Liberty Under God

The Slogan: Liberty Under God is the political philosophy that made America the most prosperous and most admired nation in the world. This is the foundation upon which the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were erected.

The Candidate: Kevin Craig is the only candidate in the race for Missouri's 7th Congressional District who adheres to this philosophy without reservation or compromise. For Kevin Craig, Liberty Under God is not just a slogan, it's a worldview.

The Voter: You have to ask yourself: 1. "What do I want?" 2. "How can I get it?" If you want a fantasy world of something-for-nothing, just continue trusting in politicians, who will promise you anything. You will end up with nothing, but at least you didn't have to work for it. If you want a world of Liberty Under God -- of freedom to work, succeed, enjoy private property, and give thanks to God, you really have only one choice in this election.

The difference between Kevin Craig on the one hand, and the Republican incumbent and Democrat challenger on the other hand, could not be clearer. Kevin Craig is the candidate who is committed to being the candidate America's Founding Fathers would vote for if they were alive in 2008. The men who signed the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution would cast their vote for Kevin Craig. Let that be your standard when you go to the polls. The Signers of the Declaration of Independence risked "our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor" in defense of their dreams. Let that be your example. You must be willing to "waste your vote." A vote for Kevin Craig is not a vote for "the winner," but a vote for the incumbent is a vote lost in an ocean of votes against "Liberty Under God." America's Founding Fathers would say that America has become an atheistic tyranny, and they would blame politicians like our incumbent Congressman.

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The Blog: frequently updating Kevin Craig's campaign platform with applications to late-breaking news and current events. http://blog.KevinCraig.us

The Ozarks Virtual Town Hall Every Saturday morning at 10:30 am, we assemble in a virtual Town Hall -- a LIVE Internet Webcast -- to listen to the President's Saturday Morning Radio Address, and the compare that with the principle of "Liberty Under God" http://townhall.KevinCraig.us

Lunch with the Candidate Every Wednesday at noon (CST), you can sit down to a "virtual lunch" with Congressional Candidate Kevin Craig. At home or in your office, while you're eating lunch, listen to a live webcast, get on the phone and tell the candidate what you're looking for in a politician. Let's brainstorm ideas on changing America. http://lunch.KevinCraig.us

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Liberty Kevin Craig supports reducing the size, scope and power of government at all levels and on all issues, and opposes increasing the size, scope or power of government at any level or for any purpose.

Under God The United States Federal Government is in our day the greatest obstacle to self-government and "Liberty Under God." If you think your Congressman can create a federal program to move America one step toward "Liberty Under God," you're forgetting about all the other federal programs that take us three steps back.

"I will vote small government. Every issue. Every time. No exceptions. No excuses." I will actively and ambitiously initiate and support actions to make government small. Specifically, I promise: I will sponsor, advance, and vote for bills and legislation to shrink the size, power, spending, taxes, debt, and liability of today's Big Government. I will introduce, support, and vote only for government budgets that are smaller than this year's budget. I will vote against every government budget that spends the same amount or more than this year's budget. I will introduce and vote for legislation that repeals or reduces today's Big Government Programs. I will vote against all new or expanded government programs, all tax increases, and any new debt. I will vote against any bill that I have not read and thought through. No communication from me, my representatives, or my staff will contradict or violate the Small Government Pledgesm for Candidates. I will endorse and support only candidates who take the Small Government Pledgesm or whose promises and actions are consistent with the Small Government Pledgesm. I will never support, directly or indirectly, a Big Government candidate, politician, or proposal. I will be accountable to voters. Upon request, I will make public every vote I cast while in office. The first spending cut we should make is to abolish the Department of Education and return education to parents, allowing them to send their children to schools where it is not "unconstitutional" to teach the "self-evident truths" of the Declaration of Independence. The First 30 Days of "Liberty Under God" The Second 30 Days of "Liberty Under God" (Suggestions by Lew Rockwell)

I will follow the advice of James Madison, "the Father of the Constitution," and vote against any bill if the policy of the bill is adverse to the diffusion of the light of Christianity. The first wish of those who enjoy this precious gift, ought to be that it may be imparted to the whole race of mankind. Compare the number of those who have as yet received it with the number still remaining under the dominion of false Religions; and how small is the former! Does the policy of the Bill tend to lessen the disproportion? No; it at once discourages those who are strangers to the light of (revelation) from coming into the Region of it; and countenances, by example the nations who continue in darkness, in shutting out those who might convey it to them. Instead of levelling as far as possible, every obstacle to the victorious progress of truth, the Bill with an ignoble and unchristian timidity would circumscribe it, with a wall of defence, against the encroachments of error. The commander-in-chief directs that divine service be performed every Sunday at eleven o'clock in those brigades [in] which there are chaplains; those which have none [are] to attend the places of worship nearest to them. It is expected that officers of all ranks will by their attendance set an example to their men. While we are zealously performing the duties of good citizens and soldiers, we certainly ought not to be inattentive to the higher duties of religion. To the distinguished character of patriot, it should be our highest glory to add the more distinguished character of Christian. The signal instances of providential goodness which we have experienced, and which have now almost crowned our labors with complete success, demand from us in a peculiar manner the warmest returns of gratitude and piety to the Supreme Author of all good. — George, Washington, General Orders, May 2, 1778 True religion cannot be advanced through the use of government coercion, confiscation of property, or deprivation of life or liberty.

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All unconstitutional federal programs -- about 99% of the federal government's budget -- should be abolished. Even constitutional programs, such as the Post Office, should also be abolished, and capitalistic entrepreneurs allowed to compete with each other to provide needed services to the American public. All needed social services can be provided faster, cheaper, with higher quality, to more people, by capitalism ("the Free Market") than by socialism in any form.

Your current Congressman has had ten years in office, and has yet to show any meaningful progress in abolishing even the most outrageously unconstitutional, wasteful, and socially harmful government programs. In fact, he consistently votes to give wasteful government programs even more of your money.

Vote for Kevin Craig, who promises to work to abolish all government programs, and keep voting for Kevin Craig until you feel all unconstitutional, wasteful, and socially harmful government programs have been abolished. Then vote for someone else who will keep all remaining government programs. Your vote for Congress only lasts two years. Then it's time to vote again.

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Back to the Past, Ahead to the Future

Many Americans say they would like to go back to "the good ol' days." But that's not enough. If you come to a fork in the road and you take the wrong exit, going back to the fork in the road is not enough, no matter how difficult that journey may be. You must be willing to fill up the tank one more time and continue making progress along the right path. Once we abolish numerous unconstitutional government bureaucracies and get back to the ideal of "Liberty Under God," we must be prepared to go beyond that into the future.

We've made great progress. The poor in America enjoy a standard of living many times greater than that which prevailed in 1776. The vast majority of people classified as "poor" have televisions, cars, central heating, and are wealthy beyond the wildest dreams of America's Founding Fathers. Immigrants have come to America with pennies and worked and saved millions. Why are we so much better off than we were 200 years ago? Government programs? or inventors, entrepreneurs and capitalists benefiting from a Free Market? How much better will our grandchildren be if we are consistent with the ideal that made America great: How might "Liberty Under God" shape the next century?

Get ready to challenge your vision of the future . . . .

My name is Kevin Craig and I am running against your current Congressman because I'm convinced America's Founding Fathers would not vote for him. If you love the idea of "Liberty Under God," you should vote for Kevin Craig, and send a powerful and clear message to your current Congressman, your fellow Missourians, and to Washington D.C.

Kevin Craig

There are only a handful of Congressmen in Washington who believe in Liberty Under God. The vast majority have consistently voted their belief that your life should be monitored and regulated by a huge Secular State. America's Founding Fathers would be utterly aghast at the size of our intrusive, paternalistic, and warlike government. Their shock would turn to anger if they were told that the federal government orders cities, states and communities to prohibit prayer and the Ten Commandments in public places. And if they were to listen to our politicians' campaign speeches, they would see instantly that the federal government claims to be America's Secular Messiah, bringing social salvation to the U.S. and the entire world.

"Idolatry" is the word the Founders would use.

Sam Adams, Thomas Jefferson, John Witherspoon, and other Founders risked "our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor" in defense of Liberty Under God. Many who signed the Declaration of Independence lost their homes, businesses, or family members. Can you risk 20 minutes to read this webpage and avoid throwing your vote away, like tossing a drop of water in a vast ocean of "I always vote Republican" support for our current Congressman?

On the day after Election Day, political pundits and media commentators will analyze the election results and declare the "meaning" of your vote. They will say that voters like you voted to pay more taxes and approved of a bigger, more atheistic federal government. Why? Because that's what your current Congressman votes for. When your current Congressman was first elected to Congress in 1996, the Republican Party National Platform promised the following:

As a first step in reforming government, we support elimination of the Departments of Commerce, Housing and Urban Development, Education, and Energy, and the elimination, defunding or privatization of agencies which are obsolete, redundant, of limited value, or too regional in focus. Examples of agencies we seek to defund or to privatize are the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and the Legal Services Corporation.

The National Endowment for the Arts was notorious for its subsidizing of anti-Christian, pornographic “art,” including “art” which featured a figure of Jesus Christ submerged in a container of the "artist’s" urine. These programs mock the idea of "Liberty Under God," and undermine the very heart and soul of America.

And yet, our incumbent Congressman has not only failed to abolish these unconstitutional agencies, he has consistently voted to INCREASE funding for these agencies. These unconstitutional agencies are now far more powerful than they were during the Clinton Administration.

Many other examples are found below. Let me make an even more dramatic claim:

America's Founding Fathers would denounce a vote for our current Congressman as "unAmerican" and "unChristian."

That's correct: unAmerican and unChristian. The evidence is overwhelming.

Here is some more evidence:

• On November 22, 2003, our present Congressman voted for an unconstitutional prescription drug benefit plan that will add nearly $4,000 to your tax bill; The Biggest Medicare Fraud Ever. Click here for details.
• On July 16, 2003 and July 22, 2003, the incumbent voted for bills that expand the power of the atheistic United Nations and undercut American sovereignty. Click here for details.
• On April 30, 2003, our current Congressman voted for more federal control over your local schools. Click here for details. More federal control over your schools diminishes the chances of students in your neighborhood knowing how to read, knowing right from wrong, and knowing the values that made America the most admired nation on earth.
• On July 24, 2003, our Congressman took steps toward creating a Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) that would place America under the control of a regional government that is not bound "by the chains of the Constitution" (Thomas Jefferson)
  • In fact, "granting Trade Promotion Authority to the president was a top priority for Roy," and the President has entered into an international agreement to merge the United States and Mexico into a new government, effectively abolishing the United States of America. If you haven't heard about this, you need to click here:

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You can see more examples of your current Congressman's voting record here, here, here, here, and here. According to "The Conservative Index," published by The New American magazine, which rates the voting records of all Congressmen on issues which America's Founding Fathers would have deemed most significant -- issues which are most directly relevant to the principles of the Constitution -- your representative in Congress has a voting record that is more socialist than Bernie Sanders, Congressman and soon-to-be Senator from Vermont, who openly calls himself a socialist.

• On the most important matters, every other vote by our Congressman undercuts the principle upon which this country was built. On balance, our present Congressman ignores the Constitution more than 50% of the time. Which 50% do you support? What message are you sending with your vote? Capitalism or socialism? "Liberty Under God" or Tyranny under a Secular Messianic State?

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost. -- John Quincy Adams

Your vote for Kevin Craig will send a message to the incumbent to pay attention to the Constitution, and cast votes which are consistent with the principle of Liberty Under God. A vote for Kevin Craig speaks louder and more clearly than a vote for the incumbent. You may not be able to vote for a "winner," but you can vote for a great principle. Which would America's Founding Fathers approve of?

If you're a Christian, you need to ask this question:

Is it a SIN to Vote for Roy Blunt?
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If you want to vote for a "winner,"
Don't Vote for Kevin Craig
Vote for AMERICA

It's time for Missouri voters to recognize that the two-party system which has controlled America for the last 80 years has only one goal: to remain in power. Nearly everyone in Congress has violated his or her oath to "support the Constitution." The men who wrote and signed the Constitution would not recognize the government they created. This is the year you need to vote for America and not for the same old political party.

In his "Farewell Address," George Washington warned against excessive allegiance to any political party:

Let me now . . . warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party. . . . The common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrict it. It serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms; kindles the animosity of one part against another . . . . In governments purely elective, it [the spirit of party] is a spirit not to be encouraged.

You must put America ahead of either political party.

And you must vote to make sure that America is Under God. Benjamin Rush signed the Declaration of Independence and served in the Presidential administrations of John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison -- each of whom came from a different political party. And of what party was Rush?

I have been alternately called an aristocrat and a democrat. I am now neither. I am a Christocrat. I believe all power. . . will always fail of producing order and happiness in the hands of man. He alone Who created and redeemed man is qualified to govern him.

Our rights, says the Declaration of Independence, do not come from the Republicans or the Democrats. They do not come from Washington D.C. We are endowed by our Creator with our rights.

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If you already like what you are reading, why not stop right now and email all your neighbors and tell them to come to this website to get the political science education they missed in government schools? Your message will be louder if everyone you know votes for Liberty Under God.

Who Will Abolish America?

When you go to the polls in November, you will be voting on WHO will abolish America. Not whether America is abolished, but WHO will abolish America. That sounds radical, even crazy. You must learn the facts. You must become an informed voter. Click here for details about the plan to abolish America. If America's Founding Fathers were here today, they too would vote to abolish the United States.

• They took up arms against taxes which were only one-tenth as burdensome as today's taxes.
• They exercised their right to "alter or abolish" a tyrannical government that would never have dreamed of giving government grants to pornographers, abortion-providers, land-owners who won't grow anything for others, drug-users, and tens of thousands of "pork-barrel" projects -- in exchange for votes and other bribes given out by special interests.

Washington D.C. is the greatest threat on earth to the ideal of "Liberty Under God." The United States as we know it today -- the United States as created by the two-party monopoly over the last 100 years -- will be and must be abolished. The Republicans and Democrats are going to abolish the U.S.A. and replace it with more of the same: a regional mega-state, merging the United States and Mexico, and eventually all of North and South America. It will be called a "Free Trade" zone, but it will be a new government, with new courts, new legislative powers, and new executives, none of which will be "bound down by the chains of the Constitution." Did you click this link yet?

Imagine a "new" America where:

• You run a successful business without ever filling out a government form or wondering if you might be violating some senseless government regulation.
• You gain a profound sense of satisfaction by supporting valuable charities and investing in life-enhancing technologies, ever since your take-home pay increased by more than $15,000 a year when the Income Tax was abolished.
• The young college-aged clerk you hired can read complete sentences, do simple math, be trusted with company assets, and treat your customers with courtesy and respect.
• Children are taught in school that God says not to steal, not to kill, and not to rape, and that God has created all of us with unalienable rights.

You'll never ever know such an America if you keep voting for the same old politicians. Neither will your children.

Kevin Craig is the only candidate for Congress who knows that America's greatness depends on a simple formula. It's an idea so old it sounds radically new:

"Liberty, Under God"

• Another word for "liberty" is "Free Market economics," or "laissez-faire capitalism."
• "Under God" describes the America created by the Declaration of Independence, a society committed to "the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God."

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Why I am Running for Congress

The message I am taking to the voters is simple:

"Liberty, Under God"

You may be thinking,

• "Here we go again with more empty campaign slogans."
• "Oh, brother; another politician pandering to people who like the Pledge of Allegiance."

I take the principle very seriously, more consistently, I believe, than the other candidates. I believe it sums up the Constitutional principles that made America "the greatest nation on God's green earth."

• Liberty Under God: What it Means
• Liberty Under God: What it Doesn't Mean
• "Why should I vote for you? you can't win."

I'm committed to

"Liberty, Under God"

• "Liberty" because God has given us unalienable rights, which must not be violated by the government.
•  "Under God"  means:
  • Liberty, but not license.
  • Freedom and personal responsibility.
  • Individual Rights and social duties.
    • Thomas Jefferson said Americans have "no natural right in opposition to their social duties."
    • These duties are defined by "the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God."

Republicans worry that I am trying to get rid of too much government (Liberty: "He's an Anarchist!"), while the Democrats worry that I am trying to give government too much power (Under God: "He's imposing a Theocracy!").

The confusion comes from a failure to understand the basic nature of the system of government which once made America so respected and admired. 

"Liberty Under God"

They say "Bad publicity is better than no publicity at all." Let me give you a little bad publicity, in case you haven't heard it already.

Why Bother Reading this Web Page?

The Republican incumbent in this race won the last election with a staggering 73% of the vote. He has been the incumbent for five terms. He already has nearly two million dollars to spend in his campaign. On occasion the Democratic Party doesn't even bother to run a candidate against him. This is what you call "a safe district."

I have no illusions about going to Washington in 2007. Nevertheless,

Your vote for Kevin Craig will not be "wasted." It will stand out like a sore thumb. Your vote will send a clear message. This web site describes that message:

"Liberty Under God"

• The advantage of having an "anarchist" working for you in Washington is that nobody is more passionate in defense of your liberty. Republicans claim victory when they merely slow down the rate of government growth and intervention. Libertarians won't be satisfied until socialism is repudiated and government reduced to the size intended by the Constitution.
• The advantage of having a defender of "Theocracy" representing you in Washington is that nobody advocates the idea of personal responsibility with more passion. Democrats advocate Government programs of wealth transfer which are impersonal, bureaucratic, and imposed by force. Libertarians are champions of self-government.

America was once a Libertarian nation

In 1831, the French political writer Alexis de Tocqueville visited the United States of America, a nation which, in the eyes of today's Democrats and Republicans, existed in a state of anarchy. The citizenry had deemed unnecessary such things as income taxation, welfare bureaucracies, Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, public schooling, drug wars, economic regulations, gun control, and immigration controls, but the poor were cared for, the elderly were respected, the illiterate were educated, the streets were safe, and the economy was flourishing. Tocqueville described the laissez-faire world of Liberty Under God:

Only the Libertarian Party has a clear and consistent program to return government to the limited power the Founding Fathers intended it to have. Kevin Craig will encourage people of faith and conscience to take personal responsibility to solve pressing social problems without government force:

The Bible says "true religion" is this:

To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction
James 1:27

"Compassion" comes from two Latin words meaning "suffer with." True concern for the poor means more than "I gave at the office." It means personal involvement on a local level. Religion, not Washington D.C., has been the greatest ally of the poor.

Public "virtue" is what protects our rights to life, liberty and property, not the Office of Homeland Security. The heroes of Flight 93 realized that the government was not going to protect them, and they took personal responsibility to thwart the hijackers. Subsequent hijackings have been prevented by similar acts of self-government, not by the elimination of curbside check-in. The federal government owes the people of New York and the rest of the world a profound apology for giving Osama bin Laden billions of dollars in military assistance during the 1980's. Eliminating domestic liberties is no way to atone for their failed interventionist foreign policy. America's Founders followed clear principles of peaceful non-intervention:

The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations is in extending our commercial relations to have with them as little political connection as possible."
— Washington, Farewell Address (1796)

I deem [one of] the essential principles of our government, and consequently [one] which ought to shape its administration … peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.
— Jefferson, First Inaugural Address (1801) 

These simple policies led to America's greatness. They have been abandoned by both Republicans and Democrats. Only Libertarians are willing to follow these policies with principled consistency, even if, as a result, it may be a few years before our candidates win a seat in Congress.

I advocate the replacement of inefficient bureaucratic government programs with competitive, efficient Free Market approaches. My Stand on the Issues is often my vision for comprehensive privatization, one bureaucracy at a time. My favorite issues:

• The Separation of School and State;
• Abolition of Government ponzi-schemes that rip-off the elderly;
• Elimination of Government Aid to Terrorists.

The Character of a Congressman reflects my continuing journey toward good character. It's a lifelong journey.

I have finished the course work for my Master's Degree in Law and Theology. My thesis is a defense of "Laissez-Faire Theocracy." If you're interested in lengthy footnoted academic discussions and ideas about the distant future, click here.

Thank you very much for reading!

Kevin Craig
P.O. Box 179
Powersite, MO 65731
KevinCraig@KevinCraig.US

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