THE TRUTH ABOUT THE HEALTH CARE BILL from a Constitutional Law scholar 

 MICHAEL R. CONNELLY

This short essay, from a Constitutional Law scholar who has read the entire ObamaCare Bill, tells of how the new legislation tramples over the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Please read this and send along to doubters and those still on the fence! 
Jim Azzola

I know this is a heavy read, but it is better to be informed and armed than being run over.... WHAT CAN WE DO? (From Karl Huber in Portland, OR.)

Michael Connelly (http://michaelconnelly.viviti.com/ ) is a Constitutional lawyer and has read the entire health care bill. He has some comments, not just about the bill, but also about the effects on our Constitution it would have. It's a much broader picture than just health care "reform."
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All of you and those to whom you communicate had better sit up and pay attention; once this sort of thing happens, it will be irreversible.
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This blog concentrates on my concerns as an attorney about the imminent and growing threats to our Constitution and our form of government. We have reason to be very afraid of what is happening.
 
THE TRUTH ABOUT THE HEALTH CARE BILL
 
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 bill and its implications is in fact true, despite what the Democrats and the media are saying. The bill 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 is, 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.

(The paragraph below is really frightening.)

This legislation also provides for access by the appointees of the Obama administration of all of your personal health care 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 health care 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 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 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 proposed bill, 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 were 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

And another to the Bill of Rights: http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/bill_of_rights_transcript.html  
 
There you can see exactly what we are about to have taken from us, if Obama and the left wing Democrats have their way.
 
Michael Connelly
Retired attorney,
Constitutional Law Instructor
Carrollton, Texas

mrobertc@hotmail.com

Michael Connelly
Author of "The Mortarmen" www.trafford.com/04-2710
and "Riders in the Sky: The Ghosts and Legends of Philmont > Scout Ranch"

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Federalist 62

 

Written  by Dr. Paul L. Williams
 
 "In my own life, in my own small way, I have tried to
 give back to this country that has given me so much,"
 she said. "See, that's why I left a job at a big
 law firm for a career in public service, "... Michelle Obama
 
 No, Michele Obama does not get paid to serve as the First
 Lady and she doesn't perform any official duties. But
 this hasn't deterred her from hiring an unprecedented
 number of staffers to cater to her every whim and to satisfy
 her every request in the midst of the Great Recession.
 Just think,  Mary Lincoln was taken to task for purchasing china
 for the White House during the Civil War. And Mamie Eisenhower
 had to shell out the salary for her personal secretary from her husband's salary.
Total Personal Staff members for other first ladies paid by taxpayers:
Mamie Eisenhower : 1 paid for personally out of President's salary
Jackie Kennedy: 1
Roseline Carter: 1
Barbara Bush: 1
Hilary Clinton: 3
Laura Bush: 1
Michele Obama: 22

 How things have changed! If you're one of the tens of
 millions of Americans facing certain destitution, earning
 less than subsistence wages stocking the shelves at Wal-Mart
 or serving up McDonald cheeseburgers, prepare to scream and
 then come to realize that the benefit package for these
 servants of Ms Michelle are the same as members of the
 national security and defense departments and the bill for
 these assorted lackeys is paid by YOU, John Q. Public:
Michele Obama's personal staff:
 1. $172,200 - Sher, Susan (Chief Of Staff)
 2. $140,000 - Frye, Jocelyn C. (Deputy Assistant to the
 President and Director of Policy And Projects For The First Lady)
 3. $113,000 - Rogers, Desiree G. (Special Assistant to the
 President and White House Social Secretary for Mrs. Obama)
 4. $102,000 - Johnston, Camille Y. (Special Assistant to
 the President and Director of Communications for the First Lady)
 5. $100,000 - Winter, Melissa E. (Special Assistant to the
 President and Deputy Chief Of Staff to the First Lady)
 6. $90,000 - Medina , David S. (Deputy Chief Of Staff to the First Lady)
 7. $84,000 - Lel yveld, Catherine M. (Director and Press Secretary to the First Lady)
 8. $75,000 - Starkey, Frances M. (Director of Scheduling and Advance for the First Lady)
 9. $70,000 - Sanders, Trooper (Deputy Director of Policy and Projects for the First Lady)
 10. $65,000 - Burnough, Erinn J. (Deputy Director and Deputy Social Secretary)
 11. $64,000 - Reinstein, Joseph B. (Deputy Director and Deputy Social Secretary)
 12. $62,000 - Goodman, Jennifer R. (Deputy Director of Scheduling and Events
 Coordinator For The First Lady)
 13. $60,000 - Fitts, Alan O. (Deputy Director of Advance and Trip Director for the First Lady)
 14. $57,500 - Lewis, Dana M. (Special Assistant and Personal Aide to the First Lady)
 15. $52,500 - Mustaphi, Semonti M. (Associate Director and Deputy Press Secretary To The First Lady)
 16. $50,000 - Jarvis, Kristen E. (Special Assistant for Scheduling and Traveling Aide To The First Lady)
 17. $45,000 - Lechtenberg, Tyler A. (Associate Director of Correspondence For The First Lady)
 18. $43,000 - Tubman, Samanth a (Deputy Associate Director, Social Office)
 19. $40,000 - Boswell, Joseph J. (Executive Assistant to the Chief Of Staff to the First Lady)
 20. $36,000 - Armbruster, Sally M. (Staff Assistant to the Social Secretary)
 21. $35,000 - Bookey, Natalie (Staff Assistant)
 22. $35,000 - Jackson, Deilia A. (Deputy Associate Director of  Correspondence for the First Lady)
 (total = $1,591,200 in annual salaries)

 There has NEVER been anyone in the White House at any time
 who has created such an army of staffers whose sole duties
 are the facilitation of the First Lady's social life.
 One wonders why she needs so much help, at taxpayer expense.

 Note: This does not include makeup artist Ingrid
 Grimes-Miles, 49, and "First Hairstylist" Johnny
 Wright, 31, both of whom traveled aboard Air Force One to   Europe .
 
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by Dr. Paul L. Williams

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