Fly Your True Colors

With the recent passage of the healthcare bill, Mr. Obama declared “we are making history!”

Is there any question that Mr. Obama and the US Congress have made history? No disagreement there. Yet, recognizing the fact that there is a right and a wrong side of history, all we need to do is spotlight the ordeal to show which side of history Mr. Obama and his followers are on.

Which side of history has Mr. Obama and Congress chosen if they…

…Created legislation that goes against the founding constitutional liberties of this great country

…Created legislation that is in direct opposition to the will of the supermajority of the people.

…Incurred debt which will never be able to be paid in three generations.

…Passed a bill using a complex switching of facts and numbers, taxes and costs.

…Dismantled the greatest Healthcare system in the world, resulting in stripping ‘care’ from government run actions for ‘health’.

…Put government in control of an additional 17.3 percent of our GDP.

…Mandated that all Americans purchase health insurance whether they want it or not.

…Place heavy fines or imprisonment on those Americans who use their God given freedom to choose, and choose not to purchase healthcare insurance.

The spotlight makes this clear. The American people recognize this as the wrong side of history. There is no shadow or gray area in what, Mr. Obama has chosen. He is not on the same side as 7 out of 10 Americans.

Does the constitution authorize congress to force Americans to buy something? If you voted for the Health Care bill, then the answer is yes. If you are a proponent of limited government then the answer is unequivocally a no.

Ruth Marcus, in her Washington Post OpEd, “Constitution no bar to health reform,” explains that Congress has the constitutional authority to mandate or force everyone to purchase health care. The Constitutional basis she uses comes from Article One Section Eight, which states that Congress shall have power “To regulate commerce . . . among the several States.” Legal precedent states that if an activity, commercial or not, exerts a substantial economic affect on interstate commerce then it can be regulated under that clause. Because health care insurance is such a large expenditure it affects interstate commerce and can be regulated by the federal government.

For this reason we have some complicated federal laws with regard to health care. But in extending the logic to the individual mandate, Ms. Marcus misses the mark. Regulating commerce, even if it is detrimental, is something that most democratic governments are supposed to do. This regulation even extends so far as to prohibit certain actions from occurring, such as murder, thievery and extortion. But neither the principle of regulation nor any of these regulations mandates that someone enter into any activity, especially commerce.

Buying health care insurance is a completely voluntary act, just like the purchase of Christmas presents and apple pie. This ability to choose what to purchase is the most basic of freedoms guaranteed mankind by the Constitution: the freedom of choice. This is aided by the right to gain, keep and dispose of property, referred to in the Declaration of Independence as “pursuit of happiness.” These two fundamental rights exist previous to the formation of any government. They are God given, natural rights that exist everywhere, even when tyrants suppress and usurp them. These rights ensure the greatest freedom and liberty to people. The people need these rights so as to provide sustenance, comfort, personal protection, and growth, i.e. the blessings of liberty (and a better future) to themselves and their posterity. Hence, entering into or staying out of, commerce is entirely voluntary. The government has no more the right to force everyone to buy apple pie than it does to force everyone to buy insurance.

Forcing someone into commerce is one of two things: 1. Eminent domain–taking of property for some government project for the public good or 2. Extortion and blackmail. In both cases the private party is damaged, but at least when eminent domain is used it is as a last resort and the private citizen is still compensated for his loss. In the other case, extortion and blackmail, it is illegal under US law, unconstitutional, and the tool of every totalitarian from Marx to Kim Jung Il.

If requiring people to buy health care insurance simply because their abstinence causes prices to go up is fair and constitutionally required to protect “everyone” then why shouldn’t congress make people purchase other goods and services. After all, when someone doesn’t buy a good, then the industry price must go up (eventually) to cover the cost of not selling as many of the good.

The answer to the problem is not 2000 pages complex, nor does it cost trillions of dollars to enact. It’s simple: more freedom, less government. We need lower priced health care and insurance. We can get it from letting insurance companies compete across state lines and making one national standard for their regulation. And since there is already a government body somewhere regulating these agencies, it will not be a tremendous increase to shift their focus. State governments will no longer have the budgetary burden of ensuring compliance and can focus on other, more important budget issues.

The choice is up to us. Will we work for real reform or will we yield the individual liberty of 300 million people to a dictator?

-Matthew Maddox

Dear friends and fellow patriots:

What a great time to show our Thanks for this great country and for our inspired Constitution! What a great time to show that gratitude through the simple act of flying our flags!

Last weekend, the United States Senate turned a deaf ear to the American people, ignored the wishes of their constituents and voted 60 – 39 to advance the Healthcare bill. When the Senators return to Washington after Thanksgiving they will begin debate on this disastrous piece of legislation. Congress needs to not only ‘HEAR’ from us but to ‘SEE’ us!

We, at www.flyyourtruecolors.com are interested to know how you are displaying your flags this week. Please register with our site and leave a comment about what you are doing. We would love to hear from you!

Keep your flags flying all week long!

Does the passage of the massive Healthcare Bill represent what you want?

Congress has forced a bill through the House that nearly all Americans don’t want. They are piling debt upon debt that nobody will be able to pay. They are totally ignoring the one group they have been sent to represent. They have completely forgotten WE THE PEOPLE.

Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid are trying to snatch away our personal freedoms and package it as a ‘christmas gift’.

Washington needs to know WE THE PEOPLE are weary with being the last thing they think about, instead of the first.

Washington needs to know WE THE PEOPLE are not sitting idly by while they pass massive bills that create more severe problems than they assist, all while demanding a knee buckling expense.

Washington needs to know WE THE PEOPLE are more than just those who courageously speak out at Town Hall meetings, we are more than the millions who have gathered in multiple TEA parties around the country, we are more than the immense crowd who assembled in Washington DC to oppose Healthcare and other like bills.

Washington needs to know WE THE PEOPLE are everywhere. We surround them wherever they are. When our Senators and Representatives travel home for Thanksgiving, they need to see WE THE PEOPLE in mass.

WE THE PEOPLE can join together in a simple act that will cause us to standing out. The idea of flying the American flag with the Gadsden flag is a great representation of the grassroots movement that is rising up. These two flags seem to be the predominant flags that are seen as the American people stand to speak out in opposition to the gluttonous monstrosities of legislation that have been passed in the last 10 ½ months.

As WE THE PEOPLE join in flying these flags, we can stand in unity. Each can be empowered by identifying other like minded Americans. By coming together in flying our ‘true colors’ during the week of November 22 -28, 2009, we combine with friends, family, neighbors, and communities in a visual reminder to Washington that WE are the majority of America. We can remind Congress they are to be accountable to WE THE PEOPLE.

Would you like to give Congress a reminder that we Americans are “THE PEOPLE…”? 

There is something we can do to stand together and by-pass both Washington and the media.  We can show our  fellow Americans how many friends and neighbors are united in the cause of preserving freedom.

We are not alone!  We are many!  Here is a chance for us to be seen in large numbers all across the country!

Will you join with us in flying our TRUE COLORS!

The week of November 22 – 28, 2009

Pair your American flag with the Gadsden flag (don’t tread on me). Fly your flags all week long!

Don’t have a flag?  You can  purchase one, or download one from the internet, print it on paper and place it in your window. 

Fly your flags outside, place them in your windows, put them in your car, be creative, but please join with your neighbors and friends in showing your TRUE colors!

Will you help us spread the word?  There isn’t much time before November 22 – 28.  Will you take a moment to share this with your friends, e-mail list, and neighbors?  Ask if they will join with us in this great AMERICAN show of  TRUE COLORS!