What the NAAAP Stands For
FIRST and foremost, we are two things: Christian, and American nationalists. We are also citizens of the world community, with global concerns — but our primary focus is on preserving our own national institutions of freedom and getting our own economic house in order.
The NAAAP's focus is on America, Americans, and American values. Though our concern encompasses All People, we have but one political loyalty. That loyalty is to an ideal, however, not a state, federal, or international bureaucracy. On issues of race, ethnicity, and culture, the NAAAP is more about building bridges of understanding than accentuating divisions or carving out social or ideological fiefdoms. As a nation of people, we must stand as one, or fall divided. The NAAAP is an expression of an American philosophy rather than a formal organization, so you won't find us in any Directory. The purpose of this publication is to define both commonly held ideals and shared problems, and express our opinions as to how those ideals might be fulfilled and those problems addressed. The NAAAP represents Common Ground and a Common Cause. The former is comprised of the legacy of freedom and physical real estate we have been so fortunate as Americans to have inherited. The latter is the goal of fulfilling the promise of "Liberty and Justice for all." Our appeal to action is an appeal to forbearance and Common Sense in solving our problems and reaching that goal. It speaks its patriotic message to both the right and the left, the conservative and the liberal.
The Source of our individual and collective rights, and the very basis and justification for our national existence, are clearly expressed in our Declaration of Independence of 1776. The Constitution and Bill of Rights comprise the blueprint for just government — unsurpassed to this day. The principles of that government, as expressed by our founders, along with the religious and cultural heritage of America's earliest colonial settlers (combined with the natural wealth in land and natural resources), are what made the greatness of this nation possible. What's more, their promise provided the world with its first real "hope for fulfilling the highest aspirations of mankind" through just government.
World events have overtaken our nation before it was able to satisfactorily fulfill its sacred promise to its people. Now that promise is said to be the basis for a New World Order, even as hope for its realization recedes in the land of its birth. Our nation, in spite of it's continued potential for true greatness, is being relegated to a position of mercenary subservience to a global political and economic agenda. Some refer to this development as the manifestation of a diabolical international conspiracy. Others believe it to be a wonderful global plan to save mankind. Perhaps it could be more accurately described as a little of both, but we firmly believe the current one world agenda is nothing short of a huge catastrophic error—a new Tower of Babel. In any case, our nation has fallen from the moral high ground toward which it once strove. This is increasingly manifest in the innumerable social and economic ills now afflicting our nation.
It is the firm position of the NAAAP Perspective that the greatest thing this nation could possibly do for the benefit of mankind and world peace, is to get its own house in order and become a truly inspiring international role-model. In spite of abundant good intentions and formidable military might, we are a poor excuse for an international role model at this point in our history. In fact, while liberty recedes at home, we pursue the role of international bully abroad. We must insure liberty and justice for all at home before purporting to do it elsewhere. This can only be accomplished by reestablishing political and economic independence, and true constitutional American representative and limited government—and no limited government can be an international bully. We should maintain a strong national defensive capability, but not an international standing army for the purpose of protecting global capital.
We believe that good fences make for good neighbors. This doesn't mean that we are selfish or xenophobic, but that we believe our primary duty is self-improvement—as individuals, families, communities, and on up through local, state, and federal government. This means, among other things, preserving our many advantages as a nation state. Not at the expense of the less fortunate of this world, but to their benefit as well as ours—for we are best equipped to help others when we ourselves are successful. If we are a fundamentally Christian people and nation, (as we should be, no matter what our individual spiritual affiliations may be) our successes cannot help but benefit mankind as a whole.
We stand for the primacy of the individual, (individual sovereignty and individual responsibility) self-government, private property, sound money, free enterprise, and limited government. We believe in capitalism, (as a natural collective extension of free enterprise) but believe our capitalist system needs to be re-invented. We are anti-predatory capital and anti-imperialist. We are against the corporate amalgamation of the world, wherein every life-sustaining morsel, necessity, and all consumer goods must be purchased through approved, established corporate channels.
SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE
Though we (meaning the present writer, editor, and founder of
NAAAP), are "Christian," we are not fundamentalists, nor even
Christians in the most orthodox sense of the word. Our claim to
Christianity is historic, cultural, and philosophical (based on the teachings of
Jesus), and parallels that of Thomas Jefferson, who was an admitted deist and
crusader against religious "tyranny over the minds of men." We believe
in religious freedom and the strict separation of church and state (i.e., no
official religion or church, nor state interference in religious matters), but
not the divorce of the notion of God and divine inspiration from the root of
American government. We do not believe that separation of church and state
means we should be officially intolerant of religious expression in the public
arena. We embrace freedom of expression, and that includes religious expression.
We embrace the notion of an omnipotent God-Creator which (though He and His
ultimate Nature be far beyond our feeble capabilities of comprehension and
expression), is the source and body of ALL. This, of course, would make
Him the source of our Natural human rights, as stated in the American
Declaration of Independence. Thus the United States is rightly described as a
"Nation Under God," in spite of the rightful principle of separation
of church and state. We consider this much religion in government
extraordinarily important. Lacking or denying God as the source of both our
national inspiration and Natural individual rights, we would have nothing
greater than the governments of men to look to as the source of our individual
and collective rights — the very seedbed of totalitarianism. We believe this
should be a Christian nation — not in the official or fundamentalist religious
sense, but in the philosophical and humanitarian sense.
Religion (or any lack thereof), is no bar to NAAAP membership
— the primary requisite being "good will toward all men." At the
same time, keeping our government officially subservient to God can only
be accomplished through a broad coalition of all organized and unorganized
Christian Americans. Almost all others, i.e., non-Christians of almost every
stripe (led by avowed anti-Christians, and anti-religionists), collectively
stand for stripping the nation not only of its historic Christian identity, but
the notion that it is a nation under God. This anti-Christian minority is
growing in numbers and political power, boldly challenging the right of
Christians to express themselves in the public arena, even where they are still
the overwhelming majority. Despite the fact that we have humanist
enlightenment blood coursing through our own veins, the NAAAP stands firmly
behind the proposition that America government was originally intended to be
(and should continue to be), a government firmly founded in Christian ideology,
officially acknowledging God, and not itself or any other man-made government,
as the Ultimate Sovereign.
The NAAAP Perspective features "Camden's Commentary," the politically incorrect, but often poignantly insightful, and entertaining opinions of William G. Camden.