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Subject: This should spread like wildfire
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2009 07:02:08 -0500

From Michael Connelly - Retired attorney, Constitutional Law Instructor,
Carrollton, Texas

Well, I have done it! I have read the entire text of proposed House Bill
3200: The Affordable Health Care Choices Act of 2009. I studied it with
particular emphasis from my area of expertise, constitutional law. I was
frankly concerned that parts of the proposed law that were being discussed
might be unconstitutional. What I found was far worse than what I had heard
or expected.

To begin with, much of what has been said about the law and its implications
is in fact true, despite what the Democrats and the media are saying. The
law does provide for rationing of health care, particularly where senior
citizens and other classes of citizens are involved, free health care for
illegal immigrants, free abortion services, and probably forced
participation in abortions by members of the medical profession.

The Bill will also eventually force private insurance companies out of
business and put everyone into a government run system. All decisions about
personal health care will ultimately be made by federal bureaucrats and most
of them will not be health care professionals. Hospital admissions, payments
to physicians, and allocations of necessary medical devices will be strictly
controlled.

However, as scary as all of that is, it just scratches the surface. In fact,
I have concluded that this legislation really has no intention of providing
affordable health care choices. Instead it is a convenient cover for the
most massive transfer of power to the Executive Branch of government that
has ever occurred, or even been contemplated. If this law or a similar one
is adopted, major portions of the Constitution of the United States will
effectively have been destroyed.

The first thing to go will be the masterfully crafted balance of power
between the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branches of the U.S.
Government. The Congress will be transferring to the Obama Administration
authority in a number of different areas over the lives of the American
people and the businesses they own. The irony is that the Congress doesn't
have any authority to legislate in most of those areas to begin with. I defy
anyone to read the text of the U.S. Constitution and find any authority
granted to the members of Congress to regulate health care.

This legislation also provides for access by the appointees of the Obama
administration of all of your personal healthcare information, your personal
financial information, and the information of your employer, physician, and
hospital. All of this is a direct violation of the specific provisions of
the 4th Amendment to the Constitution protecting against unreasonable
searches and seizures. You can also forget about the right to privacy. That
will have been legislated into oblivion regardless of what the 3rd and 4th
Amendments may provide.

If you decide not to have healthcare insurance or if you have private
insurance that is not deemed "acceptable" to the "Health Choices
Administrator" appointed by Obama there will be a tax imposed on you. It is
called a "tax" instead of a fine because of the intent to avoid application
of the due process clause of the 5th Amendment.


However, that doesn't work because since there is nothing in the law that
allows you to contest or appeal the imposition of the tax, it is "definitely
depriving someone of property without the due process of law".

So, there are three of those pesky amendments that the far left hate so much
out the original ten in the Bill of Rights that are effectively nullified by
this law. It doesn't stop there though. The 9th Amendment that provides:
"The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be
construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people;" The 10th
Amendment states: "The powers not delegated to the United States by the
Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are preserved to the
States respectively, or to the people." Under the provisions of this piece
of Congressional handiwork neither the people nor the states are going to
have any rights or powers at all in many areas that once were theirs to
control.

I could write many more pages about this legislation, but I think you get
the idea. This is not about health care; it is about seizing power and
limiting rights. Article 6 of the Constitution requires the members of both
houses of Congress to "be bound by oath or affirmation" to support the
Constitution. If I was a member of Congress I would not be able to vote for
this legislation or anything like it without feeling I was violating that
sacred oath or affirmation. If I voted for it anyway I would hope the
American people would hold me accountable.

For those who might doubt the nature of this threat I suggest they consult
the source. Here is a link to the Constitution:



<http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/constitution_transcript.html>
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/cha...ranscript.html

And another to the Bill of Rights:

<http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/bill_of_rights_transcript.html>
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/cha...ranscript.html


There you can see exactly what we are about to have taken from us.

Michael Connelly

Retired attorney,

Constitutional Law Instructor

Carrollton, Texas



"The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the
people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government --
lest it come to dominate our lives and interests."-- Patrick Henry

 

wow, I thought it would be shorter like you showing off your burnt tights/jacket.

hmm, this is political so I cannot say. Thanks to my Hogans Heros and Caddy Shack episodes and movies.

 

Just For The Record.
I'm Not Republican Or Democrat. Cuz It Really Doesnt Matter.
I'm What You Call An American ATM. Oh Wait. You Might Be Too

 

ouch! ya fugger

 

i want to send this guy a trophy for being one of the only smart and opinionated people left in this country