Launches StopDOJ.com to end political prosecutions by the Justice Department  

Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement in response to recent civil rights abuses by the Justice Department:

“America is worth fighting for. Our basic constitutional liberties including the Fourth and Fifth Amendments have been eviscerated by the administrative state at the Justice Department that has been put on steroids by President Joe Biden and Attorney General Merrick Garland. Citizens of the United States have a right to the presumption of innocence, a right protecting them from the government engaging in malicious prosecutions against political opponents and to be free from the surveillance state snooping into personal business with no probable cause.

“In light of recent actions by the Biden administration including the Alaska, which fortunately did not end up in gunfire and death as happened with Breonna Taylor, it’s time that Congress wake up regardless of party and stand against executive branch abuses of power and the ongoing politicization of federal law enforcement agencies.

“That is why Americans for Limited Government has launched StopDOJ.com. If the executive branch becomes a hit squad to go after the president’s political opponents, then there will be no more liberty. After all, the Bill of Rights and subsequent amendments prescribe that the federal government should protect individual liberties from any government encroachment. When it comes to individual rights, there can be no compromise.”

Click here to go to StopDOJ.com to take action against government abuses of civil liberties.

For media availability contact Catherine Mortensen at 703-478-4643 or cmortensen@getliberty.org.

‘Recovery policies would tie Americans’ hands with velvet rope of government money’

Fairfax, Va. – This morning’s U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis announced the Real gross domestic product (GDP) increased at an annual rate of 6.4 percent in the first quarter of 2021, reflecting the continued economic recovery, reopening of establishments, and continued government response related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning issued the following statement in reaction:

“In spite of President Biden’s attempt last night to claim credit for the Trump economic recovery, today’s announcement that the First Quarter Gross Domestic Product increased at an annual rate of 6.4 percent is 100 percent a result of President Trump’s economic recovery policies.  While Biden was urging state economies to remain closed, President Trump was creating the economic cushion to allow for a rapid economic comeback from the disastrous effects of the China virus in the first half of 2020.

“In fact, there is evidence that Biden’s insistence that unemployment benefits be increased by $300 a week in his ‘recovery’ package is likely the biggest drag on the economy as employers in many sectors cannot find people to employ even though more than 3.8 million Americans are claiming regular unemployment insurance and an additional 6.9 million people claiming pandemic unemployment insurance. Even Biden’s economic advisors must know that if people get paid more not to work than to work, they will sit at home or enter the black-market economy while still collecting government checks.

“This is so obvious that one can only surmise that team Biden wants tens of millions of Americans unemployed and dependent upon their largesse.  After all, their recovery policies amount to little more than tying as many Americans’ hands together with the velvet rope of ‘free’ government money.”

For media availability contact Catherine Mortensen at cmortensen@getliberty.org or 703-478-4643.

State election officials reject signatures at a rate 33 times higher than in 2020 election

Fairfax, Va. – California’s Secretary of State has rejected nearly 20% of all the signatures gathered thus far to force a recall election of Governor Gavin Newsom, according to figures released this week. Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning issued the following statement in reaction to this:

“Apparently signature verification only matters when protecting the Democrat elites.  California’s rejection of 19.8 percent of signatures on the Gavin Newsom recall petition reeks of corruption as election officials who oversaw one of the least secure elections in history suddenly are worried about whether i’s are dotted and t’s are crossed.

“Her party is engaged in a blatant abuse of power. The predominantly Democrat election officials rejected nearly one-in-five signatures on this recall petition compared to rejecting just .6 percent of absentee ballots in the 2020 election due to signature verification.

“This is a bad look for the home state of Nancy Pelosi as she tries to eliminate all state voter identification laws. Now she wants the same system imposed on the rest of the country.  Hers is a system where the political elites in Washington, DC would have absolute control over federal elections across the country.  What could go wrong? Based upon California’s current example, you don’t even have to imagine it.”

For media availability contact Catherine Mortensen at 703-478-4643 or cmortensen@getliberty.org.

President Joe Biden cannot say he is tough on China and then transfer advanced pharmaceutical patents to them.

Fairfax, Va. – U.S.- based corporations have developed the most effective vaccines against the Covid virus and are generously distributing them to other countries. But sharing the vaccine “formula” with other countries would pose a national security risk. Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement in reaction to demands from other nations to access the intellectual property of America’s advanced biotech labs.

“Because the United States is the most generous country in the world, we are sharing our Covid vaccines with less developed countries. But sharing the intellectual property that underlies those vaccines poses a national security risk.

“Many countries are demanding the U.S. waive the Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) Agreement that was made at the World Trade Organization in 1995 on pandemic-related products in order to get their hands on our advanced biotech knowledge that was critical to develop the vaccine in the first place.

“This national security concern is why the Trump administration explicitly rejected waiving TRIPS last year, and the Biden administration should do the same, as waiving would give sensitive national security-developed biotech to the rest of the world including China, which is in a race to build its own biotech arsenal.

“President Joe Biden cannot say he is tough on China and then transfer advanced pharmaceutical patents to them and other competitors  to exploit and bury U.S. manufacturers. If Congress wants more vaccines distributed globally, it can choose to appropriate more money to do that, but the American people have every right to expect that we will get our doses first.

“Americans for Limited Government strongly urges President Biden to put national security and the interests of U.S. citizens first by refusing to waive the TRIPS agreement.”

For media availability contact Catherine Mortensen at 703-478-4643 or cmortensen@getliberty.org.

Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Fairfax, Va. –  Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement in reaction to the Michigan Board of Canvassers rejecting a petition to limit Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s authority to keep her state in lockdown:

“Stand Up Michigan has done the near impossible in getting more than 500,000 voter signatures on a petition to limit Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s power to keep the state shut down.  Now, the Michigan Board of Canvassers, which certifies petitions, has done the unthinkable by not allowing the petition in a 2-2 partisan vote. Their vote effectively ends the right of citizen petitions in the state.

“In Michigan, we are seeing the living embodiment of the old saying that power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. After Gov. Whitmer’s husband violated shutdown rules last summer, and the governor and her staff violate her admonition about flying to open states due to COVID concerns, it is the height of hypocrisy for the Democrats on the Canvasser Board to deny a citizen petition to allow all Michiganders to engage in the same freedoms that the governor herself enjoys. She blithely ignores her own edicts.  I do not begrudge Gov. Whitmer flying to Florida to visit her ailing father, I am, however, angered that through her illegally retained powers, she has denied tens of thousands of Michiganders that same ability to visit their ailing relatives.

“Gov. Whitmer should thank Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis for rejecting the policies she follows and allowing her and anyone else to comfort and enjoy parents, spouses and children who are in their final days.  In a free country that is the individual’s decision not the government’s.

“The ugly scene of Whitmer supporters on the Board of Canvassers voting to stop a legal effort to afford the rest of Michigan the same rights that the governor freely enjoys is the ultimate example of Democrat privilege.”

For media availability, contact Catherine Mortensen at 703-478-4643 or cmortensen@getliberty.org.

Kerry would willingly destroy hundreds of millions of lives through economic destruction.

Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement responding to White House climate envoy John Kerry’s concession that even if China and the U.S. eliminated all of their carbon emissions, it would still not achieve the goals of the Paris Climate Accords:

“John Kerry says that even if China and the U.S. eliminated all of their carbon emissions, it would still not achieve the arbitrary goals set out by the Paris Climate Accords. I want to welcome John Kerry to the opposition of the Paris Climate Accords. It is unconscionable that this ‘agreement’ gives China, the world’s largest polluter, free rein to continue developing until 2030, encouraging even more manufacturing outsourcing to the communist polluters in Beijing. We also are excited that Kerry concedes that the goals set out by the agreement are unachievable and futile, calling the whole enterprise into question. At best, the goals are a wish list that has been made even worse in the recent deal to increase these unachievable goals.

“Where we part with Kerry is that he would willingly destroy hundreds of millions of lives through economic destruction resulting from starvation on account of the policies he advocates, consigning developing countries to energy poverty. Under Donald Trump, America exceeded the Paris Climate Accord’s goals without even being a party to them. What’s more, the real cost of an expanded environmental regulatory regime from the U.S. government is the exportation of factory jobs to places like China where pollution is a way of life.

“We hope John Kerry is smart enough to understand the ramifications of his admission that no matter what America does, it will never be enough. But history has shown us that John Kerry isn’t that smart.”

For media availability, contact Catherine Mortensen at 703-478-4643 or cmortensen@getliberty.org .

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ALG urges every member of the House to sign the discharge petition for H.R. 859

Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement urging every member of the House to sign the discharge petition for H.R. 859, the Protecting American Energy Jobs Act:

“Americans for Limited Government urges every House member to sign the discharge petition for H.R. 859, the Protecting American Energy Jobs Act. This bill will get the Keystone XL pipeline completed, overturn President Joe Biden’s leasing ban on federal lands and prohibit future moratoriums on energy leasing as well. Every member of Congress who wants to create jobs and ensure that America is energy independent should support this legislation. The Keystone XL pipeline has always been a political football, and is just one among many international pipelines from Canada. The fact is, holding up the completion of the pipeline has been unfortunate and does not even prevent tar sands oil from coming to America, it just puts the oil that doesn’t go into the pipelines onto trucks and trains at a greater cost. The futility of Obama and then Biden’s blocking of the pipeline has only exceeded by its absurdity.”

For media availability, contact Catherine Mortensen at 703-478-4643 or cmortensen@getliberty.org .

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Fairfax, Va. – Rick Manning, President of Americans for Limited Government, issued the following statement in reaction to the news that the US House of Representatives will vote on DC statehood on Tuesday, April 20.

“After years of failed leadership, Washington, DC has proven itself incapable of self-goverance as a city, let alone as a  state. If Congress wants to make the primarily residential portions of DC part of a state, they should cede the land back to Maryland.  It is the only practical solution and would mirror what was done in the 1840s when Alexandria was given back to the Commonwealth of Virginia.”

For media availability, contact Catherine Mortensen at 703-478-4643 or cmortensen@getliberty.org.

Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement blasting false U.S. intelligence claims that Russia placed bounties on U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan:

“It was all a lie. Politically motivated claims out of the US intelligence community published by their house organ, the New York Times, that Russia paid the Taliban bounties to kill US troops were lies.  These lies were used by the left with the Grey Lady’s imprimatur to politically attack then-President Donald Trump for his inaction against Russia.  The irresponsibility of this lie in particular is stunning as military escalations based upon deliberately false political attacks emanating from our spy agencies could have easily snowballed into a new nuclear cold war or worse – all due to the internal corruption and political weaponization of these agencies.

“Now, Joe Biden is escalating sanctions and taking other aggressive actions against the Russian government. Given the recent history of our politically motivated intelligence bureaucrats, Congress better demand full and complete briefings and if not 100 percent satisfied, tie Biden’s hands from taking any precipitous action.  We live in dangerous times, and the fact America cannot trust anything our spy agencies say makes it much more so.  Unfortunately, former CIA leaders like John Brennan have done incalculable damage to the agencies they were entrusted to lead as they pursued the political destruction of former President Donald Trump at any cost.  They cannot come back to us now with any credibility.”

For media availability, contact Catherine Mortensen at 703-478-4643 or cmortensen@getliberty.org