Restore Civil Liberties

Restore Civil Liberties and End Political Targeting

The Basis of Law in the United States of America is ONLY THE CONSTITUTION.  Although Laws and Arms of the government have been enacted such as the Patriot Act and the Homeland Security Department none of these may act against the specific tenets of the Constitution.

The constant erosion of justice in the United States and Politicization of Law Enforcement stems from unclear mandates of large organizations like Homeland Security and FBI which since the Patriot Act have been allowed to pursue both foreign and domestic crime fighting and actually compete against each other at times.  The United States is neither a police state or police of the world.   Both the Homeland Security and FBI have exceeded their mandates over the rights of Americans at times in their histories. 

We should repeal the Patriot Act and disband the Homeland Security department, and align all government branch actions back in line with the Constitution.  The Constitution is a living document which does not create rights for citizens as those are inalienable, but it codifies and establishes protections for those natural rights of all Americans.  It would be a completely legal action for the next president to re-align the branches of the government back into lawful representation of the Constitution.

Mr. Dunham's campaign also highly focuses on justice and rollback of the police state, the “Deepstate” and foreign intervention. Trade should be the focus of foreign dialogue and the sharing of knowledge. There should not be a restrictive national ID system limiting travel. The NSA, FBI, and HLS should not be allowed to gather citizen’s information without a crime specific warrant, and the 5th amendment followed regarding seizing or gathering personal information. Personal information is private property. Foreign aid and military bases should be rolled-back to stop foreign countries’ dependence on our resources.

Abortion

Abortion is a very personal issue for families and women.  I personally would not ever want an abortion for myself or so.  I have suffered the loss of children in miscarriage in relationships before.  As a Libertarian, I believe women should have the right to decide if they want to carry a child or not and to have an abortion if they have to.  Men are responsible to a child that is born but sometimes don't want to take responsibility, so abortions in the first six months should be allowed.

However I do not believe in partial birth abortions or post-birth means which are infanticide.  Once a baby is born everything should be done to save the child.   Also Planned Parenthood has shown many times that they waste money as a for-profit company and do not deserve to get any state funds.  If abortions are included in medical insurance that is fine, but planned parenthood should lose all state-funding immediately.

Sex education should also explain abstinence and adoption as options other than abortion.

Compromise and even working together for new solutions is needed in this and many issues going on these days.  I would always work directly with other parties, and keep a peaceful dialogue going to goal oriented solutions.

Healthcare

Healthcare is becoming a large and important part of the future of the United States.  With Baby Boomers retiring there will be a need to strengthen the American Healthcare System.  The Dunham 2024 campaign proposes to do this without creating any government controlled mandates for healthcare.   The entire health industry combined with government spending on health is currently $4.5 Trillion.  If this was absorbed by Government then Welfare would grow to 70% of government spending at $6 Trillion.  We cannot create a socialist program that is insolvent at the start because we could crash the economy with our National Debt at $30 Trillion and growing.

Making all healthcare owned by the government is illogical in that the government would be nominally seizing all hospitals to be owned by the government.  Although that step is not explained, if all hospitals may only work through the government and they incur debt or fail to make a profit, who collects their debt and will own them?  The financial sector will have to throw up its hands and let the government own all the hospitals and set Doctors and Nurses pay eventually.  It is deceitful to propose a government mandated payment system and not even budget the added costs, all while our government is running on huge deficits every year now.  Those yearly deficits are adding up to $6.2 Trillion just in the first four years of Trump.

We need solutions that will increase the strength of the healthcare industry, and help the actual giving services of a doctor or nurse to be competitive.  Our solution to this also touches the Dunham 2024 education plan.  We propose a Heal for America program that forgives all Federal School Debt for Doctors and Nurses after they have worked in healthcare for 5 years.  We also propose expanding Visas for Immigrant Nurses, Doctors, and Doctors training in Residency Programs.

The only healthcare comes from medical professionals, and reducing their debt and making it easier for anyone to go into that profession is a REAL solution to the growing Healthcare Industry.  Neither insurance companies or government bureaucrats provide healthcare.  Medical care should be in the hands of citizens choice and direct access to doctors in a free market.  We also propose privatizing Medicare and adding an option for all Medicare funds to be placed in a Medical Savings account completely under control by the citizen.  Doing so citizens could opt of of Medicare at any time and control their own money and healthcare.

Gun Rights

The Dunham 2024 Campaign espouses personal gun rights that shall not be infringed based on a strong interpretation of the 2nd Amendment for personal security as was originally intended for all citizens. These rights cannot be specially infringed state by state and we propose gun reform across the United States to normalize gun laws with the Constitution without Red Flag Laws or proscriptive interpretation of the laws by individual judges or state legislatures.  Gun laws can be normalized and gun safety normalized across all states.  Involuntary registration is also an infringement on gun ownership.  The only people that should not be allowed to carry guns should be violent felons who have misused guns in the past.  Any rational person knows that criminals can illegally seek to own guns still.  Bans on ownership of guns have disproportionally affected people of color.  We support #BlackGunsMatter and normalizing gun ownership with a free and voluntary society.  Training for guns should be readily available to anyone who wants to own a gun.  Responsible ownership and training should be voluntary and readily available.  We also encourage the safe development of RFID to secure gun ownership and prevent theft, disarmament or accidents.

Gay Rights

Keenan Wallace Dunham identifies as a bisexual male and we promote equal human rights for all regardless of sexual or gender identification.  There is still much work to be done to protect Gay Rights across all states in areas like marriage, adoption, inheritance, parenthood, healthcare and all humans should have strong protected human rights that are respectful of gender identity and sexual orientation.  We work tirelessly as activists to ensure all humans are treated with equal human rights and that laws do not infringe on equal rights.  We would stand alongside anyone willing to fight for their civil rights to be gay and served in the public by any establishment and see this as a civil rights issue accordingly.  If a proprietor sells cakes to the public, they must sell cakes at the same price to Gay People in the United States.  Gay People have equal marriage rights, gun rights, parenting rights and religious rights as any other human being.  This is a profound statement that we are out, loud and proud to make a difference at the Dunham 2024 campaign.