1984 STATE PLATFORM: LIBERTARIAN PARTY          
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12. Protection of Privacy
  The individual's privacy, property, and right to speak or not to speak
should not be infringed by the govern-
ment. The government should not use electronic or other means of covert surveillance
of an individual's
actions or private property without the consent of the owner or occupant.
Correspondence, bank and other
financial transactions and records, doctors' and lawyers' communications,
employment records, and the like
should not be open to review by government without the consent of all parties
involved in those actions. So
long as the National Census and all federal, state and other government agencies'
compilations of data on an
individual continue to exist, they should be conducted only with the consent
of the persons from whom the
data are sought.
  We oppose the issuance by the government of an identity card, to be required
for any purpose, such as for
employment, voting, or border crossings.
13. Government Secrecy
  We condemn the government's use of secret classifications to keep from
the public information which it
should have. We favor substituting a system in which no individual may be
convicted for violating govern-
ment secrecy classifications unless the government discharges its burden
of proving that the publication:
     a. Violated the right of privacy of those who have revealed confidential
or proprietary information to
  government agents, or
     b. Disclosed defensive military plans so as to materially impair the
capability to respond to attack.
  It should always be a defense to such prosecution that information divulged
shows that the government
violated the law.
14. Internal Security and Civil Liberties
  We call for the abolition of all federal secret police agencies. In particular,
we seek the abolition of the
Central Intelligence Agency and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and
call for a return to the American
tradition of local law enforcement. We support investigation of criminal
activities of the CIA and wrongdoing
by other government agencies.
  We support the abolition of the subpoena power as used by Congressional
committees against individuals or
firms. We hail the abolition of the House Internal Security Committee and
call for the destruction of its files of
private individuals and groups. We also call for the abolition of the Senate
Subcommittee on Internal
Security.
15. The Right to Keep and Bear Arms
  The right of people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
16. Conscription and the Military
   Recognizing that registration is the first step toward full conscription,
we oppose all attempts at compulsory
registration of any person and all schemes for automatic registration through
government invasions of the
privacy of school, motor vehicle, or other records. We call for the abolition
of the still-functioning elements of
the Selective Service System, believing that impressment of individuals into
the armed forces is involuntary
servitude. We call for the destruction of all files compiled by the Selective
Service System. We also oppose any
form of national service, such as a compulsory youth labor program.
   We oppose adding women to the pool of those eligible for and subject to
the draft, not because we think that
as a rule women are unfit for combat, but because we believe that this step
enlarges the number of people
subject to government tyranny.
   We support the imfnediate and unconditional exoneration of all who have
been accused or convicted of
draft evasion, desertion from the military, and other acts of resistance
to such transgressions as imperialistic
wars and aggressive acts of the military. Members of the military should
have the same right to quit their jobs
as other persons.
   We call for the end of the Defense Department practice of discharging
armed forces personnel for homosex-
 uality. We further call for retraction of all less-than-honorable discharges
previously assigned for such reasons
 and deletion of such information from military personnel files.
 17. Unions and Collective Bargaining
   We support the right of free persons to voluntarily establish, associate
in, or not associate in, labor unions.
 An employer should have the right to recognize, or refuse to recognize,
a union as the collective bargaining
 agent of some or all of his or her employees.
   We oppose government interference in bargaining, such as compulsory arbitration
or imposing an obliga-
 tion to bargain. Therefore we urge repeal of the National Labor Relations
Act, and all state Right to Work
 Laws, which prohibit employers from making voluntary contracts with unions.
We oppose all government
 back-to-work orders as imposing a form of forced labor.
   Workers and employers should have the right to organize secondary boycotts
if they so choose. Neverthe-
 less, boycotts or strikes do not justify the initiation of violence against
workers, employers, strike-breakers,
 and innocent bystanders.
 18. Immigration
   We hold that human rights should not be denied or abridged on the basis
of nationality. We condemn
 massive roundups of Hispanic-Americans and others by the federal government
in its hunt for individuals not
 possessing required government documents. Undocumented non-citizens should
not be denied the fundamen-
 tal freedom to labor and to move about unmolested. Furthermore, immigration
must not be restricted for
 reasons of race, religious or political creed, or sexual preference.
   We therefore call for the abolition of the Immigration and Naturalization
Service and the Boarder Patrol,
 and a declaration of full amnesty for those people who have entered the
country illegally. We oppose govern-
 ment welfare payments to non-citizens just as we oppose government welfare
payments to other persons.
 19. Discrimination
   No individual rights should be denied or abridged by the laws of the United
States or any state or locality on
 account of sex, race, color, creed, age, national origin, or sexual preference.
Protective labor laws, Selective
 Service laws, and other laws which violate right selectively should be repealed
entirely rather than being ex-
 tended to all groups.