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Where will we draw the line?
When will we say enough??
What will finally provoke spontaneous direction action???
Posted on 03/22/2010 4:48:02 AM PDT by Walter Scott Hudson
On July 4, 1776, the Second Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence in defiance of a king whose "repeated injuries and usurpations, [had] in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States." The war against Great Britain had been engaged for over a year, and was not favoring the Americans. The signatories to the Declaration were issuing their own death warrants. As legislative actions go, theirs was truly a public service. They pledged to each other their Lives, Fortunes, and sacred Honor to acknowledge and uphold a truly enlightened political philosophy.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed...
There are no kings among men, these revolutionaries announced to the world. Each man is entitled only to that which he came into this world with or produced by the sweat of his brow. Securing each man's right to his own being, and freedom to act on his own judgment, free of coercion from others, is the purpose of just government. These ideas inspired, first a nation, then the world. The States of America were united in their advocacy of the individual, and rejection of the premise some are innately fit to govern without the consent of the People.
On March 21, 2010, the 111th Congress of the United States passed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in defiance of a people who had taken a sustained and articulate stand against it. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi audaciously claimed it "a great act of patriotism [which] honored the vows of our Founders for us to be a land of opportunity." Citizens' Council on Health Care president Twila Brase had a different view, calling the vote "a federal government takeover of health care," an establishment "to socialize medicine." Brase stated the bill will "put the federal government in charge of medical decisions and patient care... empower government to deny medical care, penalize doctors, raise taxes, enforce penalties, jail citizens, expand deficits, and establish intrusiveness bureaucracies."
President Barrack Obama declared, "This is what change looks like," referencing his campaign promise to "fundamentally transform America." The nature of that change was suggested in 2001 when then State Senator Obama told a National Public Radio audience the Constitution "says what the federal government can’t do to you. But it doesn’t say what the federal government or the state government must do on your behalf." Obama called for "political and community organizing and activities on the ground that are able to put together the actual coalitions of power through which you bring about redistributive change."
Redistributive change is a thinly veiled code phrase for socialist economic policies, like the health reform now all but law. Such policies serve a fundamentally opposite role from that affirmed as proper in the Declaration of Independence, enslaving those who produce to those who can not or will not. In passing this anti-libertarian and fundamentally un-American legislation, Congress has essentially affected an Imposition of Dependence, largely undoing the effort of the American Revolution, and desecrating the service of every man and woman who has given some or all in defense of the Constitution. March 21st may be properly remembered as Dependence Day. Like its 1776 counterpart, it marks neither the beginning nor the end of the larger conflict surrounding it, but a crucial turning point affecting the ultimate outcome.
The passage of Obamacare demonstrates, despite all the unprecedented civic interest and participation from previously disengaged citizens, the momentum of governance in America is still toward authoritarian oligarchy. Like a runaway freight train headed for a washed out bridge, the application of brakes has had little initial affect. While Supreme Court challenges and a rout of Democratic incumbents in November are sure to follow, there is little doubt the task of salvaging the American republic has grown more difficult. The Founders' vision of American opportunity has not been served, as Pelosi absurdly claims. It has been indisputably eroded.
This is about the most unfree thing I can think of in my memory. Those Rats really have it in for the USA don’t they? Now will they go for amnesty as the cherry on top? Big one-two punch to the economy but it will be a Ratnation forever.
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