Consent of the Governed

The Federal government is no longer a lawful one. Yes, you read that right. Having abandoned the limits of the Constitution and overruled the will of the people and the States, we now live not in a Representative Republic but under a tyrannical Oligarchy. The Federal Government has grossly defied the limits of the United States Constitution and assumed an authority it does not have. With the passing of the unconstitutional mandate that individual citizens purchase (under penalty of IRS tax evasion laws) goods and services (that is what health care is) the House of Representatives and the Senate have abandoned the Constitutional law on which they are based. The President of the United States, likewise, is no longer the executive of a Representative Republic, but a dictator pure and simple. Over the expressed and overwhelming opposition of the people and the States, he has successfully dictated a policy that is foreign to our laws and customs. President Obama is a Dictator and Congress is his politburo.

It is time we remembered and revived the principles on which our country was founded.

From the opening of the Declaration of Independence: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security."

As I write this, 12 states (with 26 more preparing to join) have already filed suite against the Federal government over Obama, Pelosi, and Reid's new health care law on the solid ground that it's unconstitutional mandate that all citizens purchase the goods and services of heath insurance exceeds their authority to do so. Furthermore, the new health care law also mandates that the States themselves pay for this exorbitant new entitlement that frankly none can afford at this time.

In defiant insistence on his Health Care legislation, President Obama recently said, "elections have consequences". At least on that matter, he is absolutely right. November of this year, the next round of elections will bring the consequences of dictatorship reigning down on Congress and any plans he has for future dominance. Yes, elections do have consequences. Those who voted for this unconstitutional mandate and reckless expense are about to find out that the same works in reverse.

Bart Gordon - Socialist Non-Representative

Bart Gordon is allegedly a U.S. House Representative for Middle Tennessee. He changed his vote from no to yes today on the current health care legislation. Here is the letter I hand delivered to his local office today.

Mr. Bart Gordon,

With your announcement today that you intend to ignore the overwhelming majority of your constituents, the people of Tennessee, and the nation to vote in favor of the unconstitutional health care legislation, you have ceased to be a representative of the people of Middle Tennessee. You are no longer a representative. You are a Washington DC Socialist. Your career will be remembered here as one of complicity in the shredding of the Constitution of the United States of America to which you swore an oath to uphold and defend. You are a traitor to this Republic and to the people of Tennessee.

Currently there are 37 states introducing and or having already passed legislation to protect their citizens from your abuse of power in Washington DC with this abomination of unconstitutional federal tyranny. Tennessee, your previous home state, already has three separate bills before the state legislature to combat your willful act of sedition. From Tennessee’s General Assembly website http://www.capitol.tn.gov/ these bills are:

Rep Lynn HJR 0745 : Constitutional Amendments - Prohibits laws or rules that would compel any person, employer, or health care provider to participate in any health care system. - This one is aimed at providing a stronger legal route for the state to sue the federal government.

Rep Maggart HB 2654 / Sen Black 2490 : Health Care - As introduced, prohibits any provision of law from compelling any person, health care provider, or employer from participating in any health care system. - Amends TCA Title 56; Title 63; Title 68 and Title 71. - This one would stop your mandatory socialist agenda at the state line.

Rep Hill HB 2680 : Health Care - As introduced, prohibits coverage for abortion services under any health care plan required to be established in this state pursuant to federal health care reform legislation. - Amends TCA Title 9, Chapter 4; Title 37, Chapter 10, Part 3; Title 39, Chapter 15, Part 2; Title 56; Title 68 and Title 71. - This would stop you from using our tax dollars to murder the unborn in TN.

You are a disgrace. You have no honor. Your name will forever be remembered here with disgust. Repent of your sins against the people of Tennessee and vote no on this madness and we will at least try to forget you ever held office here.