Finally, We Realize What The "Change" Is That Obama Promised...Tyranny

For some of us, it is becoming clear that the anger we are feeling over the passage of the nationalized healthcare insurance bill this weekend is not going to go away. Speaking for myself, this is a different sort of anger, one I've never experienced before, because it's like a slow burn deep inside my soul. This isn't fly off the handle kind of anger when someone cuts you off in traffic nor the rage that occurs when you see an elderly person accosted by a thug. What I've determined is that this anger inside of me is the realization that one man, one movement is unrelenting in taking control of every portion of my life. The word tyranny was most likely pretty foreign to me until the book written by Mark Levin brought it to national attention and quite frankly, I've probably never really understood just how miserable life under the tyranny of the English King was for our forefathers. Unfortunately, I'm beginning to see it now.

Don't misunderstand me. I'm not just waking up to this stuff going on - I have fought the onset of socialism for years and the fact that the communistic forces in America have been here for over a hundred years is no surprise to me. But this vote this past weekend was the supreme wake up call and changed the anger in me. Why, you might ask?

Because the tyranny that seemed so ancient, so foreign is being felt now by me and it feels real and it feels ugly. And the key thing is that unless checked, I am convinced that there is NOTHING that Barack Hussein Obama and Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid cannot pass - the anger burns as it is now clear that a vote to take away our gun rights is real and viable. A vote to ban churches from America can happen now. A vote to strip all power from the individual states is now possible. You name it, it can happen now.

And let me throw this one out. A vote for the nationalization of sharia law...is now possible. Take a moment to think of the most outlandish and unConstitutional law that could be passed by Congress and signed by this tyrannical Dictator into law and then ask yourself, "are you 100% sure that could NOT happen at this point?"

This article here from Family Security Matters talks about this new wave of tyranny. Oh, by the way, one thing I noticed while writing this piece here is this...the fact that the word "tyranny" has been foreign to me is a good thing...and the fact that it now seems real, it seems looming, it seems at hand is probably the core reason for this anger.

American Tyranny?


The beginning of Spring 2010 marks an historic moment in American history: A nation organized as a republic is being transformed into a tyranny. The health care bill that has been bruited over for weeks will be law of the land giving Washington D.C. control of one-seventh of the national economy.

More significantly, this act violates the Constitution in several critical ways. All Americans will have to obtain health care insurance whether they want it or not. The act also forbids repeal.

By any measure this is a coup d’ etat, with the administration employing a combination of threats and blandishments to achieve its revolutionary goals.

Supporters will argue, of course, that this act universalizes healthcare and that detractors are exaggerating its effect. But it should be noted that the cost will be at least a trillion dollars and perhaps twice that sum if CBO estimates are relied on. These costs are on top of the accumulated debt that has reached unparalleled proportions in the last year.

Moreover, this bill is being imposed on the American people who oppose the legislation by margins between 60 and 70 percent. It would seem that proponents are driven by an ideological fervor that is resistant to public opinion. If the Tea Partiers have any traction it is largely because of the left’s overreaching. The public seemingly understands what many in the Congress do not. Personal freedom – the ability to choose a physician and select appropriate treatment if it is needed – will be imperiled. A bureaucrat will have the latitude to determine your fate which means rationing is the inevitable outcome.

Charles Eliot Norton, 19th century author, sounded the clarion call for our own time when he wrote in True Patriotism, “The voice of protest, of warning, of appeal is never more needed than when the clamor of fife and drum, echoed by the press and too often by the pulpit, is bidding all men fall in and keep step and obey in silence the tyrannous word of command. Then, more than ever, it is the duty of the good citizen not to be silent.”

Should Americans awaken from their slumber they will realize – I believe – that their most valuable possession, the liberty the Founders conferred, has been taken away from them in a coercive effort to make citizens slaves of the state or, at the very least, dependent on the state. This is the time to shout from the rooftops, “We won’t take it anymore.”

As I see it, the very fabric of society is being shattered with legislation that materially changes the way we live. Walt Whitman wrote: “…if the people lose their roughness and spirit of defiance – Tyranny may always enter – there is no charm, no bar against it – the only bar against it is a large resolute breed of men.” I would add that a state so expansive it cannot recognize its natural and Constitutional limits ultimately transforms freedom into tyranny even if this is not the initial intent. That explains why the Founders constructed a limited government based on the recognized fallibility of human nature. They realized that the tyranny they opposed and fought against can emerge from within through an emboldened government that believes only it knows what is best for the governed.

It would appear that the administration does not appreciate the fact that unlimited power invariably corrupts the mind of those who possess it. This is the place where the rule of law succumbs to the pressure of despotism. And whether recognized by all or not, healthcare is the wedge that is altering America.

In 1776 Thomas Paine wrote, “These are the times that try men’s souls.” Alas, 2010 is a time, not unlike the American Revolution, when our national soul is on trial and the very liberty we were enjoined to defend is slipping away from our grasp. The left argues that healthcare is a calamity, a crisis of unusual depth, but as history notes “necessity” is usually the justification for every infringement of liberty. Necessity is the argument of tyrants; the creed of the despondent.

How the nation responds to this government overreaching remains to be seen. But it is not an exaggeration to suggest the future of the republic may depend on that response.