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Liberty Is Finite
What’s at stake in the health care fight.
“There are more instances of the abridgment of the
freedom
of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those
in power, than by violent and sudden usurpations…”
— James Madison, June 6, 1788
Speech to the Virginia Convention on Ratifying the
Constitution
Although spoken more than two centuries ago, Mr. Madison’s words to the Virginia Convention have special resonance today in light of the continuing movement by some to nationalize the nation’s health care system. While those championing this radical change in our everyday lives may have the best of intentions, the costs of their proposals are not just financial. Rather, much of what has been proposed would eat away at the very liberty that this nation was founded to protect.
Under the guise of improving health care, supporters of health care centralization are proposing to redefine the relationship of citizens to the state. Historically, in the American social compact, government has served as the agent of the people, deriving its sovereignty from the consent of the governed.
With “reformed” health care, the federal government will insert itself into every aspect of a person’s life. With the government involved from cradle to grave and at every step along the way, proponents of health care reform would turn the citizen into a mere ward of the state. With the citizen-child now reliant on the government-parent for all aspects of his well-being, the citizen has forever ceded his liberty to the wishes and whims of the federal government.
Regardless of how well intentioned the governmental effort, this enormous loss of liberty is antithetical to America’s founding principles.
The limits on federal power in the Constitution and its first ten amendments were put there by our Founding Fathers not just to protect citizens from those who would take our liberties at the point of a gun, but also to prevent the gradual encroachments effected by those in power who claim to be serving the greater good.
The various versions of health care reform that Democrats in Congress have championed over the last year have all contained provisions that are inconsistent with the original understanding and plain text of the Constitution. From an individual mandate requiring citizens to buy “approved” insurance from a private company or face a tax, fine, or jail (literally a tax on simply being alive), to co-opting state governments to mandate the formation of insurance exchanges, to the corrupt Cornhusker Compromise by which we learned what the vote of one senator costs, the proposed legislation explodes the limits of federal power, guts the powers of the states as sovereign entities, and diminishes the fundamental role of citizens.
The entire endeavor is inconsistent with the notion of a limited federal government. Furthermore, the coercion of individual citizens and the co-opting of state legislatures violate the plain text of both the Ninth and Tenth Amendments.
Proponents of liberty must use all of the tools the Constitution provides to defend against this onslaught on our liberty. While the champions of health care centralization will tout their benevolent motives and complain about the inefficiencies and technicalities imposed by various constitutional provisions, citizens should remember that those inefficiencies and technicalities were placed there for a reason — they are truly the bulwarks of individual liberty. If we ignore them to allow for the perceived crisis of the moment, they and the freedoms they protect are lost forever.
In seeking to protect the liberties guaranteed by the Constitution, we are vigorously pursuing freedom for our citizens in the face of a government that, no matter how well intentioned, seeks to expand its power at citizens’ expense.
While the nation’s “economic pie” can be grown through good economic policies, the “liberty pie” is a zero-sum game — it doesn’t grow or shrink — and there are only two slices: government power and citizens’ liberty. If the current notions of centralized health care are enacted, government’s raw power over citizens’ lives will increase, and their liberty will be reduced by the same amount.
The bottom line is that fighting the further centralization of health care isn’t just about money, it’s a fight to preserve liberty, and it’s a fight worth having.
For me, I will stand for liberty.
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Ret. Marine| 3.16.10 @ 7:14AM
I dare to say many here in this country will stand for liberty. Some of us, who "swore an oath" are willing to go to the extreme to "defend the Constitution from enemies both foreign and domestic" is a manner that is true to our founders lead. That's what is at stake here. The words "live free or die" are particularly connected to many in this center-righ country.
We are not true radicals as this pretender-n-theif of the American way (obama), nor are we willing to let those who We the People elected to "represent " us, as in me, you and others, run a endgame around our individual liberties but, I dare say pass this and you will find out as did King George did, to what extent WE are willing to take this. If this is forced down our throats through hook, croock, or otherwise, WE WILL BE COMING FOR YOU. The question for all who choose to vote their "yes" to the un-Constitutional power grab, are you going to risk being branded a traitor to this republic in the eyes of our history, in front of a jury of your peers?, are you willing to fall into the sword for the "one", just how do you personnaly "benefit" from this and when We the People find out the extent of that benefit, are you going to risk the loss of your freedom from inprisonment, self respect, your assets, your retirement account, your family, friends and reputation?
There is much to consider. Some, and we know your names, here, on this site are inclined to talk this monster away in a nice manner and use every excuss they can possibly think of to "reason" their personal liberties away, I' not, ain't gonna happen. When it all falls apart, and it will soon enough, through SCOTUS and everyday citizens actions, there will only be one question remaining, are you a citizen or a subject?
RC| 3.16.10 @ 9:17AM
You are absolutely right. And so is President Obama when he calls for C O U R A G E.
It's the only thing the House Representatives and Senate would need:
the C O U R A G E TO SAY NO TO HIM & HIS BILLS!
To quote him,
"IF NOT NOW, WHEN? IF NOT US, WHO?"
You know, these words were exactly the kind of rhetoric that the Red leaning student leaders in a state university used to rally their crowd of "street parliamentarians" before they march for their causes.
One more thing - are there not any other legal options the people, their elected officials and the court can take to stop the president from plunging America into deeper debt and division?
He has done enough damage in his relentless chase for a Pyrrhic victory to ensure his place in the history books at the great expense of the country and the people and should be stopped.
It is time people stood up to him and say, "Enough is enough!"
Atty. Gen. Cuccinelli, will you be among those who will employ their legal know-how to stop Obamacare and its gravy laden train in its tracks before it becomes the law of the land?
RC| 3.17.10 @ 10:01AM
Just got word from National Review that Virginia Atty. Gen. will "mount legal challenge to the federal health care legislation if it passes" bec. it is unconstitutional. However, this is only for the state of Virginia. http://campaignspot.nationalre.....VmOTIxOWU=
Thank you, AG Cuccinelli, for fighting for the people.
Perhaps, with your precedent setting motion, the Atty. Generals of other states will express their challenge to Obamacare publicly now as well.
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basur | 10.27.10 @ 6:15AM
In šāʾ Allāh means in the hands of God, and this is how I would the House vote on the health care bill.
Brian Mc| 3.16.10 @ 8:11AM
The socialists are hoping and betting at this point that we show our bellies since, after all, they are the ones in power and this proves they are mandated to do what they perceive to be, the right thing.
Thay are wrong on all counts. The lies and deceptions of the Federal monstrosity started with FDR and pray, that it ends with B.O., that we right this ship. Liberty is on it's death-bed. The Dems apply the slow drip which continually sends the patient towards flat-line while the GOP stands by with the resuscitator. To hell with resuscitation, stop the suffering of the patient. It's time to disconnect the slow drip once and for all.
Deborah D | 3.16.10 @ 8:53AM
You know what, Mr. Cuccenelli, you're one of the few writers, congressmen, pundits etc. who is talking about this in the correct terms.
Why don't those opposed to this in D.C. say these things out loud? We (on this site and others) have been yelling this as loudly as we can, and just like we all hollered before the election, we've been pooh-poohed.
I think it's the thinking in the this country that "it could never happen here." Well, it can happen here, and it is happening here. Remember one of Obama's czars, FCC Diversity Czar Mark Lloyd, spouted off about the wonderful revolution that took place in Venezuela. You can watch him spouting this stuff here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wF2C235fD7o
Now, why would Obama hire someone who thought that way if he didn't also think that way?
Wake up, America.
jd| 3.16.10 @ 9:17AM
I am disgusted with the Republican, non-response really, to what is happening in this country. They are deaf and mute to what the people are saying. I agree that people need to WAKE UP. It's going to take the Supreme Court stepping in and people revolting in the streets to stop this onslaught by the Democrats.
Lowell| 3.18.10 @ 12:52PM
Too bad that te Republicans are shut out of the agrument. You are right in that they should be much more vocal in fighting this discructive socialict program. Stand up for the c
constitituional rights of Americans!!!!!
Ken (Old Texican)| 3.16.10 @ 10:28AM
Mr. Cuccinelli, thank you for that.
Please indulge me, I am going to copy paste my comment here...to another article here at AmSpec. today asking "Are Republicans Up to It?"
The two articles are very entwined in my mind.
I will turn 65 this summer. I have also been very fortunate in my career(s) (smile). For one, I am certainly willing to make some sacrifices.
First, I will forego any SS checks for as long as I can work. I do understand actuarial stuff, and I understand that SS is finally, a safety net...a welfare entitlement.
Heh,
It shouldn't be, but my contributions have been robbed instead of generating compound interest for my old age. Just reality.
Second, I would just as soon keep my present HSA and Group health policy for as long as I can work.
In conclusion, the only way the Republicans in power in Congress can cut entitlements significantly...is start with themselves.
Put themselves in the same medical plan we citizens all have.
Base government pensions including their own...on the same basis as ours.
Then, and only then can they do what must be done to preserve liberty and freedom, and restore prosperity and free markets in a pro-business paridigm.
Petronius| 3.16.10 @ 10:57AM
The REAL American Dream is the accumulation of enough wealth and aquisition of sufficient power to be a law unto oneself. And if this can be accomplished, have the good sense to keep to yourself and give leave to all others to likewise attain their independence. So long as any other person can interfere with your lawful desires in any way, you are not Free. In this age of the self aggrandizing control freak, his ilk enacts laws for the sole purpose of eradicating liberties possessed and exercised by his fellow citizen. Spite and deprivation have become the new national pastimes.
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DAC| 3.16.10 @ 11:13AM
All: Fear not, AG Cuccinelli is the real deal; he's had, spoken and written the same principles at least since I was one of his law school classmates (early/mid-1990s)--and if law school didn't erode his principles, nothing will. So don't doubt that he will use his considerable legal expertise and whatever powers he can rally to his side to oppose the degradation of Americans' liberty. Fight on, Ken.
Al Adab| 3.16.10 @ 11:21AM
Should this bill or some semblance of it, including mandates, actually become law it would do us well to remember the words of John Adams. " There may be unjust and unequal laws, obedience to which would be incompatible with Liberty."
If we make that determination, what actions must then follow?
Bob in Western NY| 3.16.10 @ 12:48PM
If you can stop this nationalized health care to save our Liberties, please end nationalized education which has already zapped the freedom of our children to assemble, speak, and their freedom to practice their regilion when and where they would.
Drew | 3.16.10 @ 1:26PM
It's always good to quote someone who owned slaves as a source when embarking on a rant supposedly about "freedom." Helps to put everything in perspective. http://www.ungardesign.com/web....._elite.htm
The idea that Health Insurance Reform is, in any way, a threat to anyone's "freedom" is laughable. Even more so when the idea is mooted by the same sort of people who happily turned a blind eye to the Bush Administration's massive wireless wiretapping program; its flagrant abuse of Habeus Corpus; its stifling of anti-war protestors, etc. etc.
To argue that Government regulation and stabilization of health insurance is a "takeover" is ridiculous - if for no other reason than such a "takeover" already happened a long time ago. Today the Federal and State governments already pay for more than half of health care costs. Private, employer-provided, insurance pays for barely a third - and most of that is already highly regulated, and subsidized through the tax system. The only part of Health insurance that the current proposal does affect - the individual market - is, by most standards - a disaster: No coverage for pre-existign conditions; huge premium increases; and outright dropping of coverage if one is unfortunate enough to actually get sick. If the American people are losing the "freedom" to get run over the coals by the health insurance industry - then that is a "freedom" most of them would be more than happy to give up.
Nick| 3.16.10 @ 2:44PM
It's better than quoting Marx. Or Stalin. Or FDR. Or "The Swimmer" Kennedy.
Stinking liberal democrats like FDR, LBJ, and The Swimmer screw up the medical care industry in this country, and you blame the insurance companies?
Just like the inner-cities, education, and the unborn; liberals destroy whatever they control.
It's too bad you couldn't just destroy yourselves, without taking the rest of us with you.
Drew| 3.16.10 @ 6:59PM
And people try and tell me that there isn't a paranoid style in American politics?
Honestly, reading the comments section of this site is sort of like kicking over a rock in the rainforest: alternately amazing and revolting to see all the nasty things squirming around in their own filth - and utterly terrified of the light.
Nick| 3.16.10 @ 7:44PM
Is there a rebuttal in there somewhere? I didn't think so, coward. Have you ever tried to make an argument?
Typical bleeding heart tactic, by the way. Projecting onto this site, what is regularly found at huffpo and kos-kids. You must be at the bottom of your propaganda class, huh?
Margie| 3.16.10 @ 10:31PM
Good going, Nick. This guy deserves to be sentenced to live, along with all other Leftists/Libs to the exact things they wish upon us. (Grzlymk said something like that over on the blog section). Then they wouldn't be having to- as Bob Dylan said in one of his old songs, Like a Rolling Stone~ "talk so loud, havin' to be scrounging for your next meeeeal."
And doesn't he sound just exactly like Liberal Reader too? Hmm.
Drew| 3.16.10 @ 11:32PM
A rebuttal to what?
"The swimmer"? Ooohh... there's a powerful intellectual argument for you. Put on your tinfoil hats and look out for the black helicopters!!
Try making a case actually based on things like, oh, I don't know,...facts.
But for the most party, Nicky-poo - you aren't worth wasting time on. You're too stupid.
Nick| 3.17.10 @ 6:42AM
If I'm not "worth wasting time on", then why are you "wasting time" typing out a response? You seem to be very confused.
Also, my comment to you was full of facts.
You tried to insult Mr. Cuccinelli by claiming the Father of the Constitution wasn't worth quoting. Thus showing your hatred of America. I countered your gibberish with a list of liberals who were much worse.
You then claimed the insurance companies were to blame for all the ills of the medical care industry. I rebutted your inanities with the fact that it was FDR, LBJ, and The Swimmer Kennedy who are to blame. I left out the liberal trial lawyers, two democrat congresses, and the McCarran–Ferguson Act.
FDR- Stupidly, set wage controls during the war, causing companies to offer medical insurance as incentives for employment. And he signed the McCarran–Ferguson Act.
LBJ- Responsible for Medi-scare. Just yesterday, a lady was charged with scamming Medi-scare out of $3 million.
The Swimmer- Responsible for HMO's.
Trial Lawyers- Responsible for huge malpractice insurance premiums and doctors ordering unnecessary tests/precautions.
I realize these are complex subjects, but you'll understand them better when you get out of high-school. Maybe.
Alan Brooks| 3.23.10 @ 12:01AM
Drew is worse than Toddard.
His discussion of Bush is enough to raise Bush in one's estimation; as Oliver stone's "JFK" would tend to lead one to believe that Oswald acted entirely alone in assassinating JFK.
BA Cyclone| 3.16.10 @ 2:00PM
Just because you do not value your own liberty does not mean others can value their own. I should not be forced to surrender my liberty so you may feel more comfortable surrendering yours to the whims of a federal government.
Further, as you quote the degree to which public monies and control have already intruded into the arena of medical care, you carefully ignore the degree to which those programs are "a disaster". To wit, government spending on medical care per-capita has grown at a substantially greater rate than that of the comparable "disaster" of private care plans.
Also, to ignore that the intrusion of public governmental interests, and even the 3rd-party employer insurance industry may somehow be related to the "disaster" that private insurance markets operate within is rather ignorant and self-defeating.
Lastly, the gall with which statists like you pose your "solution" is wholly lacking in reason. Public monies, entities, and programs have all been created to expressly eliminate all the ills of the system to which you no-doubt attribute to the "insurance industry." Naturally, the logic of devoting MORE governmental control and 3rd-party influences to the system is both non-sensical and doomed to failure.
The primary issue with the U.S. system is cost, with which the federal government has no experience nor track record of successfully controlling. Controlling price is not the same as controlling cost.
Rather, giving people, individuals the liberty to control their own choices in medical care expenditures - making these financial costs MORE visible, not less - is the only possible way to truly reform the system and allow price signals to work as they are designed.
Gov. Mitch Daniels would agree:
http://online.wsj.com/article/.....93066.html
shamus| 3.16.10 @ 4:57PM
In šāʾ Allāh means in the hands of God, and this is how I would the House vote on the health care bill.
Ken (Old Texican)| 3.16.10 @ 5:59PM
Shamus,
That is why muslims always squat in the dust, until they blow themselves up.
Folks,
I have had an enjoyable afternoon. I have told eleven congress staffers that I am going to do my best to get their boss...not only fired in November...but indicted for malfeasance in office, and perhaps even treason against the constitution.
Get on the phone, folks...
It is much cheaper than bullets.
oof oof| 3.16.10 @ 7:37PM
Yea, but the bullets are harder to dodge!
shoey| 3.16.10 @ 5:59PM
We are no longer a Nation ruled by Law we have become a Nation ruled by Men.
“Turning and turning in the widening gyre
the falcon can not hear the falconer,
Things fall apart; the center cannot hold;
mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
the blood-dimmed tide is loosed and everywhere
the ceremony of innocence is drowned.
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
are full of passionate intensity”
There can be no honesty when honest ppl are laughed at, ridiculed and crushed beneath the wheels of the Progressive Machine.
There can be no courage when ppl of courage are ripped to pieces by the harpies of deceit and manipulation in the Media.
If there is no place for courage, if there is no place for honesty, then there is no place for freedom.
Where can anyone go to be free of the soul-sucking, mind-numbing, relentless, inevitable leviathan of the "common good"?
What is an individual? A cog to be coerced, bribed or forced in to the "right" place on the Consensus Wheel?
Where do our rights come from? From God or from the State as a generous gift of the oligarchy to be granted when our actions and views are "correct" and denied when they aren't?
Do we the People govern ourselves or are we ruled by the Ivy League Masters of the Universe?
“…and what rough beast, it’s hour come round at last, slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?”
(quotes are from “The Second Coming” by William Butler Yeats)
Ken (Old Texican)| 3.16.10 @ 6:33PM
OH Folks...
I've been a bad boy. I dropped in "redstate" and read an article about...
SO WHAT DO WE DO?
Heh! One columnist suggested throwing a bucket of wet feces on the doorstep...of every Democrat congresscritter's office door step...at least once a week....with a card... "We, the shat upon People".
Well,
First I laughed out loud.
Then I started thinking...hmmmmm, wouldn't it be funny if the jerks and their staffs just detested going to the office each day...
Then a million variations on the idea started going through my mind.....
chuck| 3.16.10 @ 7:40PM
Gawd almighty, I really needed a laugh like that. "We, the shat upon people", how true.
Time to get a good hot shower, dry off, and grab the guns.
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Mark J. Berg| 3.18.10 @ 1:56PM
I couldn't finish past Drew's 3rd comment because I was laughing too hard. You guys that argued against his opinion enticed him to continue to show us his "insight." Seriously, I am still laughing at his ignorance (usually I get upset with people who cannot reason and are uninformed).
You guys made my day.
D. Matthews| 3.18.10 @ 4:21PM
Tossing verbal Molotov cocktails back and forth does nothing to clarify any part of the "reform" debate, but only to heighten invective and slide into obscure side issues.
Mr. Obama, Mr. Reid and Ms. Pelosi have led the country into the morass of arcane Congressional procedure of doubtful Constitutionality, all in the name of granting our "right" to healthcare. It doesn't matter to them that "sef-executing" deem and pass do not meet the test of Article 1, Section 7, of the Constitution. As long as they "say" it does, then it must be so. That D and P has been used before does not constitute privileged precedent, nor does it validate the current argument. Under their logic, the Constitution can be altered or changed by Congressional language, thus rendering it an "organic" document, an argument long advanced by the progressive movement. To wit, the Constitution is a burden to be overcome by ambitious lawmakers' meretricious logic. What they fail to assess correctly is that a vote on "self-executing" has the net effect of passing a reform bill the majority of the country does not want. That willful act will have dire consequences for November candidates who try to hide and take cover for their cowardly vote.
The "right" to health insurance coverage is a disingenuous ploy. Never in the history of the country has Congress declared something to be a right, the free exercise thereof to be predicated on the mandated purchase of a product, the cost of which will be set by the grantor through regulation. Further, failure to exercise this new-found right will require the alleged guilty to violate their fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination by declaring to the IRS they have no health insurance, the penalty for which will be an additional tax (penalty). There will be no exercise of Miranda rights or the right of habeas corpus. Simply guilt by forced admission.
Is this the scenario you want for your life for the rest of your life?
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Alan Brooks| 3.18.10 @ 7:04PM
"For me, I will stand for liberty. "
What good is liberty without virtue?
I.M. Auditor| 3.18.10 @ 9:56PM
The Progress left's Karl Popper would argue that virtue, as an appellation, does not exist. One can only pick up
a dictionary and appreciate the remark. Obama agrees
with the philosophy of Popper and his student, Sol
Alinsky. The Progressive Left leading Congress and
America today sees their virtue as achieving their goal.
freebird| 3.18.10 @ 11:44PM
Thank God for Cucinelli and others like him. Individual freedom is at stake here, individual choice..............
GET TO DC THIS SATURDAY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
shipley130| 3.19.10 @ 2:43AM
I have made the final decision not to vote for congressional incumbents due to this little deem and pass stunt. If they cannot respect the constitution on a very basic level, they should not be making laws. Maybe Obama is a gift from the Almighty after all, because WE THE PEOPLE would have never found out about all this burned sausage and constitutional shredding.
Jim Cap| 3.19.10 @ 8:39PM
Wasn't this Ken Cuccinelli guy the one who just aligned himself with the birthers?
Didn't he recently say, "We gotta have proof" that President Obama is U.S. citizen?
And you still expect us to take this person seriously?
Ralph Averill| 3.20.10 @ 11:24AM
" Historically, in the American social compact, government has served as the agent of the people, deriving its sovereignty from the consent of the governed. "
Yes, that has been the dream. "Historially", however, the reality has been that government in the United States has been the servant of wealth; be it individual or corporate. (The recent ruling by the Supreme Court has enshrined this principle into law.) Government for the sake of the governed; of the people, by the people, and for the people, gets a lot of lip service around election time, and is quickly stored away until the next election.
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