Health Care Nullification: Things have just gotten underway

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Gotholic

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Health Care Nullification: Things have just gotten underway

Michael Boldin
Tenth Amendment Center
December 21, 2009

For the past few days, I’ve received loads of emails urging me to get active regarding the healthcare vote – most of which had a subject line similar to: “Last Chance to Stop National Healthcare!”

Well, if you believe the only way to protect your rights is by begging federal politicians to do what you want, then these emails are certainly right. The vote went as expected, and so will the next.

So if you think marching on D.C. or calling your Representatives, or threating to “throw the bums out” in 2010 or 2012 or 20-whatever, is going to further the cause of the Constitution and your liberty – you might as well get your shackles on now. Your last chance has come and gone.

But, those of you who visit this site regularly already know that the Senate’s health care vote is far from the end of things – and you also know that even when it goes into effect (which I assume some version will), it’s still not the end of the road for your freedom.

The real way to resist DC is not by begging politicians and judges in Washington to allow us to exercise our rights…it’s to exercise our rights whether they want to give us “permission” to or not.

Nullification – state-level resistance to unconstitutional federal laws – is the way forward.

When a state ‘nullifies’ a federal law, it is proclaiming that the law in question is void and inoperative, or ‘non-effective,’ within the boundaries of that state; or, in other words, not a law as far as that state is concerned.

It’s peaceful, effective, and has a long history in the American tradition. It’s been invoked in support of free speech, in opposition to war and fugitive slave laws, and more. Read more on this history here.

Regarding nullification and health care, there’s already a growing movement right now. Led by Arizona, voters in a number of states may get a chance to approve State Constitutional Amendments in 2010 that would effectively ban national health care in their states. Our sources here at the Tenth Amendment Center indicate to us that we should expect to see 20-25 states consider such legislation in 2010.

20 States resisting DC can do what calling, marching, yelling, faxing, and emailing has almost never done. Stop the feds dead in their tracks.

For example, 13 states are already defying federal marijuana prohibition, and the federal government is having such a hard time dealing with it that the Obama administration recently announced that they would no longer prioritize enforcement in states that have medical marijuana laws.

Better yet, in the last 2+ years more than 20 states have been able to effectively prevent the Real ID Act of 2005 from being implemented. How did they do that? They passed laws and resolutions refusing to comply with it. And today, it’s effectively null and void without ever being repealed by Congress or challenged in court.

While the Obama administration would like to revive it under a different name, the reality is still there – with massive state-level resistance, the federal government can be pushed back inside its constitutional box. Issue by issue, law by law, the best way to change the federal government is by resisting it on a state level.

That’s nullification at work.

Over the years, wise men and women warned us that the Constitution would never enforce itself. The time is long overdue for people to start recognizing this fact, and bring that enforcement closer to home.

The bottom line? If you want to make real change; if you want to really do something for liberty and for the Constitution…focus on local activism and your state governments.

Thomas Jefferson would be proud!
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catocom

catocom

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seems to me that it's time to rally the extreme left more. :D
there are some that really don't like that some of their stuff got pulled out.

Don'tcha know it's the season to come together.....in opposition:p

Maybe some voted for cloture, because the leadership on the left made um mad,
and they aren't going to vote yea.
 
Gonz

Gonz

molṑn labé
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2minkey said:
does it even matter what is in it?
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It does if you wish to avoid Congress forcing you to purchase insurance (say, doesn't that violate the Due Process clause?) that they approve of or having a vehicle under their control that allows them to slip goodies into, as they see fit.
 
2minkey

2minkey

bootlicker
but that doesn't seem to be the point. it's the idea that the government is gonna do this to all us poor slobs that's got bitches ticked.
 
catocom

catocom

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2minkey said:
but that doesn't seem to be the point. it's the idea that the government is gonna do this to all us poor slobs that's got bitches ticked.
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no, it's the idea that they are going to use the "your gonna get something for nothing"
idea to actually enslave, and not do jack.
 
catocom

catocom

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catocom said:
it ain't on the desk of the pres. yet.
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Gonz

Gonz

molṑn labé
Staff member
Nancy said she'll vote for anything & she & Harry are the committee

it's all over but the shouting

WSJ
 
Cerise

Cerise

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Sen. Feinstein 'Assumes' Commerce Clause Gives Congress Unlimited Authority to Mandate Health Insurance

(CNSNews.com) – Senator Diane Feinstein (D-Calif.) said that Congress has the authority to mandate that people buy health insurance and that there is no constitutional limit on Congress’ power to enact such mandates, adding that this unlimited authority stemmed from the Commerce clause of the Constitution.

The health care bills in both the House and Senate require that every American purchase a health insurance policy. At the Capitol on Tuesday, CNSNews.com asked Sen. Feinstein: “Where in the Constitution does Congress get the authority for an individual health insurance mandate?”

Feinstein said: “Well, I would assume it would be in the Commerce clause of the Constitution. That’s how Congress legislates all kinds of various programs.”

CNSNews.com followed up by asking Sen. Feinstein whether this broad power had any limits: “If there’s a health insurance mandate, is there a limit to that authority? Is there something that can’t be mandated?”

Feinstein responded: “My own view is that there is not, within health insurance.”

The Senate version of health reform imposes an historic mandate on all Americans, requiring them to have government-approved health insurance, either through an employer or individually. The mandate also can penalize people with a surtax ranging from $500 to nearly $1,500 per year if they do not have a health insurance policy.

“The government has never required people to buy any good or service as a condition of lawful residence in the United States,” the CBO analysis said. “An individual mandate would have two features that, in combination, would make it unique. First, it would impose a duty on individuals as members of society. Second, it would require people to purchase a specific service that would be heavily regulated by the federal government.”
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Feinstein assumes?

If Congress were interested in using the commerce clause for its intended purpose, they would be talking about the Health Care Choice Act, which would permit the interstate purchase of individual health policies.

The Constitution is a limiting document and was very clearly intended to be that way by the Men who wrote it. The Constitution tells the federal government what it CAN do. The Constitution does NOT tell the federal government what it can NOT do.

It authorizes our elected public servants to do certain things. They are NOT authorized to do anything else. If they do, they violate the Constitution with unconstitutional acts.

For instance:

10th Amendment:

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.
 
Winky

Winky

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Health Care Nullified

As we moan and groan, clicking our mouses
the march to communisim continues.

Go head and shout, when your tax bill arrives
you'll whine like a stuck pig.

All Hail the Obamanation.

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Winky

Winky

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America died not with a bang but a whimper.

You will have a long wait as
it will never come.
 
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