South Carolina rejects ObamaCare … Maybe ..

Below is an article that appeared in the “Washington Times” on May 2nd showing how one state is confronting the central governmental tyranny descending upon us from Washington, DC under the guise of “Obamacare.”  The South Carolinans characterize their action as “Nullification”, which is what it is.  However, socialists, Democrats, “liberal” intellectuals, even Republican RHINO’s, and those who have not informed themselves as to what the concept of “Nullification” is have been doing their utmost best to discredit this method of resisting tyranny, by their standard tactic … that of mindless derision rather than opposing by intellectual reason.  Their disdain is a sure sign of the merits of the method.

There is a long history to the concept of “Nullification” but suffice it to say that it was first proposed as an antidote, by none other than the joint efforts of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison,  to a tyranny called the “Alien and Sedition Act” proposed and passed into law by the administration of John Adams.

If you are interested in a treatise on the subject, I encourage you to read “Nullification” by Thomas Wood.

We are fast approaching the demise of the States and the imposition of a Federal tyranny unless the States begin to challenge usurpation by asserting their powers under the 10th Amendment.  We can fight for our Rights under the law, or by Revolution, or we can cower into submission and submit to totalitarianism.  The situation is dire and we who care must begin to act.

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This is the text of the article in the Washington Times … May 2, 2013:

The South Carolina state House passed a bill Wednesday that declares President Obama’s Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to be “null and void,” and criminalizes its implementation.

The state’s Freedom of Health Care Protection Act intends to “prohibit certain individuals from enforcing or attempting to enforce such unconstitutional laws; and to establish criminal penalties and civil liability for violating this article.”

The measure permits the state Attorney General, with reasonable cause, “to restrain by temporary restraining order, temporary injunction, or permanent injunction” any person who is believed to be causing harm to any person or business with the implementation of Obamacare.

Earlier this year in her state of the state address, Governor Nikki Haley said that South Carolina does not want and cannot afford the president’s plan, “not now, not ever.”

“To that end, we will not pursue the type of government-run health exchanges being forced on us by Washington,” she said. “Despite the rose-colored rhetoric coming out of D.C., these exchanges are nothing more than a way to make the state do the federal government’s bidding in spending massive amounts of taxpayer dollars on insurance subsidies that we can’t afford.”

The nullification bill moved on to the state Senate Thursday and referred to the Committee on Finance.

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