12-20-2009
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The Declaration
of Independence
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Subject: The Second American Revolution: It's Time To Make Your
Stand
Today, Ben Nelson, the senator from Nebraska, declared that he is
going to support the Senate's health care bill as the 60th member
of a Democratic coalition that has no Republican support. As reported
in
The Huffington Post:
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"The Nevada Democrat [Harry Reid] agreed to a series
of concessions on abortion and other issues demanded by
Nelson"
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Other concessions? What could those be?
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"The Nebraskan [Nelson] also won increased federal
funds to cover his state's cost of covering an expanded
Medicaid population at a cost that one Democratic official
put at $45 million over a decade"
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So taxpayers in other states will now also pick up the cost of expanded
health care for Nebraska's residents similar to provisions that Harry
Reid managed to write into the bill for Nevada citizens. Well, why
not? It's all in keeping with the Obama administration's master plan
for wealth redistribution. You still have some wealth left, and
therefore it obviously needs to be redistributed to others. But is
that the only last minute piece of pork added to the bill? Of course
not.
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"Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., claimed credit for a
last-minute, $10 billion increase in funding for community
health centers nationwide"
"Another provision in Reid's changes provides additional
federal funding for hospitals in Montana, North Dakota, Wyoming
and the Dakotas, although no cost estimate was available."
"The revised bill also calls for a .9 percent increase in
the Medicare payroll tax on incomes over $200,000 for
individuals and $250,000 for couples. Reid's earlier bill had
a smaller hike, .5 percent."
"The bill also taxes high-cost insurance plans"
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Read Robert Tracinski's article,
You Will Lose Your Private Health Insurance for a concise
summary of the true implications and impact of the final legislation
that will soon be voted on once the House and Senate bills are
reconciled.
With the imminent passage of the health care legislation, it is
finally time to take a firm and uncompromising stand. As was stated
over 233 years ago in The Declaration of
Independence:
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"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are
created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with
certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty
and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights,
Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just
Powers from the consent of the governed, — That
whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these
ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish
it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation
on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as
to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and
Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments
long established should not be changed for light and transient
causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind
are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than
to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are
accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and
usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a
design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their
right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to
provide new guards for their future security, ..."
[Emphasis added]
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Unlike the TARP bailouts, and other incursions into the US economy,
which, with stretched-to-the-limit incredulity, might charitably be
credited as horribly misguided efforts with underlying good intent,
no such claim could possibly be made for the Congressional health
care bills. These are nothing more than a naked power-grab, granting
to the government a significant increase in the direct control over
the personal lives and decisions of every in America, intentionally
destroying individual liberty.
It is time to choose a side of the single greatest issue facing
America, and declare your allegiance either to tyranny or to freedom.
The time for the Second American Revolution is now at hand.
It is up to every freedom-loving person to commit all of their
intellectual, physical and financial resources to the cause of
liberty. We must retake control of a government which no longer
represents us - or else, we must abolish it. As we have seen
demonstrated time after time over the past year, the opportunity for
reasoned debate with the opposition has long since passed and the
moment has arrived to pull out all of the stops and take forceful
action on every possible front.
Remember Ayn Rand's observation:
"Evil is impotent and has no power but that which we let
it extort from us"
Those committed to destroying the US Constitution and enslaving all
of us into serving their tyrannical ends will only succeed if we stand
by and allow them to do so. Recognizing this fact, it is up to us to
mount counter efforts. While new opportunities for action are being
organized and put into effect all across the country, there are many
things that can be done immediately. Here are some suggestions:
- Step up your efforts to write and phone the White House
and all members of Congress. Commit a certain amount of time
each week to write new letters and make repeated calls to the
most deserving politicians. Don't tell them that you
disagree with their policies — tell them that
you're mad as hell and you're not going to take it
any longer! Let them know in no uncertain terms
that the gloves are coming off and that you are going to do
everything in your power to dismantle the corrupt machinery
of government and take back your constitutionally guaranteed
rights to your life, liberty and property. When they are
receiving this message from thousands of people all across
the country, they are going to get very nervous. Make it
your personal mission to make Nancy Pelosi cry.
And don't stop with her! Contact information for all congressional
members can be found at Congress Merge.
- Write articles and letters-to-the-editor of your local paper
expressing your outrage over the constitutional transgressions
being exercised by Congress and the President. Help transition
the political dialog in country away from less important issues
of specific tax or legislative proposals to the critical issues
of constitutional rights. As Nancy Pelosi
and other politicians have demonstrated, they are completely
unprepared to defend themselves on constitutional grounds.
This makes them very vulnerable to attack from this quarter.
- Get involved with your local
Tea Party chapter and
help organize local and state protests. Generate as much noise
and publicity as possible. Again, the message should now become
not one of simple disagreement, but a vocalization of honest
outrage and a principled unwillingness to voluntarily comply with
the intent of Congress and the President. Become conscientious
objectors - unwilling to participate in your own enslavement.
- Start planning your strategy for the
2010 Tax Day Tea
Party on April 15th. Organize family and friends and come
up with a creative idea that will generate publicity and
convey your personal message to as many people as possible.
- Make plans to go to Washington DC when the next Tea Party
march gets scheduled in 2010. If the press thought that 1.2
million protesters was "a few thousand", let's see what they
have to say when we make it 3 million or more!
- Show your commitment and make a symbolic statement with a
Personal Declaration of Independence, by adding your
name to the John
Galt Pledge, if you have not done so already.
- Link
to this article on your personal blogs and help spread the word
that the time for action is upon us.
Working together, we will form an irresistible force that will beat
back the destroyers of freedom.
In Liberty,
—
C. Jeffery Small
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