Obamacare ruling is scary

To the Editor:

If the recent Supreme Court's 5-4 decision upholding Obamacare doesn't scare you, it should. This bureaucratic boondoggle looked suspicious from it's beginning in 2010 when the Democrats who controlled congress at the time stealthily passed the 2,000 page monstrosity in the middle of the night without even having read it. In a clumsy attempt to explain and justify their actions to the media, then Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi said, "We had to pass the bill so that you could find out what is in it." If that sounds insane it's because it is. Well, here we are two years and 13,000 pages of rules and regulations later and we still don't know what's in it, and probably won't until it is fully implemented in 2014. As if that isn't scary enough, there's an even scarier part in the court's decision that hasn't gotten much attention yet. Justice Kennedy, who often sides with the liberals on the court voted against it, and during oral arguments he cited the danger of upholding the law, saying: "If Congress can use the Commerce Clause to compel people to participate in it, then it can do anything." That is the scariest part, for if Congress can now do anything, then almost unfettered power has just been given to a gaggle of 545 people from all across the country, led by such nincompoops as Nanci Pelosi, Harry Reid, Barney Frank--and the list goes on. Thankfully, even though they are all politicians, most members of Congress are honest, but far too many of them are liars, crooks, morally corrupt, and incompetent. But be that as it may, all 545 are duly elected to our Congress and therefore legally and morally responsible for proposing every budget, spending every tax dollar, passing every law and ensuring the safety and protecting the rights and freedoms of 311 million American citizens.

If Justice Kennedy is right, then the Supreme Court has opened up a can of worms. Just as President Obama and the Democrat controlled Congress used the Commerce Clause to circumvent the Constitution and pass the health care law, from now forward, with the votes of 218 congressmen and 51 senators, a president can pass any law he desires by simply tying it to some existing law. In effect, he (or she) would be the same as dictator. Suppose, for example, that President Obama is re-elected and the Democrats regain control of both houses of Congress. Everyone knows he is anti-gun, so by typing gun ownership to maybe the Patriot Act or the Anti-terrorism Act he could bypass the 2nd Amendment and confiscate all the guns. The possibilities of what a president with an agenda could do are mind-boggling.

A good parallel to what is happening today in America would be what happened in Germany during the 1930's. I use it not to compare President Obama to Hitler, the world has changed too much. About all we have to fear from him is the harm he is doing to the nation through his incompetence and misguided ideology. I chose Germany because it was a nation with a democrat society, with freedom, access to the media, with a parliamentary governing body much like our Congress. And much like America today their nation was in political turmoil and experiencing dismal economic times and high unemployment. An important fact to remember is that Hitler didn't seize power, he was a politician who was legally appointed Chancellor of Germany by their president. When he succeeded in improving their economy, putting people back to work, modernizing the infrastructure, and restoring national pride, the German people were so awestruck and enamored with him they made them their "Fuehrer" (leader) and gave him absolute power. Hence a dictator was born, and we all know what happened next. Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. During the next eleven years from 1934-1945 Hitler was responsible for World War Two, the holocaust, the destruction of hundreds of cities and several countries (including his own), plus the deaths of tens of millions of soldiers and innocent civilians all across Europe.

History has a nasty habit of repeating itself. As is states in Ecclesiastes 1:9 of the Bible; What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun. And therein lies the danger in giving one person or 545 persons too much power.

Bill Cox

Fairdealing, Mo