Truth, Lies and In Between

When do we get the truth from the Obama administration?

The following comment is from Michael Connelly of Carrollton, Texas, a

retired attorney and constitutional law instructor who states he has read

the entire health care bill and has some comments, not about the bill, but

about the impact upon our Constitution. It’s a broader picture than just

health care reform.

Looks like something to sit up and pay attention to; once this sort of thing

happens, it will be irreversible.

THE TRUTH ABOUT THE HEALTHCARE BILLS ?

Well, I have done it! I have read the entire text of proposed House

Bill 3200: The Affordable Health Care 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 its

implications is in fact true, despite what the Democrats and the media are

saying. The law does provide for rationing of health care, particularly

where senior citizens and other classes of citizens are involved, free

health care for illegal immigrants, free abortion services, and probably

forced participation in abortions 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 health care professionals. Hospital

admissions, payments to physicians, and allocations of necessary medical

devices will be strictly controlled.

However, as scary as all of that it, it just scratches the surface.

In fact, I have concluded that this legislation really has no intention of

providing affordable health care choices. Instead it is a convenient cover

for the most massive transfer of power 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

effectively have 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 transferring 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 of all of your personal healthcare information, your

personal financial information, and the information of your employer,

physician, and hospital. All of this is a direct violation of the specific

provisions of the 4th Amendment to the Constitution protecting against

unreasonable searches and seizures. You can also forget about the right to

privacy. That will have been legislated 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 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 hate

so much out the original ten in the Bill of Rights that are effectively

nullified by this law. It doesn’t stop there though. The 9th 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 nor the states are going to

have any rights or powers at all in many areas that once were theirs to

control.

I could write many more pages about this legislation, but I think

you get the idea. This is not about health care; it is about seizing power

and limiting rights. Article 6 of the Constitution requires the members of

both houses of Congress to “be bound by oath or affirmation” to support the

Constitution. If I was a member of Congress I would not be able to vote for

this legislation or anything like it without feeling I was violating that

sacred oath or affirmation. If I voted for it anyway I would hope the

American people would hold me accountable.

For those who might doubt the nature of this threat I suggest they

consult the source. Here is a link to the Constitution:

http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/constitution_transcript….html

< http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/constitution_transcript…html

There you can see exactly what we are about to have taken from us.

Michael Connelly

Retired attorney,

Constitutional Law Instructor

Carrollton, Texas

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