The Downside of America’s New Spirit of Civil Disobedience

Check out this series of photos - excellent work!

http://www.realfarmacy.com/yardening/

Another interesting image of ISON.

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ObamaCare declared “unconstitutional” by US Supreme Court

http://northamericanlawcenter.org/shut-federal-government-set-uphold-federal-health-care-extortion-scheme/

First, of all, the subtitle is mischaracterized.  ObamaCare, en toto, has not been declared unconstitutional by the US Supreme Court.  Only two provisions were so found:  the individual mandate and the penalty on states to not embrace the Medicaid expansion.  It is interesting reading and a link is provided in the document.  It is true that forcing young adults to buy insurance has its basis in smoothing out the costs for doctors and hospitals and insurers; however, the law does not authorize Congress to compel anyone to enter commerce, only to regulate it.  The other issue is that states have the right to choose, or not, whether they want to participate in the expanded Medicaid provisions without penalty. 

So, the entirety of the Act is not defeated by two provisions being found unconstitutional based on the principle of severability.  The two issues are simply severed from the Act and the remaining provisions stand.

This article is based on a misunderstanding of what the Supreme Court actually did.  ObamaCare in its entirety is not a tax, only the penalty for not having insurance is considered a tax.  And the Supreme Court did not "rewrite" ObamaCare.  It severed from ObamaCare that which it considered unconstitutional. 

Another inaccuracy is that CJ Roberts did not write a 193-page opinion.  His opinion ends on page 65, and J. Ginsburg's dissenting opinion begins.  After that follows more dissenting opinions, but Roberts' opinion is the majority opinion and thus the law. 

Another inacurracy is the following:

Specifically, the following parts of the 193 page decision written by Chief Justice John Roberts are as follows.

1) Congress did NOT pass ObamaCare by constitutional legislative process, but rather by a heavyhanded strictly partisan process which completely eliminated half of the US Representatives from the process in the dark of night. Further, it did NOT pass as a “tax” bill under the Direct Tax authority of congress, which must initiate in the House.

Paragraph 1) is nowhere in that decision but it reads like the author is saying that it is.  Supreme Court justices don't write emotionally. 

The emotional discussion of "extortion" is based on this text:

"Our precedents recognize Congress’s power to regulate “class[es] of activities,” Gonzales
v. Raich, 545 U. S. 1, 17 (2005) (emphasis added), not classes of individuals, apart from any activity in whichthey are engaged, see, e.g., Perez, 402 U. S., at 153 (“Petitioner is clearly a member of the class which engages in‘extortionate credit transactions’ . . .” (emphasis deleted))."

Roberts is not suggesting that ObamaCare is extortion, he is drawing a distinction between classes of activities and classes of individuals. 

Here is a total misconstrual of what was said:

Part 2 of the Ruling

“CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS concluded in Part III–A that the individual mandate is not a valid exercise of Congress’s power under the Commerce Clause and the Necessary and Proper Clause. Pp. 16–30.”

"This part of the ruling establishes that the Act as passed in original form by congressional Democrats is beyond the scope and authority of congress under both the Commerce Clause (used by Democrats to pass the Act) and the Necessary and Proper Clause, (used by Democrats to defend the Act). Once again, as written and passed, the Act is ruled “unconstitutional” as-is under the constitutional authority granted in these two clauses."

This is author commentary.  The italicized part speaks of the individual mandate being invalid, not all of ObamaCare (which he refers to as "the Act.")

I stopped at the "Original Jurisdiction" section.  Who the heck is northamericanlawcenter.org?

Anyway, this was an exercise in showing how much misunderstanding and emotionalism is making the rounds.  Don't believe everything you see or hear without verifying it.

http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/mcgrath-somebody-in-government-is-afraid-of-what-is-coming-video_10092013

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/top_stories/right_direction_or_wrong_track

http://rt.com/news/rt-whistleblowers-snowden-prize-983/

http://www.infowars.com/report-feds-order-national-guard-to-close-i-495-to-derail-trucker-protest/

http://news.yahoo.com/republicans-consider-short-term-u-debt-ceiling-increase-025328353--business.html

Confirmed:  I forget where I mentioned it, but my son's food stamp benefit was cut $11 per month beginning in November.  The rules have changed and now, unless you are disabled, you have to get a job of at least 20 hours per week within three months to keep your food stamps.  I think this is the result of the earlier sequester, but not sure. 

New rumor:  He heard today that SSI will be cut 15%.  I'm looking for a source, but haven't found one yet. 

http://www.activistpost.com/2013/10/the-federal-reserves-war-on-seniors.html

Another way American's wealth is being redistributed.

http://www.activistpost.com/2013/10/obamacare-ticking-time-bomb-in-better.html

http://www.activistpost.com/2013/10/the-possible-outcomes-of-shutdown.html

This is a good article that rises above the red v. blue controversies.

NaturalNews) We have already established that Healthcare.gov  is not a functioning database application that allows people to shop for  competing health plans. It is actually a government-run Trojan Horse that  suckers people into creating accounts where they hand over:
• Name and  address • Email address and password • Social security number • Private  bank account details • Employer details and other information
During  the enrollment process, your computer also hands over your IP address which is then tied to your social security number.
This IP address is  then handed over to the NSA thanks to its new mega-black-hole data center in  Utah, where your IP is cross-referenced with all website visits,  including:
• "Anti-government" websites • Porn sites • Gambling  sites • File sharing sites • "Terrorism" support sites • Encryption  service sites like Hushmail • Chat rooms, message boards and  more
Armed with this information, the NSA can then link your  seemingly-anonymous online chats, comments and posts with your social security  number. Linguistic algorithms can "score" your online posts to create red flags  that call for additional investigations of anyone using words like "liberty" or  "patriot."
This information can then be turned over to law enforcement,  as is found in the fine print of the Maryland Obamacare exchange, which  states:
...we may share information provided in your application  with the appropriate authorities for law enforcement and audit  activities.
Thus, by enrolling in Obamacare, you are voluntarily  surveilling yourself and handing over the data to the government while also AGREEING to terms of self-incrimination.
Ponder the  implications of this for a moment...

Obamacare is actually a self-incrimination surveillance program designed to  ensnare the American people in a devil's contract

Obamacare is the  meta-level con of tricking Americans into thinking they're signing up for free  health insurance when, in reality, the website primarily exists to scrape  personal financial details, passwords, emails and social security numbers from  Americans who will later be targeted by the government itself.
All the  emails registered with Healthcare.gov, for example, will likely be used by the  Obama administration to  spam people with political propaganda or contrived "terror alerts" that  use fear to concentrate more power in the hands of government.
All the  financial data will be turned over to the IRS for criminal investigations of  Americans who are suspected of under-reporting their incomes (or supporting  "patriot" groups with financial donations).
All the passwords used on  Healthcare.gov will be turned over to the NSA and matched up with individual IP  addresses so that NSA operatives can hack into private bank accounts, encrypted  email accounts and other private data, based on the assumption that most users  use identical passwords across all the websites they commonly access. (A  person's password under Obamacare probably has a  50% chance of also working for their online banking. And since the NSA has your  social security number, it's a no-brainer to match up your online surfing habits  with your phone number, home address, investment holdings, tax returns,  international travel history and so on.)
In essence, Obamacare allows the  government to gather a goldmine of private data that can be exploited to  target, punish, incriminate, blackmail or steal from any desired  target.
As this is a federal government that believes it now has  total power to do anything it wants without limit, there are no boundaries of  what it might do with this data. Remember, Obama is the president who literally  maintains "kill lists"  of Americans to have terminated. This is openly admitted and confirmed. The  Obama administration also believes it can bypass Congress and simply create new  law by executive order, concentrating all power into its own hands with no  regard for the separation of power upon which this nation was founded.
As  is common with tyrants, the Obama administration truly believes the People have  no right to privacy, no right to due process, no right to representation in  government and no right to determine your own engagement in commerce. This is  why Obama is playing such hardball to shove Obamacare down everybody's throats:  the government desperately needs to gather all this surveillance data so that it  can leverage it to blackmail members of the U.S. Supreme Court, the Senate, the  House, and even federal judges. Blackmail is essential to maintaining power in a  corrupt society. And Healthcare.gov is the portal for scraping passwords, IP  addresses and even financial details from anyone gullible enough to actually  hand this over to government (i.e. democrats).
As far as I'm concerned,  the IRS can fine me all they want. I'm never voluntarily enrolling in Obamacare,  even if you put a gun to my head like Obama is doing to the entire nation right  now with this insane, contrived government shutdown that treats our own veterans  like dirt.
All dignity is now gone from the Obama administration.  Zero credibility remains. The government has all but openly declared war on the  People and is actively using tricks like Healthcare.gov to coerce people into  incriminating themselves. The Obama administration is out of control and a grave  danger to society. It must be lawfully stopped from damaging America any  further.
Now is the time to seriously discuss impeachment, not just of  the President but of every U.S. Senator and House member who voted for this  unconstitutional, "Trojan  Horse" health care system that's destroying America's economy and wasting an  unprecedented amount of time, money and effort. End Obamacare now and restore  dignity and justice to America.
Learn more:  http://www.naturalnews.com/042427_Obamacare_private_details_Trojan_Horse.html#ixzz2hKdDzpxi

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-10-09/guest-post-citizens-are-soylent-green-todays-politics

http://beforeitsnews.com/economics-and-politics/2013/10/chinese-troops-in-america-confirmed-the-john-moore-show-2457240.html

http://spectator.org/archives/2013/10/09/community-organizer-runs-amok

Very good article, discusses the law regarding the shutdown.

Excerpts...

..."Thus, the House deemed, as representatives of the people, that Obamacare was not ready for implementation nor was the timing right given the high levels of unemployment and the national debt and deficit figures creating a financial crisis.

"Let me repeat: The House authorized funds to operate the government except for ObamaCare; the Senate refused to accept the money for operating the government unless funds were also appropriated for Obamacare. As Sowell notes, “That is their right. But that is also their responsibility.” 

"In other words, the Senate chose to shut down the government rather than delay funding for Obamacare. And, even if the Senate had voted the same as the House, the President said he would veto that vote.  The bottom line is that neither the Senate nor the President would accept the appropriations authority of the House.

"Thus, the Senate and the President bear sole and complete responsibility for the government shutdown.  If they had been willing to accept the constitutionally determined role of the House of Representatives, there would have been negotiations on the controversial issues while government operated as usual. A reporter who worked for two decades as a New York Times reporter described the Obama Administration as the “most closed, control-freak administration I’ve ever covered.”

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/poll-gop-gets-blame-shutdown

Most Americans disapprove of the way Obama is handling his job, the poll suggests, with 53 percent unhappy with his performance and 37 percent approving of it. Congress is scraping rock bottom, with a ghastly approval rating of 5 percent.

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