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WE THE PEOPLE On this July 4th, 2011, the 235th anniversary of America's Declaration of Independence from the British, announce the formation of a true, non-partisan, grassroots Cultural and Political Movement to restore the Liberties and Freedoms envisioned by the Founding Fathers for WE THE PEOPLE. WE THE PEOPLE seek to restore respect for our Constitution, the Bill of Rights and to restore the Rule of Law to these United States of America.

This Movement shall be known as WE THE PEOPLE TAR.  TAR being the Acronym for Transparency, Accountability and Reform. Welcome to the 2nd Enlightenment of mankind. http://amzn.to/93qVP4

At least 3 iterations of this initial document announcing the formation of this WE THE PEOPLE TAR Movement have been written. There are so many thoughts, ideas, philosophizes and issues that seem important that one regrets the need to omit some of them from this initial document. In the end, rather than try to fully explain the reasoning and logic behind our Top six issues and our 9 Principles, we decided to list them with simpler explanations and expound on the reasoning and logic in subsequent articles. In this way we hope to quickly share with you our proposed perspective of reality.

That having been said, let us cut to the chase with our top 6 proposed priorities for the next few elections:

PROPOSED TOP 6 CAMPAIGN AND LEGISLATIVE ISSUES FOR THE NEXT FEW ELECTIONS

Let us vow to not let the political parties, the politicians, the major media, special interest nor big money steer WE THE PEOPLE off topic from these 6 issues.  WE THE PEOPLE TAR believes these 6 issues are vital to restoring our liberties, freedoms, our constitution and our Bill of Rights as well as previous levels of economic opportunity for all of WE THE PEOPLE.

WE THE PEOPLE TAR asks you to write about these issues in political surveys, letters to the editor and letters to candidates themselves.  Challenge Candidates to reduce their positions on these issues to paper.  In Public Forums and Debates, ask all persons running for office what their positions are on these 6 issues. Do not let the political parties, nor any other powers that be, to frame our any elections in the future. WE THE PEOPLE will set the agenda and frame the main issues for all future elections.

1) Restore Transparency and Accountability in our Government and Judiciary

First Principles, People Are Equal Under Natural Law...."

I write this article with the same intentions as Thomas Paine http://ushistory.org/paine. I seek no leadership role. I seek only to help the American People find their own way using their own “Common Sense” http://amzn.to/kbRuar

Those were my thoughts.

Thank you, my fellow citizens, for taking to read and reflect upon what I have written.

In Liberty,

Don Mashak

The Cynical Patriot

http://twitter.com/dmashak

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