Christmas Eve 2009 will be a date for the history books. It is the other side of the dash. You know. The dash between the two dates in a timeline. In this case the dates are September 17, 1787 - December 24, 2009. The tombstone is titled Liberty. When, in 1787, they finished the U. S. Constitution, the Founders had set forth the relationship between the Federal Government and the People. The Federal Government had the least role of Federal, State and Local governments. It was "Limited".

It's purpose as stated in the Preamble says, "We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."

The Tenth Amendment further clarifies saying, "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."

The Healthcare Bill will change all of that.

The Federal Government will now fine you or send you to jail for not purchasing a product, whether you want it or not. It is certainly a violation of the U.S. Constitution. But lawmakers no longer hold laws to a Constitutional Standard.

The United States exists because people had a dream. They dreamed of a place where personal liberty ruled. Patrick Henry. a Founding Father, said it this way, "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!"

The Constitution was not meant just for the people of 1787, but for Posterity. Henry Clay, the famous nineteenth-century statesman, and my third cousin, five generations removed, said, "The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity- unlimited, undefined, endless, perpetual posterity."

The current majority is Congress is about to succeed in what the British could not do in the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812, return us the the European way of life, where Liberty is only a concept and governments run your life and religion and tell you what you may and may not do.

States Should Fight Back

I urge the State of Texas to fight this in the Supreme Court based on the Tenth Amendment. The Federal Government is intruding in a area, "reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." Governor Perry should announce that Texas does not recognize the authority of the U.S. Congress to force people to buy things simply because they exist. It is NOT like a state requiring you to buy insurance for a car, because you do not have to own a car. And you are not required to insure your car, you are only required to have liability insurance if a car you own is going to be on a public highway.
Also, that is a state doing that and NOT the Federal Government!

The answer to Healthcare is not Socialism or government control. It is more competition. I talk about this on my healthcare page.

It's time to speak out. It's time to act.

Bruce Campbell
December 21, 2009

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"Torch of Freedom"