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Dead Constitution See other Dead Constitution Articles Title: Dates That Destroyed America Passage of the so-called "health care reform" bill in the House of Representatives this past Sunday, March 21 (I won't even address the inferred unconstitutionality of Congress doing business on the Lord's Day. See Article. I. Section. 7. Paragraph. 2.) drove yet another stake into the heart of America. For all intents and purposes, it is the health of the United States that is in dire need of healing. In fact, the US has been on extended life-support for decades. With its condition being rendered critical, and absent major surgery, its days are numbered. The passage of this bill only serves to further weaken an already frail Constitution. In fact, this one may prove to be the fatal blow. Lady Liberty may never recover. The decision by Congress to socialize medicine in the US ranks among the most draconian, most egregious, most horrific actions ever taken by the central government in Washington, D.C. This bill rocks the principles of liberty and constitutional government to the core. It changes fundamental foundations; it repudiates historical principle. Oh! The same flag may fly on our flagpoles, the same monuments may grace our landscape, and the same National Anthem may be sung during our public ceremonies, but it is not the same America. The Congress of the United States has now officially turned America into a socialist state. On March 23, 2010, President Barack Obama signed the health care bill into law, and as such, this date--along with March 21--joins a list of dates that have each inflicted unconstitutional, socialistic, and sometimes even tyrannical action against the States United and have, therefore, contributed to the destruction of a free America. April 9, 1865 This is the date when General Robert E. Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia to U.S. Grant at Appomattox Court House, Virginia. Regardless of where one comes down on the subject of the Civil War, one fact is undeniable: Abraham Lincoln forever destroyed the Jeffersonian model of federalism in America. Ever since, virtually every battle that free men have fought for the principles of limited government, State sovereignty, etc., have all stemmed directly from Lincoln's usurpation of power, which resulted in the subjugation and forced union of what used to be "Free and Independent States" (the Declaration of Independence). In fact, the philosophical battles being waged today regarding the recent health care debacle (and every other encroachment upon liberty and State power by the central government) have their roots in Lincoln's tyranny. July 9, 1868 This is the date when the 14th Amendment was ratified. This amendment codified into law what Lincoln had forced at bayonet point. Until then, people were only deemed citizens of their respective states. The Constitution nowhere referred to people as "US citizens." It only recognized "the Citizens of each State." Notice also that citizenship was only recognized among the "several States," not among people living in non-State territories. Until the 14th Amendment, people were "Citizens of each State." (Article. IV. Section. 2. Paragraph. 1.) The 14th Amendment created a whole new class of persons: "citizens of the United States." This false notion of "one nation" overturned the Jeffersonian principle that our nation was a confederated republic, a voluntary union of states. February 3, 1913 This is the date when the 16th Amendment was ratified, and the direct income tax and IRS were instituted. This was a flagrant repudiation of freedom principles! What began as a temporary measure to support the War of Northern Aggression became a permanent income revenue stream for an unconstitutional--and ever-growing--central government. April 8, 1913 This is the date when the 17th Amendment was ratified. This amendment overturned the power of the State legislatures to elect their own senators and replaced it with a direct, popular vote. This was another serious blow against State sovereignty. The framers of the Constitution desired that the influence and power in Washington, D.C., be kept as close to the people and states as possible. For example, the number of representatives in the House of Representatives was to be decided by a limited number of voters. In the original Constitution, the ratio of "people of the several States" deciding their House member could not exceed "one for every thirty thousand." (Article. I. Section. 2. Paragraph. 3.) And when it came to the US Senate, the framers also recognized the authority of each State legislature to select its own senators, thereby keeping power and influence from aggregating in Washington, D.C. The 17th Amendment seriously damaged the influence and power of the states by forcing them to elect their US senators by popular vote. The bigger the State, the less influence the State legislature has in determining its US senator. Senators who answered to State legislators, each answering to a limited number of voters, are much more accountable to the "citizens of the several States" than those who are elected by a large number (many times numbering into the millions) of people. For all intents and purposes (at least in the larger states), US Senators are more like "mini-Presidents" than they are representatives of sovereign states. December 23, 1913 This is the date when the Federal Reserve Act was passed. This Act placed oversight of America's financial matters into the hands of a cabal of private international bankers, who have completely destroyed the constitutional principles of sound money and (for the most part) free enterprise. No longer would the marketplace (private consumption, thrift, growth, etc.) be the determinant of the US economy (which is what freedom is all about), but now a private, unaccountable international banking cartel would have total power and authority to micromanage (for their own private, parochial purposes) America's financial sector. Virtually every recession, depression, and downturn (including the one we are now experiencing) has been the direct result of the Fed's manipulation (again, for its own purposes and with Washington's cooperation) of the market. June 26, 1945 This is the date when the United Nations Charter was signed and America joined the push for global government. Ever since, US forces have spilled untold amounts of blood and sacrificed thousands of lives promoting the UN's agenda. Since the end of World War II, in virtually every war in which US military forces have been engaged, it has been at the behest of the UN. And it is also no accident that America has not fought a constitutionally declared war since we entered the UN--and neither have we won one. Furthermore, it is America's involvement in the United Nations that has spearheaded this draconian push for a New World Order that George H. W. Bush, Henry Kissinger, Tony Blair, Walter Cronkite, et al., have talked so much about. The United Nations is an evil institution that has completely co-opted our US State Department and much of our Defense Department. It is an anti-American institution that works aggressively and constantly against the interests and principles of the United States. But it is an institution that is ensconced in the American political infrastructure. Like a cancer, the UN eats away at our liberties and values, and both major political parties in Washington, D.C., are culpable in allowing it to exert so much influence upon our country. June 25, 1962, and June 17, 1963 These are the dates when the US Supreme Court removed prayer ('62) and Bible reading ('63) from public schools. At this point, these two Supreme Court decisions were the most serious affront to the First Amendment in US history. Think of it: from before a union of states was established in 1787, children had been free to pray and read the Scriptures in school. We're talking about a period of more than 300 years! Of course, the various State legislatures--and myriad city and county governmental meetings--still open their sessions in prayer, as do the US House and Senate, and even the US Supreme Court. But this same liberty is denied the children of America. There is no question that America has not recovered from these two horrific Supreme Court decisions. In effect, the federal government has expelled God not only from our public schools, but also from our public life! And America has not been the same since. October 22, 1968 This is the date when President Lyndon Baines Johnson signed the Gun Control Act of 1968. Before this Act, the 2nd Amendment was alive and well in the United States. The Gun Control Act of 1968 turned a right into a privilege and forever forced the American people to bow to the altar of government when seeking to arm themselves. Interestingly enough, this Gun Control Act mirrored Nazi Germany's Gun Control Act of 1938. In fact, the Gun Control Act of 1968 is almost a verbatim copy of Hitler's Gun Control Act of 1938. Our Founding Fathers could never have imagined that governments within the "several States" would ever be allowed to deny the people's right to keep and bear arms. In fact, it was the attempted confiscation of the firearms stored at Concord, Massachusetts, that triggered the War of Independence in 1775. That the people of Massachusetts would be denied their right to keep and bear arms, as they are today, could not have been foreseen--and would never have been tolerated--by America's founders. Yet, most of the hundreds of draconian gun control laws that have been inflicted upon the American people have all come about as a result of the Gun Control Act of 1968. January 22, 1973 This is the date when the US Supreme Court issued the Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton decisions, which, in effect, legalized abortion-on-demand. These two decisions expunged the Jeffersonian principle that all men are endowed by their Creator with the unalienable right to life (Declaration). Since then, more than 50 million unborn babies have been legally murdered in their mothers' wombs. Abortion is, without a doubt, America's national holocaust. It has opened the door to a host of Big Government programs and policies that have resulted in the wanton destruction of human life both in the United States and overseas. It has created an entire industry whose express purpose for existing is the destruction of human life. It has desensitized the conscience and soul of America. Furthermore, it has forced men of decency and good will to finance--with their tax dollars--the unconscionable act of killing unborn children. And once again, another Jeffersonian principle was eviscerated. He said, "To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical." The Roe and Doe decisions violate this principle in the most egregious manner possible. October 26, 2001 This is the date when President George W. Bush signed the USA Patriot Act, and the federal government's war against individual liberty began in earnest. Most of the unconstitutional eavesdropping, snooping, wiretapping, phone call intercepting, email reading, prying, financial records tracking, travel watching, ad infinitum, ad nauseam, by federal police agencies began with the implementation of the Patriot Act. The Department of Homeland Security and the "war on terrorism," which have resulted in the deaths of tens of thousands of innocent people worldwide, and the usurpation of federal power at home, have all come about as an outgrowth of the Patriot Act. The USA Patriot Act has forever shifted the focus of American law and jurisprudence against constitutional government and individual liberty, toward a police-state mentality. The Patriot Act is even turning our local and State law enforcement agencies into military-style "Jackboots," where police officers see themselves not necessarily as guardians of the citizenry, but, as often as not, as adversaries, where citizens are deemed to be the "enemy." October 17, 2006, and October 9, 2009 These are the dates when President G.W. Bush signed and re-signed the Military Commissions Act. This Act is the outgrowth of the Patriot Act but has, in effect, terminated the fundamental protections of individual liberty, which are found in the US Constitution and Bill of Rights. For all intents and purposes, the Patriot Act and Military Commissions Act eviscerated the 4th and 5th Amendments, and do serious injury to several others. The Military Commissions Act also expunges the constitutional right of Habeas Corpus. March 21 and 23, 2010 These are the dates when Congress passed and President Obama signed into law the "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act," the so-called "health care reform" bill that we spoke about at the beginning of this column. While Social Security and various Welfare programs have toyed with socialism in the United States, this bill is the largest and most expansive endorsement of socialism in American history. This bill socializes some 18% of the US economy by socializing the health care industry in America. The fallout and ramifications of this bill are going to be horrific. When future historians review the demise of our once-great republic, they will observe that the above dates, including March 21 and March 23, 2010, were the dates that destroyed America. The American people have been far too tolerant for far too long.
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Criticism of Obamacare is too much of a knee-jerk reaction to a measure that puts under the structure of law the parable of the Good Samaritan. It calls on everyone to be a Good Samaritan so that hospitals and doctors don't have to carry the burden alone in taking care of sick and injured who might not be able to pay for their services. True that much if not most of required medical care stems from some kind of ineptitude on the part of the patient, but here again did parents, educators and society provide the necessary advice and training needed to enable avoidance of illness or injury, let alone the lack of control one has of his genetic make up? It borders on the shameful for a nation so rich in talent and resources to avoid universal health care, especially with so much money squandered on self-centered "good times," not to mention crazy wars for a bunch of Zionist criminals who insist on stealing land from Palestinians rather than paying for it. The thing to concentrate on is to make health care much more effective, beginning with teaching youngsters healthy habits and practices for avoiding illness and injury, then making sure that the professionals don't turn the industry into a money-making scam. Might not be a bad idea to include in school each day a health tip or explanation on food safety or anything else children can relate to to emphasize the importance of illness avoidance in one's life.
You're trying to draw a happy face on a transparently Marxist policy of re-distribution of wealth, a zealous attempt to destroy the middle class in America, and a vile campaign to attack individual success and prosperity by penalizing the fruits of hard work and instead rewarding the opposite so government dole-taking will be considered a respectable way of life rather than a matter of last resort. Instead of talking about the need to educate others, here's an article you should read to educate yourself on the end game of Obamacare, published in the NYT, no less, a bigtime media cheerleader for Commissair Obama and his Bolshevik ilk. The happy face veil slipped in this instance. Be sure to peruse the 1000+ and mounting reader comments. www.nytimes.com/2010/03/24/business/24leonhardt.html "In Health Bill, Obama Attacks Wealth Inequality" Postscript: there's a difference between providing Americans ACCESS to a health care safety net wherein they can purchase catastrophic medical insurance to protect their assets from financial ruin, as opposed to what Obamacare involves - ie. providing Nannycare to lower income Americans at the expense of middle class whose own health premiums will skyrocket as will their taxes. The Demoncrats have magically defined $88,000 as "poor" whereas hard-working professionals and businessmen earning $250,000 AFTER many years of sacrifice and saving and paying off student loans are labeled odious "rich" and lumped in with the socialist elites like Pelosi whose stratostrophic annual earnings are in 2 digit declared MILLIONS. Btw, what does Obamacare require of the newly defined "poor" to sacrifice to get this new entitlement? ZERO. The implicit message of Obamacare is that if you vote Dem Party, you'll get lots and lots of freebies from the "rich."
Obamacare solves the dilemma of a doctor or hospital providing services for people who can't afford to pay for them and hopefully will soon put an end to the 50-thousand dying annually because of unaffordability. Of course Obamacare will undermine the wealth of "middle class" producers but this is largely because the government's administrators have been grossly inept in organizing, training, mobilizing and motivating people to create wealth and provide services as can be inferred from the 15-million (and growing) who are listed as unemployed. Skilled managerial talent could put all of these people into the production stream to create the wealth needed to pay for health care and anything else. But because the American voter has abdicated responsibility for the selection of a competent, loyal-to-America "board of directors" and let the Israeli lobby "choose" members of Congress, run and pay for their election campaigns, and have them give first priority to Israel's interests, including fighting its enemies, there's no one in government to run the country in the people's interest in the same way that Chevron's CEO runs the company in the interests of shareholders and consumers. Hopefully this might change under Obama's bottom-up economic growth policy. I trust you noted that most of those commenting on the NYT article, at least in the first few pages, were enthusiastic about Obama's health program.
Woe, woe, woe. Reading just one paragraph reached my maximum tolerance for delusions and lies. Here's a few facts for you to contemplate: a. 50,000 Americans dying annually because of unaffordibility = Bull Crap The study to which you and other socialists [including Demoncrat politicians] refer to was written by 2 biased Harvard researchers, who believed in single payer health care, and used unscientific method to promote their agenda. Their study was flawed. They admit that they didn't even bother to re-interview their uninsured subjects several years later to see if they were still uninsured before they died. From their study: "...Our study has several limitations. NHANES III assessed health insurance at a single point in time and did not validate self-reported insurance status. We were unable to measure the effect of gaining or losing coverage after the interview..." Here's the link to a short article that points out the bvious flaws and bias of their study: www.opposingviews.com/i/d...-from-lack-of-health-care "Do 45,000 Americans Die Each Year from Lack of Health Care?" b. Government doesn't create jobs. Government creates desk jockey bureaucrats who do not produce anything of economic value. Government desk jockey bureaucrats waste taxpayer dollars - that's what they always do and therefore we should strive to have fewer bureaucrats, not more of them. Government bureaucracy is a nation killer, not a nation builder. c. Re-distribution of wealth - which Obamacare is about - is not something to praise but rather something to repeal. But perhaps, based on your choice of pen name, re-distribution of wealth is what will benefit you and therefore the reason why you are trying so hard to disguise Marxism as some Biblical and noble Good Samaritan concept.
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