Posted on 04/02/2010 9:51:39 AM PDT by illiac
“Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!” --Patrick Henry, Virginia Colonial Delegation Speech, 1775--
If you think the House of Representatives’ Mar. 21st vote to pass the so-called “Affordable Health Care for America Act” (AHCAA) was a major leap down the road to serfdom for the United States, you would be correct.
But if you think the AHCAA’s passage means the battle is over, you’ve got another think coming: “State lawmakers and attorneys general already are lining up to challenge its constitutionality and wage an outside-the-beltway war against it in the courts.” (“Health care reform fight shifts from Congress to the courts,” Foxnews.com, Mar. 22nd.)
The White House, as you would expect, is pooh-poohing such challenges, asserting its confidence in the Supreme Court to justify the AHCAA on the grounds of the Constitution’s commerce clause.
Virginia Attorney General Kenneth Cuccinelli, however, has a contrary view: “If a person decides not to buy health insurance, that person by definition is not engaging in commerce. If you are not engaging in commerce, how can the federal government regulate you?” How indeed?
Nor is resistance to the AHCAA limited to the governing bodies of the states, for most of us individual citizens, disgusted with the blatant ramrod-style power-tactics employed in its passage, are fed up as well--and Tea Party leaders, now intent on running the Democrats who voted for it out of Congress, are finding a massive groundswell of grassroots support for that endeavor: “‘I am deluged with phone calls this morning from people wanting to join the Tea Party,’ said Gina Loudon, a founder of the St. Louis Tea Party…‘This has absolutely awoken a giant.’” (“Tea Partiers to Congressional Democrats: You’ll pay in November,” Foxnews.com, Mar. 22nd.)
For make no mistake about it, folks, this issue is about far more than the mere subjugation of health care; it is much wider and deeper than that. It is nothing less than a federal takeover of your right to engage in free trade as you please with whom you please, which means: it is an assault on your fundamental liberty to exist and function as a human being, which means: an assault on your right to live your life for your own sake, without the good you might be doing for others acting as a justification for your continued existence (“ensuring shared responsibility”).
That whirring sound you hear? That’s the Founding Fathers spinning in their graves as they witness the devolution of America, once the “Land of the Free,” into Amerika, “Land of the Insured at the Point of a Gun.”
Despite the fact that passage of this bill proves the federalies now regard the 10th Amendment of the Bill of Rights as fiction and “representative” government “for the people and by the people” as a joke, however, not all is lost as of yet: well over half of the States of the Union are rising up in virtual rebellion and revolution is brewing in every corner of the country.
How long are the rest of you going to sit on your butts while the sweet, sickening chains are wrapped around you?
Will you wait until the federal slavers tell you where you can work next? Or where you can travel? Will you finally rebel then? Or will you wait until they toast the 4th Amendment as well? How about the 2nd? How about the 1st? At what point do you finally recognize a raw power-grab when you see it happening right before your eyes?
Better stop and think about it; consider your words and actions carefully indeed. For, if you decide to wait until the jack-booted thugs are kicking in your doors--well, by then, I’m afraid, it’s just too late.
Or do you prefer to die as boot-licking sycophants, wearing your chains?
I'm looking for a party with this as the main plank of their platform.
“Virginia Attorney General Kenneth Cuccinelli, however, has a contrary view: “If a person decides not to buy health insurance, that person by definition is not engaging in commerce. If you are not engaging in commerce, how can the federal government regulate you?” How indeed?”
And.....if, as Libbies insist, there is a right to privacy, how does this new HC bullcrap work?
If you find one, let me know....
I think John Locke said “the only thing worse than dying in a war is living on your knees”, or something like that. Death is inevitable; slavery isn’t. (Thus spake Spok.)
“an assault on your right to live your life for your own sake”
In other words, a denial on your right to pursue happiness.
Thus, it is through some herculean feat of self denial, that the great Bammy sets the example by denying himself, his family, and his palace guard, the benefits of his own Health Care Reform legislation.
I'm looking for a party with this as the main plank of their platform.
Actually the Democratic part is close at least on the last half of it.
I hope they get their wish...
I have a new slogan in my tag.
I hope someone will make 50 million bumper stickers:
REPEAL OR REBEL
“When injustice becomes the law, resistance becomes a requirment.” Thomas Jefferson
“A people unwilling to use extreme violent force to preserve or obtain their liberty deserves the tyrants that rule them.” Thomas Jefferson
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