"Im in this race not just to hold an office, but to gather with you to transform a nation."
Barack Obama February 10, 2007 Presidential announcement.
"The welfare of the people, in particular, has always been the alibi of tyrants, and it provides the further advantage of giving the servants of tyranny a good conscience."
Albert Camus
By what constitutional allowance does the the United States federal government propose to tell every US citizen that they must buy an insurance policy or be fined thousands of dollars? And yet our President arrogantly lectures us about our moral obligation to support his economy destroying health insurance plan. He is proposing to set up a Federal system that operates without a constitutionally enumerated authority. If our federal government is not bound by the constitution, then by what will they be bound? Our congressional leaders are amazed by and fail to understand the vehement anger that has been exhibited at the town hall meetings. They refuse to recognize a realistic fear among us "common folk", that if the legislature is not bound by the constitution, then they have no bounds. If they are not submitted to the rule of constitutional law they are de facto tyrants. The president wants us to trust his goodwill and compassion. Compassionate tyranny is no less tyranny. If Washington does not willingly submit to the boundaries of our constitution then it seems we, the electorate, must hold them accountable.
James Madison explained in Federalist No. 45, "The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the Federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite. The former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation, and foreign commerce. The powers reserved to the several States will extend to all the objects which, in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives, liberties and properties of the people; and the internal order, improvement, and prosperity of the State."
Roger Pilon of the Cato Institute stated well the problem for our current administration and congress. "The people and the states no longer trust Washington . . . because Washington has assumed a vast array of regulatory and redistributive powers that were never its to assume--not, that is, if we take the Constitution seriously." We the people must use all legal and moral means to remove from office any senator or representative that supports the expansion of a bloated and fetid federal government.
The nagging problem with our President's ill defined push for "change" is that his vision seems totally seperate by the conventions of our country's founding. The begged question then is; "By what does he set the boundaries of his governance?" He has repeatedly stated that he wishes to "fundamentally" change our government. What form of government does he wish to "fundamentally" change to? He is dodgy when discussing his programs. His design feels like trapping water with cheese cloth. Why can we not know what rule informs his, and his supporters in congress, decision making? Our safety from the tyranny of our government is in the commitment to the rule of law. The law that arrests Federal Tyranny is the constitution of the United states.
President Obama recently lectured a talk show host who pressured the President to admit that the current overhaul of healthcare is effectively a tax on the middle class. The President lectured about the "responsibility" of a good citizen to buy health insurance. His plan is to compel us to spend our money how he demands. We are on the fast track to a tyranny of a "compassionate" federal government. By compelling us to spend our money based on his designs, he continues to erode the liberties that allow us to exercise our own liberty. This path to tyranny is not new, we have been sprinting down this lane since Candidate George W Bush popularized the term "compassionate conservative". (Read a thought provoking clip by Paul Craig Roberts, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury during President Reagans first term, at http://vdare.com/roberts/compassion.htm ) The Republican opposition is not different from President Obama and his Democrat machine. That is why we, the people of the States in America, must remove from office any politician who does not advocate the shrinking and constitutional limiting of the federal government. Certainly vote them out, but also spend your money, time and energy is electing representatives who will arrest Washington's financial tyranny.
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