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Wednesday, December 23, 2009
The Hour Has Come
The "health care reform" bill can no longer be prevented from passing by ordinary political means.
There's a 60-vote majority behind passage in the Senate. After the Senate votes, which will probably happen early tomorrow, a joint Congressional conference will produce a "harmonized" bill which will be submitted to both houses for final passage. I don't expect a successful filibuster in the Senate for that bill, either. It's likely to be even more replete with bribes and subventions than either of its predecessors.
Congressional Democrats have elected to ignore the overwhelming popular opposition to this federalization of American medicine. They see this as the cornerstone to their drive for permanent and unlimited political power; after this measure has taken effect, Washington will hold the power of life and death over every American. That's a mighty big bludgeon with which to cow us into submission.
There remains only one measure that could prevent the passage of this atrocity:
Freedom demands it. Loyalty to the rule of law demands it.
They who would impose federal control on American medicine are traitors in the exact sense of the word: they have violated their express oaths to the Constitution of the United States, the Supreme Law of the Land from which all legitimate authority must derive. They're reaching for powers to which they have no right. They've even attempted to make their designs unrepealable; there's language to that effect in the Senate version of the bill, though the Constitution grants neither house of Congress any such privilege.
We may be quite certain that they won't indict or try themselves for any of this.
The people in arms are the sole enforcers of the Constitution's limits on federal power. There has never been and can never be any other. Are we willing to do what must be done to preserve, protect, and defend it?
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Posted by Mark Alger on 12/23/2009 at 03:58 PMMark, if I explicitly say how, I become liable for prosecution. But there must be a majority of Senators in attendance to constitute a quorum: 51. So if all the Republican Senators and 10 of the Democrats were to absent themselves for the next thirteen months...? You know, for some reason beyond their control...?
Posted by Francis W. Porretto on 12/23/2009 at 04:19 PMYou go right ahead and bell that cat, Francis.
Myself, I don’t think that now is the time for the actions you’re going to take.
Posted by Brian Dunbar on 12/23/2009 at 05:21 PMWell, how long are you willing to wait, Brian? What would it take for you to decide the time has come?
The problem isn’t that the time hasn’t come. Actually, it came long ago. The problem is that everyone wants someone else to lead the charge.
It’s come down to that. If freedom is to be saved, it will be by a bunch of sick old men who can still shoot straight and don’t mind dying for their country.
Posted by Francis W. Porretto on 12/23/2009 at 05:31 PMThe problem is that for some people, it will never be the “right time”. Never right now. Never bad enough. Never enough loss of liberty to be worth fighting for this time.
Comfort, ease and safety have rendered us Westerners impotent and cowardly.
Posted by KG on 12/23/2009 at 10:10 PMFran,
Making martyrs of Senators would ensure the passing of the bill, and very shortly thereafter a range of civil control measures that would make the present arrangements look like the freest time in history.
Most of the rest of the Western world has managed to survive with state run health care. It isn’t perfect, and has heaps of problems, but there are ways around them. I am sure that the same can be said about your current system, and the one you are about to get.
Have a little more faith in the Hand that guides all history (and I am not talking about the UN here).
Have a Happy Christmas, you and your family. And remember the hope of the Christmas message - in a time of state oppression and worldwide empire, enforced by a brutal and efficient military machine, a little baby was born to poor parents, in poor conditions, in a small town, in a minor province, and everything changed....forever.
Thanks for all your thoughts this year.
Many Blessings
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