Hello,
My name is Stan J. Henry. I'm a Christian husband, father, and grandfather, concerned with the state of our nation.
In the past I have been registered with either of the two national parties. I am currently a member of the Independent American Party.
I am a Viet Nam Veteran, retired police officer, and current school teacher. My resume includes periods of retail management, independent small business owner, human resources, security management, and farmer.
Currently, I'm in the process of circulating petitions for candidacy for Representative for the Ohio 16th Congressional District.

My Personal Platform

People are asking what my basic platform is, so I suppose it's time to put it in written form.
My political beliefs are somewhat Jeffersonian, which is why I have chosen to run for office. I believe in strong limits on the Federal Government as is spelled out in the Constitution of the United States. Five times in my life, I have taken oaths to abide by and protect this sacred God-given document.
I believe this is a Christian Nation, founded and blessed through Godly Principles. I will not apologize for my beliefs. You need not share them, but I fought in a war on foreign soil to defend our nation and our rights to believe as we deem appropriate.
I do not believe in excess taxation or deficit spending, especially Planned Deficit Spending.
I do not believe that the Federal Government has a right to dictate how our children are educated.
I believe in a strong national defense and strong family values. I am a teacher. It is my privilege to offer knowledge of subject matter dealing with law, protocol, justice and constitutional issues. It is not my role to instill basic values into students' belief systems.
I am a retired police officer. I learned through many years of community service, that guns do not kill people. People or animals kill people. Guns may be used, but if they are, they were probably not legally acquired. We don't need additional laws regulating away our rights.
I believe it is possible to quickly curtail much of our dependence on foreign energy sources.
I Do Not believe that judges have the right to MAKE Law. That is a Legislative privilege.
I KNOW that we must make changes in our current government. We are under a greater degree of government oppression than our founding fathers were under King George.
I know you may have other questions. Please invite me to answer them either in person or via email.

Do You Vote?

545 vs 300,000,000
EVERY CITIZEN NEEDS TO READ THIS AND THINK ABOUT WHAT THIS JOURNALIST HAS SCRIPTED IN THIS MESSAGE. READ IT AND THEN REALLY THINK ABOUT OUR CURRENT POLITICAL DEBACLE.
Charley Reese has been a journalist for 49 years.

545 PEOPLE
By Charlie Reese

Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them.
Have you ever wondered, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are against deficits, WHY do we have deficits?
Have you ever wondered, if all the politicians are against inflation and high taxes, WHY do we have inflation and high taxes?

You and I don't propose a federal budget. The president does.
You and I don't have the Constitutional authority to vote on appropriations. The House of Representatives does.
You and I don't write the tax code, Congress does.
You and I don't set fiscal policy, Congress does.
You and I don't control monetary policy, the Federal Reserve Bank does.

One hundred senators, 435 congressmen, one president, and nine Supreme Court justices equates to 545 human beings out of the 300 million are directly, legally, morally, and individually responsible for the domestic problems that plague this country.

I excluded the members of the Federal Reserve Board because that problem was created by the Congress. In 1913, Congress delegated its Constitutional duty to provide a sound currency to a federally chartered, but private, central bank.

I excluded all the special interests and lobbyists for a sound reason.. They have no legal authority. They have no ability to coerce a senator, a congressman, or a president to do one cotton-picking thing. I don't care if they offer a politician $1 million dollars in cash. The politician has the power to accept or reject it. No matter what the lobbyist promises, it is the legislator's responsibility to determine how he votes.

Those 545 human beings spend much of their energy convincing you that what they did is not their fault. They cooperate in this common con regardless of party.
What separates a politician from a normal human being is an excessive amount of gall.. No normal human being would have the gall of a Speaker, who stood up and criticized the President for creating deficits.. The president can only propose a budget. He cannot force the Congress to accept it.

The Constitution, which is the supreme law of the land, gives sole responsibility to the House of Representatives for originating and approving appropriations and taxes. Who is the speaker of the House? Nancy Pelosi. She is the leader of the majority party. She and fellow House members, not the president, can approve any budget they want. If the president vetoes it, they can pass it over his veto if they agree to.

It seems inconceivable to me that a nation of 300 million can not replace 545 people who stand convicted -- by present facts -- of incompetence and irresponsibility. I can't think of a single domestic problem that is not traceable directly to those 545 people. When you fully grasp the plain truth that 545 people exercise the power of the federal government, then it must follow that what exists is what they want to exist.

If the tax code is unfair, it's because they want it unfair.
If the budget is in the red, it's because they want it in the red ..
If the Army & Marines are Deployed , it's because they want them Deployed
If they do not receive social security but are on an elite retirement plan not available to the people, it's because they want it that way.

There are no insoluble government problems..

Do not let these 545 people shift the blame to bureaucrats, whom they hire and whose jobs they can abolish; to lobbyists, whose gifts and advice they can reject; to regulators, to whom they give the power to regulate and from whom they can take this power. Above all, do not let them con you into the belief that there exists disembodied mystical forces like "the economy," "inflation," or "politics" that prevent them from doing what they take an oath to do.

Those 545 people, and they alone, are responsible.
They, and they alone, have the power.
They, and they alone, should be held accountable by the people who are their bosses.

Provided the voters have the gumption to manage their own employees.

We should vote all of them out of office and clean up their mess!

Charlie Reese is a former columnist of the Orlando Sentinel Newspaper.

What you do now that you have read this article.......... Is up to you.

Political Affiliation ( www.usiap.org )

Stan has been a member of both of the CONTROLLING major political parties. He has found that really, neither can be trusted. The "two-party system" has changed Lincoln's, "of the people, by the people, and for the people," to more realistically, of the parties, by the parties, and for the parties.
He joined the Independent American Party last year because he devoutly believes that the Federal Government has grown completely away from service to the protection of individual rights and liberties.
The overspending and pork projects of congress have endangered the futures of all citizens, to say nothing of future generations.
We have persons in all branches of national government trampling on the Constitution as if it were one of those paper mats placed on the floor of your vehicle during servicing. Stan's opinion is that indeed that is an indication of how many politicians view government- simply as a mat to step on during the process of serving themselves.
Stan has a servant's heart, with a sincere desire to serve the people of the 16th Congressional District.