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Obamacare: Guess We Can’t Keep Our Pharmacist, Either

23 Saturday Nov 2013

Posted by subconch in America, Family, Liberty, Politics

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aca, keep your doctor, keep your health plan, keep your pharmacist, lies, obamacare, ppaca, tyranny

…at least for some drugs… until some further notice…

I don’t know about you all, but my family has a close and enduring and trusting relationship with our pharmacist. It is akin even to the bond we have with our doctors, who likewise we have regular interaction.

Today, when dropping off a routine prescription, our local pharmacist hesitated, saying momentarily, that they may not be able to fill one of them, while internally determining firstly if they had enough left in stock, and secondly the amount of money they’d have to ‘eat’ in the transaction. You see, as yet another consequence of the so-called ‘law’ named Obamacare, the wholesale cost of a wide range of drugs has necessarily skyrocketed.

What this means to our pharmacist of course is that it costs them more to buy the drugs, and in this case, 400% more (in other cases a greater deal more). And since this drug costs them more, they must in turn charge us more for it.

Then here is the deal. Our insurance plan (and the plans of many others), for the time being, and until and if then, some undetermined time, will only reimburse our pharmacist for this drug at the rate they were paying prior to the insane overnight spike in the cost of this drug. As a result, our pharmacist can no longer afford to sell us this drug (taking a loss), and must send us packing, toward the closest big-chain drug store, who might better be able to afford to absorb the loss.

Frankly, I am incensed at this. We Americans were promised that we could keep our health plans, that we could keep our doctors, should the Affordable Care Act become law. For millions of us, and for millions more to come, the promises are proven nothing more than hollow, malicious, manipulative lies. And now, apparently, neither can we keep our pharmacists.

Now I’ve not done research whatever into this situation, having only spoken to our pharmacist, and then taken to my pen in protest, but aside from the obvious and blatant affront to our liberty by the federal government that this represents, this pharmaceutical gouge reeks of backroom deals between fat-assed lobbyist nobles and fat-assed power-hungry politicians. This is tyranny.

We know we are not going to keep our health plans, we know that our health costs are going to be more expensive (my premiums have risen 82% since the PPACA was passed), we know we are not going to keep our doctors, we know we are not going to keep our full-time jobs, and now, we can guess that we can’t keep our pharmacists, either.

We could also say we won’t get to keep our country, if we had not lost that a good time ago.

Elections have consequences, and thanks to you, my family and millions of other families are being harmed, millions more are set to see their harm, and ultimately, so too will you be harmed. And do not for a minute think that obamacare is the end of it.

~tdv, pissed

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The Seeds of the National Crazy Registry Bear Fruit [update]

10 Wednesday Apr 2013

Posted by subconch in America, Liberty, Politics

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2nd amendment, 4th amendment, 5th amendment, gun control, gun rights, mental health, molon labe, property rights, tyranny

***Update, 04.11.2013:
Turns out the NY State Police targeted the wrong guy for confiscation. All just an innocent mistake, you see, that a man was unjustly flagged as mentally unfit and treated like a criminal and ordered to give up his guns; that this man was accidently picked from a list (just a guess)  that he shouldn’t be on because the list shouldn’t exist. No harm, no foul, huh? This might well mean that somebody else is the “right” guy, I mean, victim. No word if he got his letter yet.
***

Via protein wisdom:

If you take anti-anxiety drugs your pistol permit can be revoked. Just as I predicted would happen.

[…]

And just so we’re clear on the implications here: if a state can revoke your pistol permit because you are on anxiety medication — which, incidentally, is a treatment, which would seem to suggest that the anxiety has been controlled — it can revoke your permit for any number of “medical” or “mental health” issues, all of which they’ll be privy to as a function of ObamaCare.

The linked story is about a legal gun owner in NY who received a notice from the state ordering him to surrender his weapons to the local police (who knew about him, and were readied to pay him a visit had he not shown up at the station), and that his gun permit was being suspended. Why? He had a short-term health issue requiring meds, a private issue that his doctor didn’t disclose to any authority. No criminal record. No violent acts. No problem with the law. Just a medical record… CRIMINAL!

Are you okay with the state rifling through your private medical records, without a warrant, in search of a reason to deprive you of your property, or for that matter, any reason whatever? Do you know what country you live in? Have you ever heard of the Constitution?

Amendment IV:

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

Amendment V:

No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.

Back in January, I too had a bad feeling about all that “mental health” talk, purporting in tandem with or in lieu of stricter gun control, to be a preferred primary objective of governmental introspection for many post-Newtown reactionary hysterics.

Guns… mental health… Equally outside the scope of the federal govt. They’ve NO business in our holsters, OR in our heads. #tcot #tlot

— subconch (@subconch) January 10, 2013

Again, careful this "mental health" talk. Who gets to DEFINE "sane enough" to own a firearm, or have rights ftm? HHS? #backdoor #guncontrol

— subconch (@subconch) January 15, 2013

… and from Mental Health, and the Consequence of the National Crazy Registry:

Then, amongst the barrage of gun-hysteria-linked-”mental health”-hysteria, Obama puts out his 23 Executive Actions to Address Gun Violence, 01.16.13 (which is translated here):

[…]

All of this is clearly aimed at growing the list (see NICS below) of those prohibited from buying firearms (the gun-forbidden list), by way of growing the “these people are crazy” list. A neat little trick.

Break down the walls of privacy, encourage doctors to snoop and report, assure them they’ll get paid for the process, start the “dialogue”(code for propaganda), and then ultimately define crazy down. You know, lower the threshold for the honor of placement on the list.

But it’s deeper still. The bad guys don’t submit to background checks. They get their guns. Everybody knows this. So why else compile a national registry of “crazy” people? So that they can be controlled, limited, manipulated, blackmailed, and otherwise deprived of liberty, of course. If you don’t think such a database has the potential to be abused as a tool of oppression, both by government and citizen, then you are a naive child.

Consider as well, the consequence to those who are truly in need of mental health services who, upon learning of this growing national mental defective registry, might not seek help at all, so as to stay off the list. Think of that for a moment…

This.Is.Tyranny

…but hey, the architects have for themselves the appropriate appellation (D), so it must be okay.

~tdv

Related:

  • A Translation of the List of President Obama’s 23 Executive Actions to Address Gun Violence
  • Who’s REALLY “Ginning Up Fear on the Part of Gun Owners”? Hint: It’s not other gun owners.
  • Outed Gun Owners are Victims of Lawless Mobs.
  • Crazy is Always Armed
  • Reactional Saviors

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ObamaCare 20,000 Pages – 72% More Complex than All U.S. Law Compiled in First 124 Years!

15 Friday Mar 2013

Posted by subconch in America, Family, Liberty, Life, Politics

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124 years of US law 5700 pages, comparison, complexity, obamacare 20000 pages, tyranny

Here’s the photo that’s been circulating of the (thus far) printed 20,000 pages of ObamaCare regulations, edited to show this behemoth’s scale in reference to the 1913 “Compiled Statutes of the United States“, which totals only 5,700 pages.

One “law”, ObamaCare, so far is 72% more complex than ALL federal law amassed in our country during its first 124 years! Just think about that for a moment. Ask yourself, “How could ObamaCare possibly work?” Then, considering the massive scope of unconstitutional, unchecked, arbitrary powers in the hands of unknown elitist bureaucrats to control our lives, ask yourself “How could America possibly call herself free?”

This.Is.Tyranny

ObamaCare's 20,000 pages (and growing) compared to 5,700 pages of ALL U.S. law compiled in our first 124 years.

ObamaCare’s 20,000 pages (and growing) compared to 5,700 pages of ALL U.S. law compiled in our first 124 years.

The internal effects of a mutable policy are still more calamitous. It poisons the blessings of liberty itself. It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood: if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes, that no man who knows what the law is to-day, can guess what it will be to-morrow. Law is defined to be a rule of action; but how can that be a rule, which is little known and less fixed.

~James Madison, Federalist No. 62, par. 16

~
I tweeted this comparison and image edit here on 03.13.
Original image credit below:

#ObamaCare regulations – 828 pages in one day. Overall, there are nearly 20,000 pages – with many more to come. pic.twitter.com/G5szuiSpzJ

— Sen. McConnell Press (@McConnellPress) March 11, 2013

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Mental Health, and the Consequence of the National Crazy Registry

29 Tuesday Jan 2013

Posted by subconch in Liberty, Politics

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abuse of power, background checks, consequence, defining crazy down, gun control, mental health, nics, privacy, tyranny

Anybody starting to see where this is headed?

Just caught this bit from Fox News Radio:
  “A new way of determining whether someone is suffering from mental illness- check out their Facebook profile.“

As I alluded to on Jan. 10: “Guns… mental health… Equally outside the scope of the federal govt. They’ve NO business in our holsters, OR in our heads.”
…and on Jan. 14: “Again, careful this “mental health” talk. Who gets to DEFINE “sane enough” to own a firearm, or have rights for that matter? HHS? #backdoor #guncontrol”

Then, amongst the barrage of gun-hysteria-linked-“mental health”-hysteria, Obama puts out his 23 Executive Actions to Address Gun Violence, 01.16.13 (which is translated here):

#2. Address unnecessary legal barriers, particularly relating to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, that may prevent states from making information available to the background check system.
#16. Clarify that the Affordable Care Act does not prohibit doctors asking their patients about guns in their homes.
#17. Release a letter to health care providers clarifying that no federal law prohibits them from reporting threats of violence to law enforcement authorities.
#20. Release a letter to state health officials clarifying the scope of mental health services that Medicaid plans must cover.
#21. Finalize regulations clarifying essential health benefits and parity requirements within ACA exchanges.
#22. Commit to finalizing mental health parity regulations.
#23. Launch a national dialogue led by Secretaries Sebelius(HHS) and Duncan(Education) on mental health.

All of this is clearly aimed at growing the list (see NICS below) of those prohibited from buying firearms (the gun-forbidden list), by way of growing the “these people are crazy” list. A neat little trick.

Break down the walls of privacy, encourage doctors to snoop and report, assure them they’ll get paid for the process, start the “dialogue” (code for propaganda), and then ultimately define crazy down. You know, lower the threshold for the honor of placement on the list.

But it’s deeper still. The bad guys don’t submit to background checks. They get their guns. Everybody knows this. So why else compile a national registry of “crazy” people? So that they can be controlled, limited, manipulated, blackmailed, and otherwise deprived of liberty, of course. If you don’t think such a database has the potential to be abused as a tool of oppression, both by government and citizen, then you are a naive child.

Consider as well, the consequence to those who are truly in need of mental health services who, upon learning of this growing national mental defective registry, might not seek help at all, so as to stay off the list. Think of that for a moment…

~tdv

NICS, the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (the gun-forbidden list) is maintained by the FBI, and contributed to by, among others, mental health institutions, psychiatrists, and family members, prohibiting those “adjudicated as mental defectives“, et al. from buying guns (at least through a federally licensed dealer).

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Who’s REALLY “Ginning Up Fear on the Part of Gun Owners”? Hint: It’s not other gun owners.

16 Wednesday Jan 2013

Posted by subconch in America, Liberty, Politics

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2nd amendment, confiscation, fear, gun control, gun rights, liberty, self defense, straw man, tyranny, U.S. Constitution

Mon, 01.14.2013, Barack Hussein Obama:

As far as people lining up and purchasing more guns, I think that we’ve seen for some time now that those who oppose any common-sense gun control or gun safety measures have a pretty effective way of ginning up fear on the part of gun owners that somehow the federal government is about to take all your guns away. And there’s probably an economic element to that.  It’s obviously is good for business.

So, according to O, 2nd Amendment supporters and evil capitalists are ginning up gun owners’ fears.  Why, because they dare mention what left wingers are saying about the issue? And this from the insulting premise that gun rights advocates oppose “any” kind of gun safety measures, as if to say none exist already. To counter this manipulative craft, I thought I’d lay out some real reasons that gun owners might be worried, and should be.  For brevity, I’ll stick mostly with what has “ginned” people up since the Dec 14th 2012 Newtown CT killings, and before Obama made this asinine and malicious statement.

Firstly, this President has shown his disrespect for the U.S. Constitution, and everybody knows it, even his supporters, who applaud him for it, particularly when that disrespect serves them.  So if Obama and friends don’t like the Constitution generally, why would anyone expect that they’d respect its 2nd Amendment protections, specifically?

Then there is the “never let a crisis go to waste” mentality, famously spewed by his Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel a few years back.  True to form, just five days after Newtown, Obama used the deaths of those children to have his way with Republican “folks” on the fiscal cliff debate, saying “After what we’ve gone through over the past several months, a devastating hurricane and now one of the worse tragedies in our memory, the country deserves the folks to be willing to compromise for the greater good.”  The point: If he is willing to dance on graves of little kids over something entirely unrelated, what else might he be capable of using it for, especially if he can fake a relation?

Oh, and I’ll add, the President did virtually nothing on gun issues in his first term (a good thing), presumably for gun-grabbing’s unpopularity, and he wanted a second term, which now he has, which means now in his mind he has been mandated king and supreme ruler of America, which means he can now openly not care about popularity, and which, altogether, means he is more dangerous to the Constitution and our general liberties than before.

And, if I may further digress, consider as another possible reason for increased gun sales: the general fear of impending economic collapse in America, and the aftermath that it would bring; a fear exacerbated by the fact that the same Democrat politicians in the White House and Senate that have been destroying our economy, that have racked up Six Thousand Billion Dollars in NEW national debt, that have devalued our money, etc., these same people are still in power after the November 2012 elections.

So who’s to say what percentage of recent increases in the gun market applies to people suspicious of an ever increasingly power-hungry government, anyway?  Could be, that many just saw the news of the shootings and said “The country’s gone insane. I’m gettin’ a gun.”

Back to fear ginning… That IS what I was talking about, is it not?  To the extent that folks are buying more firearms out of fear of inevitable government confiscation of the same, the following rhetoric and real intentions, vomited from the bellies of anti-gun, exploitative, opportunistic reactionaries, is the real source of unease.

~~~

Sun, 12.16.12: Obama vowed to use “whatever power this office holds” to prevent “more tragedies like this.”
~ See above on O’s view of Presidential power.

Tue, 12.18.12: White House says President will “actively support” reinstatement of federal assault weapons ban, will support upcoming Feinstein (Sen. D-CA) legislation, close the “gun show loophole” on background checks, and stop sale on high-capacity ammo clips. W.H. said Obama pleased that pro-gun Democrats are with him.
~ “Assault weapons” only look scary, fire one bullet per squeeze, and are less destructive than other weapons that don’t get banned because they don’t look so scary, FYI.  Basically, every weapon is an assault weapon, when wielded by a person committing assault, even if they are using the weapon as a club, which also means an assault weapon doesn’t have to be a gun. It’s a manipulative terminology, nothing more.

Thu, 12.20.12, Reuters: Unburdened by re-election worries and empowered by law to act without Congress, U.S. President Barack Obama could take action to improve background checks on gun buyers, ban certain gun imports and bolster oversight of dealers. […]  The administration also has leeway to act in how it defines certain categories of people prohibited from buying a gun.  Federal law bars anyone “who has been adjudicated as a mental defective,” but it does not specify whether that means only a court can disqualify someone, said Michael Volkov, a former Republican Justice Department official now at the law firm LeClairRyan.
~ The Congress makes law, and NOTHING “empowers” the president to make law without Congress. This is ridiculous. Read the Constitution.  Also, insinuating that the President and his boys have the power to “categorize” us for the sake of prohibition, is as sick as the insinuation.

Thu, 12.20.12: Andrew Cuomo (D-Gov.-NY) [assault weapon] “Confiscation could be an option. Mandatory sale to the state could be an option…”
~ Confiscation. um… confiscation… thoughts from the Governor of NY. Think about that.

Sat, 12.22.12: “The Journal News”, an upstate NY paper, published on their website an interactive map indicating the names and addresses of all pistol permit holders in two NY counties, including the classification of the permit, i.e. unrestricted, premises, target, hunting, etc.
~ This an open assault on law-abiding gun owners, meant solely to demonize them, and out them as if they were sexual predators. One direct consequence of this maliciousness is the invitation to gun thieves to burglarize the homes. The other consequence is the possible identification of those who are not armed, another invitation to criminals.

Thu, 12.27.12, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) posts summary of legislation to be introduced in 2013:
* Bans the sale, transfer, importation, or manufacturing of: 120 specifically-named firearms; Certain other semiautomatic rifles, handguns, shotguns that can accept a detachable magazine and have one or more military characteristics; and Semiautomatic rifles and handguns with a fixed magazine that can accept more than 10 rounds.
* Strengthens the 1994 Assault Weapons Ban and various state bans by: Moving from a 2-characteristic test to a 1-characteristic test; Eliminating the easy-to-remove bayonet mounts and flash suppressors from the characteristics test; and Banning firearms with “thumbhole stocks” and “bullet buttons” to address attempts to “work around” prior bans.
* Bans large-capacity ammunition feeding devices capable of accepting more than 10 rounds. *Grandfathering weapons legally possessed on the date of enactment; Requires that grandfathered weapons be registered under the National Firearms Act, to include: Background check of owner and any transferee; Type and serial number of the firearm; Positive identification, including photograph and fingerprint; Certification from local law enforcement of identity and that possession would not violate State or local law; and
* Dedicated funding for ATF to implement registration.
~ Looks like a whole lot of banning, and a whole lot of confiscation, unless you want to be booked and catalogued like a common criminal in order to keep “certain” arms that you already own, and a whole lot of criminalizing innocent law-abiding citizens for not wanting to be booked… Have you started shopping yet? And on that last bullet point, one has to ask HOW MUCH funding, and more importantly, one has to ask what place it is in the first place, for the federal government to legislate alcohol, tobacco, or firearms inside the country at all. Again, read the Constitution.

Sat, 01.05.13, Mark Green on Hannity’s show: “230 years, there was never an individual right to own a handgun. Scalia found it a few years ago”
~ There’s a novel idea! If you can’t take people’s liberty outright, pretend that that liberty never existed to start with.

~~~

Just remembered this is a blog post, and not a book…

These are only a small sampling, of course, of where it is those of the liberal anti-gun persuasion in media and in power, who are in fact the REAL cause of angst among gun owners, NOT gun rights advocates. Obama is flat out lying, making a straw man of law-abiding Americans who respect liberty, so that he can beat them with a stick.

Every progression in aggression against gun owners and their rights creates an equal progression in distrust of the government insisting on this aggression, and it naturally follows that the people WILL increase their measure of defense against a government that assaults them, and WILL assault them.

~tdv

Hat tip to Jeff Goldstein, and his site protein wisdom, whose archives over that past month served as a guide to put together much of these examples. Jeff’s analysis on this issue (and myriad other issues) has been reliably informed and informative, truthful, justifiably blunt, and to say well-written would be an insult. And the commenters over there as well, comprise a plethora of intelligence and smartness, and a prime example of true liberty loving Americans. Just my unaffiliated opinion. You should check it out.

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Crazy is Always Armed

03 Thursday Jan 2013

Posted by subconch in Liberty

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2nd amendment, gun rights, leftism, liberty, political opportunism, statism, tyranny

Crazy is always armed.

Obama & ilk ARE assault weapons… if the targets of attack happen to be the Constitution & individual rights.
rel: “President Obama to push assault weapons ban in second term”

This man is not only un-American, he is soulless. Misery is just a useful pulpit.  http://youtu.be/J04EnXTS3KE
h/t: Gross. Barack Obama Uses Sandy Hook Massacre to Push Tax Hikes (Video)

We don’t need the Bill of Rights to tell us, what WE already know. It’s an example to politicians of where THEY cannot go.
Hamilton said of the Bill of Rights: “why declare that things shall not be done, which there is no power to do?” ~fed.84,par.10

“Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been and ever will be pursued until it be obtained, or until liberty be lost in the pursuit.”
(abridged)  ~James Madison, Federalist No.51, par.10

Read~> Repeal of the 2nd Amendment would not Abolish any Right

It’s not that they enjoy “putting you in your place” so much, it’s that they thrive on creating that place to put you in.

“declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.”… “establishment of an absolute Tyranny”
from the Declaration of Independence

Government will never be through with you until you are through with it, which means it will never be through with you.

It was expected that the national (and federal) govt would be out of reach of those temporary propensities that beget oppressive schemes…Federalist No.27 (par.2)
…yet current-day Democrats, leftists, thrive on and promote momentary passions as a means to oppressive ends.

Madison defined “faction” as a no. of citizens (min. or maj.) united & actuated by common impulse, adverse to the rights of other citizens…Federalist No.10 (par.2)
…Today we define “faction” as the Democrat Party, their leftist media bloc, and the people submitted.

another prelude to another compromise for another incremental theft of liberty: ~prescient~> Don’t worry. They aren’t coming for your guns, wingnuts. Until they are.
“You WILL be a felon, because once you’re a criminal, more of your rights can be taken away…” ~Jeff G.

It has been asked, “Who’s going to stop them?” But a better question might be, “Who’s going to stop us from stopping them?” …US?
…it’s not what you think I mean, it’s what I mean to think.

All that remains are the faint echo of liberty, and the thunderous voice of tyranny. Speak, or be spoken for, and to.

Informative Read~> Guns and Truth by delacroixjacques, and be sure to check the fine response to a comment by keimh3regpeh2umeg (Hank), also found here.

Related Here: Reactional Saviors,  This is a GUN ZONE… Don’t Get Stupid

~~~

Note: Thoughts are mine, ~tdv (@subconch), except as quoted/linked. Links to tweets included if you are inclined to RT or reply there.

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State Govts’ Equal Duty to Secure the Blessings of Liberty

29 Saturday Dec 2012

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federalism, federalist no.28, liberty, role of govt, state power, state sovereignty, states rights, tyranny

From obamacare, to attacks on our right to defend ourselves and our borders, to affronts to religious liberty, to generational theft to the tune of $16 Trillion and growing, to massive and burdensome unconstitutional regulations that are killing our prosperity and freedom, the federal (now national centralized) government has become fully detached from its constitutional moorings.

This we can attribute to our general ignorance as a people, for the United States is a representative republic. Nonetheless, we are here, beneath the thumb of powers that know no bounds, manipulated by a popular cultural media that knows no honor.

The ultimate remedy lies with an informed people, and as I’ve written, with the States wherein they reside. Though many States are as far gone as the national government, it appears that the majority still hold to the principles of republican and limited government, and need only assert their sovereign authority. For my part, I will increase my (confessedly lacking) attentions to State and local politics, lending support to my representatives where they stand against the encroaching central power.

the primary role of government

…secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity…

It was an axiom (accepted truth) at our founding that States “afford complete security against invasions” of liberty by the natl govt… @

…The States, “possessing all the organs of civil power & the confidence of the people” can unite & oppose the fed govt. ~Federalist No.28 @

It is not a matter of power that walls the States and The People against the tyranny of their federal creature, it is a matter of Will. ~tdv @

Governors and States Legislatures have a DUTY to defend the rights of their citizens against unconstitutional affronts by the federal govt! ~tdv @

For more on the U.S. Constitution, and the authority of the States, visit:
Publius-Huldah’s Blog: Understanding the Constitution &
The Tenth Amendment Center

Federalist No.28, par.08, Alexander Hamilton~

It may safely be received as an axiom in our political system, that the state governments will, in all possible contingencies, afford complete security against invasions of the public liberty by the national authority. Projects of usurpation cannot be masked under pretences so likely to escape the penetration of select bodies of men, as of the people at large. The legislatures will have better means of information; they can discover the danger at a distance; and possessing all the organs of civil power, and the confidence of the people, they can at once adopt a regular plan of opposition, in which they can combine all the resources of the community. They can readily communicate with each other in the different states; and unite their common forces, for the protection of their common liberty.

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Punish the Farmers!

14 Friday Dec 2012

Posted by subconch in Liberty, Politics

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arbitrary power, government, justice, liberty, medical device tax, obamacare, satire, tyranny, who's next?

What say we arbitrarily single out farmers for punishment?

You know, like we do with numerous and various other producers of stuff.  I mean, they can afford it, like those rich evil bastards that make medical products that doctors and nurses use to make people healthy. Bastards!

They need punished, I say, with a special tax that nobody else has to pay! Them farmers… producing food… man! They’re not really people, anyhow.

And while we’re at it, we’ll be punishing the people that work for the farmers, and their families; the people who buy and eat the food, and their families; the people who make a living making stuff that the farmers use to farm, and their families; we’ll punish them all, but we’ll just talk about punishing the farmers, ‘cause we have got to keep up appearances, you see.

Consequences are not really consequences, so it’s all okay, because the fines we took to penalize the farmers for being farmers, we will just give some of that money to the invisible peripheral people we punished, and we’ll say “We’re here to help”, and “Look what those farmers did to you”, and “We’ve made food cheaper for everyone and available to everyone”. Nobody will be the wiser, least of all the people who hire us to do the stuff we feel like doing, like the people we just peripherally punished.

We won’t either talk about how the farmers, in this country at least, will have less money to invest in figuring out ways to grow and harvest food at lesser expense to the people who eat, since we and some of the farmers’ victims will have that money.

It is settled. It is done. We have made up our collective minds. You just witnessed the greatness of our reason.

This is a fine idea, because we say it is, and because our friends on TV say it is, too. Justice is what we say it is, and you will see in the end, that it’s best when we single people out for random punishment. You’ll see, we promise.

Oh, and the motion picture industry, people who make forks, the rap music industry, people who make toilet paper, and those rich evil bastards that make products for pets, all of these need punished, too. You’ll see, I promise. Justice!

~betters.gov

P.S. If you are one of the bastards herein mentioned, please quietly consider our subjective reprisals upon your existence as merely another cost of doing business, and accept with heartfelt gratitude that we benevolently permit you to be. (smiley face)

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Blind Siege, Bearing Weight, Random Slab Cracks, No

06 Thursday Dec 2012

Posted by subconch in Random

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benghazi, fiscal cliff, gop, law, nullification, obamacare, self destruction, theft, tyranny, U.S. Constitution, walter williams

$16.3TTT Debt… $52k for every Man, Woman, and Democrat! That’s $208,000 for my double-wide-full… and nobody here even got a phone. @ 12.01.12

HHS dictatorial regime to PUNISH the people of non-exchange States. #obamacare #arbitrary #power @ 12.01.12 h/t Bluegrass Pundit

On a happy note, someone learned today that all govt $$$ comes from people, & “free” stuff is actually taken from some person who earned it. @ 12.01.12

We have laid blind siege on our invisible selves, and upon the carcass of freedom’s memory, this shall be laid bare. @ 12.01.12

The Constitution is the foundation on which a House of Laws is built, but beneath a Tower of Decrees it is crushed, and buried to obscurity. @ 12.01.12

That THIS is EVEN a TOPIC of DISCUSSION tells you EVERYTHING you NEED to KNOW!!!~> Govt after 401(k)s? @ 11.30.12

Elite GOP “Pallbearers of Liberty”, extinction of principled conservatism, extinction of the American republic. ~Alan Keyes @ 11.30.12

Walter E Williams’ affirmation that the States have EVERY right to say NO! In this case, with respect to obamacare. (tweeted here @ 11.30)
~Also see my article: Once we were States. Once we would say “NO”

Wonder if the GOP Platform was just paper, like the therein-referenced 60+ times U.S. Constitution, was just paper? @ 11.30.12

What about that CLIFF that obama pushed those 4 Americans over in #Benghazi!? @ 11.30.12

Note: The preceding random musings are mine, except as quoted/linked. ~tdv (@subconch) The @ symbols take you to the specific quotes on twitter if you care to RT, Favorite, or Reply.

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Randoms: The Grapes Ain’t Sour, They’re RIPE

16 Friday Nov 2012

Posted by subconch in America, Business, Family, Liberty

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business, checks and balances, consequence, constitution, corruption, experts, liberty, posterity, preparation, regulation, rino, seccession, tyranny, vote fraud

The Constitution is the Governor of the government. (ya know, engines use a ‘governor’ device to regulate power & prevent self-destruction) @ 11.15.12

Too many sayin’ who says, not enough sayin’ SAYS WHO!?… That’s what I’m sayin’. @ 11.14.12

We should expect that our tyrants have anticipated whatever the form of our defiance. @ 11.12.12

Where we go from here is precisely where our grandchildren will wind up. I pray they will know where we almost went. #liberty #posterity @ 11.12.12

Bet there’s NO Exit Poll data in those 59 Philly divisions where Romney got Zero votes. #votefraud @ 11.12.12

https://twitter.com/RandallHoven/status/268028971499786240

So obama’s ‘win’, facilitated by division, lies, cover-up, media complicity, vote fraud, & exploiting the ignorant, means WE cease to EXIST? @ 11.12.12

Just a Warm-up~> 6,125 O’admin Proposed Regulations and Notifications Posted in Last 90 Days–Ave. 68/day h/t @mclean_2  @ 11.11.12

White House website deluged with secession petitions from 20 states ~David Martosko 11.11.12
…wonder if this occurred in ’08, or ’04 even? @ 11.12.12

The Fallout Has Begun…Welcome to the societal version of Nuclear Winter by Bob Belvedere 11.11.12
Quoting Editing Mike Hendrix: “May the Moron Majority have joy of their tin God ‘Golden Calf’ and all his mighty works.”

Seeing these R’s & D’s on FNS talking about the cliff… come away thinking SCHEMERS all, and I don’t know what the hell they’re saying. @ 11.11.12

Preparation does not portend inevitability, but rather is a bulwark against surrender to a possibility. @ 11.11.12

Great Read~> After Obama: The Coming Reign of Incredibly Small Government
By Andrew K. Boyle 11.11.12

Libs trounce biz w/ regulation, obamacare – biz lays-off & part-times workers to survive – libs boycott biz… now That’s LOGIC!!! @ 11.11.12

Despair! Again the Executive branch is Tyrannical… Did we FORGET that Constitutional Checks & Balances exist? #House #States #JustSayNO @ 11.11.12

Some anger comes from the same place as love. @ 11.09.12

Liars, CHEATS, and thieves… any of the above is bad, and ALL of the ABOVE is EVIL, the left, obama, and his corrupt media and enablers. @ 11.09.12

In addition to the Left being ‘ALL OF THE ABOVE’ liars, cheats & thieves, that’s how they see themselves hovering over rest of US. @ 11.09.12

Toldya. Obama won many precincts in Ohio & PA with 100% of the vote with 100%-plus turnout. Just like Saddam Hussein. http://t.co/IVnYQnDv

— Ann Barnhardt (@AnnBarnhardt) November 9, 2012

Why Accept Tyranny and Ruin? ~J.Robert Smith 11.09
…or WHEN will we accept, separate from, or just say “Enough” of it? @ 11.09.12

Boehner: “Obamacare is forever”… “TEA Party Caucus Never”… and this guy “speaks” for OUR representatives? @ 11.09.12

Prepare for Liberty~> RT @Wendypowerboatr “Maybe we all just need to ‘Shrug'”… @ 11.09.12

Wonder how many voted to lose their jobs… because they COULD!? @ 11.09.12

“Well done America … the following companies have all announced layoffs …” [Darleen Click] …after the not-near-inclusive-list, there’s this, just makes my stomach sick:

I’m a California Republican (I know, masochistic, right?) and the local talk radio is full of small business owners calling in and discussing their plans. One man, owner of a trucking firm in Ventura — 75 employees, $6 mill payroll, discussed how even as times have been tough over the last few years, he’s made it a point to make his payroll, even dipping into his own savings. He was walking by the breakroom and heard some of his employees snickering about the election and they had wanted Obama to stay President to make sure the rich pay. He then thought “what am I putting myself at risk? He then went and canceled his order for 6 new trucks (approximately $600,000 worth of an order) and is planning to layoff 20 or more people. So sad, too bad.

Note: The preceding random musings are mine, except as quoted/linked. ~tdv (@subconch) The @ symbols take you to the specific quotes on twitter if you care to RT, Favorite, or Reply.

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