One of the most amazing things about the contents of the recently passed Healthcare disaster is the law it chooses to use to justify its constitutionality.
Congress has seen fit to claim the healthcare bill constitutional because the concept of government controlling and regulating interstate commerce has been found previously to be constitutional.
What that really means is that Congress (the government) is now regulating its citizens as items of commerce.
Because you have the ability to travel across state lnes, you are now a commodity, subject to the regulations of the government regarding items of interstate commerce, just as any commodity is.
You're not a person anymore, you're now an item of commerce, to be be treated as such, instead of as a human being.
This was tried once before.
Once before the government regulated people as commerce, prior to the Civil War.
Treating people as commerce items or commodities is widely known as slavery.
And this healthcare bill has at its basis treating people as items of interstate commerce.
Obviously, many pundits and politicians will argue this to be an unreasonable argument.
But, when you are forced to be a consumer because you were born....
When you are mandated by Government to engage in specific commerce solely because you are a living creature....
With punishment handed out for non-compliance, you are being controlled.
If there is a master dictating specific behavior, and punishment comes if you do not behave that way, and you have no say in determining or agreeing to that behavior, that is involuntary servitude.
It will be argued that this is no different than requiring drivers to carry car insurance, but that is a spurious and irrelevant argument.
There are many people in the country who do not, have not, and will not ever own a car.
Hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers, for example, live just fine without a car or car insurance.
You can choose not to own a car.
The healthcare insurance bill requires every American to buy health insurance or be fined.
There is no exclusion.
You have no choice in the matter.
You have no choice in the matter.
If you're alive and an American, you must buy the insurance.
You can't avoid it.
And since you are involuntarily subjected to both the regulation and the fine, you are now an involuntary servant to the masters in Congress and the Democrat party.
In 1865, the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution ended slavery and involuntary servitude.
In 2010, the O-man's healthcare bill reinstated it.
For everyone.
For everyone.
"I've come to understand that a cultural war is raging across our land, in which, with Orwellian fervor, certain acceptable thoughts and speech are mandated...Underneath, the nation is roiling. Americans know something without a name is undermining the nation, turning the mind mushy when it comes to separating truth from falsehood and right from wrong. And they don't like it..." ---- Charlton Heston
"When we consider that women are treated as property, it is degrading to women that we should treat our children as property to be disposed of as we see fit." ---- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
