Post by 04Thirteen on Jun 28, 2012 17:14:56 GMT -7
Today, the White House might think they have victory. Today, I feel something very significant was lost. This country was founded for Freedom, and for freedom from oppression.
Do you know what freedom means? Here, I will provide the definition:
free·dom/ˈfrēdəm/
Noun:
The power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants without hindrance or restraint.
Absence of subjection to foreign domination or despotic government.
Do you know what oppression means? I will define that as well:
op·pres·sion/əˈpreSHən/
Noun:
Prolonged cruel or unjust treatment or control.
The state of being subject to such treatment or control.
Today, a basic freedom to "act, speak, or think as one wants without hindrance or restraint" was lost. We lost our right to act - choosing to not have health insurance - without penalty. Instead, over that basic choice, government now again has 'control'. And we are being forced to buy a product by a law the bigger percentage of us did not want -- the health care bill.
First things first though. The biggest question I have about all of this is simply this; if the president is in office to represent us, the people of the United States of America, then why in the world did he push a health care reform that the bigger percentage of us did not want? Despite his own personal feelings on it, on finding out the bigger half of the country did not want this -- I feel the matter should have been dropped if he was doing what he was put in office to do. But it wasn't. It was pushed anyway.
Secondly, I do not see how the Supreme Court can say that this law, forcing us to buy health insurance, is not unconstitutional. By definition of the word FREEDOM alone, I feel it very much is. --- we lost an ability to act without restraint. And I feel we are subject to oppression again. These are two things this country was founded for, and against.
Today, for the first time in my life, I can say that I know what it feel's like, to truly feel let down by my country, to feel let down by the justice system. And that is a bad bad feeling.
And now that the supreme court has ruled, there isn't much I can do about it - except to practice my freedom of speech, and say, that I still feel this mandate to buy insurance is unconstitutional. Mandates in America? The land of the Free. Hold tight to your freedoms America. And with this I will close:
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
--Abraham Lincoln
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Do you know what freedom means? Here, I will provide the definition:
free·dom/ˈfrēdəm/
Noun:
The power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants without hindrance or restraint.
Absence of subjection to foreign domination or despotic government.
Do you know what oppression means? I will define that as well:
op·pres·sion/əˈpreSHən/
Noun:
Prolonged cruel or unjust treatment or control.
The state of being subject to such treatment or control.
Today, a basic freedom to "act, speak, or think as one wants without hindrance or restraint" was lost. We lost our right to act - choosing to not have health insurance - without penalty. Instead, over that basic choice, government now again has 'control'. And we are being forced to buy a product by a law the bigger percentage of us did not want -- the health care bill.
First things first though. The biggest question I have about all of this is simply this; if the president is in office to represent us, the people of the United States of America, then why in the world did he push a health care reform that the bigger percentage of us did not want? Despite his own personal feelings on it, on finding out the bigger half of the country did not want this -- I feel the matter should have been dropped if he was doing what he was put in office to do. But it wasn't. It was pushed anyway.
Secondly, I do not see how the Supreme Court can say that this law, forcing us to buy health insurance, is not unconstitutional. By definition of the word FREEDOM alone, I feel it very much is. --- we lost an ability to act without restraint. And I feel we are subject to oppression again. These are two things this country was founded for, and against.
Today, for the first time in my life, I can say that I know what it feel's like, to truly feel let down by my country, to feel let down by the justice system. And that is a bad bad feeling.
And now that the supreme court has ruled, there isn't much I can do about it - except to practice my freedom of speech, and say, that I still feel this mandate to buy insurance is unconstitutional. Mandates in America? The land of the Free. Hold tight to your freedoms America. And with this I will close:
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
--Abraham Lincoln
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