Darrell Castle: Constitution Party President Candidate

Darrell Castle/Scott Bradley: Constitution Party President/Vice President candidate

Website: http://castle2016.com/

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http://castle2016.com/

“Darrell Castle was born in 1948, in Kingsport, Tennessee, graduating from Ketron High School in 1966. He attended East Tennessee State University (ETSU), earning a Bachelor of Science degree in both Political Science and History in 1970, and a Juris Doctorate from Memphis State University in 1979. He currently resides in Germantown, Tennessee.

Darrell came of age during the Vietnam (Viet Nam) War. During his ETSU years, he enrolled in the Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) for two years and attended the Marine Corps Platoon Leaders class in Quantico, Virginia. Following graduation he was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the United States Marine Corps. Darrell trained under then 1st Lieutenant, Oliver North. After graduation from Basic School, Darrell’s unit received a unit citation for being deployed in five different theaters of operation at the same time. He was promoted to 1st Lieutenant and received orders to the Far East for 13 months. His service in Viet Nam followed a family military tradition; his oldest brother serving in the Army during World War II, another brother having served as a Marine in the Korean War.

War is a life-changing event and Darrell’s experiences during those years contributed to his strong belief that war should not be entered into capriciously; and, that the decision to go to war must be made according to constitutional provisions. He firmly believes in upholding Article I Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution, which makes it clear that only Congress can declare war, and that those powers are not granted to the president. He left the Marine Corps a very different person than when he went in.

Life does have a way of steering one into new directions, and Darrell moved on to earn his Juris Doctor in 1979 from Memphis State University (now known as the University of Memphis) and became an attorney. It was here that he had a second life-changing event—he met and married the former Joan Weil. Happily wedded for nearly 38 years, they have one daughter.

In 1984, Darrell opened a private firm, which later grew into Darrell Castle and Associates, based in Memphis, Tennessee. Since then, he has opened firms in Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Detroit, Michigan; Kansas City, Missouri; and St. Louis, Missouri. With over 25 years of legal experience, he has earned much respect. His current focus is on consumer bankruptcy and personal injury, but Darrell Castle and Associates also represents clients in the areas of social security/disability and workers’ compensation. (www.darrellcastle.com)

Darrell has a strong Christian religious ethic. He has served as a deacon and deacon chairman in his local church. In 1998, Darrell and Joan stretched out their hand to serve others, and founded Mia’s Children Foundation (www.miaschildren.org), a Christian mission in Bucharest, Romania which ministers to homeless gypsy children.

His political activism includes:

Two terms as the Constitution Party of Tennessee State Chairman

Three terms as the Vice-chairman of the National Committee of the Constitution Party

Two terms as the Platform Chairman of the National Convention of the Constitution Party

Instructor of the Institute on the Constitution course

Author of numerous articles and commentaries addressing national issues and analysis of current events

Board member of the Conservative Caucus since 2005

2007 Chairman of the National Veterans Coalition, an outreach of the National Constitution Party

2008 Constitution Party Vice-presidential Candidate, running mate of Chuck Baldwin.

Creator and author of the Castle Report

http://castle2016.com/platform/

“Adherence To The Constitution

The Constitution is the charter of liberty for the American Republic. It is much more than just a piece of paper or just a legal document. It is evidence of the grand design the founders left us and it secures the rights that God granted to us.

In the Declaration of Independence Mr. Jefferson told us that we are endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable rights and to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men. That is the purpose of government and the reason why the Constitution was and is necessary.

Adherence to the Constitution brings liberty and ignoring and denigrating it brings tyranny.

That’s why my political party is the Constitution Party. It is not perfect but it is the best there is.

[The Constitution Party is not the Party of Murder (AKA the Democrat Party).

The Constitution Party is not the Capitulation Party (AKA the Republican Party).

The Constitution Party is the Party of the Constitution as written and amended, of integrity, and of principle.]

Pro-Life Stance

If you’ve ever made a statement that you will never vote for someone who is not pro-life, or who supports abortion, and if you are really serious about that statement, then you only have one choice in this election. I am the only candidate of any party that is 100% pro-life or even close to it.

Unlike Hillary Clinton who recently said, ‘unborn persons have no constitutional rights,’ I know that all ‘persons’ have the right to life and both the 5th and 14th amendments confirm that position. I also know, as does Mrs. Clinton in the deep recesses of her heart, that those waiting in their mother’s womb to be born are in fact persons.

[Life begins at conception. That is a scientific, biological fact. Do you really believe a baby is dead while in his/her mother’s womb and then “magically” comes to life at birth? That is utterly preposterous! Luke 1: 41 (NIV) “When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the baby leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit.”]

There are many things that a Constitutional President could do about abortion but I will give you just three.

1) Veto and refuse to spend every penny of funding for Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers.

2) Confirm the validity of the 10th amendment and the states’ right to decide their own laws.

3) Recommend to Congress, and work to convince Congress, to take away the Supreme Court’s jurisdiction over such matters.

[Amendment V: “No person shall … be deprived of life … without due process of law ….”

Amendment XIV Section 1:

“All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”

Government sanctioned murder is not due process of law.

The constitutional solution to government sanctioned murder:

Congress nullifies the court decisions by law:

First, define life stating that life begins at conception as it does.

Then, state clearly and emphatically in law that the federal court decisions sanctioning the murder of unborn babies are null and void since they violate the Fifth Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment.

Finally, federal court decisions are not the supreme law of the land. Laws passed by Congress pursuant to the Constitution are the supreme law of the land and supersede any and all federal court decisions. (Article 6, ¶ 2)

The pro-life position of the Constitution Party is sufficient reason, in and of itself, to reject the Capitulation Party and be a member of the Constitution Party! It is the only truly pro-life Party!]

Withdrawal From The United Nations

I believe that the United States (U.S.) should regain its sovereignty and chart its own course. This is not isolationism. The U.S. cannot remain isolated from the forces agitating today’s world, which is so interrelated in trade, finance, instantaneous communications, etc.

How does America deal with other nations while keeping our sovereignty, our freedom, and our independence intact? Can the U.S. keep its own laws and Constitution, set its own policies, or do we surrender to the decisions and dictates of an international collective of nations?

Many people, including many in our own government, would love to see American nationhood fade into history. They fear not only the power of America, but also the ideas that still make us the most powerful nation on earth. Those ideas serve as a contradiction to the way the rest of the world operates, and would serve us even more if we were once again an independent nation.

The overwhelming success of the U.S. politically, economically, and culturally, depends upon a set of ideas—religious, political, and legal that set us free to worship, think, and act as free Americans. Those ideas have never been replicated anywhere else on earth. Material prosperity springs from that freedom and it is a renewable resource as long as freedom remains.

The ideas of America are not compatible with membership in the United Nations (U.N.). The U.N. is world headquarters for the church of unbelieving humanism. The fundamental doctrine of the U.N. is that the world should be a global collective, redistributing shares of material prosperity to every human on earth. That is a religious and not a political idea. Faith in God is replaced by faith in Humanity. [We know how well that works!] The U.N. is the sanctuary of the idolatry of Man. To U.N. believers its very name is sacred, inspiring awe and devotion. The earth is the great mother who produces some resources but not enough so rationing is the result. Some have to be taxed so rationing can occur and provide equal shares. Injuring the earth is the crime of injuring the great mother. This thought process takes them back to ancient pagan days of gods thought to be mythical but are in reality satanic. When the U.N. headquarters was built in 1946, a meditation room was included in which the only object is a rectangular black rock symbol of the underworld thrust up from the world below. The ideas of the U.N. are in direct opposition to the ideas of America.

Collective action is the U.N. Globalist strategy to weaken and isolate America. We are, therefore, more isolated in the U.N. than we would be out of it. It is intended to isolate the U.S. a little bit at a time lest we awaken from our slumber and withdraw. Little by little the Lilliputian strands are woven tighter and tighter.

The very existence of the U.N. is an affront to liberty and human dignity. Many of the inherent rights in the US Constitution are superseded by the United Nations Charter, including the right of self-defense. We must free ourselves from the notion that the U.N. is vital to U.S. interests. It is not. If the American people do not understand these things, then it is imperative that we educate them.

[Under globalism, socialism, fascism, and communism, there are only two groups of people—the power elite and everyone else. You and I are part of the everyone else. The U.N. supports and promotes worldwide abortion/murder and the radical homosexual agenda. It uses our money—the major donor to the U.N.—to achieve its goals.

http://fas.org/sgp/crs/row/RL30605.pdf

“In 2010—the last calendar year for which data are publicly available—the United States was the single largest contributor to the regular budget, paying $532,435,102, or 22%, in assessed contributions. The next largest contributors were Japan (12.530%), Germany (8.018%), the United Kingdom (6.604%), and France (6.123%). Seventeen countries, including the United States, were assessed at over 1%, representing about 83% of the total regular budget. Ten countries were assessed between 0.5% and 1%, accounting for about 7% of the budget. The rest of the U.N. membership (167 countries) accounted for about 8% of the regular budget.”

http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2010/08/us-funding-of-the-united-nations-reaches-all-time-high

“Distrust in the accuracy of the State Department report led Congress to designate OMB as the Administration agency to compile and submit the report and for it to be made publicly available on the Internet. The OMB released its report on FY 2009 U.S. contributions to the U.N. in June 2010. The report revealed that the U.S. provided $6.347 billion to the U.N. system in FY 2009, including over $4 billion from the State Department, over $1.7 billion from USAID, over $245 million from the Department of Agriculture, and tens of millions more from the Departments of Health and Human Services, Labor, and Energy.

This is an all-time record in U.S. financial contributions to the U.N. system but, considering recent budget trends in the U.N., the record is likely to be broken in FY 2010.”]

End the Federal Reserve

I would end the Federal Reserve’s control of the United States’ monetary system by repealing the Federal Reserve Act. Interest rates would no longer be tampered with, as lenders and borrowers would set their own rates.

I would remind the banks that there would no longer be a Federal Reserve to lend to them in an emergency so if a bank gets in trouble, it’s on its own.

Then I would let the American people know that they are now free to use whatever currency they want. The dollar would again be exchangeable for a fixed quantity of gold and the U.S. Treasury would now accept any major currency, including bitcoin, in payment of taxes. As a result, the country would return to a traditional and sensible money system so people could decide for themselves what kind of money they wanted to use. They could save it, spend it, or put any price they wanted on it if they wanted to lend it out.

[U.S. Constitution Article section 8 power 5:

The Congress shall have Power To coin Money [“To coin money” is more than just having coins. It also includes paper money or any other type of money so designated by Congress], regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures … .” Congress has the power to coin money—not the President, not the federal reserve, not the courts, not any other agency or bureau.]

Agenda 21

Private property rights are under assault in communities and rural areas across the nation as state and federal authorities move to enforce new planning development programs, particularly under the labels of Sustainable Development or Local Visioning.

Local elected representatives are being overshadowed by the establishment of non-elected boards, councils, planning commissions and regional governments. These non-elected organizations are taking government further away from the people as they are unseen and unapproachable. While totally unaccountable to the people, they enforce policy that affects property rights, tax rates, etc.

Across the nation communities are being pressured by federal agencies to accept grants for local sustainable projects that affect property rights and destroy local control. He who pays the piper calls the tune.

I would withdraw the federal government from such international, sovereignty destroying legislation. I would stop the federal government from manipulating local communities with handouts, and begin the process of handing control of their lives and property back to the local people.”

No political party is perfect just as no candidate is perfect. The Constitution Party is clearly the party closest to my beliefs. I am a Christian, Constitutionalist, conservative. With Senator Ted Cruz out of the running for President, the obvious choice for me is Darrell Castle of the Constitution Party.

For Life, for liberty

Don L. Vance

“With a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.”