Health Care Reform: Parallels Between Far Left's Vision for U.S. and former USSR's 1936 Constitution

Editor's Note: Ed Tait is the founder of www.edtait.com, a blog dedicated to sharing information about the United States, a unique and grand experiment, which was founded by great men. On his website, Tait defines what Ronald Reagan referred to as "The Shining City On A Hill" whereby rights are endowed to men from their Creator, not government. Tait highlights parallels to America's departure from the vision of the Founding Fathers and rights provided to citizens of the former USSR. Tait's posting below contains excerpts from the former Soviet Union's Constitution of 1936. The similarities between the former Soviet Union's Constitution--which came from the evil minds of Joseph Stalin, Leon Trotsky and other Communists--mirror some of the values held today by America's far left and should send a chill down the spine of all who cherish freedom.

Following is the full text of Section X of the former Soviet Union's Constitution of 1936 1936 CONSTITUTION OF THE USSR

ARTICLE 118. Citizens of the U.S.S.R. have the right to work, that is, are guaranteed the right to employment and payment for their work in accordance With its quantity and quality.

The right to work is ensured by the socialist organization of the national economy, the steady growth of the productive forces of Soviet society, the elimination of the possibility of economic crises, and the abolition of unemployment.

ARTICLE 119. Citizens of the U.S.S.R. have the right to rest and leisure. The right to rest and leisure is ensured by the reduction of the working day to seven hours for the overwhelming majority of the workers, the institution of annual vacations with full pay for workers and employees and the provision of a wide network of sanatoria, rest homes and clubs for the accommodation of the working people.

ARTICLE 120. Citizens of the U.S.S.R. have the right to maintenance in old age and also in case of sickness or loss of capacity to work. This right is ensured by the extensive development of social insurance of workers and employees at state expense, free medical service for the working people and the provision of a wide network of health resorts for the use of the working people.

ARTICLE 121. Citizens of the U.S.S.R. have the right to education. This right is ensured by universal, compulsory elementary education; by education, including higher education, being free of charge; by the system of state stipends for the overwhelming majority of students in the universities and colleges; by instruction in schools being conducted in the native language, and by the organization in the factories, state farms, machine and tractor stations and collective farms of free vocational, technical and agronomic training for the working people.

ARTICLE 122. Women in the U.S.S.R. are accorded equal rights with men in all spheres of economic, state, cultural, social and political life. The possibility of exercising these rights is ensured to women by granting them an equal right with men to work, payment for work, rest and leisure, social insurance and education, and by state protection of the interests of mother and child, prematernity and maternity leave with full pay, and the provision of a wide network of maternity homes, nurseries and kindergartens.

ARTICLE 123. Equality of rights of citizens of the U.S.S.R., irrespective of their nationality or race, in all spheres of economic, state, cultural, social and political life, is an indefeasible law. Any direct or indirect restriction of the rights of, or, conversely, any establishment of direct or indirect privileges for, citizens on account of their race or nationality, as well as any advocacy of racial or national exclusiveness or hatred and contempt, is punishable by law.

ARTICLE 124. In order to ensure to citizens freedom of conscience, the church in the U.S.S.R. is separated from the state, and the school from the church. Freedom of religious worship and freedom of antireligious propaganda is recognized for all citizens.

ARTICLE 125. In conformity with the interests of the working people, and in order to strengthen the socialist system, the citizens of the U.S.S.R. are guaranteed by law:

freedom of speech; freedom of the press; freedom of assembly, including the holding of mass meetings; freedom of street processions and demonstrations. These civil rights are ensured by placing at the disposal of the working people and their organizations printing presses, stocks of paper, public buildings, the streets, communications facilities and other material requisites for the exercise of these rights.

ARTICLE 126. In conformity with the interests of the working people, and in order to develop the organizational initiative and political activity of the masses of the people, citizens of the U.S.S.R. are ensured the right to unite in public organizations–trade unions, cooperative associations, youth organizations,’ sport and defense organizations, cultural, technical and scientific societies; and the most active and politically most conscious citizens in the ranks of the working class and other sections of the working people unite in the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks), which is the vanguard of the working people in their struggle to strengthen and develop the socialist system and is the leading core of all organizations of the working people, both public and state.

ARTICLE 127. Citizens of the U.S.S.R. are guaranteed inviolability of the person. No person may be placed under arrest except by decision of a court or with the sanction of a procurator.

ARTICLE 128. The inviolability of the homes of citizens and privacy of correspondence are protected by law.

ARTICLE 129. The U.S.S.R. affords the right of asylum to foreign citizens persecuted for defending the interests of the working people, or for their scientific activities, or for their struggle for national liberation.

ARTICLE 130. It is the duty of every citizen of the U.S.S.R. to abide by the Constitution of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, to observe the laws, to maintain labor discipline, honestly to perform public duties, and to respect the rules of socialist intercourse.

ARTICLE 131. It is the duty of every citizen of the U.S.S.R. to safeguard and strengthen public, socialist property as the sacred and inviolable foundation of the Soviet system, as the source of the wealth and might of the country, as the source of the prosperous and cultured life of all the working people.

Persons committing offenses against public, socialist property are enemies of the people.

ARTICLE 132. Universal military service is law. Military service in the Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army is an honorable duty of the citizens of the U.S.S.R.

ARTICLE 133. To defend the fatherland is the sacred duty of every citizen of the U.S.S.R. Treason to the country–violation of the oath of allegiance, desertion to the enemy, impairing the military power of the state, espionage is punishable with all the severity of the law as the most heinous of crimes.

In part, Tait writes: Do you notice the difference, between the Constitution written by the Founders and this one…notice that the Founders began by making it clear that rights did not flow from government, they were endowed by the Creator….

And notice the similarities to the FDR attempt in America for a ‘Second Bill of Rights’ and the similarity to what the Progressives want…

“Fundamental change”…fear it, fight against it…fight to force your representatives in Washington to honour the Constitution…

What a striking difference…what the Creator has given, will not be taken away, regardless the attempts of government…however rights offered by government can and will be taken away based on the will of those currently in power…of course, for the benefit of the collective…

Just one little thing the framers of the U S S R constitution forgot; Who determines what is Just, Fair, According to one’s effort, AND Who gets What When and How Much.

These Democrats are exposed and need a good Whuppin!!

Freedom of religion! Freedom of assembly, freedom of the press! Bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha!

when the Soviets wrote this is was at the height of the Great Terror,when millions were slaughtered without trial and sent to die,to be workedto death, in the gulags! Including small frail women sent to the frozen Siberian forests to saw down and load trees, ballerinas grubbing with mattocks on construction orjects until they died.

God I could laugh myself into fits.

Aside from the point of the state granting rights vs. God having given us our rights, people should undeerstand that as soon as the Politburo (or whoever) signed this thing they wadded it up and tossed it over their shoulders for the cleaning lady to pick up.

If we ever have another Constitutional Convention, our “new” Constitution will be similar or worse. Ever Citizen will have a “right” to food, shelter, medical care, education, Internet Access and the right to a job at a “living wage.”

Of course the rights to free speech, self defense, and private property will nowhere found in this new document. “Hate” will also be outlawed through “thought crimes.”

And if that isn't enough of a parallel, at the time the USSR failed they had used the identical progressive income tax system that the Democrats place in to US Law when it was enacted. And one of the first things they did to get their economy running in a free market environment was to adopt the Steve Forbes Flat tax.

What a flipping joke. They lied and said this is they way it is, and it was nothing of the sort. This is the future of America too. Sad.

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