Hungry Freaks wrote:
Please tell me how the ACA "destroys" the Bill of rights. Please be somewhat specific.
It passed the Supreme Court, one of the most right-wing courts in US history.
Right wing, left wing, same damn thing---
THE ESTABLISHMENT!
This is not about wings, but is about our freedom.
My words about the subject would not be as articulate or as accurate as that of Michael Connelly, a retired Constitutional Attorney and Constitutional Law Instructor. Here is what he says about the subject:
Well, I have done it. I have read the entire text of proposed House Bill 3200: The Affordable Healthcare 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 it's implications are in fact true, despite what the Democrats and the media are saying. The law does provide for rationing of healthcare, particularly where senior citizens and other classes of citizens are involved, free health care for i*****l i*******ts, free a******n services, and probably forced participation in a******ns 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 healthcare professionals.
Hospital admissions, payments to physicians, and allocations of necessary medical devices will be strictly controlled by the government. However, as scary as all of that is, it just scratches the surface. On fact, I have concluded that this legislation really has no intentions of providing affordable health care choices. Instead, it is a convenient cover for the most massive t******r of p***r 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 have effectively 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 t***sferring 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, in direct violation of the specific provisions of the 4th. Amendment to the Constitution, of all of your personal healthcare information, your personal financial information, and the information of your employer, physician, and hospital. All of this is protecting against unreasonable searches and seizures. You can also forget about the right to privacy. That will have been obliterated 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 h**e so much, out of the original ten in the Bill of Rights, that are effectively nullified by this law. It doesn't stop there though.
The ninth 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 or the states are going to have any rights or powers at all in many areas that was once was theirs to control.
Mr. Connelly goes on to say that there are many more discrepancies in this bill that goes directly against the constitution, but he believes that the people should now have an overall view at just how crooked and un-American this health care bill is.
I suggest that we all make a list of those that v**ed for this nightmare and v**e them out of office next year. Let's all work to take back our country.