If you had a chance to make a difference by speaking to the US Congress, would you hold back? Or would you go all out and make what is possibly one of the best speeches ever heard on that floor? Would you go hard or would you go home?
Michael F. Cannon went hard. Really, really hard.
Cannon is the author of Healthy Competition: What’s Holding Back Health Care and How to Free It and the director of health policy studies for the Cato Institute, “a public policy research organization dedicated to the principles of individual liberty, limited government, free markets and peace.” (And one of the best sources of information around, in my opinion.)
He recently testified to the Congress about Obamacare. Here is just a little of what he had to say.
During a congressional committee hearing about the constitutional limits imposed on the presidency and the implications of President Barack Obama’s disregard for implementing the Affordable Care Act as written, one expert testified that the consequences of the president’s behavior were potentially grave. He said that the precedent set by Obama could eventually lead to an armed revolt against the federal government.
On Tuesday, Michael Cannon, Cato Institute’s Director of Health Policy Studies, testified before a congressional committee about the dangers of the president’s legal behavior.
“There is one last thing to which the people can resort if the government does not respect the restrains that the constitution places on the government,” Cannon said. “Abraham Lincoln talked about our right to alter our government or our revolutionary right to overthrow it.”
“That is certainly something that no one wants to contemplate,” he continued. “If the people come to believe that the government is no longer constrained by the laws then they will conclude that neither are they.”
“That is a very dangerous sort of thing for the president to do, to wantonly ignore the laws,” Cannon concluded, “to try to impose obligation upon people that the legislature did not approve.”
Is it just me or do you hear an inspiring patriotic soundtrack playing softly in the background of this speech? It really is that good.
Cannon is not alone in his fervent belief that the current administration is overstepping all legal and political boundaries. During the Obama reign, he has led the country down the path to socialism and economic collapse. (Just take a look at Venezuela if you want to see how well socialism works.) He has been at war for longer than any president, ever. He signed the TransPacific Free Trade Agreement, the Dark Act, and the Monsanto Protection Act, all despite enormous outcry from the people. The list of transgressions against Americans could go on and on. Of course, he isn’t alone in this war on freedom. Members of congress sold out to special interest groups and allowed this stuff to go on.
But with the misnamed “Affordable Care Act” he instituted a forcible extortion from every American and destroyed the insurance industry as it was. The price of the monthly payments keeps going up for the middle class, and the care that is covered continues to go down. By the time families get finished paying the deductible and something is actually covered, they’re still on the hook for 40% of the bill, plus anything the policy doesn’t cover.
The rage in the United States is building as people begin to see what is really happening in Washington DC. Cannon’s words just might be prophetic.
“If you had a chance to make a difference by speaking to the US Congress, would you hold back?”
Of course not, Daisy (author), but the problem is that speaking to the US Congress never makes a difference.
They’ve been spoken to, testified before, bombarded with letters from their constituency, and they continue to ignore the will of the people, and even mock our demands.
Americans have only arrived at the brink of revolution because all legal and peaceful means of redress have been tried, and tried another hundred times.
Now I’m no constitutional scholar, but in my interpretation of the Declaration of Independence, we not only have a “right to revolution”, but in times like these, revolution is more of a civic, or patriotic duty than it is a right.
Amen!. My comment is awaiting approval.
Yup,JR . couldn’t agree more
“If the Government Is Not Constrained By Law It Is “our revolutionary right to overthrow it””
No it ain’t, it is your DUTY!!!
For the generations of Americans to come as envisioned by the Founding Fathers.
Still wondering why they are regulating the arms away by Orwellian word rape, or why the land of the Brave and Free has to be kept in fear (According to media and gov.) and sheltering under the dress of mama state?
Still wondering why the flag is half pole almost constantly even when someone is constipated, but according to the anthem was kept up by dead patriots, willing to give all to keep that flag flying UP POLE.. AT ALL F!@KING COST!!!! The ultimate defiance against tyranny.
Oh sorry…. I wounded someone in the brain with a word. Can’t be a real American though.
Then after a successful revolution what are you going to do?
You will create another government to rule over you.
How stupid can people be?!
Government is control of the mind. It is just like a religion.
It is control the mind to accept a belief.
People “believe” people in government have the right to rule over you.
The thought of even a limited government is an oxymoron. They are two opposites that can not work together in a sentence.
Government as an idea will expand until it consumes everything.
Government is not broken, it is working as designed.
With that said, people in government or the Nobility Class can do nothing without the police/enforcement class of people that blindly follow orders regardless of the orders morality. The Milgram experiment and the Stanford Prison Project proved that 66% of the people follow orders from a perceived authority figure and in roll playing the guards and prisoners quickly fall into their rolls as oppressor and oppressed.
Stop doing the same thing over and over expecting different results.
The only thing that will work is a voluntary free market society.
The Articles of Confederation established close to that. A good article about that is a few posts back.
A good description is written in a book by L. Neil Smith “The Probability Broach”. A detective gets blown into a parallel reality where George Washington lost in the Whiskey Rebellion and the country went back to the Articles of Confederation. The characters talk about how the country evolved under what was basically a free market anarchy. Technological progress was not held back by an oppressive government and things advanced so far that the people were mining the Asteroid Belt.
Government is in place for it’s own sake. It is in place for gaining power over other people. Government is not in place to protect your freedom. That is one of the biggest lies ever pulled. Make a lie so big, the people will believe it. Tell the lie over and over from the time of your birth, you will embrace the lie to the point you can not accept any other option. It is like Cognitive Dissonance.
Here are a few people who have works that point out the fallacy of government and give ideas for an alternative. L. Neil Smith “The Probability Broach” that can be read for free at Bigheadpress.com, Bill Buppert at zerogov.com, Kenneth Royce (aka Boston Teaparty) “Hologram of Liberty”, Larken Rose “The Iron Web”, and “The Most Dangerous Superstition”
People well never be free until they get it out of their head that they need a government to rule over them.
You say, “People well never be free until they get it out of their head that they need a government to rule over them.” yet you allude to the Confederacy.
Tell me Bullwinkle, why should I trade 1000 tyrants 3000 miles away for 10,000 tyrants 3 miles away? The so called American Revolution was fought under that Confederacy and it was an elite totalitarian military rule from its inception.
The people will never be free until they get it into their heads that they are each individual sovereigns entitled to live under the common law, separate and apart from the cronies we hire to do our dirty deeds, absolutely understanding that each and every one of us is sworn and obligated to defending our Bill of Rights, hence our common law with deadly force at any and every hour of any and every day.
I have my own government. It’s my own and I’m the only one in it. What I say goes. I rule my own flesh and no one’s gonna tell me otherwise, come hell or high water.
Besides, there’s way too many sheeples out there for them to herd up, I’ll just sit back and watch from the tall weeds as they load the boxcars.
Think it can’t happen here? The pot’s about to boil. Too many people on the planet. It’s culling time.
Maybe euthanasia at the age of 70. “Yep, nice to know you. I’ll just throw myself in that burning pit of humanity.”
At least I won’t have to watch the world swirling down the shithole.
Geez Millard, why you talkin’ so “end of the world” shit. I can’t predict what’s gonna happen, I just look at the course we’re on and draw conclusions.
“That is a very dangerous sort of thing for the president to do, to wantonly ignore the laws,” Cannon concluded, “to try to impose obligation upon people that the legislature did not approve.”
Exactly how does a “Legislature” have any right to impose “ANY” f’kn obligation(s) on me and my own…that is the definition of tyranny, when I do not consent nor agree to any of this crap ruling class shit….ARRRRggghh
“Abraham Lincoln talked about our right to alter our government or our revolutionary right to overthrow it.”
“That is certainly something that no one wants to contemplate,” he continued.”
O.K., we’re done here.