Concordia res Parvae Crescunt
by Bryce Shonka
The pen that the President used has already been tucked away for it’s ‘historic value’. The bill has been printed with congressional approval and now that Barack Obama’s signature appears on it we have officially entered an age of unprecedented Federal control over the most tangible aspect of our human experience- our bodies.
It is also likely that printing presses are already churning out a form that you will someday find in your mailbox, the papers requiring you to sign away your medical authority to bureaucrats who make their assessments from the other side of the continent.
What is your emotional reaction to this new era? Trepidation? Despair? Grief over the loss of our constitutional republic? What will we do? What will you do?
Some will celebrate what they see as the passage of a ‘change’ bill, granting at long last access to health care so badly needed. Others like myself, are seeing an alarming parallel between the health care talking points released today and the lofty promises made at the beginning of the Iraq War. The track record of Federal power increases tell us that mandates like the one signed into law today are seldom a net gain for those outside of the political class.
Just as the Bush administration promised that the Iraq invasion would “pay for itself†through oil revenue, DC’s current crop of spinners claim that this unprecedented new health care bureaucracy will actually diminish the national deficit, though the actual amount we will pay in taxes won’t be known until Barack has exited the Oval Office. In 2003 ‘spreading democracy to the Middle East’ was similarly sold to the American people, with end results that look much different from that glorious initial pitch.
What we do now should not be centered around the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010. Reacting with national solutions to Federal actions is simply playing their game. Have no doubt, someone with a Federal pay stub is ready and waiting with a plan to counter reactions, such as the Attorney’s General from a host of states who sued the Federal government 7 minutes after the bill was signed. It may even be the same brain trust that effectively parried those opposing health care reform at the grassroots level before the bill became law.
To repel the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, there is one solution that not only denies this new Federal mandate, but also future ones as well. Banding together in our respective sovereign states (yes, even California) and pushing back against those who are prepared to limit our choice of medical treatment is the starting point for resistance to a whole host of Federal mandates, on everything from light bulbs to what is in our children’s textbooks. We must assert our sovereignty as described in the 10th amendment.
State sovereignty is suddenly on the lips of many across the republic who recognize that the only way to stop the out-of-control Federal beast is to head it off at the pass- a.k.a. our state border. This the strategy of the state sovereignty movement- to respond using the tools so thoughtfully provided by the architects of our constitutional republic. Chief amongst those tools is the concept of nullification- not waiting for a US Supreme court decision for approval, but rather asserting that unconstitutional Federal mandates are null, void and of no force.
You, myself and everyone we know form the top of the food chain in the American system of government. It is up to We the People as sovereigns- not the Federal legislative branch- to honor out the intentions of our nation’s founders and see to it that the Federal beast remains within its strict limits. This will never be achieved by asking the beast, for once escaped from its confinement it will only seek to increase its current power.
We must cast a net over this rampaging Federal government from each of our 50 states and with the resolute solidarity of We the People, the animal we created will be returned to its cage.
Bryce Shonka [send him email] is media and grassroots director for the Tenth Amendment Center and state chapter coordinator for the California Tenth Amendment Center.
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I think freedom is the ability to make choices. That ability is slowely being taken away by the federal government. Remember the seat belt law. At first no ticket was given unless there was another violation. Now its "Click it or Ticket". If I had clicked it when I had my accident I wouldn't have been writing this now as the only thing that saved me was being thrown from the auto. Shouldn't that be my choice? If the government makes a wrong choice where diet or some health proceedure is concerned, as they have often done in the past, then everyone is mandated to follow that bad proceedure. I think the federal government should "Keep us Free" and thats it. Let the states regulate. Keep the choices closer to the people and then if we want them changed its a lot easier.
It makes me sad to see when other Americans don't see that whenever a law is created it means one less thing we can do freely for ourselves. They say things like "its a good thing for everyone to be insured". I know it is but it is a much better thing when our freedom to choose what we want in life is available to everyone.
what a bunch of fucking idiots. You've all been watching too much television and listening to glen beck. think for yourselves morons
What? Glenn Beck talks badly about the lies of the Iraq war? That might be the most idiotic comment I have seen here in ages.
Well well... Nimrod, why don't you "enlighten" the idiots seeing as you've already proven yourself to be the prototypical "Shakespeare of the web" with your choice of words
jeeze...talk about morons and idiots! you have to be a death defying liberal demorat..looked in the mirror you puke? We didn't have this mess when the Republicans were in control (I'm a strict constitiutionalist and libertarian). I watch little tv except in the morning with coffee..then I check my computer sources and make up my own mind. WE are not a democracy, we are a democratic republic, look it up for your self. Maybe YOU should be listening to and watching the more conservative advocates. We haven't had a decent president since Ronald Reagan or a decent speaker of the house since Sam Rayburn..
Happily we DO have Americans who think for themselves. one of which I think you are not. A lot of good men and women shed their blood protecting our Constitution and way of life. I doubt seriosly you are one. So in closing I give you this little gem "for what you have, what have you given?" 'nuff said
To all the state delegates out there who are tired of one more unfunded mandate you should seriously consider repealing the 17th amendment. The Senate never passed unfunded mandates before 1913 did they? Could you image what would happen to Senators who came back in front of their legislatures seeking reelection after voting for Obamacare? They'd be laughed out of the building.
Take back the representation in the Senate that the states lost in 1913.
The constitution belongs to the states, not congress.
Call for a constitutional convention and repeal the 17th amendment NOW!
The John Galt Solution of Starving The Monkeys is the only solution. Send copies of Starving The Monkeys to everyone you know asap!
The very fact that we feel we need to put a clause in a bill that gives the states the choice to opt-out shows how far we've strayed. The government doesn't have the RIGHT to tell the states whether or not they have the choice to opt out. Passing the act was instantaneously unconstitutional.
If socialized medicine works why are some Canadians crossing the border and getting health care here in the states? It has already been proven that the Government won't (can't) even balance a budget. Look at Medicare and Medicaid, government run health care programs, they have so many parts that almost no one can figure them out. They are going broke! The cause? Too many fingers in the pie, saying how these pogroms work. Too many chiefs and not enough Indians. Before you post a comment do your home work on socialism and see how many countries are socialist and how well off the people are.
Nevada Coyote
I think if we try to repeal this thing it will be met with a lot of backlash but what if we insert a bill that would give each state the ability to opt-out of this legislation completely? This would give states who do not want this the ability to nuke it and at the same time states that want this can keep it. Any politician running on this can get the votes of everyone whether they were for or against this. They can't be accused of taking this away from people who want it and will get the votes of states who don't want it. As the thirty-seven states that don't want this nuke it it will nullify this law completely.
The Constitution doesn’t prohibit government healthcare, if that’s what people want. But a MAJOR constitutional problem with Obamacare that people are overlooking is this. Since the federal Constitution is silent about public healthcare, the 10th Amendment automatically reserves government power to regulate healthcare to the states, not the Oval Office and Congress. So federal Obamacare is actually an example of corrupt Congress treasonously usurping state powers and tax dollars associated with those powers.
In fact, note that Congress is fully aware that Article V requires Congress to propose an amendment to the states which would give Congress the power to regulate and lay taxes for healthcare, if the states chose to ratify such an amendment. This is evidenced by an official proposal for a healthcare-related amendment to the Constitution by the 109th Congress. Here's the link:
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=hj109-30
So while Republican lawmakers aren't saints, it doesn't surprise me that the Republican-controlled 109th Congress at least respected Article V while the corrupt, Democratic-controlled 111th Congress is not respecting that statute. The 111th Congress is wrongly basing Obamacare on perversions of the General Welfare and Commerce Clause by FDR’s puppet justices in the 1940s.
I think it would be good to allow states to opt-out, but if the feds do not want to give that kind of "permission" states need to opt out anyway...
I was just saying it might be the best political strategy to get rid of it since anyone campaigning on an opt-out can't be accused of removing it for states that do want it. Perhaps some politician who is reading this can do that...
The Constitution doesn’t prohibit government healthcare, if that’s what people want. But a MAJOR constitutional problem with Obamacare that people are overlooking is this. Since the federal Constitution is silent about public healthcare, the 10th Amendment automatically reserves government power to regulate healthcare to the states, not the Oval Office and Congress. So federal Obamacare is actually an example of corrupt Congress treasonously usurping state powers and tax dollars associated with those powers.
In fact, note that Congress is fully aware that Article V requires Congress to propose an amendment to the states which would give Congress the power to regulate and lay taxes for healthcare, if the states chose to ratify such an amendment. This is evidenced by an official proposal for a healthcare-related amendment to the Constitution by the 109th Congress. Here's the link:
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=hj109-30
So while Republican lawmakers aren't saints, it doesn't surprise me that the Republican-controlled 109th Congress at least respected Article V while the corrupt, Democratic-controlled 111th Congress is not respecting that statute. The 111th Congress is wrongly basing Obamacare on perversions of the General Welfare and Commerce Clause by FDR’s puppet justices in the 1940s.
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