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Saturday, November 7, 2009

Kiss Your Freedoms Goodbye If Health Care Passes

This was posted by Judge Andrew Napolitano yesterday, and it sheds light on what just happened in the House of Representatives.

Tomorrow, the House of Representatives will vote on a 2,000 page bill to give the federal government the power to micromanage the health care of every single American. The bill will no doubt pass. It will raise your taxes, steal your freedom, invade your privacy, and ration your health care. Even the Republicans have introduced their version of Obamacare Lite. It, too, if passed, will compel employers to provide coverage, bribe the states to change their court rules, and tell insurance companies whom to insure.

We do not have two political parties in this country, America. We have one party; called the Big Government Party. The Republican wing likes deficits, war, and assaults on civil liberties. The Democratic wing likes wealth transfer, taxes, and assaults on commercial liberties. Both parties like power; and neither is interested in your freedoms. Think about it. Government is the negation of freedom. Freedom is your power and ability to follow your own free will and your own conscience. The government wants you to follow the will of some faceless bureaucrat.

When I recently asked Congressman James Clyburn, the third ranking Democrat in the House, to tell me "Where in the Constitution the federal government is authorized to regulate everyone's healthcare--, he replied that most of what Congress does is not authorized by the Constitution, but they do it anyway. There you have it. Congress recognizes no limits on its power. It doesn't care about the Constitution, it doesn't care about your inalienable rights, it doesn't care about the liberties protected by the Bill of Rights, it doesn't even read the laws it writes.

America, this is not an academic issue. If this health care bill becomes law, life as you have known it, freedom as you have exercised it, privacy as you have enjoyed it, will cease to be.
When Congress takes away our freedoms, they will be gone forever. What will you do to prevent this from happening?
Judge Andrew Napolitano is Fox News Channel's senior judicial analyst.

Buy a $15,000 Health Policy or Go to Jail

With the Congress on the verge of voting on Socialized medicine, it is worth noting once again that under this plan you will be forced into buying a health insurance policy or face big consequences.

What are those consequences you say? Well, here is an example:

Today, Ranking Member of the House Ways and Means Committee Dave Camp (R-MI) released a letter from the non-partisan Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) confirming that the failure to comply with the individual mandate to buy health insurance contained in the Pelosi health care bill (H.R. 3962, as amended) could land people in jail. The JCT letter makes clear that Americans who do not maintain “acceptable health insurance coverage” and who choose not to pay the bill’s new individual mandate tax (generally 2.5% of income), are subject to numerous civil and criminal penalties, including criminal fines of up to $250,000 and imprisonment of up to five years.

Let me rephrase that for you all if you missed the bigger picture. If you fail to provide health insurance for you, an individual, you will be suject to $250,000 in fines and put in jail for up to 5 years.

This is America? The words land of the free are just a slogan now, we are no longer free. Our government has become so tyrannical it is sickening.

The more corrupt the state, the more it legislates
-Tacitus

Our liberties as individuals have been trashed for the sole purpose of having super control over the people. This is now a police state, and once this health bill passes, we will be far in the mix of a police state.

We are losing our freedoms and it is time for people to start standing up and sparking a R3VOLUTION of ideas! The time has come for true patriots to reclaim our god given rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Resist!!!

File Sharers and Big Brother

By A.M. Novoa

According to this "Raw Story" posting which can be found at http://rawstory.com/2009/11/global-treaty-three-strikes/ , there have been leaked details of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. The treaty is being negotiated in secret by most of the world’s largest economies. It suggest Internet file-sharers could be blocked from accessing the Internet if they are repeatedly accused of sharing copyrighted material, say media and digital-rights watchdogs.

If one member of a family is accused of copyright infringement, an entire family could be denied use of the internet. This is particularly disturbing as many people make their living via use of the internet and it serves as one of our largest and most effective means of communication. Web sites like YouTube and Flickr could possibly be shut down because of a provision in the treaty that would force them to monitor everything uploaded to the site for copyright violations.

According to the post, Gren Hinze of the Electronic Fronteir Foundation writes, "The US government appears to be pushing for Three Strikes to be part of the new global IP enforcement regime which ACTA is intended to create -– despite the fact that it has been categorically rejected by the European Parliament and by national policymakers in several ACTA negotiating countries, and has never been proposed by US legislators."
An additional detailed story by Cory Dockrow can be found at http://www.boingboing.net/2009/11/03/secret-copyright-tre.html

To understand what this might mean to you, please view the following video:

There goes more freedom.