If I Ruled the World - Building a Platform

If I ruled the world or ran for office, these are the things I believe in. It's mainly about restoring rights to the people that should never have been taken away.

This list may be updated as I think of more things for my platform. If you have any suggestions, post a reply or send me a message via the DebLite Contact Thingy in the sidebar.

Equal Rights for All

•  Civil rights for all races, colors, creeds, genders, orientations  a given
•  Equal pay for women
•  Recognition that women have complete autonomy over reproduction decisions
•  Enforce laws that prevent and punish discrimination and not just over "protected classes"

Parenting

•  End laws that send parents to jail for not paying child support
• put in place a system of contributing according to income
• recognize that job loss may equal inability to pay (the current system does not
• End laws that send parents to jail if their children do not go to school.
• Restore to parents (not the government or schools) the autonomy for basic decisions about their children (ie. doctors note  or proof needed,not merely parent note needed for absence due to mild illness or family necessity).
• Repeal laws and stop policing that criminalizes everyday parenting
• allowing your child play outside
• allowing your child walk to school or activities
• allowing your child stay in a car alone

Employment
End corporate person-hood (corporations are not people)
End unlimited corporate contributions to campaigns
End "at-will" employment
End pre-employment drug testing
End pre-employment credit checks
Make union busting illegal

Justice System

• Stop the system of pay to play
• End the system where citizens are threatened and punished for requesting a trial
• End prisoners having to pay for their jail stays
• End cruel and unusual punishment (particularly Joe Arpaio's tent jail)
• End the death penalty
• All accused/imprisoned have a right to
• representation
• counseling
• education
• rehabilitation
• re-enter society without stigma or additional punishment
• employment/ housing discrimination
• disenfrachisement

Police

• Community policing as national policy
• End stop and frisk policies
• End racial profiling
• Give poor communities the same protection as rich communities if not more

Drugs

• Legalize marijuana and possibly other drugs
• Punishment should be for crimes committed due to drug use not drugs themselves
• Mandatory counseling and treatment for those who commit crimes due to drug use
• End drug testing in schools