1984 STATE PLATFORM: LIBERTARIAN PARTY         
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4. The United Nations
  We support immediate withdrawal of the United States from, and an end of
its financial support for, the
United Nations. We oppose any treaty that the United States may enter into
or any existing treaty under
which individual rights would be violated.
5. Secession
  We recognize the right to political secession. This includes the right
of secession by political entities, private
groups or individuals. Exercise of this right, like the exercise of other
rights, does not remove legal and moral
obligations not to violate the rights of others.
MILITA R Y
1. Military Duty
  We recognize the necessity for maintaining a sufficient military force
to defend the United States against
aggression. We should reduce the overall cost and size of our total governmental
defense establishment.
2. Presidential War Powers
   We call for the reform of the presidential War Powers Act to end the President's
power to initiate military
action, and for the abrogation of all Presidential declarations of "states
of emergency". There must be no
further secret commitments and unilateral acts of military intervention by
the Executive Branch.
ECONOMIC POLICY
I. Foreign Aid
   We support the elimination of tax-supported military, economic, technical
and scientific aid to foreign gov-
ernments or other organizations. We support the abolition of government underwriting
of arms sales. We
further support abolition of federal agencies which make American taxpayers
guarantors of export-related
loans, such as the Export-Import Bank and the Commodity Credit Corporation.
We also oppose the partici-
pation of the U.S. government in international commodity cartels which restrict
production, limit technologi-
cal innovation, and raise prices.
   We call for the repeal of all prohibitions on individuals or firms contributing
or selling goods and services to
 any foreign county or organization.
 2. International Money
   We favor the withdrawal of the United States from all international paper
money and other inflationary
 schemes. We favor government withdrawal from the World Bank and the International
Monetary Fund.
 3. Unowned Resources
   We oppose any recognition of fiat claims by national governments or international
bodies to unclaimed
 territory. Individuals have the right to homestead unowned resources both
within the jurisdiction of national
 governments and within such unclaimed territory as the ocean, Antarctica,
and the volume of outer space. We
 urge the development of objective international standards for recognizing
homesteaded claims to private own-
 ership of such forms of property as transportation lanes, broadcast bands,
mineral rights, fishing rights and
 ocean farming rights. All laws, treaties, and international agreements which
would prevent or restrict home-
 steading of unowned resources should be abolished. We specifically call
for an end to U.S. participation in the
 current Law of the Sea treaty negotiations because these proceedings exclude
private property principles.
 INTERNATIONAL ISSUES
   We are in fundamental agreement with the National Platform in its section
on International Relations.
 STATE ISSUES
 1. Gun Control
   In order to protect the individuals right of self-defense, we call for
the abolition of all state, county, and local
 laws and ordinances that would seek to control the manufacture, sale or
ownership of firearms, components,
 or ammunition.
 2. Self Defense and Restitution
   We hold that the employment of physical force or the threat of physical
force is legitimate only for the
 defense of life, liberty, and justly acquired property against aggressors
or for retaliation to acquire just restitu-
 tion and compensation from such aggressors. The right to use defensive and
retaliatory force is inherent in the
 individual, and we therefore oppose all government restrictions upon the
exercise of this right. In a period of
 increasing violent crime and decreasing public safety, individuals must
be free to engage in their own self
 defense and to secure just restitution from criminals. They should also
be free to assign these rights to other
 individuals and private defense arbitration agencies.
   We further hold that these rights extend to the aggressive actions of
governments, which are the most fla-
 grant and frequent violators of individual rights. We recognize the right
to defensive and retaliatory force
 against governments, provided such use does not violate the rights of others.
 3. Death Penalty
   Execution by the state violates the right of the criminal's victim, or
the victim's heirs, successors and assigns,
 to seek restitution from the criminal. The history of governments is so
replete with errors that it is exceedingly
 dangerous to place the power of such an irrevocable act with the government.
 4. The Department of Natural Resources
   We call for the elimination of the Department of Natural Resources. This
agency denies the rights of
 individuals to manage their own property. The DNR can best be replaced by
strict enforcement of property
 rights and contractual obligations.
    We also advocate the sale of state-owned lands to individuals or private
organizations.
 5. Dairy Supports
    Dairy price supports, as with any government intervention in the private
sector, have disserved the economy
 by keeping industry prices far higher than world market levels. We call
for the repeal of all Dairy Price
 Supports.