Posted on 10/01/2013 1:44:44 PM PDT by Jacquerie
The solution to America's problems reside within the American tradition.
Our latest problem, the unasked-for Obamacare, is centered around new onerous fines/taxes. Obamacare is the result of an imposed ideology that is incompatible with the American experience. Its social justice progressivism is irrelevant, hostile, and has no legitimate place here.
We long ago faced a similar situation in which a foreign ideology meant taxes that couldn’t be avoided.
In 1765, Parliament imposed the Stamp Act. The tax had a logical basis. Great Britain spent enormous sums to kick France out of much of North America, and a tax on those who stood to benefit the most from victory made perfect sense . . . in London. Colonial businesses and individuals were to be irritated by an insidious sliding rule of taxation.
While there were rumblings of opposition on this side of the Atlantic, and colonial legislatures sent letters of protest to Parliament, it appeared the tax would be implemented.
That is, until a certain member of the Virginia House of Burgesses stood to be recognized.
Patrick Henry sparked a series of events that culminated in Independence. This rube, noobie Burgess from the backwoods of Virginia was met with sighs of displeasure from the aristocratic planters who wanted to adjourn and get back to their plantations. By custom, new Burgesses sat quietly and learned for at least a session before asking to speak.
Patrick Henry didn’t get the memo. In five resolutions, he spoke the words of republican liberty. He was met with shouts of “Treason!” Henry concluded with a phrase repeated through the ages, “If this be treason, make the most of it!” His passionate appeal was printed in colonial newspapers, was followed by mob protests, and soon a congress of the states.
Fast forward almost 250 years, and the offspring of Henry’s resistance confronts tyranny with a different face. Touted as affordable, reasonable and utter logical, Obamacare makes perfect sense to those who dwell outside the American traditions of freedom and personal responsibility, and inside the twisted minds of Obama, Ayers, Wright, and the democratic caucus.
The outer colonies of the Washington DC empire, the states, have chafed under and resisted the onset of Obamacare. Instead of letters to distant Parliament, various states’ attorney generals lodged formal complaints in Obama’s courts, and met with the same response as the American colonies. “Obey.”
Last week, shortly before the full force of Obamacare was to take effect, a freshman senator from out of nowhere in Texas named Ted Cruz, rose to spark the flame of modern resistance to tyranny. His colleagues shouted him down, ridiculed him, and accused him of treason and terrorism.
Derided for republican, Tea Party extremism, Ted Cruz took on Obama as certainly and squarely as Patrick Henry took on George III. Fueled by his example, the people of America rose up, and convinced their representatives to finally stand and fight.
Sparked by Patrick Henry, the Stamp Act protests sent the states to a convention, the first congress. It is time to heed the words of our modern day Patrick Henry, Senator Ted Cruz, and resist tyranny while we have the peaceful means to do so.
Nicely written, and very good analogy.
This is what you get when you elect a president who was raised by communists/Marxists and Muslims and who never set foot on the American mainland till he was 18 years old. Nobody should be surprised at any of this.
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Patrick Henry didn’t get the memo. In five resolutions, he spoke the words of republican liberty. He was met with shouts of “Treason!” Henry concluded with a phrase repeated through the ages, “If this be treason, make the most of it!” His passionate appeal was printed in colonial newspapers, was followed by mob protests, and soon a congress of the states.
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We are fighting a two front war and winning..RATS are losing public opinion and RINOs are on the run!
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Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, Give me Liberty, or give me Death!"
~Patrick Henry
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But all the democrat politicians are the same evil ,socialist demon that Obama is. and all (or practically all ) of the mainstream media reporters are the same as Obama. the media reporters are also democrats
politicians including Pelosi, Reid, Feinstein,Shumer, Hillary Clinton , Obama. are democrats.media reporters are democrats
democrats are the enemy that needs to be defeated
Thank you.
Patrick Henry was a distant ancestor of ours. I am very, very proud to be able to say that. That’s probably why I appreciate Ted Cruz so much and so grateful to say he’s my senator.
Henry deserves more credit than I’ve seen at FR, as a revolutionary, founder and framer.
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The establishment Republicans are treating Obamacare as if it was a normal piece of legislation.
Senator Cruz is treating it for what it is...a poison pill that will ultimately kill our freedoms if it is not expelled.
i wonder what Rubio thinks about all of this... of Ted Cruz...
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