In a banana republic pirate law is the only real law.
Posted on 06/25/2015 11:27:39 AM PDT by Sean_Anthony
A big win for people who hate the fact that words have meanings.
SCOTUS grants Obama another gift, ignores the English language to uphold ObamaCare subsidiesAnd that’s that. Obama, as usual, gets his way. It was predictable, really. Having abandoned the meaning of words within the English language, the Supreme Court is now free to ignore the actual text of laws and pretend things were written that never were.
As the AP reports:
The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the nationwide tax subsidies under President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul, in a ruling that preserves health insurance for millions of Americans.
The justices said in a 6-3 ruling that the subsidies that 8.7 million people currently receive to make insurance affordable do not depend on where they live, under the 2010 health care law.
The outcome is the second major victory for Obama in politically charged Supreme Court tests of his most significant domestic achievement. It came the same day the court gave the administration an unexpected victory by preserving a key tool the administration uses to fight housing bias.
John Roberts wrote the majority opinion, which stated that the law was upheld because:
(Excerpt) Read more at canadafreepress.com ...
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.—That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, —That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.—Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States
Whatever happened to it not being the court’s job to fix a law? Roberts clearly saw the error. He should have ruled on the actual wording and left it to the legislature to fix anything that needed fixing. But no. He likes the law so he decides to keep it.
Perhaps the entire territory that was once known as “the United States of America” should adopt a completely different language, as the English language no longer serves as a means of communication.
Chinese would be nice....
That sure would make commerce easier.
In other words, they upheld it because it was too big to fail, not due to legality.
In a banana republic pirate law is the only real law.
(/sarc, sort of)
I find it strange that Roberts was willing to make an idiot of himself when his vote was not even necessary to retain his desired outcome. Well, at least he has come out of the closet as a transreconstuctionist.
Clearly, like every other branch of government, the Supreme Court no longer serves the function for which it was intended. As I’ve said here and elsewhere, when the Executive Branch collects vast volumes of data via the Patriot Act and other unconstitutional means, does anyone really believe that it distinguishes between private citizens and members of Congress or Supreme Court justices? When it obtains potentially damaging information on anyone, in any walk of life, does anyone accept the premise that the executive will not use that information to its advantage...?
It is no longer the Supreme Court. It is the EXTREME Court!
Does anyone here still honestly support the current system of government? This is 100,000 times worse than any English King!
What an asshole.
They are stating to piss off too many people, too many times.
I am amazed no one has started shooting yet.
Maybe this is why they are inciting their own to commit gun crimes- to remove them from everyone else before the 2nd civil war starts.
I have heard locally from a friend of a friend of a friend that there are meetings being held by people who are ALREADY willing to go to war.
As corrupted as DC now is regarding their continuous betrayal and shackling of the American people, those in DC and their puppet masters need to go extinct. After this SCOTUS fiasco this morning, if it wasn’t before, it ought to now be more clearer than ever why the ruling elite and their DC thugs so desire to disarm the rest of us.
I had a dream
I had a dream the other night, I didn’t understand.
A figure walking through the mist, with flintlock in his hand.
His clothes were torn and dirty, as he stood there by my bed.
He took off his three-cornered hat, and speaking low, he said:
“We fought a revolution, to secure our liberty.
We wrote the Constitution, as a shield from tyranny.
For future generations, this legacy we gave.
In this, the land of the free and the home of the brave.
“The freedom we secured for you, we hoped you’d always keep.
But tyrants labored endlessly while your parents were asleep.
Your freedom gone, your courage lost, you’re no more than a slave.
In this, the land of the free and home of the brave.
“You buy permits to travel, and permits to own a gun,
Permits to start a business, or to build a place for one.
On land that you believe you own, you pay a yearly rent.
Although you have no voice in choosing, how the money’s spent.
“Your children must attend a school that doesn’t educate.
Your Christian values can’t be taught, according to the state.
You read about the current news, in a regulated press.
You pay a tax you do not owe, to please the I.R.S.
“Your money is no longer made of Silver or of Gold.
You trade your wealth for paper, so your life can be controlled.
You pay for crimes that make our Nation, turn from God in shame.
You’ve taken Satan’s number, as you’ve traded in your name.
“You’ve given government control, to those who do you harm,
So they can padlock churches, and steal the family farm,
And keep our country deep in debt, put men of God in jail,
Harass your fellow countrymen, while corrupted courts prevail.
“Your public servants don’t uphold the solemn oath they’ve sworn.
Your daughters visit doctors, so their children won’t be born.
Your leaders ship artillery, and guns to foreign shores,
And send your sons to slaughter, fighting other people’s wars.
“Can you regain the freedom for which we fought and died?
Or don’t you have the courage, or the faith to stand with pride?
Are there no more values for which you’ll fight to save?
Or do you wish your children, to live in fear and be a slave?
“People of the Republic, arise and take a stand!
Defend the Constitution, the Supreme Law of the Land!
Preserve our Great Republic, and GOD-Given Right!
And pray to GOD, to keep the torch of Freedom burning bright!”
As I awoke he vanished, in the mist from whence he came.
His words were true, we are not Free, we have ourselves to blame.
For even now as tyrants, trample each GOD-Given Right,
We only watch and tremble, too afraid to stand and fight.
If he stood by your bedside, in a dream, while you’re asleep,
And wonders what remains of our Rights he fought to keep,
What would be your answer, if he called out from the grave:
“IS THIS STILL THE LAND OF THE FREE AND HOME OF THE BRAVE???”
Part of the problem is our own individual fault. Are we letting money talk louder than God does? If so, then we have already ceded the battle.
ONLY until faith allows God to talk louder than money (and not because your neighbor is making it easier by joining in) will we have the roots of a beneficial revolution of faith.
Dressing socialism in revolutionary war clothes doesn’t make it not socialism.
That needs to be posted beside every bed and kitchen table in the country.
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