By Dr. Jerome R. Corsi
Citizen protest movements against taxes, deficit spending and wildly escalating federal social welfare programs under President Obama are gaining momentum, despite attempts by the administration and their supporters to ridicule such movements.
With a new round of tea party tax protests held on the Independence Day holiday, Arizona has added a new dimension to the revolt against Obama’s policies by passing a law designed to opt Arizona out of any universal health care insurance plan the administration manages to get passed through Congress.
Republican Nancy Barto, state representative in Arizona, has been responsible for advancing though the Arizona legislature a bill that would amend the state constitution so than no resident would be required to participate in any public health care option.
“HCR2014 is proactive and will protect patients’ fundamental rights,” Barto told the Examiner. “We are a front-line battle state to stop momentum of this powerful government takeover of your health care decisions. Health care by lobbyists thwarts your rights and can be stopped here.”
Known as “Arizona’s Heath Care Freedom Act,” the initiative will be on the 2010 Arizona ballot.
Indiana, Minnesota, New Mexico, North Dakota and Wyoming are all considering similar legislation to opt out of “Obamacare,” the current effort by the administration to pass a government-funded universal health care insurance bill.
Meanwhile, tea party organizers are fighting back against Obama administration supporters who derisively used “tea bagging” in reference to certain homosexual practices.
A video is posted on YouTube that was produced by the organizers of the Texas Tea Party who invited actress Janeane Garofolo to join them in Texas on July 4.
NewsBusters reported that Garofalo, an actress on Fox television’s anti-terrorism show “24,” called Tea Party-goers “a bunch of tea-backing rednecks,” adding “this is about hating a black man in the White House. This is racism straight up.”
According to the Tenth Amendment Center, at least 70 percent of the states have launched provisions to exert state sovereignty based on the 10th Amendment to the Constitution, which stipulates that “powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited to it by the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”
“What we are trying to do is to get the U.S. Congress out of the state’s businesses,” says Oklahoma Republican State Sen. Randy Brogdon, lead sponsor of the Oklahoma State’s version of the sovereignty bill.
Brogdon is currently running for governor in Oklahoma in 2010.
WND’s current June 2009 issue of the Whistleblower magazine, entitled “Don’t Tread on Me: Rebellion in America’s heartland,” also covers the move by several states to exempt guns from federal regulation.
The state of Montana has drawn a land in the sand, challenging the federal government to decide whether guns and ammo made, sold and used in Montana require federal registration.
Following Montana’s lead, Utah Rep. Carl Wimmer has prepared a bill that would gain new protections for gun owners by asserting the state’s sovereignty under the Ninth and Tenth Amendments.
WND has reported that Wimmer intends his legislation to exempt from federal gun regulations any Utah resident seeking to own a firearm made in Utah.
What is clear is that millions of Americans are getting increasingly turned off by the Obama administration’s move to increase dramatically the size and control of the federal government.
With no end of trillion dollar deficits anywhere in sight under President Obama, average Americans are saying “no more” to escalating taxes and programs such as “Obamacare.” Books such as Mark Levin’s “Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto” and Glenn Beck’s “Common Sense: The Case Against an Out-of-Control Government” have risen to the top of the New York Times best-seller list, largely on the resistance against the Obama administration move toward socialism that is reflected in trillion dollar deficits and increasing central government control of the U.S. economy.
To recall yet another essential book, Joseph Farah was right in 2005 when he published his classic book, “Taking America Back: A Radical Plan to Revive Freedom, Morality, and Justice.”
In writing “The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality,” I predicted that Barack Obama was a Saul Alinsky radical who would rule from the far left, not from the political center.
Now, I want to give Red Alert readers the first preview that I have just completed another book entitled “America for Sale: Fighting the New World Order, Surviving a Global Depression, and Preserving USA Sovereignty.”
The book, now in pre-publication sales on Amazon, is scheduled for publication on Oct. 13, 2009.
With President Obama’s rating dropping and the global recession deepening, this is the time we need to fight back by returning to the principles of limited government espoused by our founders.
Now is the time to defeat the Obama administration cap-and-trade bill in the Senate and to fight the Obama health care plan in the House.
Before 2009 is over, the Obama administration plans to introduce to Congress yet another version of the “shamnesty” bill, euphemistically packaged as “comprehensive immigration reform.”
Having twice defeated the Kennedy-McCain version of that bill, Red Alert believes American patriots will once again reject “guest worker programs” and “pathways to citizenship” on the call to secure our borders and enforce our existing immigration laws.
The time to save America from Obama socialism is running short, but as our nation celebrates the Independence Day holiday, the battle has only just begun.
