Tyranny Built With Rights

March 17, 2010 at 6:10 am | Posted in Political | 1 Comment
Tags: barrack obama, entitlement, glenn beck, health care, healthcare, rights

by Walter Scott Hudson

On his television program Monday night, Glenn Beck highlighted the subjugation of “faith, hope, and charity” by the Left to gain support for contrived rights like universal healthcare. Sob stories are utilized to leverage proper emotional response toward improper governmental action. Underlying this theater is the fundamental principle articulated in the Declaration of Independence. “All men are created equal… endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights.” At work in our society today is a wholly contradictory position, articulated last December by Senator Tom Harkin of Iowa, and revisted Monday by Beck.

What [the healthcare] bill does is… We take that step from healthcare as a privilege to healthcare as an alienable right of every single American citizen. As I have said before, this bill is not complete. I’ve used the analogy of a starter home in which we can add additions and enhancements as we go into the future. But, like every other right that we’ve ever passed the American people, we revisit it later to enhance and build on those rights… (emphasis added)

This statement is antithetical to the Declaration of Independence. Rather than endowment by their Creator, Harkin believes all men are granted rights from government, that rights are “enhanced” by government.

Without speaking to the senator’s particular motivation, let us consider how “passing a right to the people” might be a malicious act. To do so, we must first consider the purpose of government in a constitutional republic. That purpose is to protect individual rights. In order to fulfill that role, government is passed from the people the power to utilize force to uphold the Law. If you were of a mind to fashion a dictatorship, and wanted to do so utilizing the mechanisms available in a constitutional republic, your methodology would have to fit its nature. Since the only rightful use of force is to uphold the law, and since the only just law is that which protects inalienable rights, the best way to increase power would be to discover more “rights” to “protect.”

The truly insidious aspect of this approach to tyranny-building is its implicit cloaking device. Rather than argue for power directly, this strategy enables one to argue on behalf of the downtrodden, those whose newfound rights have been hitherto neglected. In the case of healthcare, President Obama and company seek to rectify an oversight nearly two and a half centuries old. Since the Founding, our right to healthcare as gone unrecognized. Nevermind the possibility it was simply not there!

We must know what our rights actually are, their nature, and why we have them. Just as importantly, we must know what rights are not. The unbridled embrace of contrived rights serves only to justify the unbridled consolidation of power.

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CONGRESS MIGHT PASS THE HEALTH BILL WITHOUT VOTING ON IT: A STEP CLOSER TO TYRANNY

There was a time when I wouldn’t believe that members of congress would be so out of touch with the American people that they would have to resort to underhanded tactics to thwart the will of the people.

Well, Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, is thinking of doing just that. Representative Louise Slaughter (D-NY) came up with what is now known as the “Slaughter Solution” or “Deem and Pass” that will let the House of Representatives deem the Senate Health Bill as passed in the House without any representative voting on it. Once they use this outrageous procedure, the house leadership can then have additional language inserted into the bill that will satisfy those House Democrats who oppose the bill in its original form.

Meanwhile, in order for Senate Democrats to be able to use the Reconciliation procedure – a procedure that circumvents the 60 votes needed to overcome a filibuster – the House must pass the Senate Bill ‘as is’, with the exact same wording, before changes can be made. However, the Democratic leadership in the House doesn’t have enough votes to do that and one of the biggest reasons is that the Senate Bill has a provision that allows for taxpayer funded abortions.

I believe that the Slaughter Solution is not only dishonest and smacks of dirty tricks, but I also believe that it is unconstitutional as is most of the legislation that congress has passed in recent years. Article I, Section VII, Clause II of the U.S. Constitution clearly states: “…the Votes of both Houses shall be determined by Yeas and Nays, and the Names of the Persons voting for and against the Bill shall be entered on the Journal of each House respectively…” This newly invented “Slaughter Solution” clearly does not allow this type of procedure.

The Democratic leadership in the Senate has tried to assure the Democratic leadership in the House that if the House simply passes the bill as it is, the Senate will make changes amenable to the House after the fact. Pro-life House members, led by Bart Stupak (D-MI) are balking at this assurance and pointed to the hundreds of House bills that are currently still wallowing in the Senate. He also wants to see the changes in writing as he doesn’t trust his own party’s leaders.

If the Democratic leaderhip in the Senate imposes the ‘Reconciliation Rule’ to pass this bill, unfortunately for them, that alone will not be enough to get the bill passed. The reconciliation procedure, also known as the ‘Byrd Rule’ named after Senator Robert Byrd, is already extremely controversial. Senator Byrd is on the record in Congress saying his rule was “Never intended” to pass this kind of legislation, so the House leadership appears ready to adopt the Slaughter Solution instead. If the Slaughter Solution is instituted, the House of Representatives will actually pass the almost $875 billion bill without the members of the House actually voting on it. This is outrageous and smacks of something we would expect from the Russian politburo or a marxist dictatorship.

Although the “Slaughter Solution” or the “deem and pass” rule has been used in the past, it has never been used to pass legislation as momentous as the $875 billion health-care bill. It is one of three options that Nancy Pelosi said she is considering for a House vote, but she added that she prefers this method because it would politically protect lawmakers who are reluctant to publicly support the measure. What an outrageous statement, particulalrly in view of constitutional requirements of Article I, Section VII, Clause II previously mentioned in this article.

There is also a 1998 Supreme Court ruling, CLINTON v. CITY OF NEW YORK (97-1374), that said each house of Congress must approve the exact same text of a bill before it can become law. A self-executing “deem and pass” rule would sidestep that requirement, former federal appellate judge Michael McConnell said in a recent Wall Street Journal op-ed and it would be unconstitutional.

The American people have overwhelmingly rejected this bill, but the President and the Democrat leaders in both houses of congress seem intent on using misinformation, lies, deceit, bribery and any other questionable and unconstitutional procedure to ram this socialist legislation down the throats of the American people without a public discussion of the merits. Why?

We are fast approaching a point of no return in America. If our Marxist President and the Democratic-Socialist leadership in congress are successful in passing this Health Bill, they will be emboldened to pass other critical legislation on their agenda to bring a free America to its knees. If the Health Bill is passed, they will quickly move to pass an all-encompassing Amnesty Bill, followed by a massive Cap and Trade Bill, a National biometric ID Card Bill and then the takeover of America will be almost complete. All that will be left is for them to come for our guns.

Let us remember that at critical points in human history, only a few generations have been given the honor and privlege of defending ‘Freedom’ in its maximum hour of danger.

In 1776, our founders’ generation were given the honor and privlege of defending ‘Freedom’ in its maximum hour of danger, which resulted in the birth of this great nation that is still a beacon of hope to the freedom loving people of the world.

The generations of World War I and World War II were also given the honor and privlege of defending ‘Freedom’ in its maximun house of danger.

Today in America, we again find ourselves in a critical point in history, for ‘Freedom’ once again is in mortal danger, just as it was in 1776 and in WWI and WWII. Our generation is facing a different kind of mortal danger to our “Freedom’ because that danger is not coming from some foreign country, king, dictator or enemy combatants, but it is coming from our own federal government.

Our Founders told us that “Governments get their just powers from the consent of the governed and whenever the government becomes destructive of these ends, it is not only the people’s Right, but it is their sacred Duty to change the government. “

In 2010, we are now the generation that has been given the honor and privlege of defending ‘Freedom’ in its maximum hour of danger and this is our time to perform that sacred duty. We must stand up, speak up and be willing to actively resist the growing unconstitutional actions of the our federal government that puts the interests of government leaders and the oligarchy ahead of the interests of the people. By definition, this is tryanny.

Let us act before it’s too late, not just for ourselves, but for our children and our children’s children. I pray to God that we will be successful, for the free people of the world are depending on us.

GOD BLESS A FREE AMERICA!!!!!!

John Wallace
http://www.TeaPartyRep.com

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