Posted on 06/29/2012 4:50:25 PM PDT by Para-Ord.45
A few weeks ago I wagered with a coworker that the United States Supreme Court would uphold the Affordable Care Act otherwise known as Obamacare. He reasoned that the federal government has no authority under the Constitution to force an individual to purchase a product from a private company. My reasoning was much simpler. Because the Supreme Court is a functioning arm of the state, it will do nothing to stunt Leviathan’s growth. The fact that the Court declared no federal law unconstitutional from 1937 to 1995—from the tail end of the New Deal through Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society—should have been proof enough. He naively believed in the impartialness of politically-appointed judges. For the first time he saw that those nine individuals are nothing more than politicians with an allegiance to state supremacy.
All that aside, the Supreme Court’s upholding of the Affordable Care Act should serve as an eye opener to those who still believe the state exists as a protector of property and defender of the rule of law.
What the state, which is institutionalized predation and force, embodies is antithetical to natural law and the very belief that violence is morally repugnant. To characterize the Supreme Court as some great upholder of the rule of law in spite of it being a pillar in the state apparatus is insulting to any decent person that has a basic understanding of justice.
In lieu of the upholding of the Affordable Care Act, it’s now worth asking what the U.S. government can’t do to Americans. As of right now, a sitting president can call for the indefinite detainment and execution of both citizens and non citizens alike with no due process. The band of thieves known as Congress can force the public to purchase a good or service and order its goons to read private communications without prior consent or knowledge.
The upholding of Obamacare is just more evidence of the totalitarian jackboot that continues to be pressed down upon on America’s collective throat. Instead of Congress or the President, it was the Supreme Court’s turn to pave the way toward serfdom. In a truly free society, all forms of violence would be condemnable and worthy of legal recourse. Men with badges and guns would receive no special treatment such as they do today. Thieves would be thieves. Murders would be murders. Counterfeiters would be counterfeiters. And mobsters would be mobsters. Titles such as “President,” “Congressman,” “police officer,” or “central banker” would mean nothing under a functioning system of proper law.
Good piece- thanks for posting.
I am not an avid court watcher but I DO know how much less free my country seems than it did when I was growing up.
Anecdote- this afternoon I stopped into a little neighborhood Greek place for some goodies to take home and started chatting with a couple of gals in their mid-70’s. They were Irish-Italian originally from Nu Yawk. Each of them had been lifelong Democrats but the last three years have convinced them their party and their country have changed into a place they don’t even recognize anymore.
One of them said “we used to pull together, we looked out for each other, we cheered each other’s successes and commiserated over failures and never blamed anyone and never expected anyone to make things better but US”..
They were both truly horrified by Obamacare and by the decision yesterday. The older one said “I mean, where can you GO after the Supreme Court? They are supposed to show us the LAW”
Coupla old Nu Yawk broads- they get it.
They were in their 70s and only came to that conclusion the last 3 years
Don’t worry. ACORN will ensure they vote Democrat for the next century.
Well yeah...but at LEAST they get it now! And they were old-school dems..the kind I used to respect- they weren't progressives.
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