Newest Pledge language

and preliminary footnotes to explain the pledge ideas

 A Pledge to Restore Our Democratic Values

1.  REVOKE UNENDING STATES OF EMERGENCY

I support limits on emergency powers.  All government emergency laws, rules, regulations, orders, and directives must have strict time limits, not to exceed two weeks, without legislatIve review. (1)

2.  PROHIBIT FORCED MEDICAL CARE

I support the prohibition of all pandemic medical mandates enacted by federal, state, county, city, and private actors, including compulsory drugs, vaccines, vaccine passports, testing, and masking. (2)

3.  STOP CENSORSHIP AND  PROPAGANDA

I support the termination of all federal and state funding used to censor citizens, misinform the American public, or restrict communication between people.  (3)

4.  BAN GAIN-OF-FUNCTION RESEARCH

I support the elimination of all gain-of-function research and related activities.  ‘Gain-of-function’ is defined as the intentional manipulation of microorganisms to make them more virulent, dangerous, or contagious. (4)

(1) The US’ separation of powers doctrine and the checks and balances enshrined in the Constitution have been infringed by shortsighted laws that allowed the executive branch to declare emergencies and continue to renew them without input from the People or required review by legislatures.  This pledge restores checks and balances to our system.

Legislative and administrative government activity must recommence by the end of two weeks.  Legislative hearings on the emergency measures, notice and comment by the public, and approval by the legislature will be required in order to renew any emergency powers. 

(2) The doctrine of bodily autonomy and the requirement for informed consent for medical procedures have been infringed with mandated medical tests and vaccinations.  

(3) The First Amendment rights guaranteed to every American (freedom of speech, the press, religion, and to peaceably assemble) were taken from us, without any means of timely redress, by our governments–in collaboration with mainstream and social media companies.  A 2013 amendment to the 1948 Smith-Mundt Act codified the right of the government to propagandize American citizens.  Our rights must be restored, and the approval for government to propagandize its citizens must be revoked. This pledge encompasses actions taken by government directly as well as actions taken by media companies that receive government funding. 

(4) Spending federal funds for gain-of-function research was officially banned between 2014 and 2017. Yet exceptions were made, including spending federal funds on coronavirus gain-of-function research in Wuhan, China and Chapel Hill, North Carolina.  American citizens are outraged at the harm this research has caused, and want it stopped for good.