Shut Up!

The Orator-in-Chief likes to hear his own voice, but he likes other people to shut up and "get out of the way," except for those yes-men and yes-women who offer "testimony" from Obama's own "Amen Corner." (It is with profound sadness that I point out that those are the President's own words, not mine.)

Hard to believe. The First Amendment offers a few words on the subject of "shutting up."

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

Wow. The Founders anticipated that people might have grievances?

What might those be?

The first American dictionary, compiled by Noah Webster and published in 1828, while a number of American revolutionaries still lived, defined grievance this way:

GRIE'VANCE, n. [from grief.] That which causes grief or uneasiness; that which burdens, oppresses or injures, implying a sense of wrong done, or a continued injury, and therefore applied only to the effects of human conduct; never to providential evils. The oppressed subject has the right to petition for a redress of grievances.

There is no doubt whatever that many Americans, particularly the sick, the aged, the infirm, the handicapped--together with their caregivers, doctors, nurses, attendants, families, and friends--are laboring under a huge, oppressive burden of grief and unease caused by their representatives energetic plan to deprive them of their health care.

These people's fears are not illusory as proponents of ObamaCare claim. A reading of the various health care bills being rammed through Congress reveals clearly that many will lose lifesaving treatments, access to doctors and hospitals, and the hope offered by much future medical and pharmaceutical research. Even the mathematically inept can see that no amount of money in the world could finance ObamaCare without rationing of health care and pharmaceuticals, meaning that many will not get what they need, or if they do get it, they will not get it in time. ObamaCare is health care for the healthy.

I have been reading some of the body of literature underpinning ObamaCare, and it is stunning in its open promotion of a policy of refusing health care to anyone, young or old, who is considered "unfit" to serve society. I will be blogging about my research as I am able, providing references for those, who, like myself, are never satisfied until they examine original sources.

Four months ago, Andrew Klavan talked about the Left's desire to silence aggrieved Americans. Please watch:

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