It's Getting Scary

OK, it's getting scary out there. A federal district court judge yesterday upheld the ObamaCare provision that requires people to purchase health insurance or face fines or jail. (Fortunately, there is the appeal process, but I wonder if there's any hope there.) The judge held that Congress has the authority to force us to buy insurance. He cited the Constitution's Commerce Clause, which has been used by activist judges to grant more power to government while taking away our individual rights for almost 80 years now. Such use of the Commerce Clause was wrong in the 1930s and is wrong now.

Here, take this example. If the Commerce Clause can be used to justify mandating health insurance purchases, it can also be used for just about anything. Maybe Congress will want us to all join health clubs, so we can exercise, whether we want to or not. Do you really think you want such a law passed? Don't be ridiculous, Ron!? Well, how much more "ridiculous" is that than requiring people to buy health insurance? What about forbidding us to eat certain foods? What's to prevent Congress, if the Commerce Clause can justify such broad authority, to make it illegal for me to have my single Cherry Coke or Dr. Pepper each day? Or, eat my raw cookie dough? Or have a beer? Or eat fast food (oh, they already do that, well, at least some local gov'ts do)?

Gee, why doesn't Congress use the Commerce Clause to ban/outlaw abortions? Surely it's not such a stretch that, by aborting a fetus, a person is prevented from being born and that would most definitely have an impact on the national economy.

In the newspaper, one of the decision's supporters (and obviously a supporter of ObamaCare) said that, over the next four or five years, we're going to see positive changes in health care, just wait and see. And, of course, this guy is one of the anointed, the self-appointed elite, one of those who knows what's good for us better than we do. The sanctimonious, self-righteous, smug, arrogant elitists will occupy one of Dante's rings in the Inferno (along with the guy who invented cell phones!).

Do you see, left or right, liberal or conservative, Dem or Rep, why it's important to send a message in this year's elections? We have to tell these people they are not smarter than we are (and anyone who listens to them on the radio or television or reads what they write knows they most assuredly are not smarter than we are!).

And, if the election doesn't do it, maybe we should. What if we just say "no!" and refuse to obey these arrogant laws? Whose country is this anyway? What if Washington, Jefferson, Hamilton, Adams, etc. had all, 235 years ago, just shrugged their shoulders when Parliament violated their rights--"no taxation without represention," trial by jury, quartering of troops, establishing martial law, closing ports, etc.? Think about that, if not for yourself, how about for your kids and grandkids!!!!