Posted on 06/29/2012 6:37:32 AM PDT by Lazamataz
Edited on 06/29/2012 7:10:21 AM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
I have always wondered how it felt to be a committed Communist in the former Soviet Union, when the system collapsed and the Berlin Wall fell.
Now I know.
Yesterday, the Supreme Court of the United States of America tore up the social contract between America and her citizens. They concluded that it was legal and Constitutional to force a citizen to buy a government-sanctioned product or service.
This flies squarely in the face of everything it is to be a free citizen, and totally upends the concept of free markets. Armed with this ruling, the government may now decree that every citizen purchase a particular car, a particular item of clothing.... or, harkening back to the 1930's German experience, a particular book (Of course, even Hitler saw that it would be unreasonable to force people to buy his book, so he gave them for free to newlyweds and soldiers at the front).
Forced commerce, that is what it may reasonably be called. In what way does this differ from Central Planning, the famously failed Soviet model?
Many pundits have noted that this will likely hurt Obama and his minions in Congress and the Senate in November. While this is possibly true, does it matter? Does it change the fact that the Supreme Court has drastically altered the social contract between America's government and her people? Party control waxes. Party control wanes. But SCOTUS rulings take decades to reverse, on the rare occasions they are reversed at all. All it takes is one bad election, and the government can now decree we must own certain products and services.
We will see all sorts of freedom-limiting compelled purchases. Obviously, each person needs burial insurance, right? And liability insurance on a personal level, this is reasonable, isn't it? After all, suppose you accidently harm someone? And OF COURSE, each person who wishes to post their opinion on the internet... they will clearly need 'slander and libel' insurance, in case they should speak ill of another. All these 'insurances' are intended as new taxes, only, and in the last case, shall be created to expressly restrict free speech.
In light of this ruling, perhaps the poem at the base of the Statue of Liberty needs to be updated:
I asked at the beginning of this editorial, what it must have felt like, as a committed Communist, to see the Soviet Union fall. Well, now I know, for I -- someone committed to freedom and the American ideal embodied in the Constitution -- watched America begin the final leg of it's fall on June 28, 2012, at 10:00AM Eastern Standard Time.
We can be depressed for awhile. Then we have to decide if we're going to fight. That's the choice.
Learn the truth:
http://www.supremelaw.org/fedzone11/index.htm ...
Okay, vote conservative congresspeople into office. What does that accomplish? The SCOTUS ruling still stands.
Okay, vote conservative Senators into office. What does that accomplish? The SCOTUS ruling still stands.
Okay, vote Romney into office. What does that accomplish? The SCOTUS ruling still stands.
Well written as always. My thought was of poor old Lazar M. Kaganovich, Stalin’s railway boss and sometimes oppressor of kulaks in the Ukraine (gotta have a hobby, you know). Iron Lazar had the misfortune to live into his 90’s and watch the collapse of the system he built. His last words were uttered while watching on TV the violence around the parliament building in Moscow. They were “It’s a catastrophe!” Then he died.
Now, I’m not gonna die and I’m not an oppressor of kulaks, but I do know how old Lazar felt. What has happened to our country is a catastrophe. It’s not just health care, it’s the EPA, the trial lawyers, the worship of homosexuality in our public institutions, and the creation of a permanent unproductive underclass of moochers.
I am ashamed of my country and my people. I will not fly Old Glory next Wednesday, and may not do so again. I just cannot support the government that recognizes no obligation to serve or protect me, and has no sense of restraint in the exercise of it’s power over me. Instead it only exists to exploit and oppress me. I too am a student of history. German history. No German in 1925 would have considered stuffing all the Jews into ovens. Twenty years later they had done that to six million of them. After the nightmare was over they all wrung their hands in self-pity asking “how could we have let this happen?”
Someday, will the American people have to ask the same question?
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Thanks .... and I still need that hug. :^(
We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force. - Ayn Rand
Sorry, but no army wins a war on the individual determination of its foot soldiers....
I lift my CFL CARBON NEUTRAL NON-CFC ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY GREEN lamp beside the door that is mandated that every citizen own ......
In America,
you have the right
to vote
to take away our freedoms.
We then have the Constitutional duty
to take away your life.
And we carry that sacred duty
even if we are the minority;
especially, if we are the minority,
to preserve freedom for all future Americans.
“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.”
You do not vote out tyrannical government, you throw off tyrannical government.
Spot on, Laz. The die is cast and it’s a bad roll.
Don't know if I am up to that challenge.
I can but try. If I fail, please understand my mortal nature.
Then they are no longer binding, at least in the abstract....
I’ll pass along your request to her ;-)
With his announcement that the monstrosity was 'Constitutional' because it has attached a tax rather than a mandated penalty, he accomplished more than one of the goals of that hidden agenda: one, he granted UNLIMITED power to Congress to herd behavior by using punitive taxation as a stick, and two, he has arranged for the insurance industry to fail under forced acceptance of pre-existing conditions and buying insurance at any stage in illness without premium penalty, which of course will eventually bankrupt the free enterprise which used actuarial tables to establish costs tot he buyer.
And I suppose we may then conclude that Roberts also accomplished a giant step toward the single payer socialism the criminal enterprise party and the feckless deceitful republicants favor, albeit it also hidden from We The People, at least hidden until this latest rape of We The People by the pirate Roberts and his four black-robed socialist chums.
Roberts was appointed by Boosh so it is a fair bet that he works for the globalist governance thugs not We The People.
Brilliant essay, perfect quote. Sad situation.
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I like the building of the wall analogy better....
Got flourescent lightbulbs?
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