Missouri Farm Bureau
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Kevin Craig - "Liberty Under God"
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Farm Bureau is an
independent, non-governmental,
voluntary organization of farmers and rural citizens united
to analyze their problems and to formulate action to solve these
problems. Its efforts are directed, not at improved
commodity prices alone, but also toward the general welfare
of all aspects of farm and rural life and through this to the general
welfare of the entire nation. To this end, Farm Bureau
strives for educational
improvement, economic opportunity, and social advancement. Farm
Bureau takes the stand that property
rights and personal freedom as
guaranteed by the United States Constitution are essential to the
general welfare and these freedoms should be defended against all
attack.
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Like most other generally-conservative
special interests, the Missouri Farm Bureau is schizophrenic,
applauding and seeking to conserve the America of the past, in
such areas as Religious
Life and Moral
Issues, but undercutting America's tradition and
cultural genius by joining other special interests in lobbying for
"just a little" socialism. The collective impact of all
these special interests seeking government subsidy or regulation
for their own industry is the creation of a government which is as
powerful as the Soviet Union, though (so far) without the brutal
outward violence of Communism. During his seven terms in office,
the outgoing Congressman has moved America further and
faster toward socialism than any previous decade. The Farm Bureau
needs to decide whether it represents farmers as Americans (in the
spirit of Thomas Jefferson), or farmers as socialist workers.
1. "Non-governmental, voluntary organization" is the
only legitimate way to accomplish one's goals. Using force or
threats of violence is wrong. This is the heart of the "Free
Market" or libertarian philosophy.
2. "Improving commodity prices" is a bad goal. In a
healthy Free Market economy, all prices for regularly-produced
goods should be continually
falling, as we see in the computer industry.
3. It is appropriate to be concerned for the general welfare of
the entire nation, because under the division
of labor, farmers are as dependent upon the non-farm economy
for their work and life as non-farmers are on farmers for food.
All Americans depend on the mutual observance of "the Laws of
Nature and of Nature's God," by which America's Founders
meant Biblical morality.
4. The Libertarian Party is the foremost defender of property
rights and personal freedom. Both Democrats and Republicans put
political power for their own party
ahead of these goals.
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| As Farm Bureau members we believe
in our constitutional form of
government, in freedom of speech
and peaceful assembly, and in the right of each individual to worship
according to his own belief. We believe that cultural advancement,
ethical and religious principles flourish when men are free,
responsible individuals. We further believe that economic progress
is best achieved in a free market
system. |
This is a statement of the
Libertarian Philosophy. |
| We believe as Farm Bureau members
we should reaffirm our home and family
values and that family life and parental authority should
be asserted. |
Kevin Craig apparently believes in the
importance of the monogamous heterosexual family more than the
Missouri Farm Bureau, which does not speak of
"homosexuality" in its platform, preferring instead the
more politically-correct term "gay." Homosexuals are not
gay.
| family values
| homosexuality |
| We believe in the right of every
person to choose his or her occupation, to be rewarded according
to his or her contribution to society, but that individual
freedoms and opportunity must not be sacrificed in quest for
"guaranteed security". |
Kevin Craig emphatically agrees that
"security" is being used to
destroy individual freedoms and personal responsibility. |
| Successful functioning of a
democracy is possible only when all citizens take an active part
in governmental affairs. We in Farm Bureau believe we should
impress upon all citizens the importance of their decisions on
public vote and the need of accepting responsibilities in public
affairs. We pledge our best efforts to the important job of
citizenship training. |
Voting is the least a citizen
should do, and those who refuse to vote
can be more active, more intelligently patriotic, and more
influential in preserving the American vision than those who do
vote.
The trend toward computer
voting systems threatens the entire electoral process.
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| We believe in the rights of
individual states. |
Agreed,
and this includes the right of the states to secede
from the union. But even the States have duties toward "the
Laws of Nature and of Nature's God." U.S. Supreme Court
Justice Clarence Thomas believes that the Missouri Farm Bureau's
position on homosexuality is "uncommonly
silly," and he wants states to have the right to repeal
such legislation. |
| We believe the laws should be
administered as close to the people involved as possible. |
Agreed; also called "The
Principle of Subsidiarity," and "personalism." |
| We believe that the greatest
threats to our American democratic system are a powerful federal
bureaucracy capable of developing national policy by
administrative decision and the apathy of the people who allow
this to happen. |
This was true for the 20th century, but
in the 21st century the greatest threat is a powerful international
bureaucracy, not merely a (national) federal bureaucracy. See:
www.STOPtheSPP.US
2010 Update: I may be forced to retract this. The ideal of a "united nations" is dissolving in favor of naked U.S. aggression. The U.S. federal government may be willing to acquire global hegemony without the cosmetic appearance of "unity" among supposedly sovereign nations. |
| Farm Bureau is organized to do
what its members want done. It provides a means by which farmers
and rural citizens can work together toward the goals upon which
they agree. |
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