Posted on 06/11/2010 10:06:50 PM PDT by H8LIBERALS
White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel is fond of saying, "You dont ever want a crisis to go to waste; its an opportunity to do important things that you would otherwise avoid. Well, the Obama Administration certainly has not let the British Petroleum (BP) Deepwater Horizon oil rig crisis go to waste, using it as a smokescreen to silently assault and further diminish American citizens' personal freedom.
While the nation has its eyes and ears focused on the BP spill blame game ping-pong match between President Obama and BP top brass, President Obama on Thursday, June 10, quietly announced a new Executive Order establishing the "National Prevention, Health Promotion, and Public Health Council."
Claiming the "authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America," President Obama has truly gone off the deep end this time in his most atrocious attempt to date to control every aspect of Americans' lives.
According to Sec. 5. of the Executive Order that details the President's "National Prevention and Health Promotion Strategy," the Council will be charged with carrying out "lifestyle behavior modification" among American citizens that do not exhibit "healthy behavior."
The President's desired lifestyle behavior modifications focus on ...
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Sec. 5. National Prevention and Health Promotion Strategy. Not later than March 23, 2011, the Chair, in consultation with the Council, shall develop and make public a national prevention, health promotion, and public health strategy (national strategy), and shall review and revise it periodically. The national strategy shall:(a) set specific goals and objectives for improving the health of the United States through federally supported prevention, health promotion, and public health programs, consistent with ongoing goal setting efforts conducted by specific agencies;
(b) establish specific and measurable actions and timelines to carry out the strategy, and determine accountability for meeting those timelines, within and across Federal departments and agencies; and
(c) make recommendations to improve Federal efforts relating to prevention, health promotion, public health, and integrative health-care practices to ensure that Federal efforts are consistent with available standards and evidence.
Soon to be manned by appointees who will likely mandate vegan diet, no use of private transportation, and only one child per couple (ala Communist China).
Among many other things.
To say nothing of the Billions$ spent on research and medical care for the perverts. Nobody ever wants to talk about that, because I suspect that it exceeds smoke related medical costs which incidentally were supposed to come out of the "tobacco settlement," but which has been diverted to the General Fund in every state...
If not unconstitutional, definitely criminal fraud perpetrated by governments at all levels.
Sec. 2. Membership.
(a) The Surgeon General shall serve as the Chair of the Council, which shall be composed of:
(1) the Secretary of Agriculture;
(2) the Secretary of Labor;
(3) the Secretary of Health and Human Services;
(4) the Secretary of Transportation;
(5) the Secretary of Education;
(6) the Secretary of Homeland Security;
(7) the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency;
(8) the Chair of the Federal Trade Commission;
(9) the Director of National Drug Control Policy;
(10) the Assistant to the President and Director of the Domestic Policy Council;
(11) the Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs;
(12) the Chairman of the Corporation for National and Community Service; and
(13) the head of any other executive department or agency that the Chair may, from time to time, determine is appropriate.
(b) The Council shall meet at the call of the Chair.
Thirty to forty group! yapped a piercing female voice. Thirty to forty group! Take your places, please. Thirties to forties!
Winston sprang to attention in front of the telescreen, upon which the image of a youngish woman, scrawny but muscular, dressed in tunic and gym-shoes, had already appeared.
Arms bending and stretching! she rapped out. Take your time by me. ONE, two, three, four! ONE, two, three, four! Come on, comrades, put a bit of life into it! ONE, two, three four! ONE two, three, four!...
The stuff that comes out of the south end of my horses looks better than he does...
The manure that comes out of my horses smells better too.
Ya know - that’s not a bad list. Add in the IRS and it would be perfect. For a list of agencies to get rid of.
Throughout world history, people seeking dominion over other people have always claimed that their desire for ultimate power served some greater common good.
Yeah.
And it has a precise name.
Fascism
It is impossible to grasp the true concept of Fascism without returning to an age of clarity and facts vs opinion and editorializing; before personal definitions, euphemisms, the puerile, self-serving age of "depends of what the definition of "is", is.
According to the Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Collier-Macmillan, Volumes 3-4, 1967, pp182-183 et seq.:
"...whereas Liberalism, socialism, democracy, and the other progressive movements of the nineteenth century had asserted the rights of man, the selfish claims of the individual, Fascism sought, instead, to uphold the moral integrity and higher collective purpose of the nation. And whereas liberalism saw the state simply as an institution created to protect men's rights, fascism looked on the state as an organic entity which embodied in itself all the noblest spiritual reality of the people as a whole. Fascism opposed the laissez-faire economics of the capitalism and the bourgeois ethos which went with it. But fascism equally opposed socialism, which preached class war and trade unionism and thus served only to divide the nation. Fascism could tolerate no organized sectional groups which stood outside the state, for such groups pressed the supposed interests of some against the true interests of all...
... fascism set up corporations which were designed to integrate the interests of particular trades, industries, professions and the like into the wider harmony of the state."
I really need someone to tell me this is from the Onion. It doesn't matter if it's not, just tell me it is, for purposes of psychological relief...
Um...I hear that joining a militia is good for your health. Lots of exercise (marching, running, training), lots of fresh air (target practice at the gun range) and lots of new friends to keep you from being sad, anxious, or depressed...which could otherwise lead to smoking or overeating. I think that’s what Americans should probably do to combat unhealthy habits. In fact, I think that’s probably what a lot of Americans will do.
KMA, Barry!
Didn’t a certain pasty-skinned Teutonic “Chancellor” with a funny mustache issue some very similar executive edicts about behavior modification for health?
...and even reduce fainting spells and tingling legs amongst his supporters...:^)
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It's not from the Onion, although I have an uneasy feeling that this might be a fraud.
I was under the impression that all presidential executive orders were numbered consecutively.
Whoever wrote this one seems unaware of that.
As a related matter, was everyone aware that this continuing flagrant violation of our Constitution presumes that the last two items of the Bill of Rights were invalidated sometime in the recent past, and nobody noticed?
Amendment IX.
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
Amendment X.
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
By definition, the Bill of Rights is the only part of the Constitution that is never subject to amendment. QED.
Oh, and
★ FREEDOM! ★
He can go straight to hell!!!!
No one can tell me what my lifestyle will be!!
Osama’s gotta put all the Marxists in his administration to work doing something. It’s obvious they have no idea how to run a country or an economy.
(a) The Surgeon General shall serve as the Chair of the Council........
(As Larry the Cable guy would say: "I don't care who you are, that's funny")
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