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Obamacare Should Remind Us We Are Not 'Subjects,' We Are People...by guest columnist Laura Hollis

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Laura Hollis is an attorney and professor at Norte Dame University.

Laura Hollis is a professor at

the University of Notre Dame

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The unveiling of the dictatorial debacle that is Obamacare absolutely flabbergasts me. It is stunning on so many levels, but the most shocking aspect of it for me is watching millions of free Americans stand idly by while this man, his minions in Congress and his cheerleaders in the press systematically dismantle our Constitution, steal our money, and crush our freedoms.

The President, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid (with no small help from Justice John Roberts) take away our health care, and we allow it. They take away our insurance, and we allow it. They take away our doctors, and we allow it.They charge us thousands of dollars more a year, and we allow it. They make legal products illegal, and we allow it. They cripple our businesses, and we allow it.They announce by fiat that we must ignore our most deeply held beliefs – and we allow it.

Where is your spine, America?

Yes, I know people are complaining. I read the news on the internet. I read blogs. I have a Twitter feed. So what? People in the Soviet Union complained. People in Cuba complain. People in China complain (quietly). Complaining isn't the same thing as doing anything about it. In fact, much of the complaining that we hear sounds like resignation: Wow. This sucks. Oh well, this is the way things are. Too bad.

Perhaps you need reminding of a few important facts. Here goes:

1. The President is not a king. Barack Obama does not behave like a President, an elected official, someone who realizes that he works for us. He behaves like a king, a dictator – someone who believes that his own pronouncements have the force of law, and who thinks he can dispense with the law's enforcement when he deigns to do so. And those of us who object? How dare we? Racists!

And while he moves steadily "forward" with his plans to "fundamentally transform" the greatest country in human history, he distracts people with cheap, meaningless trivialities, like "free birth control pills"! (In fact, let's face it: this administration's odd obsession with sex in general - Birth control! Abortion! Sterilization! Gay guys who play basketball! -- is just plain weird. Since when did the leader of the free world care so much about how people have sex, who they have it with, and what meds they use when they have it? Does he have nothing more important to concern himself with?)

2. It isn't just a failed software program; it is a failed philosophy. People are marveling that Healthcare.gov was such a spectacular failure. Well, if one is only interested in it as a product launch, I've explained some of the reasons for that here. But the larger point is that it isn't a software failure, or even a product failure; it is a philosophy failure.

I have said this before: Obama is not a centrist; he is a central planner. And this – all of it: the disastrous computer program, the hundreds of millions of dollars wasted, the lies, the manipulation of public opinion, the theft of the public's money and property, and freedom (read insurance, and premiums, and doctors) -- IS what central planning looks like.

The central premise of central planning is that a handful of wunderkinds with your best interests at heart (yeah, right) know better than you what's good for you. The failure of such a premise and the misery it causes have been clear from the dawn of humanity. Kings and congressmen, dictators and Dear Leaders, potentates, princes and presidents can all fall prey to the same imperial impulses: "we know what is good the 'the people.'

And they are always wrong.

There is a reason that the only times communism has really been tried have been after wars, revolutions, or coups d'état. You have to have complete chaos for people to be willing to accept the garbage that centralized planning produces. Take the Soviet Union, for example. After two wars, famine, and the collapse of the Romanov dynasty, why wouldn't people wait in line for hours to buy size 10 shoes? Or settle for the gray matter that passed for meat in the grocery stores?

But communism's watered-down cousin, socialism, isn't much better. Ask the Venezuelans who cannot get toilet paper. Toilet paper. ¡Viva la Revolución!

Contrary to what so many who believe in a "living Constitution" say, the Founding Fathers absolutely understood this. That is why the Constitution was set up to limit government power. (Memo to the President: the drafters of the Constitution deliberately didn't say "what government had to do on your behalf.") They understood that that was the path to folly, fear, and famine.)

3. Obama is deceitful. Just as the collapse of the computer program should not surprise anyone, neither should we be shocked that the President lied about his healthcare plan. Have any of you been paying attention over the past few years? Obama has made no secret of his motivations or his methods. The philosophies which inspire him espouse deceit and other vicious tactics. (Don't take my word for it: read Saul Alinsky.) Obama infamously told reporter Richard Wolffe, "You know, I actually believe my own bullshit." He has refused to be forthcoming about his past (where are his academic records?). His own pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, told author Ed Klein, that Obama said to him, "You know what your problem is? You have to tell the truth."

Did Obama lie when he said dozens of times, "If you like you plan, you can keep it"? Of course he did. That's what he does.

4. The media is responsible. And had the media been doing their jobs, we would have known a lot of this much, much earlier.

The press is charged with the sacred responsibility of protecting the people from the excesses of government. Our press has been complicit, incompetent, or corrupt. Had they vetted this man in 2008, as they would have a Republican candidate, we would have known far more about him than we do, even now. Had they pressed for more details about Obamacare, Congress' feet would have been held to the fire. Had they done their jobs about Eric Holder, Fast and Furious, Benghazi, the IRS scandal, NSA spying - or any of the other myriad betrayals of the public trust that this administration has committed, Obama would likely have lost his 2012 reelection campaign. (A fact that even The Washington Post has tacitly acknowledged. Well done, fellas! Happy now?)

Instead, they turned a blind eye, even when they knew he was lying, abusing power, disregarding the limits of the Constitution. It was only when he began to spy on them, and when the lies were so blatant that the lowest of low-information voters could figure it out that they realized they had to report on it. (Even in the face of blatant, deliberate and repeated lies, The New York Times has the audacity to tell us that the President "misspoke.") They have betrayed us, abandoned us, and deceived us.

5. Ted Cruz was right. So was Sarah Palin. The computer program is a disaster. The insurance exchanges are a disaster. What's left? The healthcare system itself. And this, of necessity, will be a disaster, too.

Millions of people have lost their individual insurance plans. In 2015, millions more will lose their employer-provided coverage (a fact which the Obama administration also knew, and admitted elsewhere).

The exorbitant additional costs that Obamacare has foisted on unsuspecting Americans are all part of a plan of wealth confiscation and redistribution. That is bad enough. But it will not end there.

When the numbers of people into the system and the corresponding demand for care vastly exceed the cost projections (and they will, make no mistake), then the rationing will start. Not only choice at that point, but quality and care itself will go down the tubes. And then will come the decisions made by the Independent Payment Advisory Board about what care will be covered (read "paid for") and what will not.

That's just a death panel, put politely. In fact, progressives are already greasing the wheels for acceptance of that miserable reality as well. They're spreading the lie that it will be about the ability of the dying to refuse unwanted or unhelpful care. Don't fall for that one, either. It will be about the deaths that inevitably result from decisions made by people other than the patients, their families, and their physicians. (Perhaps it's helpful to think of their assurances this way: "If you like your end-of-life care, you can keep your end-of-life-care.")

6. We are not SUBJECTS. (or, Nice Try, the Tea Party Isn't Going Away). We have tolerated these incursions into our lives and livelihoods too long already. There is no end to the insatiable demand "progressives" have to remake us in their image. Today it is our insurance, our businesses, our doctors, our health care. Tomorrow some new crusade will be announced that enables them to take over other aspects of our formerly free lives.

I will say it again: WE ARE NOT SUBJECTS. Not only is the Tea Party right on the fiscal issues, but it appears that they are more relevant than ever. We fought a war once to prove we did not want to be the subjects of a king, and the Boston Tea Party was just a taste of the larger conflict to come. If some people missed that lesson in history class, we can give them a refresher.

The 2014 elections are a good place to start. Call your representative, your senator, your candidate and tell them: "We are not subjects. You work for us. And if the word "REPEAL" isn't front and center in your campaign, we won't vote for you. Period."

Laura Hollis is an attorney and teaches entrepreneurship and business law at the University of Notre Dame. She resides in Indiana with her husband and two children.
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NOVEMBER 5, 2008....1 DAY AFTER THE ELECTION


Remember Seinfeld? .....The show about "nothing"?

Well, Generation X has a new Idol, a new Leader. Obama. The candidate who stood for nothing.
Nothing but "Change".

Generation X, now you will discover what he meant by the word "Change". You never bothered to ask what his definition of change was.....you must now accept his definition of "Change". You will have no recourse. Not even a "free press" to herald your grievances when all other forms of redress or petition have vanished. Not anymore.

You squandered your precious vote on a carefully wrapped "mystery package". You spent a lot of your liberty, ..liberty that had been purchased with the blood of generations far more noble than yours, on "nothing".

Obama's slick campaign marketed those words, "Change", and "Hope", the same way that planned parenthood marketed the word "Choice". Sounds so harmless, doesn't it?

But we who were born of parents who didn't buy that evil definition of "choice", your generation included, tried to warn you. And because your parents refused to call Murder "choice", ..you, therefore, exist.
Now you have a leader, who has stated that defining when life begins was "above his pay-grade", who will not be able to guarantee exactly when, why, or how, your own life should end.

You even had before you, in Colorado, a chance to define "Life". Your life. And your Childrens' lives. Once and for all. But you squandered that chance also.

Look up the concepts of "quality of life", "assisted suicide", and the definition of the word "euthanasia", and compare those concepts to the Bill of Rights, the Preamble to the Constitution and The Declaration of Independence. Try to understand what the words "Life", and "Liberty" meant to the Founding Fathers, how they defined it.

Then .....thank God, and your parents, for your own, precious existence.

You may then begin to realize that the ballot you just cast may have been your Last Will and Testament...or a death warrant.

God Bless America

Your Uncle Sam
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Comment by Annette Akerman on February 16, 2014 at 11:14pm

I wrote a sentence in the below wrongly.  What I meant to say in paragraph 2 is:  "Why in heaven's name are the leaders of the States NOT using that to protect its own State citizens?"  I should have reread it before I posted it.

Comment by Annette Akerman on February 16, 2014 at 11:11pm

Great piece and well said; however, it is preaching to the choir!  There is a saying in the Bible that the god of this world blinds the eyes of the unbelievers, and I do believe that is what we are seeing here.  Too many 'good' people, yet without God are still blinded by the god of this world.  We as Americans across the board have accepted into our homes and our lives so many things unacceptable to God that it hardly comes as a surprise that we should have such a rag-tag piece of cow manure running this country; but we do - and by hook or by crook, he was elected.  The first time by the ignorant; the second time by crooked methods, but nonetheless, he is still there! 

However, one aspect of our rights has been severely overlooked, I think.   Each State has its own Constitution, which follows very closely along the lines of our National Constitution.  Why in heaven's name are the leaders of the States using that to protect its own State citizens?  We can pull ourselves away from the national govt. easily enough.  For example, let's take Florida.  We pay taxes to the US govt, and they pay us back 97% of that same money!  Just cut off sending anything to Washington and keep it at home and nullify everything coming out of Washington. 

We're not thinking because we are still trying to hold onto a failed union thanks to the skanks who have usurped it from us.  We need to withdraw completely and let bygones by bygones.  We simply do not need Washington DC or anybody there to tell us what we can already do ourselves FOR ourselves!

Comment by Paul Arnold Browning on February 16, 2014 at 9:55pm

YES we are Philip. God bless us all.

Comment by PHILIP SCHNEIDER on February 16, 2014 at 7:42pm

Dr. Hollis and us are on the same page . . . . WE ARE NOT ALONE!!!

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