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The American Freedom Agenda (AFA) is an American organization, established in March 2007, which represents disaffected conservatives who are demanding that the Republican Party return to its traditional mistrust of concentrated government power. It is "a coalition established to restore checks and balances and civil liberties protections under assault by the executive branch." It was founded by Bruce Fein (Chairman), Bob Barr, David Keene and Richard Viguerie. On March 20, 2007, Ron Paul became the first presidential candidate to sign the American Freedom Agenda Pledge. The group labeled presidential candidate Mitt Romney "unfit to serve as president" when he failed to sign the pledge. Steve Kubby, currently a candidate for the Libertarian nomination for President, has also signed the pledge.
The ten points of the pledge are:
1. No Military Commissions Except on the Battlefield
2. No Evidence Extracted by Torture or Coercion
3. No Detaining Citizens as Unlawful Enemy Combatants
4. Restoring Habeas Corpus for Suspected Alien Enemy Combatants
5. Prohibiting Warrantless Spying by the National Security Agency in Violation of Law
6. Renouncing Presidential Signing Statements
7. Ending Secret Government by Invoking State Secrets Privilege
8. Stopping Extraordinary Renditions
9. Stopping Threats to Prosecuting Journalists under the Espionage Act
10. Ending the Listing of Individuals or Organizations as Terrorists Based on Secret Evidence