An invasive government is definitely gaining popular support, and the Supremes have authorized even more controls
Disastrous Precedents
 | By Guest Column Durham Ellis (Bio and Archives) Monday, August 20, 2012 | Print friendly | Subscribe | Email Us |
The highly politicized 5-4 DC Supremes have ruled on the Healthcare Control Act and established a long list of disastrous precedents. These precedents will damage Americans of all political persuasions for decades because lawyers and judges often protect and defend the often-erroneous rulings of past judges (precedents) far more enthusiastically than they protect and defend our Constitution. The following discusses only the first part of those poisonous seeds which will soon sprout into major problems.
Republic or Democracy:
In spite of the fact that all nine Justices have probably read the Constitution, Chief Justice John Roberts said while speaking for the majority, “It is not our job to protect the people from the consequences of their political choices.” With all due disrespect, Mr. Roberts, you had the audacity to rewrite your job description—a power that employers do not delegate to their employees. Just what do you think you are being paid to do, rubberstamp the actions of a runaway Congress and President? One of the main reasons you have been hired by the American people is to protect individuals from the fluctuating mandates of temporary mobs. Our founders gave us a republic so you could protect us, and you failed miserably.
Article 4, Section 4 of our Constitution states, “The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government…” The Supremes just validated the Marxist lie that our government is a democracy instead of the republic mandated in our Constitution. Marxists (mislabeled as “liberals” and “progressives”) have been selling that lie very successfully since the early 1900s. Even five of the Supremes now say that we have a democracy in spite of the fact that the constitutional mandate for a republic has not been rescinded by a valid amendment—only by the illegal usurpation of power by five flawed humans.
But weren’t we taught in our government schools that democracy is the government of freedom? Well, our government-owned and operated centers of indoctrination do teach that, but guess what…? Many of the concepts taught in government schools are lies. Our founders rejected democracy because they knew it is an evil form of government under which individuals have the right to vote and no others. Once the best-organized mob in a de-mob-ocracy has spoken, everyone has to march in lockstep with its dictates—and that applies to members of the Left Wing of Control Freaks Unanimous just as much as it does to Right Wing Control Freaks and everyone else.
Very few Americans learned in our socialist (government owned) schools that our republic—back when we had one—was a government based on the rule of law and that democracy is a form of government in which the best organized mob on any given day can get anything it wants by a majority vote. In both direct and representative democracies, constitutions become worthless “living documents” which evolve and flow with the constantly changing winds of politics.
Since our President and the majority of our congressional representatives clearly wanted the “Obamacare” healthcare control act on the day the bill became a law, and since our government has obviously degenerated into a “wonderful” representative de-mob-ocracy, validated by the Supremes, we now must march in lockstep with the best organized mob, no matter what they say. A majority can force everyone to obey the mandates of this disastrous law and all that follow. Individuals have the right to vote and then the obligation to obey whatever the majority dictates. Our republic, our Constitution, and our individual freedoms are history.
Slavery:
The Supremes validated today’s form of slavery. The Thirteenth Amendment states, “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.” The framers of that amendment to our Constitution did not intend for certain types of slavery to be banned and for others to be allowed. Our Constitution, as amended, does not permit laws which allow, and even mandate, certain types of slavery, but the Supremes just decided to allow them—again.
Obamacare is not the only act which forces some citizens to pay the bills of others, but using government force to make A pay B’s healthcare bills forces A into slavery to B. On the other hand, freedom reduces poverty by encouraging individuals to create wealth. Also, families, insurance companies, and voluntary charities provide safety nets without creating a slave class, a parasite class, a criminal political class, rampant poverty, and massive public debt.
Presumptions:
Four of our Supreme Court Justices agreed with Chief Justice Roberts when he said that he starts with the presumption that laws passed by Congress are constitutional. That statement does not pass the laugh test.
Constitutional?
“Are you serious?”—Representative Nancy Pelosi
“There’s nothing in the Constitution that says the federal government has anything to do with most of the stuff we do.”—Representative James Clyburn
In conclusion, this is a very dark period in American history. The framers of our Constitution preferred freedom to government control, but freedom has become un-American. An invasive government is definitely gaining popular support, and the Supremes have authorized even more controls. As Ayn Rand said, “When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion …you may know that your society is doomed.”
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