Michigan

      To reawaken fellow citizens to their critical duty of understanding and impacting our country's governance. To revive virtuous American Citizenship.
 

      Our CPR website went on line March 21, 2005. Recent educational articles published in community newspapers are posted; timeline plus status reports will be added. Our intent is to update the site weekly.

      End all discriminatory, race-based legislation and "entitlements." We are working, along with TOMAC (Taxpayers Of Michigan Against Casinos), to prevent the creation here of a congressionally granted Indian casino on "restored reservation" land. We have spent 8 years petitioning and suing legislative bodies to stop the disenfranchisement of our community and its right to choose its own moral, social and economic character. We have principally been fighting abject corruption in all bodies of government. This casino is being forced upon us by the intimidating measures and surreptitious "last-hour" or "midnight" tactics of: Bill Clinton, the BIA, Lobbyists of the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians, a handful of cunning Michigan legislators and its former Governor, state and federal judges, and even our own local officials who sold our individual rights to the Tribe on the gamble of no-hassle cash flow into future coffers. This whole travesty stems from unconstitutional legislation enacted by Congress.

De-institutionalize gambling in America. Indian casinos, riverboats, racinos, land-based casinos and state lotteries are turning America into a nation of pathetic Losers! The Bush administration has turned a deaf ear to the plea from many national groups to lead the nation and handle this looming crisis. Too many ears of both political parties are blocked by millions of dollar bills stuffed into them by gambling interests on behalf of America's willing Losers (who are "just" having fun; and besides, isn't it OK if it's gambling for "the children?") We must unhook these people from the marketing scams, graft, addiction and what is actually a negative net-revenue stream for state governments.
 

      Decentralize our federal and state governments. The creation of local-community think tanks is an idea that we have yet to develop. Fundamentally, they would be a community's pool of citizen volunteers who would take on tasks such as: learning about legislation proposed at the state and federal level and then imparting their findings to the rest of the community and then back to legislative bodies; more-fully informing voters about candidates before elections; encouraging the community's youth to form their own pools, or "ponds," etc., and generally role-model as virtuous citizens leading a valued life. The more people know, the more they control.