Senate Candidate Ed Emery says U.S. Supreme Court ruling fails the American people
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Thursday, June 28, 2012
Lamar, Mo.— Former Missouri Rep. Ed Emery today reflected on the ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court, which upheld the Affordable Care Act, commonly known as Obamacare, on a five-to-four ruling with Chief Justice John Roberts casting the swing vote. Emery is running for state Senate in the 31st District comprising Barton, Bates, Cass, Henry and Vernon counties.
“I believe the Supreme Court failed to defend the U.S. Constitution and the people from the tyranny of an overreaching federal government,” Emery said. “Their ruling also flies in the face of the will of the people of Missouri.”
Emery noted that Missouri overwhelmingly rejected Obamacare when voters passed Proposition C in 2010 by a 71 percent majority. Prop C blocked the federal government from requiring the people of Missouri to buy health insurance and banned any punishment for those without health insurance, both central tenets of Obamacare.
“We can mourn the loss of freedom with this ruling,” Emery said, “but we must not give up the fight simply because we have lost the skirmish. We must continue our fight to return to the principles guaranteed in our Constitution.”
Sen. Jane Cunningham, sponsor of the Heath Care Freedom Act, Prop C, noted, “That the U.S. Supreme Court could rule that it is constitutional for the federal government to order American citizens to purchase a product they do not want or need is astonishing and flies in the face of freedoms given by God and recognized by our founding fathers in the Constitution. It is a sad day for freedom, a sad day for our nation. It’s up to Congress now to repeal it and start over.”
Emery pointed to the fact the court was ruling on the constitutionality of a congressionally imposed national health care system as evidence of how far the country has strayed from the vision of our Founding Fathers. “Their purpose in the Constitution was to constrain government because they did not trust it to constrain itself,” he said. “When an ambitious government imposes its will on you, it takes away your freedom — your choice of what is best for you and your family.
“However, many Missourians still recognize that liberty is more precious than security, and I believe the freedoms we are protecting are too important to give up or even to slacken the fight. I want to spend the next four years defending Missourians against such threats to their liberty, and that is why I am running for state Senate in the 31st District.”
Emery pointed out that voters will have another chance for their voices to be heard with an initiative on the November ballot that prohibits the Governor or any state agencies from establishing the Obamacare health insurance exchanges in Missouri without authorization from the legislature.
“It is more critical than ever for voters to get out and vote on November 6th, and pass this ballot measure,” Emery said. “Health care is important, but government control, which removes personal choice and drives up the cost to all taxpayers, is a failed idea.”
Either way it was 5-4 and it went to the liberals because Roberts led it that way. He took a back door approach to enable it. That is something that would never happen from the four rock liberals.
So now one can be punished for doing nothing wrong and wanting to be independent and maintains ones prospects and liberty. The supposed punishment tax is a singular tax against ones planning, there was no commerce just a congressional social direction penalty, promulgated for the singular enableing of medical socialism. One could argue now that socialism is the rule of law and all else is implementation. Liberty loses for sure.
Finding something in Robert’s action is weak, he joined the four liberals who are rock solid for obamacare without much need to follow any spirit of original intent or rule of law. I believe the liberals are the controlling ideologues and Robert’s was looking for attention.
If gov’t large and local has complete power to control us, I have less liberty and eventually no independence from the socialist self serving mob. As often happens a wonderful egoist orator promises unsustainable advantages to the masses and time with socialism eventually collapses the social dream world. By focusing on some dangling rhetoric Robert’s signs with the women who were positioned for their social bent and less for their legal understanding.
Liberty loses, socialism is strengthened, and Robert’s has new friends. Defending him is weak and facing the new reality of our direction is the task at hand. One does think of guns, not from me so much, but from the liberals and socialist who will be disappointed when the cradle to grave state goes kaput and they must lay blame and kill off the last of independance and self reliance. Stalin, Mao, Hitler come to mind, but we love our president; he is black you know. A time comes when the ship must be scrapped as not repairable, health care too. Robert’s joins Bernanke, Geitner, Gensler, Reid, Pelosi, and Obamyou writing and rules they desire, the individual be damned. r.