A historical perspective-
The Stamp Act of 1765.
The parallels between that and this health care scam are stark and real.
In 1776,the British,against English Common Law and without the consent of the colonists, demanded that every piece of paper was to be affixed with a stamp,and to enforce this law,allowed British troopers to enter on their own authority to any home or business to ensure compliance.
Now,in 2010,the federal government,against Constitutional law and without the consent of the governed, has taken it upon itself to demand that every American buy a product.To enforce this law,the IRS will act without a warrant to seize your income before you even receive it and conduct warrantless searches into your private life to ensure your compliance with this law.
The Stamp Act of 1765 brought about resentment,protests,and general sentiment of rebellion towards the British-which eventually fomented into the American Revolution.
Fast forward to the year 2010-
I see the protests.
I see the growing resentment.
Will our system of democratic elections or the Supreme Court that is supposed to rectify this Republic and keep government in line with the Constitution be able to correct these errors?
Only time will tell.
And if these errors are not corrected by current establishment of government,how long will the American people who once stood against the greatest empire on earth put up with the same tyranny that drove us to Revolution?
How long will we put up with federal agents snooping in our business to ensure compliance with this law,taking our income from us against our will and spending it for us before it even crosses our palms,forcing us to shutter our businesses because of an inability to comply with their demands,arresting the most stalwart resistors and offering them gulags for their noncompliance with the socialist agenda?
Will we put up with the federal government making our personal decisions for us with our own money?
Taxing,fining and arresting us for refusing to buy a product?
Will this health care scam be in the history books much like the Stamp Act,as but one of the precipitants of a War that will be fought to once again set men free of the yoke of tyrannical government in this great land?
Much like the colonists petitioned the British to follow their own law-we are in the process of petitioning the government by states laws and lawsuits to obey the law and cease and desist.
Will the government listen?
Or has the Tree of Liberty gone too long without its natural refreshment?
“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.” — Thomas Jefferson
" Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!"-Patric Henry
