Your future in the U.S.

[LifeHiscost]

I wasn't sure what forum this was best placed in so hope this will be moved to the appropriate one and left where it can be found by those interested in these things.

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From: coleens tds.net <coleens@tds.net>

Sent: Sun, January 24, 2010 7:46:51 PM

Subject: Constitutional lawyer has read the entire proposed healthcare bill . ...

Checked this out on Snopes and they indicate it is correctly

attributed plus added that others have expressed the same view point.

You might go to Snopes.com and check the other comments. I typed in

Michael Connelly, Retired 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 healthcare direct 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 Amendments may provide.

If you decide not to have healthcare

insurance, or if you have private insurance 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

[bonnie]

Most people simply have not read it.They accept what is being told them. Even tho rationing is denied by those pushing this,it

is clear by reading what it will cause. Rationing needed medical care can and will lead to a earlier death for especially those on medicare.

[GreatLakesGramma]

I got this in my email about a year ago. I've been praying all along that God will bring their plans to nothing. I think He is answering that prayer. The majority of Americans have turned against the health care plan, and Massachusetts has taken away the Democrats' super majority in the Senate. They have no choice now but to back off and work on less extreme plan. I am not going to stop praying about though.

[bonnie]

I got this in my email about a year ago. I've been praying all along that God will bring their plans to nothing. I think He is answering that prayer. The majority of Americans have turned against the health care plan, and Massachusetts has taken away the Democrats' super majority in the Senate. They have no choice now but to back off and work on less extreme plan. I am not going to stop praying about though.

It is scary when you really sit down to read this monstrosity.

Scarier still is the numbers of people that would say "great" and not have a clue what they seem so willing to accept.

Whether or not they can get all their aims in the beginning is immaterial. The intent is loud and clear. Several in washington that have been pushing this have made it pretty plain,get anything passed and our foot will be in the door

[LifeHiscost]

I am not going to stop praying about though.

Probably the wisest thing to do. And hopefully enough of the grassroots of America will voice their opinion to their elected officials.

Joy!!

[karl]

I hope the Dems are not going to make another run at it. Some of them have announced retirement, and a lame duck politician is a dangerous thing because he's got nothing to lose.

A number of states attorneys general were planning to take it to the courts if it passed. This would have been the first time in American history that the legislators voted to force individual Americans to purchase a commodity (health insurance.) Never been done before - and the AGs were pretty certain they could get it thrown out on constitutional grounds. Forcing citizens to buy stuff is NOT one of the enumerated powers delegated to congress.