Owensboro Tea Party

>> A Constitutional lawyer has read the entire health care bill, if  only half
>> of this is true this nation is in very serious  trouble!!
>>
>> Snopes says this is correctly  attributed.
>>
>> Please take the time to read this and forward it out as  you see fit.
>>
>> The Truth About the Health Care Bills -  Michael Connelly, Ret.
>> Constitutional Attorney
>>
>> Well, I have done  it!  I have read the entire text of proposed House Bill
>> 3200: The  Affordable Health Care Choices Act of 2009.  I studied it
>> with  particular emphasis from my area of expertise, constitutional law.  I
>> was frankly concerned that parts of the proposed law that were  being
>> discussed might be unconstitutional.  What I found was far  worse than what I
>> had heard or expected.
>>
>>  To begin with, much of  what has been said about the law and its
>> implications is in fact true,  despite what the Democrats and the media are
>> saying.  The law does  provide for rationing of health care, particularly
>> where senior citizens and  other classes of citizens are involved, free
>> health care for illegal  immigrants, free abortion services, and probably
>> forced participation in  abortions by members of the medical profession.
>>
>> The Bill will also  eventually force private insurance companies out of
>> business, and put  everyone into a government run system.  All decisions
>> about personal  health care will ultimately be made by federal bureaucrats,
>> and most of them  will not be health care professionals.  Hospital
>> admissions,  payments to physicians, and allocations of necessary medical
>> devices will be  strictly controlled by the government.
>>
>> However, as scary as all of  that is, it just scratches the surface.  In
>> fact, I have concluded that  this legislation really has no intention of
>> providing affordable health  care choices.  Instead it is a convenient cover
>> for the most massive  transfer of power to the Executive Branch
>> of government that has ever  occurred, or even been contemplated.  If this
>> law or a similar one is  adopted, major portions of the Constitution
>> of the United States will  effectively have been destroyed.
>>
>> The first thing to go will be the  masterfully crafted balance of power
>> between the Executive, Legislative, and  Judicial branches of the U.S.
>> Government.  The Congress will be  transferring to the Obama Administration
>> authority in a number of different  areas over the lives of the American
>> people, and the businesses they  own.
>> The irony is that the Congress doesn't have any authority to  legislate in
>> most of those areas to begin with!  I defy anyone to read  the text of the
>> U.S. Constitution  and find any authority granted to  the members of Congress
>> to regulate health care.
>>
>> This legislation also provides for access, by the appointees of the  Obama
>> administration, of all of your personal healthcaredirect violation  of
>> the specific provisions of the 4th Amendment to the Constitution
>> information, your personal financial information, and the information  of
>> your employer, physician, and hospital.  All of this is a  protecting against
>> unreasonable searches and seizures.  You can also  forget about the right to
>> privacy.  That will have been legislated  into oblivion regardless of what
>> the 3rd and 4th Amendmentsmay  provide.
>>
>> If you decide not to have healthcare insurance, or if you  have private
>> nsurance that is not deemed acceptable to the Health Choices  Administrator
>> appointed by Obama, there will be a tax imposed on  you.  It is called a tax
>> instead of a fine because of the intent to  avoid application of the due
>> process clause of the 5th Amendment.   However , that doesn't work because
>> since there is nothing in the law that  allows you to contest or appeal the
>> imposition of the tax, it is  definitely depriving someone of property
>> without the due process of  law.
>>
>> So, there are three of those pesky amendments that the far left  hate so
>> much, out the original ten in the Bill of Rights, that are  effectively
>> nullified by this law.  It doesn't stop there  though.
>>
>> The 9th Amendment that provides: The enumeration in the  Constitution, of
>> certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage  others retained
>> by the people;
>>
>> The 10th Amendment states: The  powers not delegated to the United States by
>> the Constitution, nor  prohibited by it to the States, are preserved to
>> the States respectively,  or to the people.  Under the provisions of this
>> piece of Congressional  handiwork neither the people nor the states are going
>> to have any rights  or powers at all in many areas that once were theirs to
>> control.
>>
>> I  could write many more pages about this legislation, but I think you get
>> the  idea.  This is not about health care; it is about seizing power  and
>> limiting rights.  Article 6 of the Constitution requires the  members of both
>> houses of Congress to "be bound by oath or affirmation to  support the
>> Constitution." If I was a member of Congress I would not be  able to vote for
>> this legislation or anything like it, without feeling I was  violating that
>> sacred oath or affirmation.  If I voted for it  anyway, I would hope the
>> American people would hold me  accountable.
>>
>> For those who might doubt the nature of this threat, I  suggest they consult
>> the source, the US Constitution, and Bill of Rights.  There you can
>> see exactly what we are about to have taken from  us.
>>
>>   Michael Connelly
>>   Retired  attorney,
>>  Constitutional Law Instructor
>>  Carrollton ,  Texas
>>
>>  WE MUST HOLD CONGRESS ACCOUNTABLE BEFORE IT IS TOO  LATE.
>>