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We are in the midst of a second American Revolution
Troy Daily News ^ | 9/3/2009 | Nat Hentoff

Posted on 09/04/2009 7:18:46 AM PDT by IbJensen

Startlingly - and wholly involuntarily - President Obama is teaching us that, as Thomas Jefferson often said, "the people are the ultimate guardians of their own liberty." The growing resistance to the president's goal of state-controlled health care is moving more of us to act on our constitutional power to protect our quintessential individual liberty - to decide for ourselves how long we are going to stay on this Earth.

The reverberating town-hall meetings are a legacy of the 1765 meeting in Boston where Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty organized against King George III and, not having access to the Internet, later started the Committees of Correspondence that alerted all the colonists to insistent royal threats to their personal liberties. During a secret meeting in Virginia, Jefferson helped organize such a committee in his state.

Here and now, as the president decrees that health-care costs must be cut severely, Medicare officials - before there is a final bill from Congress - have been planning to slash payments to many specialists.

"Cardiologists would be especially hard hit," reported The New York Times on Aug. 21., "with cuts of more than 20 percent in payments for electrocardiograms and 12 percent for heart stent procedures."

Said Dr. John C. Lewin, chief executive of the American College of Cardiology: "Cuts of this magnitude could cripple cardiology practices and threaten access to services for millions of patients."

It is because of the life-saving work of cardiologists, over the years, that I am alive and able to write this - and applaud the 150 cardiologists and more than 1,500 patients who organized a health-care rally in downtown Orlando, Fla., on Aug. 21 to protest these Medicare cuts scheduled to take effect Jan. 1. The cuts involve (NYT, Aug. 21) "a variety of standard heart procedures, in some cases by more than one-third" in addition to the two I cited.

Three days before, at a town-hall meeting organized by the wives of two Louisville physicians to directly protest the portents of Obamacare, the invited keynote speaker, Wesley Smith, an internationally known advocate for human rights in health care, expected to talk to maybe 100 people. At least 1,000 Kentucky citizens were there for an event conceived only two weeks before.

According to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, those citizens must have been among the "evil-mongers" drowning out national debate with "lies, innuendo and rumor." But Smith tells me that no organization put together the Louisville protest. "People showed up because they are very engaged as citizens about one of the most important domestic policy initiatives in recent times."

To many of us, including doctors, it is THE most important issue. Marc K. Siegel, a practicing internist and an associate professor of Medicine at New York's BYU Langone Medical Center - with which my doctors are associated - writes (New York Post, Aug. 18):

"For generations, we doctors have promised our patients that medical advances will allow us all to live longer, more comfortable lives. Now that these results are finally arriving, 'health-care reform' - or 'insurance reform' (as our would-be health czar now calls it) - could snatch the rug out from under us."

If the president succeeds in having Congress enact into law a national federal council to decide the most cost-effective medical care, those national standards will necessarily override which specific care can be most effective for each individual patient. Is expressing that concern, even loudly - about being lost in the abstract whole - what House Speaker Nancy Pelosi calls "un-American" as she scorns these citizen eruptions by latter-day sons and daughters of liberty?

Obviously, there is great need to make health care more equitable, but what Obama's Democratic loyalists are leading us toward has been clearly and ominously described by Michael Gerson ("When Planners Decide Life," Washington Post, Aug. 21).


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Government
KEYWORDS: cardiologists; healthcare; nathentoff
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According to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, those citizens must have been among the "evil-mongers" drowning out national debate with "lies, innuendo and rumor."

The only liars on the scene are the imbecilic leftist Congressrats like Reid, Pelousy, Waxman and a whole host of others.

Here America has the largest collection of American-hating communists ever assembled in the White House!

1 posted on 09/04/2009 7:18:47 AM PDT by IbJensen
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“Cuts of this magnitude could cripple cardiology practices and threaten access to services for millions of patients.”

...that’s the whole idea. “Could” isn’t the word. “Would” covers it nicely!


2 posted on 09/04/2009 7:20:52 AM PDT by albie
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To: IbJensen

3 posted on 09/04/2009 7:21:06 AM PDT by NMEwithin
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“Here America has the largest collection of American-hating communists ever assembled in the White House!”

It is now easier to ID and target the enemies of the republic.


4 posted on 09/04/2009 7:21:10 AM PDT by DarthVader (Liberalism is the politics of EVIL whose time of judgment has come.)
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To: IbJensen

Today on Uncommon Knowledge, Rep. Thaddeus McCotter, the fourth-ranked Republican in the House, on what Republicans must not compromise away:

“Our liberty is from God, not the government. Our sovereignty is in our souls, not the soil. Our security is from strength, not surrender. Our prosperity is from the private sector, not the public sector. And our truths are self evident, not relative.”


5 posted on 09/04/2009 7:21:51 AM PDT by roses of sharon (Kennedy dared us to call his bluff, when we didn't, he made all of us complicit in what he had done.)
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To: IbJensen
All I can say, is, folks, in these increasingly dark days of the Republic, exercise your Second Ammendment possession rights. Early and often, as many times as you can. And don't brag afterward that you have or state where you have buried it/them. The clever eagle hides its talons.

And any lib lurking from the White House basement or CNN or MoveOn.org, poking around here on FR , who reads this and is "offended" and/or "alarmed" about somebody actually asserting Americans exercise one or several of their Constitutional rights, they can go f-themselves.

6 posted on 09/04/2009 7:24:15 AM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (When reality hits us that it's not "Incompetence" but rather "Intentional", what are we going to do?)
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To: IbJensen

when a million people descend on washington protesting the great wagyu - pravda on the potomac (the wash compost) will label them as ‘right wing extremists’


7 posted on 09/04/2009 7:25:38 AM PDT by databoss (Keep The Change....)
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To: roses of sharon
Some people get it. But not enough. The Republican Party is very disappointing. I truly think they should be calling for open, bloodless revolution. At the national level, the GOP should be urging states to push for state sovereignty, re-assertion of the 10th Amendment, with secession as a possible additional step.

The US needs to enter a new era. The GOP can embrace that new era (with a smaller federal government), or the GOP can embrace Obama.

I know where John McCain stands.

8 posted on 09/04/2009 7:26:18 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Play the Race Card -- lose the game.)
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To: IbJensen

Obama’s “teachable moment” will be when he’s taught “Don’t tread on me”!.....


9 posted on 09/04/2009 7:27:08 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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Well? When do we start shooting? Is it still too soon?


10 posted on 09/04/2009 7:27:43 AM PDT by ironwill (III - Molon Labe)
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Incredible to have watched calls to violence by
PBS’ Lehrer, Montel Williams, Stephanolopoulos,
Pres_ _ent Obama, and all the time supported with a
wink and nod and ‘green light’ from the AG Holder’s
ultra-racist Dept of “Justice”.


11 posted on 09/04/2009 7:28:12 AM PDT by Diogenesis ("Those who go below the surface do so at their peril" - Oscar Wilde)
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MILLIONS OF AMERICANS ARE SAYING NO TO SOCIALISM, OBANGO!.....


12 posted on 09/04/2009 7:28:38 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: roses of sharon
“Our liberty is from God, not the government. Our sovereignty is in our souls, not the soil. Our security is from strength, not surrender. Our prosperity is from the private sector, not the public sector. And our truths are self evident, not relative.”

Wonderful quote. Thanks for posting.

13 posted on 09/04/2009 7:28:51 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: AmericanInTokyo
And let's not kid ourselves. They are, indeed, lurking. With as many communist goons that have filled the White House there is probably a internet monitoring czar and a staff checking us out.

God save America!

14 posted on 09/04/2009 7:29:15 AM PDT by IbJensen (If Catholic voters were true to their faith there would be no abortion and no President Obama.)
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there is probably a internet monitoring czar and a staff checking us out.

I DON’T CARE!......LIVE FREE OR DIE!


15 posted on 09/04/2009 7:30:27 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: ironwill
Well? When do we start shooting? Is it still too soon?

Thats up to the enemies within.
16 posted on 09/04/2009 7:31:47 AM PDT by Sig Sauer P220 ("Peace" is that brief, glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading - Anonymous)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

Presidential power is not absolute, but rather limited and kept in check by both constitutional and political constraints. The ultimate limit on presidential power is removal from office by Congress through “Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors,” as outlined in Article II, Section 4, of the U.S. Constitution.

All we need do is change the Congress!


17 posted on 09/04/2009 7:34:18 AM PDT by IbJensen (If Catholic voters were true to their faith there would be no abortion and no President Obama.)
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To: IbJensen

I listen to this guy in an interview the other night...I highly recommend his book Shadow World. Robert Chandler is a strategist who has worked for the United States Air Force, the White House, the Departments of State, Defense, Energy, and Justice, and the Central Intelligence Agency. A retired Air Force colonel and Vietnam veteran, he holds a Ph.D. in political science from George Washington University. He is the author of numerous articles and four previous books, and is a much sought-after speaker. http://www.regnery.com/books/shadowworld.html


18 posted on 09/04/2009 7:35:16 AM PDT by Irisshlass
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To: IbJensen

The Sons of Liberty = good.

“Freedom” and the basic human right of self are not taught in our schools any longer.

In my sons 7th grade class - they spent one day on the Constitution and an entire week on being a muslum - even had women in telling how great the religion was and reports on the greatness of Alla.


19 posted on 09/04/2009 7:35:27 AM PDT by edcoil (If I had 1 cent for every dollar the government saved, Bill Gates and I would be friends.)
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To: IbJensen

I got their “stimulus package” right HERE, if they are lurking.... ;-)


20 posted on 09/04/2009 7:36:02 AM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (When reality hits us that it's not "Incompetence" but rather "Intentional", what are we going to do?)
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