Meet President Obama's Future Army ...
I am extremely concerned …
We have seen the passage of a complex piece of legislation which is not well-understood by those who signed it into law and which contains numerous provisions that appear to thwart the United States Constitution by placing every citizen (and even non-citizens) under the direct control of the government when it comes to receiving life-sustaining healthcare. Much of this bill is hyper-technical and references existing laws by numerical reference. The power to implement this legislation is ceded to unnamed czars, boards, panels and commissions headed by political appointees of the President or his designee, the Secretary of Health and Human Services.
Never, in the history of the United States has any political party so breached the checks and balances envisioned by our founding fathers so as to become a direct threat to the freedoms of American citizens.
And never has the American public been held hostage to a corrupt political regime which is hell-bent on pursuing a European socialist agenda as well as rewarding those corrupt organizations who supplied the financing and voter support.
Specifically, I am worried that the America we know and love; the America which was built on individual efforts and sacrifice is about to be re-distributed as if we were Mexico and Obama was the Mexican Revolutionary General Pancho Villa.
“Villa and his supporters, known as Villistas, seized hacienda land for distribution to peasants and soldiers. He robbed and commandeered trains, and, like the other revolutionary generals, printed fiat money to pay for his cause.” <Source>
So I am attempting to connect the dots … and what I see scares the bejesus out of me.
Connecting the dots …
Dot One: An administration that sees a political advantage in a real or imagined crisis.
Rahm Emanuel on the benefits of a crisis … In a CBS interview on Face The Nation, Rahm Emanuel said: “Rule one: Never allow a crisis to go to waste. They are opportunities to do big things.” <Source> |
Dot Two: The corrupt United Nations can always be counted on exaggerating a healthcare crisis to enlarge the scope of the powers, their bureaucracy, their funding and media presence. We have seen this with wildly inaccurate population projections, inaccurate HIV/Aids numbers, the creation of a non-existent swine flu epidemic and the latest example, the H1N1 Swine Flu epidemic. With U.S. health authorities citing the non-partisan, non political World Health Organization as they mobilized for action.
Ginning up a faux health care crisis … “The H1N1 influenza outbreak, which began in April last year, was marked by controversies over whether the WHO and public health authorities had exaggerated the risks of H1N1 and created unnecessary alarm by declaring it a 'pandemic'.” “The WHO has also been criticised for its pandemic alert system that focuses on geographical spread of the outbreak rather than its severity, and on alleged conflicts of interests between health officials and experts and vaccine makers.” <Source> |
Dot Three: a civilian army, armed as well as the military, ready to act upon presidential orders in a crisis.
SEC. 430. ESTABLISHING A READY RESERVE CORPS. Section 203 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 204) is amended to read as follows: SEC. 203. COMMISSIONED CORPS AND READY RESERVE CORPS. (a) ESTABLISHMENT.- (1) IN GENERAL.-There shall be in the Service a commissioned Regular Corps and a Ready Reserve Corps for service in time of national emergency. (2) REQUIREMENT.-All commissioned officers shall be citizens of the United States and shall be appointed without regard to the civil-service laws and compensated without regard to the Classification Act of 1923, as amended. (3) APPOINTMENT.-Commissioned officers of the Ready Reserve Corps shall be appointed by the President and commissioned officers of the Regular Corps shall be appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate. (4) ACTIVE DUTY.-Commissioned officers of the Ready Reserve Corps shall at all times be subject to call to active duty by the Surgeon General, including active duty for the purpose of training. (5) WARRANT OFFICERS.-Warrant officers may be appointed to the Service for the purpose of providing support to the health and delivery systems maintained by the Service and any warrant officer appointed to the Service shall be considered for purposes of this Act and title 37, United States Code, to be a commissioned officer within the Commissioned Corps of the Service. (b) ASSIMILATING RESERVE CORP OFFICERS INTO THE REGULAR CORPS.-Effective on the date of enactment of the Affordable Health Choices Act, all individuals classified as officers in the Reserve Corps under this section (as such section existed on the day before the date of enactment of such Act) and serving on active duty shall be deemed to be commissioned officers of the Regular Corps. (c) PURPOSE AND USE OF READY RESERVE.- (1) PURPOSE.-The purpose of the Ready Reserve Corps is to fulfill the need to have additional Commissioned Corps personnel available on short notice (similar to the uniformed service's reserve program) to assist regular Commissioned Corps personnel to meet both routine public health and emergency response missions. (2) USES.-The Ready Reserve Corps shall- (A) participate in routine training to meet the general and specific needs of the Commissioned Corps; (B) be available and ready for involuntary calls to active duty (C) be available for backfilling critical positions left vacant during deployment of active duty Commissioned Corps members, as well as for deployment to respond to public health emergencies, both foreign and domestic; and (D) be available for service assignment in isolated, hardship, and medically underserved communities (as defined in section 399SS) to improve access to health services. (d) FUNDING.-For the purpose of carrying out the duties and responsibilities of the Commissioned Corps under this section, there are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to the Office of the Surgeon General for each of fiscal years 2010 through 2014. Funds appropriated under this subsection shall be used for recruitment and training of Commissioned Corps Officers. <Source> |
Question: Why do we already have a United States Public Health Service headed by an Admiral with the title Surgeon General of the United States and why would this extension be necessary?
Question: How does this legislation impinge on states rights and the existence of individual state national guard units?
Question: Why would people be appointed without regard to civil service and compensated without regard to the normal pay scales found in the Classification Act?
Question: What are “routine public health” response missions and why would they exist outside of emergency response missions?
Question: Why would the legislation specify “service assignment in isolated, hardship and medically underserved communities” rather than the site of an existing emergency.
Question: Will this legislation permit trained individuals to take up arms, ostensibly for self defense and the protection of critical healthcare supplies?
Question: Will this domestic force include intelligence, surveillance and tracking units?
Question: Will this domestic force be able to deny healthcare services to American citizens and/or force American citizens to accept healthcare?
Question: Will this section of the healthcare legislation skirt the Constitution and render the Posse Comitatus Act null and void?
“The statute generally prohibits federal military personnel and units of the National Guard under federal authority from acting in a law enforcement capacity within the United States, except where expressly authorized by the Constitution or Congress. The Coast Guard is exempt from the Act during peacetime.” <Source>
Unprecedented control …
We have all heard privacy advocates attacking a national identification card and roundly condemning the government’s requirement for standardized drivers licenses. I wonder what they will say when they find that the healthcare legislation mandates the creation of the largest database in the history of the United States? A database which will track every man, woman and child. A database which will contain your medical, financial, employment and social history – all under the guise of medical records? Imagine your entire financial history being laid bare and accessible to highly-politicized and unionized government workers as they “means test” you to determine your so-called healthcare insurance premiums?
Imagine legislation which demands that individuals purchase government-approved products and services from government-approved vendors – with the failure to comply resulting in fines or imprisonment. All enforced by the Internal Revenue Service.
Imagine legislation which creates a class of super-citizens (no not the bureaucrats) consisting of illegal aliens who do not have to follow our laws, but will receive healthcare and social services as if they were American citizens.
Bottom line …
Should the Administration be able to pass cap-and-trade legislation giving it direct control over energy producers and consumers – and by extension our entire economy …
Should the Administration pass Immigration reform which will allow millions of illegal aliens with little or no allegiance to the United States of America or her Constitution -- and who will vote for those promising the largest entitlement package …
We will be facing a cataclysmic restructuring of America. Where political commissars, czars and petty bureaucrats will literally determine who lives and dies and which business thrive and which will languish and die.
Consider your duty as an American citizen – a duty now as important as those soldiers fighting on the front lines for our freedom – and fight back against this malignant socialist/democrat party. Or suffer the consequences.
Obama and his band of ignorant, corrupt and socialist democrats have declared war on the people of the United States. If we cannot stop their mad rush to complete their agenda in 2010 and 2012, then you just may find yourself under the yoke of government oppression in 2014.
-- steve
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