The One-Thousand-Dollar Revolution

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) has been the rally cry of the patriot since its presentation as a bill to be voted on by our representatives. From the outset it was known for the affront to our republic that it is. Today, November 2, 2010 we go to vote. For nearly two years we have been engaged in the fight to restrain the implementation of this bill. First, we took to the streets, not even as organized opposition yet, just a bunch of people who could see within the words of the bill the intent to enslave and subject the people to the dictates of tyranny.

Many of us have remained unorganized, but reliably opposed to the law. Others have formed groups and joined groups already formed. Some have used the groups they formed to oppose other illegal legislation and directed their efforts toward the new cause, the new insult to liberty. In all, it has been a great rising up of the people against the opening salvo in a war to end the very concept of individual liberty. Make no mistake, Obamacare is designed to make that one last leap toward socialism, to bring about the conflict that will leave, by judicial ruling, the Constitution in tatters and the freedoms guaranteed therein subject to further review.

The passing of Obamacare was intended as a challenge, a calling out of the defenders of the Constitution to put up or shut up. One might think that Barack Obama didn’t want to see all of the resistance and resentment the law has caused, but I think that is wrong. When an established force seeks to wage war against an insurgency the best way to expose the insurgents is to give them cause to reveal themselves. Is that not what we have done? Have we not brought our faces forward and revealed our names?

When I see the President walking back and forth on a stage with a microphone talking about the opponents of his prized legislation as if they are backward-thinking hicks who cannot understand his eloquent explanations of the benefits, I see a man frustrated that his price has been rejected. He appears to be chagrined by the repudiation of his offer, but that only fuels his desire to bring the resistance under his thumb, to “punch back twice as hard” those who would stand in his way. It is the nasty, little thug that appears at such times.

There is a lot of talk now, even in credible publications, of a coming “unrest” some even openly consider a civil war. This is not by accident. If it occurs to the reader that people like Barack Obama are egging on this conflict, I don’t think they are far off. I see no signs of correction, of taking a step back to consider the consequences of his actions. To the contrary, I see a redoubling of efforts. The Obama Administration appears to be digging in for the long fight. There is a supposition that the President will take advantage of the Executive Order to accomplish that which he no longer has congressional support to accomplish through traditional means.

The only question left to be answered is: When is enough enough? It seems to me that the little collectivists in the government, the good little socialists who daily staff the congressional offices, have included the signal flare in the legislation. As most know, there is a provision for compelling participation in Obamacare that requires one to pay a fine of a thousand dollars, maybe more, should they not purchase health care coverage from the exchange. This provision is the substance of several lawsuits being brought against the law by twenty state Attorneys General.

This is the moment, the dividing line between acquiescence and rebellion. To pay the fine is to agree to subjugation.

The Obama Administration and the hundreds of representatives and senators who have foisted this challenge upon the American people actually seek the conflict. They have nothing to lose and everything to gain. They know that if the American people swallow that pill, they accept the terms of slavery. The Constitution will never mean anything again, because in that act they acknowledge that government is unlimited and can compel the individual to do whatever the government shall dictate. Freedom stops there.

And, if there is a fight? Well, then the government gets to identify, vilify and incarcerate their opponents. What better way to round up the most able and ideological citizens? Why let them foment discontent and spread their fighting spirit when they can be taken care of in one short exchange? From their point of view, there is no downside to the coming conflict, because they are relying on the laziness and corruption of the American people. Why? Because they have encouraged the sloth and unprincipled behavior of our youth. They have allowed them all the imagineable excesses and distracted them with shiny trinkets and available drugs. The adults are no better with their programs and grants and subsidies. Why put a stop to the border invasion of drug dealers? Why put a stop to the immigration of people who have no respect for American tradition? Why put a stop to Islamist separatism? None of those things work against the goals of the anti-Constitutionalist statists, but for them.

So, what are you being asked to sacrifice for this refusal to pay the fine? Your lives, your fortune and your sacred honor. That’s all.

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Cross-posted at Tea Party News.