It should be obvious to everybody by now. The “Change” Obama intends isn’t what people expected. It’s not more a more “open” government. It isn’t lower taxes for everybody but a few ultra rich people. In fact, it isn’t anything even vaguely like what 99 percent of the people voting expected. Now, it’s not too surprising to a political junkie like me that most people don’t know much about how the government works or what candidates promise or the possibilities and/or impossibilities of various actions. Even the so called pundits on television and members of Congress routinely display an ignorance of history and the Constitution that should, but has long ago ceased to, amaze us.
Take the “Interstate Commerce Clause”. This is, as the name suggests, a part of a sentence in the U.S. Constitution. It is part of the powers specifically given to Congress. Considering the fact that since FDR it has been used to justify more and more expansive powers of the Federal government you wouldn’t think it be completely unknown to most people. During the Bush administration a Democrat Senator was appearing on the “O’Reilly Show” on Fox News Channel. When he mentioned the “Commerce Clause” O’Reilly said he wasn’t prepared to discuss really obscure points of Constitutional Law. The Senator chuckled a little at what he thought was a joke.
Here it is. It says Congress shall have the power….
“To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;”
You can find it yourself in the first section of the United States Constitution which covers the structure and powers of the Congress. Get a free copy from about 100 different sources. One that fits in a man’s shirt pocket is only about 25 or 30 pages. Small pages. Under the 18 (depending on how you count them) specific powers of Congress is the power ….”To regulate Commerce with Foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes.” Pretty clear? Don’t count on it.
Well the Senator laughed at what he thought was a joke since, after all, Mr. O’Reilly has the most popular opinion show on cable TV and has been covering politics and the Supreme Court etc for decades. A minute later he started talking about the Commerce Clause and O’Reilly interrupted him, quite upset. He said something along the lines of “I just told you I don’t know all that technical stuff.” He really meant it, so I’m not suprised that most citizens are even more ignorant than he. Makes it easier to sleep.
For people that actually know what’s going on in the world day by day there is one fact that slaps them in their face over and over. America as we once knew it is dead. And (grammer isn’t important, this is) it’s getting deader. Deader than Nixon. Everything that made America what is was has been destroyed, ignored or perverted. This isn’t a complete list. Just an item or two.
Freedom of Speech. Why was this put into the Constitution as Amendment One? Wasn’t it supposed to be important? Let’s read it.
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
Before you start thinking this is about freedom of SPEECH or something silly let me set you straight. I just copied that from a site called usconstitution dot net. There it is called Amendment 1 - Freedom of Religion, Press, Expression . NOT speech. Welcome to OmeriKa. See, now this Amendment protects flag burning, nude dancing, porn, a lot of things, but NOT speech. Sorry, I lied. Some speech is protected. For example — this is a real federal court decision — someone said Fuck on TV, but that was ok because they said it like “fucking moron” or something. The court said if it referred to actual coitus it could be prohibited. Curses are protected though.
Similarly, you may not give too much money to a political candidate. ”Political” speech can be strictly regulated. Cursing, telling people how to build bombs, talking about luring little kids away to torture and kill them, all kinds of stuff are protected. It’s POLITICAL speech that the founders wanted to limit, forbid or control. I’ll bet YOU thought that THAT was exactly what they wanted to protect. Boy (sic), are YOU confused. Aren’t you?
How about that “interstate commerce”? You probably thought that was talking about people buying and selling stuff across state lines. Silly boy. Ain’t so. It means almost anything. Started when FDR wanted to stop a farmer from growing wheat on his farm and feeding it — on the same farm — to his animals. THAT the government could regulate with this power. You see it COULD have been sold in another state. He COULD have bought wheat from another state. That’s enough.
Over the years, this has been used to justify a lot of garbage, but the latest is beyond anything I ever imagined. Of course, you and Nancy Pelosi have gotten so used to the idea that the Gov can do anything what I am about to say may not have occured to you. Where the hell does the government get the power to tell every American that they have to buy health insurance. NEVER before has this happenned. Stay with me a sec, OK? When someone asked Nancy about where does the government get the authority she just said. “Are you serious? Are you serious?” Yo, bitch. We is.
She obviously had never considered that there were ANY limits to her power, but she had a quick confab with her consigliore, Nadeam Elshami, who came back with a better answer. “You can put this on the record,” said Elshami. “That is not a serious question. That is not a serious question.” You see, if the big lie isn’t big enough and you can’t make it any bigger there’s only one thing you can do. Say it two times. Say it two times. Later, the apparently got in touch with a third grader who told them to say it’s covered by the Interstate Commerce Clause.
This is absolutely the most hilarious application of the ICC ever because almost all health insurance brokers are BY LAW restricted from sell anything across state lines. Oh, what the hell, right? Oh, what the hell, right? Just don’t let Nancy get those damned flying monkeys out after me. I don’t have my bucket of water handy to melt the bitch.
Now, I’ve been studying this a little and you might be interested in the result. NO TYRANT, NO DICTATOR, NO GOVERNMENT has EVER gone this far. Monarchies. Fascists. Commies. Genghis Khan. JENJIS KHAN if you are Senator Kerry. Castro. Pol Pot. Hitler. George W. Bush. SATAN. No ruler has EVER —- studies show —- once you managed to put a coin legally into your own pocket has EVER required you to buy something. EVER. They might tax it. They may put a gun to your head and take it. BUT they have NEVER told you that you must buy some product.
Forget that it is insurance. This isn’t car insurance, where you can choose not to drive. This isn’t home owners where you can choose not to own a home. This is something you have to buy…. WHY? Because we say so. The same ICC logic applies to any and every product and service made or performed in the country. In fact, they are already saying that — with you new health insurance you may be required to buy some tests. Maybe a health club membership. Forget those.
You might have to buy a car every three years if GM is hurting. There simply is no limit. Will they? Who cares? The point is that the Government, who will decide your wages will now have the power to tell you how to spend it. You will buy the food they say. You will buy the clothes they say. Obama knows better. You are an absolute slave to the government now. For your own good. If you resist, you are immoral. If you complain, you are a racist. If you protest….. You may quickly end up dead.
This is not America anymore. Another “hate speech” law passed today. This one to cover one of Obama’s favorite groups, homosexuals. It was just last week he said it was about time we started giving the same respect to two men getting married or two women as we do to a man and a woman. Call me old fashioned. Wait until I finish vomiting. Of course, Obama just got caught sending a secret message to the cubans. When caught he claimed it was something about urging them to improve human rights on the island……. And you keep that a secret why? YOU LIE.
OOOOPS. That bitch at the New York, Maureen Dowd, just heard the word “boy” after that. Did you? I didn’t because I never called a man a boy in my life. Came close one time. I dropped a dollar in my local A&P and a 60ish black man who worked there pointed it out to me. I thanked him. As he walked away past it I told my 3 year old son to pick it up. I actually said. “Pick it up for me, boy. ” DUH. I saw the man’s back stiffen. I’m sure he never quite got that straighten out, whether or not, you know? Thing is — I grew up in New York. The whole boy thing I just never heard except talking to small kids. Hell, they just didn’t talk that way in Jamaica. Queens. Sorry bout that.
Sometimes there are unspoken words when I talk to the President though. Or about him. Not boy, though. Actually, not unspoken much either. When I hear him on the TV I usually make my thoughts clear to anyone listening. I used to “respect the office”, but when I see a man who hates this country and wants to destroy it I can’t respect that. Barrack Hussein Obama despises the United States of America. He sent a secret memo to Vlad Putin promising to remove defensive missiles. He has sent a secret memo to Castro, not to encourage him to treat people better because REAL American Presidents have been doing that for decades. I think he was apoligizing for not making good a secret promise to have the US completely out of Guantanomo bay by now. Not close the prison. “Give back” the harbor and base.
I also believe that one of the reasons he is not reinforcing our troops in Afghanistan is because he wants to invite the Russians to take a position in the country. He believes they have a better right to act in “their sphere of interest” than we do. I believe he feels that IRAN should be a major power in the Middle East and we should stop “meddling”. In his opinion most if not all the problems in that area are cause by British Colonialism and American Imperialism. Was he born in Hawaii? Actually, there are good valid legal arguments that it doesn’t matter. I do know that any very wealthy woman like his grandparents were in Hawaii, a top officer of the largest bank in the state, can get any paperwork she wishes with a couple of hundred or even 50 dollar bills. What did a midwife charge for a delivery in 1961? 50 dollars? I have had 3 children born at home and whatever the midwife writes down that IS the truth. True or not. Heck, for 200 dollars he could have been a twin. The only problem with that birth certificate is what Mom insisted on putting for “religion”. We know she was a “type”. Anybody from the era met a thousand of them. She sure as the sun didn’t put Christian on there. Did she?
Does that matter? Only so far as it explains the hatred and disgust for all things American, British, Western and religious that BHO absorbed, nay had injected, pounded into him like a marinade, again and again and again. Go see “South Pacific” a popular musical of the day.
“You have to be taught to hate and fear, you have to be taught from year to year, it has to be drummed in your dear little ear. You have to be carefully taught.”
You have to be taught, before it’s too late. Before you are six or seven or eight to hate all the people your relatives hate. you have to be carefully TAUGHT”
He learned and he learned to hide it. He wrote a book about it. Smile in their face. All the time you wanna take their place. He learned. To be a back stabber. READ the book. It drips with racism and hatred on every page. I show it to people and they read the first 4 pages where he says that white people walked several blocks in Manhatten to have their dogs crap in front of his building. That’s right. Two black kids on the third floor. Hey, Ton’, go walk yo dog down der and crap by the building.
People stare at me when they hand it back. Is he joking? No, sorry. He talks late about how he changed, right? NOPE, guess again. That. THAT. Not who, because I’m not talking about the man. THAT. THAT UNCONTROLLABLE HATRED is what you elected POTUSA. He wants change alright. He wants to bring this country and its people down. Down to the gutter. He wants revenge. Although after he came to Hawaii and after 10 years old he lived in luxury, went to the finest private schools, wore the best clothes….. It didn’t fix that HATE. His college grades his test scores everything he could hide he has hidden, but somethings always get out.
When he went to Occidental College for his undergraduate work he didn’t put down the fancy Hawaiian schools. He said he was a transfer student from Indonesia. Why? Bad grades? Is lying just a way of life? Or is he embarassed to claim he is from America? He wants the dollar to stop being the worlds reserve currency. That is the only way the US could ever truly go “bankrupt”. He is negotiating a treaty were an international “governmental body” will be able to place vast fines of 100’s of billions of dollars on America again and again and again to “repay the west’s climate debt”. What’s next? One thing is certain. You can keep what’s left of America or you can go down the other road. The one Obama wants to take you down. A one way trip, my friends. In Chicago, when they “take you for a ride” you don’t come back.