There are 10 questions with 10 points per question.

Candidate's Name : Liz Michael

Political Party: Democrat

Office you are running for: United States Senator (election 2004)

State: Arizona

County:

District:

1) Do you believe that the Second Amendment confirms the individual right of every American citizen to possess and use (update of keep and bear) militia/military weapons for individual self-defense, as well as for the defense of the State / National defense?

Yes.

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2) If elected would you support legislation for the removal of firearm laws and regulations? If your answer is yes, and if you are elected, what specific legislation would you propose/support to ensure that this individual right is protected?  Which current laws which infringe upon this individual right would you seek to repeal?

Yes.

As for which firearms laws I would seek to repeal, I would pretty much like to repeal all of them.

As to specific legislation, there are literally mountains of ideas I could give, but here are a few ideas:

A. A general federal law which enforces the Constitution of the United States, particularly, laws enforcing the 2nd, 4th, 9th and 10th amendments.

B. A law establishing the right to privacy against searches and seizures while a person is in public, as if a person was on their own property, the point being that people would have a constitutional right not to be searched on their person or in their vehicles without a warrant.

C. A federal law establishing that people exercising their powers under the auspices of private unorganized militias cannot have their rights to carry and purchase infringed or taxed under any circumstances.

D. A law mandating all prosecution under federal, state and local laws must specificy a victim or victims specific, and that the victim specific cannot be the United States or a state and locality without a direct tort against the entity which inflicts or attempts to inflict a real injury against the government in question. In order words, the state would have to prove standing to try and convict someone of a violation of the law.

E. As a temporary measure to restore liberty in enclaves under curent extreme tyranny vis a vis gun laws, such as New York, Washington, California, and Illinois, I would sponsor a voluntary national concealed carry permit law which would supercede all state and local regulations and bans, as well as require reciprocity of all state permits.

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3) What do you consider are "legitimate" reasons to own a firearm?
Check as many as apply:
     [X] Personal Defense
     [X] Home Defense
     [X] Defense of your country (Unorganized Militia)
     [X] Hunting
     [X] Farm Use
     [X] Competitive Shooting
     [X] Informal Sport Shooting
     [X] Informal Target Practice and/or Plinking
     [X] Collecting
     [X] Constitutional Rights
     [X] Other  - Ability to remove a tyrannical government or standing army by force, defense of one's business or enterprise
     [X] All of the above
     [ ] None of the above

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4) Would you support the banning of some firearms or ammunition? (IE: Saturday night specials, "assault weapons", Hollow points, and "Safety Slugs") Why and to what extent?

No. There is no constitutional provision for the banning of any arm.

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5) Do you believe that firearms and/or firearm owners should be registered? Which ones and why?

No. The government has not the right, and should not have the power, to determine which firearms law abiding citizens and guests possess or have bought.

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6) Do you support equal rights for all citizens of the United States regardless of the person's sexuality / orientation and / or gender identity/expression?

Yes.

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7) Which of the following would you be willing to support in regards to same-gender and/or polyamorous marriages and/or civil unions?
  Check as many as apply:
     [X] Domestic partnerships for same-sex couples
     [X] Domestic partnerships for opposite-sex couples
     [X] Domestic partnerships for polyamorous (more than two consenting adults)
     [X] Same-sex marriages
     [X] Opposite sex marriages (What we have now)
     [X] Polyamarous marriages (between more than two consenting adults)
     [X] All of the above. Everyone should have equal rights under the law.
     [X] None of the above. Government has no role in defining a marriage. Leave it to the church.

Please note: I consider the last entry, that government should be taken out of the marriage permit business entirely, to be the ideal situation. Moreover, I have a personal religious objection to state-sponsored marriage, and regularly encourage people who have my faith NOT to obtain the state's permission for a divinely ordained institution. I believe stated sponsored marriage is a violation of the separation of church and state.

Barring that, however, every person should have the equal right to access under any law of the state, and each state under the Constitution must grant reciprocity to the laws of other states.

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8) Do you support the right for people to act as they wish in a private setting, with other consenting adults?

Yes.

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9) In July 2000 the Police Dept. of Attleboro Massachusetts entered a private party without a search warrant. The party was not open to the public or in the business to make a profit. Any donations given were used to pay rent. When the police entered, they arrested two people.  The first person who was arrested organized the event. The second person arrested was arrested because she spanked her consenting adult partner with a wooden spoon. Do you support the actions of  the Attleboro police as given in this example? Why?

No. There is not even a tort or a crime arising from the incident. As I stated above, I believe it should be required that all prosecutions must state a victim specific, and that a state cannot attach victim status to someone who of his own free will declares that he is not a victim.

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10) Do you support equal immigration rights for partners of US residents, regardless of their sexuality / orientation and / or gender identity/expression?

Yes.

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Do you have an additional statement to make that is not covered by this questionnaire?  Use as much space as you wish.

I believe that a serious malaise exists in our country, and that the only way to expunge that malaise is to restore the constitutional, limited government of the 1789 Constitution.  I believe that the militia is, as George Mason stated, "the whole of the people", and that the second amendment guarantees an unlimited right to keep and bear arms, and that furthermore, the right to privacy and the right against unreasonable search and seizure under the fourth amendment guiarantee a right to concealed carry. Moreover, the fourteenth amendment guarantees these rights to citizens of the United States. And I believe in a classical liberal government as asserted by the founder of the Democratic Party, Thomas Jefferson.
 
 

Liz Michael,

Candidate for United States Senator, Arizona

(election 2004, current incumbent John McCain)