was one of
only five states with no minor party
or independent candidates on the
ballot for statewide office.”

What the GOP and Democrats have now created in Alabama is the iron fisted rule of an Oligarchy. For those who are unfamiliar with the term Oligarchy here is the definition from Wikipedia (from Greek ὀλιγαρχία, oligarkhía[1]) is a form of power structure in which power effectively rests with a small number of people. These people could be distinguished by royalty, wealth, family ties, corporate, or military control. Throughout history, most oligarchies have been tyrannical, relying on public servitude to exist. Modern democracies should be considered as oligarchies. In these systems, actual differences between viable political rivals are small, the oligarchic elite impose strict limits on what constitutes an acceptable and respectable political position, and politicians’ careers depend heavily on unelected economic and media elites. Thus the popular phrase: there is only one political party, the incumbent party.

In Alabama it is rule by the small Elite that as of now ONLY the Democrats and GOP have given themselves the absolute the power to choose what groups are allowed to have access to the electoral process. The Alabama Legislature has over the last 2 decades enacted restrictions to the electoral process that by design has walled all others but those chosen by the “major” Parties off of your ballot and OUT of the arena!!

It’s time Alabama answers this question by our Founding father Jefferson.

Thomas Jefferson
” The issue today is the same as it has been throughout all history, whether man shall be allowed to govern himself or be ruled by a small elite.”

Richard Rutledge

Chairman Conservative Party (Alabama )

Again it is core philosophy here.

Our founders in their own words.

The worship of God is a duty…Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature… I never doubted the existence of the Deity, that he made the world, and governed it by His Providence…The pleasures of this world are rather from God’s goodness than our own merit… Whoever shall introduce into the public affairs the principles of primitive (essential) Christianity will change the face of the world… Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.” – Benjamin Franklin

George Washington

“Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of duties of men and citizens…. let it simply be asked, where is the security for property, for reputation, for life , if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths which are the instruments of investigation in courts of justice?”

“And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with his wrath? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep forever.” -Thomas Jefferson, 1781

Thomas Jefferson

Libertarian Party’s own leadership.
“We particularly support all the legislation which would remove from Federal appellate review jurisdiction matters involving acknowledgement of God as the sovereign source of law, liberty, or government
This is a MAJOR conflict in core belief systems. Our Founders believed in unalienable rights that came from a creator.

True Libertine thought refuses this notion entirely and embraces a humanistic view that is entirely secular and Godless. The core philosophy of true Libertine belief in Government is virtually identical to the core central belief in the Satanic Bible DO AS THOU WILL IS THE WHOLE OF THE LAW!

Bottom line true pure Libertine thought is NOT equitable with a Constitutional Conservative point of view but is something else entirely.

Richard Rutledge

Chairman Conservative Party Alabama

The founders of this nation instituted a particular type of government in a Republic that was based on freedom and designed to govern a group of citizens that had a specific set of core values and beliefs. The founders of this nation in their own words spoke in great detail on this subject.

Here are a few of those words.

Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious they have more need of masters. Benjamin Franklin

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people .It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. John Adams

The sum of it all is, if we would most truly enjoy the gift of Heaven, let us become a virtuous people; then shall we both deserve and enjoy it. While on the other hand , if we are universally vicious and debauched in our manners, though the form of our Constitution carries the face of the most exalted freedom, we shall in reality be the most abject slaves.” Samuel Adams

“Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of duties of men and citizens…. let it simply be asked, where is the security for property, for reputation, for life , if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths which are the instruments of investigation in courts of justice?” George Washington

“And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with his wrath? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep forever.” -Thomas Jefferson, 1781

When you read the words of those who were the founding fathers of this Republic it soon becomes clear that this nations Constitution was only designed to function in the governance of a people with a particular moral center and foundation. They also sternly warned that if we lost that moral center and rejected those core values as a people that this very freedom that the constitution instituted would become our undoing.

Today because this society has lost respect for the preciousness of human life our very freedoms granted under our constitution are quickly becoming our undoing. This leaves us as a nation with a difficult choice.

We return to our core values regain the respect for one another and for the preciousness of human life that our republican form of government was intended to govern over; or we continue down our current path which will lead to more and more governmental control of our daily lives and eventually the abandonment of this current form of government altogether and the institution of a much more authoritarian and restrictive form of government.

This particular quote from one of our nation’s founding fathers Benjamin Franklin

applies I believe here as a stern word of warning.

“Those willing to forfeit liberty for security will have neither.”

The founders of this nation knew that the form of government they were institution as the “great human experiment” also required a great responsibility from it’s citizens in order to survive. Now the question becomes as a people today are we up to that task?

History will judge us on the path we take over the next few months and years. The question asked here by Thomas Jefferson must be answered ” The issue today is the same as it has been throughout all history, whether man shall be allowed to govern himself or be ruled by a small elite.”

The final answer of whether the founders “great experiment” in creating a republican form of government was a successful experiment or failure today seemingly hangs in the balance as it never has in the history of this nation.

Sincerely

Richard Rutledge

Chairman Conservative Party Alabama

“The sum of it all is, if we would most truly enjoy the gift of Heaven, let us become a virtuous people; then shall we both deserve and enjoy it. While on the other hand , if we are universally vicious and debauched in our manners, though the form of our Constitution carries the face of the most exalted freedom, we shall in reality be the most abject slaves.” John Adams

We must clearly understand that it is not the Democrats or Republicans (although IMO the entire 2 party system is part of our overall problem) who are responsible for our decline but US as a society.

John Adams as well as many of our Founders understood this. Here are some of Adams wise words in particular on the subject

“if we are universally vicious and debauched in our manners, though the form of our Constitution carries the face of the most exalted freedom, we shall in reality be the most abject slaves.”

Another historical figure saw clearly one aspect in particular of what we are facing in our nation  today.

“Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.”                                        Frederick Douglass

Many today are searching for a political solution to a problem that is absolutely not political but is instead spiritual and moral in this land.

Government can only demand accountability for actions and impose bondage, for it is personal morality that regulates true behavior. As a society we have abandoned our moral base and are increasingly becoming more debased and lawless. The result of this is the form of government ( a free Republic) we now enjoy is quickly becoming problematic as we no longer have the temperament to govern ourselves.

We consistently hear political leaders speak about restoring the Republic that our Founders created but few speak that for that republic to function we must also restore the MORALITY in our society that the system was intended to function with. These items are NOT mutually exclusive!!

Franklin who was arguable the most secular of this nation’s founders understood this profoundly when he penned these words.

The worship of God is a duty…Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature… I never doubted the existence of the Deity, that he made the world, and governed it by His Providence…The pleasures of this world are rather from God’s goodness than our own merit… Whoever shall introduce into the public affairs the principles of primitive (essential) Christianity will change the face of the world… Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.” – Benjamin Franklin

Richard Rutledge

Chairman Conservative Party Alabama

http://www.conservativepartyal.org/

- Mark Treat (CPartyUSA Chief Web Officer)

Our founding documents established for the first time in history, a form of government where individuals had control of their own efforts and property.  We know the unalienable rights that fueled the passions of our Nation’s founders were based on Natural Law and biblical teaching.  To provide for yourself, and to take responsibility for yourself and your family is occasionally difficult.  Personal responsibility for your own actions requires honest and virtuous citizens in order to be a successful form of governance.  This was the focus for the founder’s support for publicly funded education. According to the histories I found, they believed that the aim of publicly funded education should be to create good citizenship and virtue.  I found no evidence suggesting they believed public monies should support any other aim.

We know that some of our neighbors will not conduct themselves in an honest and virtuous manner, making self-government somewhat insufficient at times. We need the local, State and Federal levels of government to support, defend and protect those unalienable rights we hope to enjoy.  We need local government, where the citizens of our neighborhoods and towns and cities band together to mutually provide the services that each community deems important.  The State, before the Federal government, should deal with the broader problems that cities and towns cannot adequately address by themselves.

The Constitution of the United States binds the States together under a Federal government for six very specific reasons: to form a more perfect Union (than that allowed under the Articles of Confederation), establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general welfare, and then to secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity.

A more perfect union beyond that allowed under the Articles of Confederation is established.  The Federal government then has legal authority under our Constitution for the five remaining defined purposes and those are the only considerations that the Federal government should address.

If we accept that establishing justice essentially means that our citizens have equal access to the law, then we can say that our Federal government has failed to ensure this basic function that it was created to provide.    Perhaps if our representatives spent as much time on considering the fairness of the legislation they adopt for all of our citizens as they do their own self-interests, there would be much less strife in our society.  This more than anything else would ensure fulfillment of the third legitimate function of the Federal government, to insure domestic tranquility.  Doesn’t it seem as though most of the recent political posturing, legislative actions and executive orders are designed specifically to insure domestic disharmony between the varied interests of our citizens?

Our Federal government cannot be said to be providing for the common defense of our people, just ask the people of our southern border States, or the families of those who perished on 9/11/2001.  For many years, we have been involved in the affairs of other nations under the guise of national interest.  One can make an argument that our involvements, or meddling, in the affairs of other nations have placed America’s people in danger.   What is our national interest in any nation outside our own?  It is clear from my studies that most of the founders, including our first and most celebrated President believed we should never become entangled in the affairs of foreign nations nor enter into permanent alliances with any other Nation.  Have we not over time, rejected this wise counsel?

A messy area of examination is the role of government in promoting the general welfare of our people.  All one really needs to do, is define the distinction between promoting and providing for the general welfare of our people.  If a function of government could be classified as providing for the general welfare, then I believe it is proper that the function be administered by each individual State, as it’s own people dictate.

Securing the blessings of liberty should be the ultimate role of our Federal government but instead, the actions of the various branches have ended making us slaves to foreign debt, and left us feeling we have no choice but to roll back and restrict our government to operate within the legal parameters of the Constitution.  I believe that enough circumstantial evidence exists to prove that the two major parties have no interest in doing what needs done.

The Conservative Party (NC) believes in the intelligence, resiliency and resourcefulness of the American people.  If you find yourself in agreement with these concepts, then engage with us to re-establish the defined limits and boundaries authorized.

Come home America!

David Schott, President
Conservative Party (North Carolina)
August 2011

You will be able to view the text of Senate Bill SB15 by clicking this link

http://alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/acas/ACTIONViewFrame.asp?TYPE=Instrument&INST=SB15&DOCPATH=searchableinstruments%2F2012RS%2FPrintfiles%2F&PHYDOCPATH=%2F%2Falisondb%2Facas%2Fsearchableinstruments%2F2012RS%2FPrintFiles%2F&DOCNAMES=SB15-int.pdf, (if the website shows expired click the introduction tab at the top)

You will be able to view the text of Senate Bill SB55 by clicking this link

http://alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/acas/ACTIONViewFrame.asp?TYPE=Instrument&INST=SB55&DOCPATH=searchableinstruments%2F2012RS%2FPrintfiles%2F&PHYDOCPATH=%2F%2Falisondb%2Facas%2Fsearchableinstruments%2F2012RS%2FPrintFiles%2F&DOCNAMES=SB55-int.pdf,, (if the website shows expired click the introduction tab at the top)

How you can help? The first thing, we need to do is assure the passage of both bills out of the CONSTITUTION, CAMPAIGN FINANCE, ETHICS AND ELECTIONS Committee.

I have listed the members of this committee below and their contact information.

Senator Bryan Taylor “Chairperson” bryan.taylor@alsenate.org (334) 242-7883

Senator Phil Williams “Vice Chairperson” philw.williams@alsenate.gov (334) 242-7857

Senator Billy Beasley (334) 242-7868 (334) 775-3291

Senator Paul Bussman p_bussman@bellsouth.net (256) 734-1700 (334) 242-7855

Senator Shadrick McGill shadrack.mcgill@alsenate.gov (334) 242-7858

Senator Arthur Orr http://www.arthurorr.com/ (334) 242-7891 (256) 260-2147

Senator Tammy Irons tammy@ironslawfirm.com (256)766-9201 (256)335-3600

Senator Tripp Pittman trip.pittman@alsenate.gov (334)242-7897 (251)621-3555
Most have no idea of the difficulty that an independent candidate or a Minor Party have in just gaining access to the ballot in this State.
This is part of an article published in the newsletter for the national group Ballot Access News by Richard Winger.
Alabama
On.June 1, HB 425 became law. It
moves the petition deadline for
newly qualifying parties, and nonpresidential
independent candidates,
from June to the second Tuesday in
March, in presidential election years!
The purpose of the bill was not to
move the deadline; the purpose of
the bill was to move the primary (for
all office) in presidential years from
June to March. The bill eliminated
the February presidential primary.
But because the petition deadline is
tied to the date of the primary, by
moving the primary three months
earlier, the legislature caused the
petition deadline to become three
months earlier. .It is not known if
the legislature noticed the effect on
minor party and independent candidate
petition deadlines.
In Alabama, as in most states,
newly-qualifying parties nominate by
convention, not by primary, Alabama
has a “sore loser” law preventing
anyone who ran in the primary
from becoming an independent candidate
(for office other than President).
Therefore, there is no state
interest in a petition deadline as
early as March.
In 1990, a U.S. District Court ruled
that the old petition deadline, 60
days before the primary, was unconstitutional.
In 1991, the 11thcircuit unanimously
affirmed that decision, New Alliance
Party of Alabama v Hand, 933 F.2d
1568. Thus, that decision struck
down an April petition deadline. At
the time, the number of signatures
was 1% of the last gubernatorial
vote, and there had been many minor
party and independent candidates on
the ballot during the preceding ten
years. The court opinion noted that
the April deadline has not blocked
all minor party and independent
candidates from the ballot, but still
struck it down because it couldn’t
see any good reason for the deadline
to be as early as April.
It is very likely that a new lawsuit
will be filed against the March petition
deadline, perhaps by the Constitution,
Green and Libertarian Parties.
That case will be stronger than
the 1990 case, because in the last
eight years, there have been no minor
party or independent candidates
on the statewide ballot (except that
independent presidential candidates
have qualified, because they only
need 5,000 signatures and that petition
is not due until early September).
In 2010, Alabama was one of
only five states with no minor party
or independent candidates on the
ballot for statewide office.
Another reason the new lawsuit will
be stronger than the 2012 lawsuit is
that the 2012 lawsuit involves presidential
elections. Precedents against
early petition deadlines involving
presidential elections are even
stronger than precedents involving
elections for other office, especially
in the 11th Circuit.
And, of course, a third reason the
new lawsuit will be stronger than the
1990 case is that the new deadline,
in March, is earlier than the April
deadline that had been struck down.
We as independents and minor parties only ask for fair access to the ballot and the election process. As of now only Democrats and Republicans have fair access to the ballot. This is NOT what the founders of this nation intended!!
Our first President George Washington on the issue of the “Spirit of Party” from his farewell address as President.
“The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders and miseries, which result, gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of Public Liberty.
Without looking forward to an extremity of this kind, (which nevertheless ought not to be entirely out of sight,) the common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it.
It serves always to distract the Public Councils, and enfeeble the Public Administration. It agitates the Community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms; kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments occasionally riot and insurrection. It opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which find a facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passions. Thus the policy and the will of one country are subjected to the policy and will of another.”
Sound familiar?
We humbly ask for this groups support in breaking the current Oligarchic reign of the Democrat and Republican Parties in Alabama by supporting this bill that would give others fair access to the ballot.
Sincerely
Richard Rutledge
Chairman Conservative Party (Alabama)

http://www.conservativepartyal.org/

George Washington admonished us “in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party.” He went on in detail:
The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders and miseries, which result, gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of Public Liberty.

Breaking up the 2 party system and the lock it had on our political process must be the FIRST step we take towards restoring our precious Republic. We must find a way to elect statesmen who will represent the citizens interest who elect them not the current crop of career politicians who are RAPING our country!
“‘Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt. He therefore is the truest friend to the liberty of his country who tries most to promote its virtue, and who … will not suffer a man to be chosen into any office of power and trust who is not a wise and virtuous man.’
Samuel Adams
If we do not do this then there WILL be the need at some point for the 2nd amendment
Fredrick Douglass
“Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle! Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will. Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.”

Richard Rutledge.

But, America has changed. Government, at all levels, now does for us what we should rightfully do for ourselves. Our political leaders compete to provide the most socialistic services to constituents. As government has provided us with more, our political leaders and judiciary have usurped more power, and we have forfeited many of our precious freedoms; as a result, our Precious Republic has deteriorated as we rapidly move towards becoming a Socialist State.

America is being surrendered to a new world order. Our leaders, both elected and unelected, view themselves as international reformers rather than statesmen or patriots. They have a history of repeated injuries and usurpation’s, seeking the establishment of an absolute tyranny over the states and the citizens thereof. To prove this, let the facts be submitted to a sober nation:

Our current leaders not only do not honor God in the public forum they openly and arrogantly despise those that do. They have lost their moral compass.

They have ignored God’s Law as the basis of the Common Law. They have substituted a capricious and arbitrary judiciary for our historic system of common justice. They have created excessive volumes of laws without endorsing moral restraint. They have established policies, which grant favor to the law-breaker over the rights of the law-abiding.

They have abandoned respect for the sanctity of human life. They are destroying the family as the foundation of a free society, they do not respect the natural, beautiful differences between men and women and have attempted to redefine the institution of marriage which has been a linchpin of society for centuries.

They have perverted our ballot processes with no accountability or traceable records. Their so called “campaign reforms” have established a protected class of 2 equally corrupt Parties consisting of career politicians who lock all other groups out of our electoral process and cannot be fairly challenged.

They have undermined the sovereignty of our separate States and forced them into collective submission to an unconstitutional federal bureaucracy through economic blackmail.

They have corrupted public education by establishing and protecting corrupt monopolies that teach socialist adaptation and collectivism over fundamental principles and eternal truth. The rich history of our God-fearing citizenry has been supplanted by humanist revisionism. They have mandated instruction in a new set of values, which will destroy our great constitutional Republic in the future.

They have established policies of confiscation without due process. They have violated our fundamental rights of private property and security in our persons, houses, papers, and effects.

They have enacted laws that infringe upon our right to keep and bear arms – a right that serves as a protection against the tyranny of an oppressive government.

As supporters of our US   Constitution, we firmly establish a standard for the constitutionalists movement – an anchor upon which we rest our common beliefs.

Any form of Government without a moral anchor is baseless and void. We assert that God’s Law, as recorded in the Holy Scriptures, is supreme in our land. Our laws and our system of justice must demonstrate a reverence for Divine Law in the Public Forum, without prejudice to any single denomination.

Liberty demands the greatest of self-restraint and individual responsibility. Our freedom is the greatest gift we as citizens can give to future generations.

Government is to be a servant of the People and not a fearful master. Our Founding Fathers were precise in their beliefs regarding the responsibilities of the citizen versus the obligations of government. We must interpret our Constitution in light of the founders’ intent. Our Constitution is an instrument of delegated powers; thus, our federal government only has powers granted to it and rigidly constrained by the Constitution.

The delegated role of our federal government is to establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity.

We hold true to our constitutionalists Principles and place these virtues over blind loyalty to a Party “brand” and protecting the status quo of politics as usual. We vow to find ways to break the status quo of electing the same type of corrupt unprincipled carrier politicians; by beginning to recruit, and elect those who are true statesmen to political office throughout the entire political spectrum.

Richard Rutledge