Cuba, the Soviet Union (now Russia), Iran, Venezuela, China, Nazi Germany, Saudi Arabia, the E.U., in my opinion are all examples of governments that are, or were, their citizens' enemy. Adding the United States to that list is something that I never thought would happen, but after the precedent-setting passage of the Obama health-care "reform" bill, reluctantly the U.S. must be added to the list of infamous governments that seriously curtail the rights of citizens through an intrusive government implementing unreasonable rules and regulations that, in this case, imperils citizens through unnecessary, uncontrollable spending and expanded authority over every aspect of their lives.
March 21, 2010 has entered the psyche of many Americans as a "day of infamy," the "day democracy died." In future years we will ask each other what we doing that Sunday as we ask about where we were and what we were doing on 9/11, the day of the Challenger accident, or the day that JFK was assassinated in Dallas. Older Americans can tell you what they were doing on VE Day, the end of WWII in Europe, and VJ day, end of War with Japan. And of course, so far, we still remember Pearl Harbor Day, the 1941 day America entered WWII that actually started in 1939 (or 1937, depending on who's counting).
Eventually health care must be reformed, but creating an instrument that expands the power of the IRS, that mandates that private citizens buy a product whether they want it or not, that includes measures unrelated to health care such as the Student Loan Program makes me very uneasy because of precedent, the word that everyone in field of law understands.
Lawyers and judges all over this land refer to legal precedents in order to craft their arguments and decisions.
Precedent: In common law legal systems, a precedent or authority is a legal case establishing a principle or rule that a court or other judicial body utilizes when deciding subsequent cases with similar issues or facts.
As of January 24, 2010 there were 150 lawyers in the elected Congress, as well hundreds, perhaps thousands in the cadre of lobbyists, Congressional staffers, advisors, and legal representatives, and in the President's Cabinet.
And the President AND his wife are both lawyers as are other political and past-Presidential couples. And Obama was a Constitutional Law professor. Believe me these people know what they are doing, understand the precedents they are setting, and yet they did it anyway.
The citizens of the United States are being set up and sold out. The questions are: to and for whom?
Update: Repeal and Replace - but First Reveal
The Demcare control freaks are partying hard
Rep. Dingell: It's taken a long time to 'control the people'
People are in the state of lethargy that they can't listen to the cry of those who know the implications of the health care law. Anyway, people will just wake up later and realize that our freedom has been stolen from before our face.
Posted by: Mark @ Israel | March 29, 2010 at 12:48 AM