Posted on 11/12/2013 8:30:07 AM PST by IbJensen
In 2012, the National Federation of Independent Business vs Sebelius (ObamaCare) was considered by many to be one of the most significant Supreme Court cases to be heard in decades. On its outcome would depend the continued liberty of the American people. For if our elected officials can force the public to purchase government approved health insurance, what can they NOT demand the American people acquire! The full effects of the unconscionable betrayal of the Constitution and the American public by Chief Justice John Roberts are only beginning to be realized.
If the NFIB decision pronounced an end to our liberty, the Courts upcoming ruling in Bond vs U.S. has the potential to literally end the 240 year history of the United States. For at issue in this case is the following question: When the United States joins an international treaty, may Congress pass laws toward its implementation which violate the Constitution? The Obama Regime, through Solicitor General Donald Verrilli, says YES. For during oral arguments on November 5th, Verrilli told the Court that once a treaty is signed by the president and ratified by the Senate, Congress has the power to pass any law necessary and proper to implement the treaty. ANY law! The constitutional limits on Congressional power may be ignored at the whim of lawmakers. (1)
As a result, the United Nations would effectively make the laws by which the American people are governed. The UN Small Arms Treaty would, for example, wipe out the 2nd Amendment as international police acquire authority to ordereven carry outthe disarming of the American people.
The Bill of Rights will become the former law of the land. Express an opinion insulting to pro-Islamic, UN doctrine and an American citizen could be imprisoned, or, should the terms of a treaty call for it, perhaps even beheaded as an infidel!
The legal history of Bond is a bit involved and not really at issue here. What is of importance is the fact that the terms of a treaty entered into by the president and ratified by the Senate will effectively take precedence over the Constitution. For elected, DC representatives may fashion and pass legislation based solely upon upholding the terms of any treaty with any nation for any purpose.
Imagine a United States in which parents have no right to raise their children except according to accepted, international doctrine; wealth would be subject to fair and equitable, forced re-distribution; expression of unacceptable opinions would expose a speaker to fine or imprisonment and everywhere, informers would gain favor with the powers that be by betraying freedom loving neighbors or family members for a carelessly expressed desire for liberty.
A ruling on Bond vs U.S. is expected before the end of the Courts term next summer. John Roberts has already betrayed the American people by ignoring the Constitution in his decision on the Affordable Care Act. Will this corrupt and cowardly justice now participate in a majority ruling which would put that document to death?
Thanks to the compliant, sycophantic idiot Chief Justice Roberts, we do not have that. He said in his decision that if the penalty for NOT buying Insurance was a tax, it would be Constitutional. So even though the Government stated in their legal briefs that it was NOT a tax, Chief Justice MADE it a tax and let the law stand!
Senator Max Baucus, allegedly one of the authors of the bill has been quoted in recent days talking about the penalty part of the bill being delayed because of the failure of the Government Website. So it IS a penalty, IS Unconstitutional and to this day, I am wondering what the OBAMA Administration dug up on Chief Justice Roberts, with their negative research crew to blackmail him into his decision? Or is he just corrupt on his own?
I have heard it has something to do with the way he illegally went around some laws in order to adopt his children from an European country that didnt allow Americans to adopt their children, so he had them moved to some Latin American country. Who knows?
But I hope he is suffering, his conscience is bothering him as he sees what havoc he has wrought in collusion with the Obama Administration. Now the door is open for this Treaty that put the boot of the UN on the neck of America! Destroys our Sovereignty, and surrenders our freedom. And our Military has been demoralized, feminized, and betrayed (Navy Seal Team Six outed by Obama and Biden)Veterans waiting years for their claims to be processed by the VA, Suppressing Christianity in the Military, promoting Gay rights in the military.
Congress already passes clearly unconstitutional laws. Sadly, I see no change in practice here.
It has become the duty of the courts to enforce The Constitution.
Isn’t there a Supreme Court case that say that any law in clear violation of The Constitution is a nullity?
I too hope Roberts is suffering. He sold out a country.
One of the greatest Republics to ever exist sold out by one man.
The dead soul pirate Roberts is owned. And if we think very carefully, we will see that it was George Bush who placed him where he sits soiling the bench. Globalists have a well mapped agenda and they are implementing it with the toil of scum like Roberts.
Happening because half the people still have their heads firmly wedged in their anal exit passageway.
After that they will determine the continued existence of earth. Then the solar system. Then the galaxy. And finally the universe.
legal ping, counselor.
Actually the precedent was set by the first or second congress when they required merchant ships to acquire first aid kits and keep them on their ships.
Obamacare may be unprecedented in it's scale, but that's all. There is very little difference between the government taxing you and using those proceeds to purchase healthcare insurance for you, or ordering you to purchase healthcare.
There is also very little difference between a tax penalty and a tax credit. They should have structured this as a tax credit, if they were going to do it at all.
The answer is no, they can't. But if they do, then we need to throw them out.
The answer is no, they can't. But if they do, then we need to throw them out.
Giving us, eventually:
At this point I really wish SHIELD was real and Fury was running it - with all of it’s warts. Gotta be better than the current rulers.
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