MICHAEL CONNELLY

A retired Constitutional lawyer has read the entire Healthcare Bill - now voted into law. Read his stunning conclusions.



The Truth About the Health Care Bill
- by Michael Connelly, Ret. Constitutional Attorney


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The Snopes post is an interesting read in and of itself - I recommend you go there and read it.

Regular readers of STORMBRINGER know I normally avoid politics, although I recently changed this posture due to disturbing information regarding Kevin Jennings; Assistant Deputy Secretary for the Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools at the Obama Administration's Department of Education. - S.L.



The Truth About the Health Care Bill
- by 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 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



Never heard of Michael Connelly? Neither have I; but I know who THIS guy is - as far as I'm concerned his words are as valid now as when he spoke them fifty years ago:







"If you're not part of the solution,
then you're definitely part of the problem."


This is my way to get involved - Sean Linnane




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IN THE OLD DAYS

This is a story from the old sailing ship days.

In the old days, if a ship sailed across the ocean and made it back with a hull full of spices and other cargo, the profit earned was ten times the price of the ship itself. It was a very lucrative trade.

But sailing wooden ships across the ocean was very hazardous, and of all the ships that set sail, only about half of them made it back.





Therefore, what they would do was this: in the taverns down by the docks, ship owners would write the names of their ships on a big chalkboard, and people would place bets on which ships they thought would make it back.






The ship owners would take these bets until the cost of the ship was reached - betting against themselves; these bets would be written beneath the name of each ship on the big board.


That way, if a ship didn't make it back, the replacement cost of the ship was covered. If the ship made it back, the owner would pay out the equivalent of ten percent of his profits, and he'd still have nine times the cost of his initial investment.

Because of the way they kept track of these bets on the boards, they called this system UNDERWRITING.



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Benjamin Franklin was a very resourceful and energetic guy. Amongst his many activities, which included printing, writing philosophy, kite flying and electricity - he was a very active member of his community.





Amongst Franklin's civic contributions in his adopted city of Philadelphia, he helped launch projects to pave, clean and light the city streets. One of the chief accomplishments of Franklin in this era was helping to launch the Library Company in 1731. During this time books were scarce and expensive. Franklin recognized that by pooling together resources, members could afford to buy books from England. Thus was born the nation's first subscription library. In 1743, he helped to launch the American Philosophical Society, the first learned society in America. Recognizing that the city needed better help in treating the sick, Franklin brought together a group who formed the Pennsylvania Hospital in 1751. The Library Company, Philosophical Society, and Pennsylvania Hospital are all in existence today.

Fires were very dangerous threat to Philadelphians, so Franklin in 1736, he organized Philadelphia's Union Fire Company, the first in the city. His famous saying, "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure," was actually fire-fighting advice.

Those who suffered fire damage to their homes often suffered irreversible economic loss. Benjamin Franklin recognized that if many home owners banded together and each contributed a small amount of money, then the small percentage of home owners whose houses burned down would be covered for their financial loss.




So, in 1752, Franklin helped to found the Philadelphia Contribution for Insurance Against Loss by Fire. Those with insurance policies were not wiped out financially.

Benjamin Franklin had inadvertently discovered the primary principle of insurance -

"INSURANCE ONLY WORKS WHEN IT COVERS THAT WHICH IS RANDOM, UNPREDICTABLE, AND CATASTROPHIC IN NATURE"

- and his Contributionship is still in business today.








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Now think about your car insurance. What is it for? What do you expect for it to cover?







It's for the unexpected, right? To pay for replacing your wheels after The Big Crunch:





Nowadays even a minor fender bender can end up costing thousands of dollars. We don't plan it happening, and only a small percentage of drivers will have an accident. But we are willing to pay a little bit of money now, against the possibility that when and if such expensive repairs - or even replacement - become necessary, we will be covered.

Remember Franklin's primary principle of insurance - it works if it covers that which is random, unpredictable, and catastrophic in nature.

Now think about your auto insurance policy again. Do you expect it to cover oil changes, wiper blades and a new set of tires every couple of years?





No, of course not. What would happen to the price of your premium if it DID cover these expenses? It would go up, right? WAY UP. Why?

That's right - because it is no longer insurance - it is now a maintenance plan.

Does it make sense to give your money to somebody else to hold, handle, manage, and pay out when you need these predictable expenses? Or is it better to hang on to your money and invest it, then when you need some cash for tires, you've got it?

INSURANCE ONLY WORKS WHEN IT COVERS THAT WHICH IS RANDOM, UNPREDICTABLE, AND CATASTROPHIC IN NATURE.




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You knew where I was going with all this, didn't you? Now Obama is forcing health insurance companies to accept people with pre-existing conditions.





What will happen to the price of health insurance over the next two years?

That's right: premiums will rise. They have to, because now they have to cover people who are already sick. This is not insurance; this is a maintenance plan.

Insurance companies will increase the price of premiums up to 200% and more.

Under Obamacare, new health insurance exchanges will be created, to serve the millions of new customers now eligible under the new law.

But when the insurance companies inevitably raise their rates on health coverage, Nancy Pelosi has already said that they will not be “automatically included” in the new health exchanges the bill creates.





“Unless they do the right thing, they’re not going in,” she said. “They will be relinquishing the possibility of having taxpayer-subsidized consumers in the exchange,” she said.


Health Insurance, as we now know it, will become unaffordable. Inevitably, the Government will have to step in to fully absorb healthcare costs. When they do so, they will have achieved a long sought-after goal of the American Left: Single-Payer Public Option, i.e. SOCIALISM.


This was Monday on WJR radio Detroit; John Dingell, the senior Democrat in the House of Representatives:






Did you catch that? "TO CONTROL THE PEOPLE."


". . . we're not ready to be doing it, but let me remind you, this has been going on for years. We are bringing it to a halt. The harsh fact of the matter is when you're going to pass legislation that will cover 300 American people in different ways it takes a long time to do the necessary administrative steps that have to be taken to put the legislation together to control the people."



It's not about Healthcare at all. It's certainly not about insurance. It's about government control of the most precious commodity you own: YOUR LIFE.


". . . it takes a long time to do the necessary administrative steps that have to be taken to put the legislation together TO CONTROL THE PEOPLE."


You just heard it coming from the mouth of U.S. Congressman John Dingell, the senior Democrat in the House of Representatives.



STORMBRINGER SENDS


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THIS IS NOT WATERLOO

Lady Butler's British Squares holding at Quatre Bras


I am referring to yesterday's passage of the 'Healthcare Reform' Bill in the United States House of Representatives, of course. Of course - this Bill has nothing to do with Healthcare, or Reform of any kind. Nor is it a decisive victory for the side that prevailed in this legislative effort - the Democratic Party.


Queen Nancy Signing the Democratic Party's Suicide Pact


The Battle of Waterloo was the utter rout and total destruction of Napoleon's Imperial French army by the combined armies of the Seventh Coalition; the Anglo-Allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington, and the Prussian army under the command of Gebhard von Blücher; fought on Sunday 18 June 1815 near Waterloo in what is now Belgium.

Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo put an end of his Hundred Days' return from exile and marked the end to his rule as Emperor of the French.



End of the Line for le Empereur


Yesterday's events in the House of Representatives was far from such a decisive victory. Au contraire - the Leadership of the Democratic Party had to resort to bribery, blackmail and good old-fashioned strongarm tactics to accomplish their purpose. By now everyone is familiar with the year-long saga - the Louisiana Purchase; the Nebraska Buy-off Exemption; the infamous Rahm Emmanuel Nude Shower Incident; Bart Stupak's little shuck-and-jive two step there . . . this is what it took for the Democratic Party to pull off their so-called 'decisive victory' - hardly an overwhelming 'Will of the People' . . .

. . . AND . . . the Republican Party is FAR from destroyed!

The Republicans have the power and support to defeat these bastards in November. We will wipe them out. We will chase them out of town. We will elect conservatives in the primaries and defeat the Democrats - every last one of them - and then we start the repeal process.






We have much power, still. We will use every single legislative and bureaucratic tactic to obstruct, derail, and defeat them. We're going to turn out en masse in November and stop the Liberals. We have seen that the law will not stop them, the Constitution will not stop them, hoping that they will do the right thing will not stop them because their definition of "the right thing" has nothing in common with ours.






They will be hounded out of office. Every single Democrat who voted for this knows that they are going to be exposed and hassled and chased from office.






No, this is by no means a victory for the Democrats along the lines of Wellington's victory at Waterloo. For it to be such, the Republicans would have had to have been utterly destroyed. If anything, this is a 'Pyrrhic Victory'.

The phrase is named after King Pyrrhus of Epirus, whose army suffered irreplaceable casualties in defeating the Romans at Heraclea in 280 BC and Asculum in 279 BC:



Roman Legionnaires in close combat.


In both of engagements, the Romans had more casualties than Pyrrhus did. However, the Romans had a much larger supply of men from which to draw soldiers, so their casualties did less damage to their war effort than Pyrrhus's casualties did to his.


Pyrrhus' battle report: "Another such victory and I come back to Epirus alone."


There is a North American equivalent of such a Pyrrhic victory: on March 15, 1781 the Battle of Guilford Courthouse was fought in present-day Greensboro, North Carolina. 1,900 British troops under General Lord Cornwallis, fought an American force of 4,400 under General Nathanael Greene.


The Battle of Guilford Courthouse


Despite the relatively small numbers of troops involved, the battle is considered decisive. Before the battle, the British appeared to have successfully reconquered Georgia and South Carolina with the aid of strong Loyalist factions, and thought that North Carolina might be within their grasp.

The battle had lasted only ninety minutes; the British took the field, fighting with accustomed tenacity when engaged by superior numbers. Technically and tactically the British were the victors of this contest. However, their victory cost them over a quarter of their own men.

Seeing this as a classic Pyrrhic victory, British Whig Party leader Charles James Fox echoed Plutarch's famous words by saying, "Another such victory would ruin the British Army!

In the wake of the battle, Cornwallis retreated via forced march south (through present day Fort Bragg) to Wilmington, where his forces embarked upon ships to Yorktown, Virginia and ultimate defeat and surrender.


Surrender of Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown


Waterloo was a decisive battle in more than one sense. It definitively ended the series of wars that had convulsed Europe, and involved many other regions of the world, since the French Revolution of the early 1790s. It also ended the political and military career of Napoleon Bonaparte, one of the greatest commanders and statesmen in history. Finally, it ushered in almost half a century of international peace in Europe; no major conflict was to occur until the Crimean War.

Barack Obama and every Democrat in Congress could only wish of such a victory - they know they will pay a heavy price for yesterday's events.






We are not defeated. Not by a long shot.

LISSEN UP

FOR ALL YOU WANNABE REVOLUTIONARIES
that replied to my post (below) about 'Breaking the Windows' . . .


"Life is hard. It's harder if you're stupid."


Things are bad, but they ain't that bad; and this thing isn't over, not by a long shot.


The Democrats are performing political seppuku right before our very eyes; if they had the votes they would have voted on it six months ago but the fact of the matter is they don't.


We've got a lot of players in the game and a lot of things going still for our side. It is not yet time to bust out the rifles, or the tar & feathers. We must not succumb to our passions because doing so at this time plays right into the hands of those who wish to destroy us.


It is time for cool heads to prevail; the trick is to keep your head, when everyone around else is losing theirs. If we lose our minds right now and start tossing bricks through windows, we're just playing into their hands.


We're not trying to burn cars and stage a French Revolution - we don't want a revolution like that. What you get then is a dictatorship - anarchy leads to dictatorship. We're not trying to get rid of the government; we're trying to take BACK the government.


IT AIN'T TIME YET TO PANIC.When it's time to panic, I'll let you know. At that time I will say:

"You, you and you; panic. The rest of you, come with me!"


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STATE OF THE UNION SPEECH

I'm not watching the State of the Union Show, on account I don't believe in subjecting myself to enemy propaganda.







Instead, we present . . . . . . ( drumroll ) . . . . . . STORMBRINGER propaganda ! ! !






Opie is extremely picky about who he takes his treats from.



This next guy is worth watching, if only to see how long it takes until his head explodes:








This next guy slams the Climate Change movement; it's sort of COUNTER-propaganda propaganda:









That's all for now, I'm at risk of getting called out on my "anti-politics" stance here . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . S.L.

545 vs. 300,000,000

I am not a politician, I am a soldier and a philosopher; normally Blog STORMBRINGER avoids the subject of politics because it generates dark energy. That being said, the following is not really politics, although it IS political in nature. It was written by journalist Charlie Reece out of Orlando, Florida, forwarded to me by my old friend & mentor the Deacon of Doom, but it reads like something out of Plato's Republic.
- Sean Linnane

"Every Citizen needs to read this and think about what this journalist has scripted. Read it and then really think about our current political debacle."




Charley Reese has been a journalist for 49 years.


545 PEOPLE
By Charlie Reese


Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them.

Have you ever wondered, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are against deficits, WHY do we have deficits?

Have you ever wondered, if all the politicians are against inflation and high taxes, WHY do we have inflation and high taxes?


You and I don't propose a federal budget. The President does.

You and I don't have the Constitutional authority to vote on appropriations. The House of Representatives does.


You and I don't write the tax code, Congress does.

You and I don't set fiscal policy, Congress does.


You and I don't control monetary policy, the Federal Reserve Bank does.

One hundred senators, 435 congressmen, one president, and nine Supreme Court justices equates to 545 human beings out of the 300 million are directly, legally, morally, and individually responsible for the domestic problems that plague this country.



I excluded the members of the Federal Reserve Board because that problem was created by the Congress. In 1913, Congress delegated its Constitutional duty to provide a sound currency to a federally chartered, but private, central bank.

I excluded all the special interests and lobbyists for a sound reason. They have no legal authority. They have no ability to coerce a senator, a congressman, or a president to do one cotton-picking thing. I don't care if they offer a politician $1 million dollars in cash. The politician has the power to accept or reject it. No matter what the lobbyist promises, it is the legislator's responsibility to determine how he votes.


Those 545 human beings spend much of their energy convincing you that what they did is not their fault. They cooperate in this common con regardless of party. What separates a politician from a normal human being is an excessive amount of gall. No normal human being would have the gall of a Speaker, who stood up and criticized the President for creating deficits. The president can only propose a budget. He cannot force the Congress to accept it.


The Constitution, which is the supreme law of the land, gives sole responsibility to the House of Representatives for originating and approving appropriations and taxes. Who is the Speaker of the House? Nancy Pelosi. She is the leader of the majority party. She and fellow House members, not the President, can approve any budget they want. If the president vetoes it, they can pass it over his veto if they agree to.

It seems inconceivable to me that a nation of 300 million cannot replace 545 people who stand convicted - by present facts - of incompetence and irresponsibility. I can't think of a single domestic problem that is not traceable directly to those 545 people. When you fully grasp the plain truth that 545 people exercise the power of the federal government, then it must follow that what exists is what they want to exist.


If the tax code is unfair, it's because they want it unfair.

If the budget is in the red, it's because they want it in the red.

If the Army & Marines are in Iraq, it's because they want them in Iraq.

If they do not receive social security but are on an elite retirement plan not available to the people, it's because they want it that way.

There are no insoluble government problems.

Do not let these 545 people shift the blame to bureaucrats, whom they hire and whose jobs they can abolish; to lobbyists, whose gifts and advice they can reject; to regulators, to whom they give the power to regulate and from whom they can take this power. Above all, do not let them con you into the belief there exists disembodied mystical forces like "the economy", "inflation", or "politics" that prevent them from doing what they take an oath to do.

Those 545 people, and they alone, are responsible.

They, and they alone, have the power.

They, and they alone, should be held accountable by the people who are their bosses. Provided the voters have the gumption to manage their own employees.

We should vote all of them out of office and clean up their mess!


Charlie Reese is a former columnist of the Orlando Sentinel Newspaper.