Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

June 28, 2012

Any constitution merely prolongs the pretense that political government can be limited by laws that IT will interpret. Eventually every government will embrace Lenin's ruling formula: "Power without limit, resting directly on force." How exquisitely appropriate that in the case of the socialist monstrosity called Obamacare this was done by a Bush-appointed Republican conservative.

In a 5-4 ruling, Chief Justice John Roberts wrote that although the Obamacare individual health mandate is not compatible with the Constitution?s Commerce Clause, it can be authorized as part of the federal government?s apparently limitless taxing authority.

?Because the Constitution permits such a tax, it is not our role to forbid it, or to pass upon its wisdom or fairness,? wrote Roberts, deploying the feigned humility judges display whenever they ratify a federal power grab. The measure Roberts describes is a direct un-apportioned tax, which is explicitly forbidden by the Constitution ? as if such details mattered anymore.

Ironically, Obama himself rejected the idea that the mandate was a tax increase in a 2009 interview with ABC?s George Stephanopolos. Like any other proper Leninist, Obama is interested only in power, and isn?t particularly fussy about the rationale used to grab it.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.