Liberty Or Debt

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[jessduntno]

States' Rights: Idaho requires its attorney general to sue the feds if ObamaCare passes while Virginia, the cradle of liberty, heads the line of states in front of the federal courtroom. Somewhere Patrick Henry is smiling.

As the second coming of King George III seeks to impose the leftist mandate of national health insurance on the unwilling American people, the states are once again in revolt. This time they're unwilling to be the colonies of an imperial federal government determined to spend and tax us into bankruptcy while treating the Constitution as if it were bird cage liner.

Is this what the Founding Fathers had in mind when they risked being hanged by the British crown because they said we shouldn't be taxed without representation? Well, we have representation, and they care not about the people they represent. We can now pass laws by not voting on them, almost as if by imperial decree. We have become the Venezuela of Hugo Chavez.

Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter signing into law a measure requiring the state attorney general to sue the federal government if residents are forced to buy health insurance.

"The ivory tower folks will tell you, 'No, they're not going anywhere,'" Otter told reporters. "But I'll tell you what, you got 36 states; that's a critical mass. That's a constitutional mass." Otter shares the belief that nowhere in the U.S. Constitution is a mandate to buy health insurance or anything else. Otter warned House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in December that Idaho was considering such litigation. They yawned.

"What the Idaho Health Freedom Act says is that the citizens of our state won't be subject to another federal mandate or turn over another part of their life to government control," Otter proclaimed.

[jessduntno]

"The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. ... [I]t is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable -- and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come!" --Patrick Henry

[rarestia]

Unfortunately we can’t turn back soldiers to waiting ships back to the British Isles. Our enemies are here, on our shores, citizens in the same political system that is the American experiment. Americans will have to learn that people must die for liberty.

Like my tagline says, it’s time to water the Tree of Liberty (with the blood of Patriots AND TYRANTS!)

[Travis McGee]

"As the second coming of King George III seeks to impose the leftist mandate of national health insurance on the unwilling American people, the states are once again in revolt. This time they're unwilling to be the colonies of an imperial federal government determined to spend and tax us into bankruptcy while treating the Constitution as if it were bird cage liner."

[Viking2002]

And this is only against a singular outrage. Wait until they try to smother us with shamnesty for illegals, Gorebull Warming cap-and-trade, and all of the dictates of his demented cabinet czars. These self-omnipotent, Marxist tin pots are too power drunk to be even peripherally aware of the beast they're enraging.

[loveliberty2]

“The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.” Cicero - 55 BC

[jessduntno]

“These self-omnipotent, Marxist tin pots are too power drunk to be even peripherally aware of the beast they’re enraging.”

Yep...as our illustrious VP said, this is a “Big F***ing deal” but not in the way he meant it.

[Viking2002]

Some of us might have the occasional "Here, hold muh beer and watch this" moment, but these royal court gatecrashers are doing their best imitation of "Be a dear and hold my glass of Chablis whilst I taunt and provoke the chained lions again."

Kitty's chain is starting to stretch.