Congress is (as I write this at 2000 hours MDT, Sunday 21MAR2010) betraying its collective oaths, its trust, its honor, and the Union by voting on a simple majority in the House of Representatives, to pass an abomination called a "health care reform" measure. The Senate will do the same shortly, again by manipulating the rules, pressuring, bribing, and coercing its own members, to pass the bill in a simple majority vote. And then the President of the United States (assuming that he is) will sign it into law and begin enforcing it (or at least, the parts that he and the millions of unelected bureaucrats who are his minions WANT to enforce) on a population that is, at best, highly divided over the wisdom, concept, value, and even need, for the law. (And at worse, rejects it and the Congress that created it.)
One columnist (http://townhall.com/columnists/JosephCPhillips/2010/03/21/there_will_be_blood!) has already called for a Second Revolution - though he puts in weasel words about "political bloodletting." He too speaks of betrayal and dishonesty, and a destruction of trust in a process where a supposedly free people trade some of their liberty to the state for security (protection of that liberty, including property). I say that the trust is long gone, and that the bargain of "some liberty" [and a LOT of property] for "protection of their [remaining] liberty and property" is a devil's bargain.
Unless I am sadly mistaken, it takes TWO parties to have a contract, and presumably both parties have to be competent and compliant with the contract. The Constitution of the United State is such a contract.
BUT:
(1) this act by Congress, on top of all the other things it has done;
(2) this act by the President, on top of all else that has been done by him and his predecessors; and
(3) the failure of the courts repeatedly to uphold the explicitly stated terms of the contract;
these three provide proof which is obvious to the most casual observer that the terms and provisions of the contract (the Constitution) have NOT been complied with. The way in which this is being done, together with an incredible track record extending back decades, demonstrates beyond doubt that the Federal Government, including all three branches and all the officials and employees thereof, is incompetent.
The contract has been broken. A broken contract is worthless, and no oath taken to uphold it can be taken as inviolate and absolute - except to the degree that those who took that oath are working to reestablish that contract. At this point, with the betrayal of trust, I do not think the contract will be reestablished, although I may personally be obligated to aid efforts - legally and morally correct efforts - to do so.
However, the vast majority of the citizens/residents of these United States HAVE no such obligation: they have never taken an oath to defend and protect the Constitution. They have been considered to be obligated to comply with the actions, the laws, instituted in accordance with the contract, but now that the contract is broken, they no longer have any obligation to do so. And more important, NEITHER do the fifty States: the betrayal, the treason, of two branches (if not all three) of the Federal Government has made the Constitution null and void: the States are free to do as they wish, and that includes obedience to ANY provision of the Constitution, to ANY law passed pursuant to that Constitution, or to accept any obligation made in or under that contract. Even those states whose own constitutions declare themselves to be an "inseparable part of the American Union" are no longer bound by this declaration because the Union was created by the Constitution, and if the Constitution is no longer in force there is no longer any American Union!
What does this mean? Admittedly, most States (and most people) will not accept that the contract is null and void: they will pretend that it still exists in some form, as some sort of "living document" or some "moral obligation." But those who DO understand the legalities and morality of it will understand that the Federal Government and its agents no longer have ANY legal power over their state, or their family or their business or themselves. They may have actual power - the power of "might makes right," the power of tooth and claw red. But no legal or moral power. Indeed, as stated in many state constitutions, it is the right of those set free by the treasonous and traitorous actions of Congress and President to resist each and every attempt by those people or any agent thereof to force them to comply with anything coming out of Washington. Including this "health care bill" and anything else. And that resistance is morally right to be done by any and all means possible.
What does this lead to? Ultimately, "There will be Blood." And the bloodletting will not be political, nor symbolic; it will be the blood of tyrants and patriots nourishing the tree of liberty. It must come, it WILL come; the only questions to be answered is "when?" and "how much?" and "who will bleed the most." The die is cast: liberty, our gift from God, is at stake.
