Mike ter Maat

We need to end bad housing policy, bad welfare policy, bad zoning policy, local school monopolies, and above all END THE WAR ON DRUGS! In the U.S. We have the world’s most oppressive criminal justice system, the result of an insanely counter-productive war on drugs combined with a ruthlessly efficient police state. The war on drugs has been an objective failure, empirically speaking. Take it from a cop whose only involvement with the enforcement of drug laws was performing CPR on individuals trapped in a system that marginalizes victims of addiction as criminals. Even if the war on drugs reduced addiction – a crazy thought given the truckload of evidence that criminalization does not work – it would still be unethical for a government to dictate what citizens can do with their own bodies. There is no such thing as a victimless crime. We must fight for the decriminalization of human behavior, no matter how we personally feel about the behavior.

Reducing human trafficking is the ultimate frontier in the fight for human rights. Given the crisis that is underway, as a part of making immigration safer, I would consider completing the Trump-era border “wall,” though with more modern technology. No libertarian should put his head so far in the sand as to believe that a completely untended border is a completely safe border.

The inhumane treatment of immigrants, including the separation of family members at the border, is a black mark on our character and a bad look for our image to the rest of the world. I would surge resources to the border to vet people into the U.S. Faster to eliminate the incentive for illegal crossings. The process was 90 minutes to vet someone into the White House when I worked there in the early 1990s. There is no logical reason why it should take weeks to process someone across the border today.

As President of the United States, I will . . . Work with Congress to pass a 28th constitutional amendment to the constitution for medical freedom. Repeal HR5546, the 1986 law that removed product liability for vaccines and the PREP Act that removed product liability for the makers of COVID vaccines and biologics. Withdraw from the WHO and oppose the proposed international binding IHR treaty that would hand over medical decisions to a corrupt global entity. Eliminate payments from CMS for vaccinating healthcare workers and patients and eliminate CMS authority to mandate healthcare worker medical procedure. Eliminate the CDC, to remove the regulatory capture by the pharmaceutical industry. Remove HHS from serving in the competing roles as a promoter of vaccines and the safety monitor. Ensure the sanctity of the doctor-patient relationship, including the elimination of interference with use of off-label medications.

We need private-sector policing organizations to compete for government contracts, just like we need private schools to compete with public schools. School choice and police reform are analogous. We need unions to allow for competition both among teachers and among officers, and for market forces to hold them accountable.

What we want is for the business of policing to be more like other industries, in which good officers get paid more, mediocre officers get paid less, and bad police officers get fired. Market forces can reform law enforcement. We need police to be subject to competitive forces at both the officer level and the agency level.

Bring the troops home.

Stop foreign aid. The reality is that our annual investments of billions of dollars to Palestinian organizations and billions of dollars to the government of Israel comprise a strategic failure in terms of influence, deterrence, economic growth, or democratic development. Foreign aid does not work. It’s time to stop.