 Mike Eller is running for the Ypsilanti City Council, Ward 3. He calls himself an "independent." I call him a couple cards short of a full deck.
Don't take my word for it. Check him out yourself. He's the Chairman of the America First Party of Michigan. Both the Michigan and national party websites are so far out of the mainstream that I would not be surprised to see a meeting of members wearing tin foil hats, obviously to ensure that the thought police can't listen in to all the odd notions bouncing around in their minds. Really, if the ideas expressed on this website weren't so hateful and dangerous, they'd be funny, like something out of a Saturday Night Live skit.
The America First Party opposes civil rights. Per the America First Party of Michigan's platform, paragraph 23:
Masking as the creator of “equality” for the Black man, the “Civil Rights” movement of the 1950’s and ‘60’s was as phony as its creator: “Dr.” Martin Luther King. King, the serial adulterer, shameless plagiarist, and fellow traveler with Communist subversives, led his people, under the deceptive leadership of “equal rights”, into a greater slavery than the one they emerged from a century earlier.
Eller and his party are against equal rights for women. Per the America First Party of Michigan's platform, with the title "Women's Lib," the platform states:
Probably the most destructive “movement” in the history of the country.
Having its roots in classical Communism (“The women’s liberation movement is a central part of the American socialist revolution in the making” – Leon Trotsky, 1917), it has destroyed the American family, marriage, created the pro – “choice” (read: abortion) movement, blurred the distinction between the sexes, destroyed sexual identity, legitimitized sodomy, all under the usual phony mantra of “equality”.
Jesus picked 12 male apostles, not 6 males and 6 females. The Bible calls for men to love their wives as Christ loved the Church (Eph. 5:25), and to lead, not follow (I Cor. 11:3). This reversal of roles in American society is not accidental, or “morally” motivated. It is thoroughly political, in its motivation and purpose, and will not be corrected until that fact is faced honestly, and, ensuingly, exposed. The America First Party opposes diversity as an American value. Eller would adopt English as America's official language (and apparently Ypsilanti's) and opposes all reasonable efforts and accommodations to communicate effectively with non-English speakers. Eller is against all bi-lingual education. Eller's party platform calls for the assimilation of all foreigners into "American" culture prior to granting them citizenship.
The America First Party calls for a ten-year ban on immigration.
The America First Party also opposes equal rights for gays. Eller, as its Michigan party chair, would work to overturn Ypsilanti's human rights ordinance to legalize discrimination against gays.
Eller and his party are against womens' reproductive rights and would work hard to eliminate a woman's right to exercise freedom over her own body. Eller's vision of freedom from the tyranny of government somehow allows the government to coerce women into bearing children against their will, even in circumstances of rape and incest.
Eller and his party oppose embryonic stem cell research, and he would ban it entirely.
Eller and his party would repeal all legitimate hate crime legislation, leaving judgment of hate crimes in the hands of God, and God alone.
Eller and his party would eliminate environmental regulation of land use, and his party's platform specifically refutes the EPA's authority to enforce environmental laws, calling the agency unconstitutional.
Eller's Michigan chapter believes that "all zoning 'laws' . . . should be abolished." This would mean that if Eller got his way, your neighbor on one side could open a Taco Bell in his back yard, your neighbor on the other side could build a leach mine in her back yard, and your neighbor across the street could erect a 10-story Foucault's pendulum in the front yard with a giant electronic billboard on it if s/he so desired.
Finally, don't miss the "Resolution of Outrage at the Jailing of Congressman James A. Traficant:"
Resolution of Outrage at the Jailing of Congressman James A. Traficant
(Adopted by unanimous vote of the National Convention on August 10, 2002)
Be it resolved that the America First Party expresses its outrage that Congressman Traficant is behind bars and cannot attend our Founding Convention; and
Whereas, Janet Reno, who accepted full responsibility for the reckless behavior of the Federal agents who burned down the Branch Davidian Religious Facility in Waco, Texas in 1993, is not only walking around free, but has the audacity to run for Governor of the great state of Florida;
Therefore, be it resolved that it is the sentiment of the Founding Convention of the America First Party that Janet Reno and James Traficant should trade places. Traficant, you may recall, was the crooked Ohio congressman convicted of taking bribes and filing false tax returns, among other things. Apparently, Eller and his party stand behind this felon, considering his criminal breach of his constituents' trust to be perfectly acceptable conduct.
I could go on and on. Eller and his party are against sustainable living, mass transit, separation of the church and state, the FAA, income taxes, OSHA, historic districts, the Clean Water Act, the Clean Air Act, mandatory seat belts, handicap bath rooms, Sesame Street (yes, he's against Sesame Street), security checkpoints at airports, Joan Baez, men with ponytails and much, much more. Take a moment to peruse the party platform. It's crazy. To say their views are out of the mainstream is to minimize, and terribly.
Worst of all, Eller doesn't appear to want you to know any of this. I could not find a single link to the America First Party's national website or it's Michigan website on Eller's campaign website. I could only find a single mention on his website of his formal Chairmanship of the Michigan Chapter of the America First Party. So, in his favor I guess, at least he's got the good sense to minimize his leadership role in this bizarre, fringe organization.
What it all boils down to is that Eller isn't qualified to actually represent his 3rd Ward constituents. His extreme political views don't represent the views of those of us who live in the 3rd Ward. His far out, anti-government fringe political views disqualify him from holding any public office, in my view, anywhere. |
