Monday - July 04, 2011

4th of July

The same 6th Circuit court that ruled the other day that the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative (ie no Affirmative Action) was unconstitutional was the same court that ruled that Obamacare was constitutional. They are out of their minds.

Doug Ross writes a short and telling essay on that one in On the Road to Totalitarianism With the Sixth Circuit:

How is the health care industry segregated from other industries to prevent the federal government from encroaching upon every other segment of human activity? The judges spare but a few words on this critical issue, stating “...unlike nearly all other industries, the health care market is governed by federal and state laws requiring institutions to provide services regardless of a patient’s ability to pay.”

In other words, the only “firewall” the judges construct to shield other industries from the Orwellian reach of the government is one made of cardboard. In essence, because the health care market is already regulated, the industry is said to be unique and therefore can be utterly controlled by the central government.

What we are celebrating today is the concept of freedom from oppressive government. And the ONLY way we can have that freedom is with a severely limited government. A government limited both in power and in scope. And while it may look like that limitation is being eroded faster and faster these days - see the Kelo v. New London decision, these two decisions, et al - it’s been going on a long long time. The snowball that started the avalanche was when that pinko FDR put the screws to the Supreme Court and leveraged them into declaring that “regulating” commerce no longer meant the “ensuring or normalizing” that the Founders intended, it meant “empowering the government to stick it’s nose in everywhere”. America died right then and there, and 76 years or so later the corpse continues to fester. And government continues to grow and to take over every single aspect of your life while it bankrupts you and your children’s children’s children.

Overturning that one decision, that one statement, would allow generations of encroaching federal control to be erased. Whatever else the goals of the Tea Party are, this has to be their core. Their raison d’etre. Without that we are but paper tigers growling at the campfire.

And obviously, We The People need a way to quickly throw out corrupt and activist judges, from the bottom right up to the top. Term limits is not sufficient. More and more I am seeing legislation from the bench that follows party doctrine to the letter, and that doctrine is the Progressive one. Communist. Statist. That is so wrong as to be a hanging offense. They have to go.

235 years ago a piece of paper recognized the existence of a revolution that was already ongoing. Today a digital version needs to go viral to act as an alarm clock that wakes up the befuddled masses. It is long past time to press the Reset button.

Happy Freedom Day. Now let’s get real. Let’s roll.

Posted by Drew458     on 07/04/2011 at 11:08 AM   
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