Late Saturday night past the House of Representatives voted by narrow majority to bring back slavery in the United States.   The Marxist health care legislation adopted by these so-called representatives of the people is a grievous betrayal of their oath of office, an act of war against the Constitution order and against the American people, who have made it crystal clear that they do not want this "reform."   The passage of this bill becomes the high-water mark (so far) of "hope and change," the fundamental transformation of America, brought to us by the first American president who assumed office hating and despising the history and society which honored him with the highest office it can bestow.  How Barack and Michelle must have laughed at the voters who naively bought their smooth slogans and soothing promises .   Working with a Congressional leadership which would be perfectly at home in the Politburo of the old Soviet Union, the first Marxist president seeks to destroy our economy so as to make the American people desperate and afraid enough to accept the central government seizing control over their lives to a degree unimaginable to our forefathers, who must be rolling over in their graves.   Should health care "reform" be enacted, individual freedom in America ceases to be a right and becomes dependable on the goodwill of the state, as determined by the daily mood of the local government bureaucrat.   Think the local revenue office is a model of civility?  The post office the model of efficiency?   Esau sold his birthright to Jacob for a bowl of stew -  if the majority of the House which passed this bill is supposed to represent a majority of Americans, then a majority of this country is prepared to sell its liberty for the promise of "free" health care.  In both cases, the short sightedness of the act is breathtaking in scope and tragic in consequence.   Have we really become such a nation of sheep, that we willingly surrender our liberty for the promise of goodies dispensed by a beneficent federal government?  Is it so hard to understand that there is no such thing as a beneficent central government?    History has revealed that while liberty is a gift from God,  men can lose that liberty though indolence and ignorance and that any trade of liberty for the promise of economic security (in whatever guise) ends with the loss of both.   It is staggering that even one United States Representative voted for this abomination of a bill.    It is a vote to make Americans slaves and serfs in their own land, indentured servants on the government plantation.  We will become not a people with a government, but a government with a people.   In essence the American Revolution will be undone, with the all powerful central state stepping in for King George III.    

In ages past classical liberalism strove to expand human freedom by limiting the power of the state.  Today contemporary liberalism seeks to destroy freedom by expanding the power of the state.  There is wickedness at work in the heart of today's leftist, the craving for power to shape all things to his will.  It is an age old wickedness, which came into being before the forming of the Earth, and had its first human incarnation in the Garden of Eden.  It is a wickedness which in men instills the belief that he can make all things perfect and new.   The founders of the nation were well aware of the true natures of the heart of men and that man was incapable of perfection.  They knew that power corrupts men and unchecked power corrupts absolutely.   That's why they created a limited central government, with specifically limited powers, to ensure that even if wicked men, though having obtained temporary power with promises to use power for good and attractive things, could not wreck and ruin the country.   Over the generations arrogant men who always believe they know better how to order the universe have worked to remove brick by brick the constitutional limits on the central government.   Socialized health care represents the ultimate expression of the hubris of men thinking they can perfect the world.   It represents not simply wrecking the finest health care system in the world but transferring to the state the power of  life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.   It is a usurpation of  the people's power unprecedented in this country, a true coup d' e-tat which vitiates the original compact which formed the union.    If this legislation becomes law, the government of the United States may have the form of a democratic republic but it will not be so in substance.  Instead, we will become the 21st century version of the Soviet Union, corruptly administered by a capricious bureaucracy drunk with the power of life and death over a population sullen with poverty and impotence, whose votes change nothing and mean nothing.   Every possession and every life will exist to be regulated and administered to better serve the "common good," i.e., the state.  We will be monitored by the forces of political correctness so that every thought and expression conforms and is acceptable to the new order of things.  Welcome to the land of Big Brother.   Oceania has become Obamia.