On July 4, 2014, Norman Kurland, Chairman of the Unite America Party writes:
The Fourth of July is the appropriate day for me to thank you for your eloquent messages over the last 13 years celebrating the birth of the founding document of the first American Revolution. The founders of that document gave rise to the first nation on Earth dedicated to freedom and inalienable rights of every person.
Yet as you know, the Declaration of Independence was silent about America’s “original sin” — that of “slavery.” A provision condemning the slave trade was removed from the first draft of the Declaration by founders from South Carolina and Georgia. See The People Shall Judge: Readings in the Formation of American Policy, The University of Chicago Press, 1949, p.203, fn. 3.)
While our nation is still in the process of of providing greater equality of opportunity for the descendents of America’s slaves and native Americans, we are all aware that equal freedom and equal opportunity for those descendents is still a work in progress. You are a pioneer of the ESOP as a revolutionary advance in the business world and one of the few ESOP practitioners who are familiar with the revolutionary ideas of Louis O. Kelso, Mortimer J. Adler and others who promote a Just Third Way alternative to monopoly capitalism and all forms of socialist or “collective ownership” of productive capital assets. You are therefore also aware that America and other countries of the world now perpetuate a new form of human slavery: “wage slavery”, “welfare slavery”, “charity slavery” and “consumer debt slavery.” Slaves by definition are not economically empowered citizens. They are not free.
Today, the Founders’ vision of universal freedom is under attack, domestically as well as throughout the world. There is growing inequality of wealth between the top .01 % of the world’s capital owners and over 99% of the world’s population. Such economic exclusion is a systemic problem. The system will be corrected when people like you unite with others to lift the systemic tax, monetary, financial, corporate culture, inheritance, gift tax and other barriers to more equal opportunity for every citizen to become an owner of productive capital assets. We need not depend on Wall Street and others who control past savings or on those who do not want to share power over the future. With the awakening of people power combined with “the power of an idea whose time has come”, the system can be transformed going forward as we finance each year’s trillions dollars of new capital assets and the transfer of existing capital assets. This can be done in ways consistent with gradually reducing the redistributive power of government, encouraging genuinely free and non-monopolistic markets, and restoring the original rights of private property in corporate equity. And equal ownership opportunity can be achieved without violating private property rights of existing owners of existing capital assets, as described in the Summary of the proposed Capital Homestead Act at http://www.cesj.org/learn/
capital-homesteading/capital- homestead-act-summary/ and other books and writings at www.cesj.org. Some us think we need a peaceful and more just Second American Revolution to unite all Americans, based on a moral recognition that freedom and political democracy must be based on a foundation of universal principles of economic justice and economic empowerment. Today, on this day celebrating freedom for all, the Unite American Party of Kentucky was officially launched, following approval of its registration yesterday with the State of Kentucky. It will be run a people’s candidate for U.S. Senator from Kentucky in the September elections.
I would be most interested in your comments on the national Platform of the Unite America Party at http://www.cesj.org/wp-
content/uploads/2014/05/UAP- Platform.pdf. The full document was posted on the blogs of HuffingtonPost (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gary-reber/platform-of-the-unite-ame_b_5474077.html), Nation of Change (http://www.nationofchange.org/platform-unite-america-party-1402409962), and OpEd News (http://www.opednews.com/articles/Platform-of-the-Unite-Amer-by-Gary-Reber-Party-Leadership_Party-Platforms-DNC_Party-Platforms-GOP-RNC_Party-Politics-Democratic-140630-60.html).
