A 4-minute video of Lord Christopher Monckton's stern warning to Americans on October 14 about the dangers of a Copenhagen Treaty on Climate Change has gone viral with millions of views on YouTube over the past month. Click on the embedded video below to see for yourself Monckton's powerful warning. For further information about Monckton's warning and what it means, read "Lord Monckton Warns UN Copenhagen Treaty Would Impose World Government."
In brief, Lord Monckton is warning us that a new UN climate change agreement to replace the Kyoto Protocol is very likely to result from the UN Climate Change Conference that will be held in Copenhagen December 7-18. Monckton is concerned that the new agreement will be a massive cap-and-trade global warming treaty that would destroy our national sovereignty by superseding our U.S. Constitution, require us to make massive "climate-debt" payments to third-world nations, and lead to the creation of a world government. Although constitutionally speaking treaties don't override our Constitution, our government leaders stopped adhering to the Constitution a long time ago. So, yes, we should pay attention to Monckton's warning.
Even though many commentators have been saying that nothing will be decided on in Copenhagen, as recently as November 19 the UN's environmental chief, Yvo de Boer, was bullish on prospects for a successful summit and expects a legally binding agreement to be finished within six months after the conference. De Boer also said that in 10 or 20 years hundreds of billions of dollars would be needed annually from rich countries to help mitigate the effects of climate change on developing countries.
As evidence of how completely committed President Obama is to a legally-binding Copenhagen agreement, here's a statement at a White House press briefing on November 17 by Deputy National Security Advisor Mike Froman describing the common view of Presidents Obama and Hu (China) earlier that day "that even as the negotiations towards a final legal agreement continue, the Copenhagen conference should aim to reach an accord that includes all the issues being dealt with in the negotiations, and those included mitigation commitments by both developed and developing countries...."
Click here to send a prewritten, editable email to your representative and senators stating that you are strongly opposed to any Copenhagen UN climate change agreement because you are strongly opposed to: (1) ceding any U.S. sovereignty to the UN; (2) committing to make "climate debt" payments to developing nations; and (3) empowering a UN world government. Our representatives and senators should work to prevent President Obama from signing any agreement in Copenhagen and to defeat any Copenhagen UN climate change agreement in the House and Senate or, in case the Copenhagen agreement is a treaty, prevent ratification by the Senate.
We know what's at stake -- an eventual complete government takeover of our health care system. Although it seems like we're destined to lose our health care freedom, remember how an extraordinary grassroots firestorm stopped the Senate dead in its tracks and forced it to abandon the Bush-Kennedy-McCain amnesty bill in 2007. We need just such a firestorm of opposition again!
Bottom line, if the Senate leadership's version of health care reform passes, then how each Senator votes on it will be a top issue in the congressional election campaigns of 2010 and 2012. This is a good time to let your Senators know what impact their votes on health care reform will have on your participation in the campaigns of 2010 and 2012. This is ultimately the only leverage you have on your Senators. Use it!
Contact your Senators in opposition to the Senate leadership's health care reform bill via their DC and district offices by means of personal visits, phone calls, faxes, and emails. Click here to take immediate action to send an email to both of your Senators.
Let's face it. We're all tired of this health care reform debate. We know what's at stake -- an eventual complete government takeover of our health care system.
We know that the various health care reform bill price tags of just below one trillion dollars are all deceptive. Government health care programs always end up costing much more than initially advertised. And, as for the ten-year CBO estimates, the system is being gamed by starting the taxes immediately and phasing in the benefits later in the ten year period, not to mention separating the Medicare doctor payment fix (hundreds of billions of dollars in new costs) from the main health care reform bills.
Let's call it what it is: socialized medicine. And, it's not just the Democrats. Many Republicans are itching to give us socialized medicine-lite.
In light of the horrible fiscal situation our nation is in, it is utterly fiscally irresponsible to vote yes for one of these trillion dollar health care reform bills, such as the 1900-page H.R. 3962, which is currently being considered by the House.
Furthermore, in light of the rampant congressional disregard for constitutional restraints on the federal government, it is utterly irresponsible to vote yes on one of these bills, which would establish a huge, new unconstitutional activity of the federal government.
Bottom line, whether H.R. 3962 passes or not, how each congressman votes on it will be a top issue in the congressional election campaign of 2010. This is a good time to let your congressman know what impact his vote on H.R. 3962 will have on your participation in the campaign of 2010. This is ultimately the only leverage you have on your congressman. Use it!
Contact your congressman in opposition to H.R. 3962 via his DC and district offices by means of personal visits, phone calls, faxes, and emails. Debate on the House floor is expected to begin late on Friday, November 6; a vote is expected on Friday or Saturday, the 6th or 7th.
For the past few months I’ve been watching closely the progress of health care legislation in Congress. Of course, we’ve all seen what happened at the town halls in August. Citizens all over the nation were opposed to a government takeover of health care as represented by House Bill H.R. 3200 and the Kennedy bill in the Senate. Many of these protesters referred to the health care legislation as unconstitutional.
That’s an important point. The uproar over the health care bills was intensified by what Americans had experienced late last year and early this year with congressional passage of the trillion dollar bailout and stimulus bills. We saw how the administration used these bills as a platform for naked, unconstitutional power grabs over our financial and auto industries.
So, naturally the worry was widespread that the Obama health care reform would enable the completion of the government takeover of our health care system that was begun with Medicare and Medicaid.
Our overall problem is that our federal government is out of control. We have 2 trillion dollar annual deficits, a nearly twelve trillion dollar national debt, and over $50 trillion dollars in unfunded liabilities for social security, medicare, and medicaid. And yet, even in light of this unprecedented fiscal irresponsibility, Congress and the President are continuing to act in almost complete disregard for the limitations on our government represented by the Constitution.
What we need if we are to have any chance to preserve our freedom and prosperity is to bring Congress and the executive branch back under the discipline of the Constitution.
Here's my video version of this blog, "Will Republicans Enable Unconstitutional Health Care Reform?":
At this point in the video version we have a video clip of Judge Andrew Napolitano giving a concise review of the powers given to Congress by the Constitution in Article I, Section 8. Authorization for Congress to arrange for our health care is nowhere to be found in the Constitution.
Although Congress has been passing unconstitutional bills for a long, long time already, the road back to freedom and prosperity in our nation leads back through a return to a Congress under the discipline of the Constitution. We’ve seen with the unconstitutional bailout and stimulus bills just how creative the executive branch can be in using such laws to take over entire segments of our economy, such as the finance and auto industries. We can be sure that almost any health care reform legislation that might be passed by this Congress will be used by the administration to complete the government takeover of our health care industry.
I was led to reconsider the whole topic of the constitutionality of health care reform proposals by both Democrats and Republicans when I read recently that House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said he will try again to find a bipartisan approach to health care reform by reaching out to a couple of Republican leaders in the House who say they agree with about 80 percent of the ideas that Democrats have proposed.
I realized that the whole contour of the health care reform debate the past few months is leading toward some kind of bipartisan health care reform that would enable the final and complete government takeover of health care.
Part of the problem is that too many Republicans are too eager to participate in the development of health care legislation with the Democrats. So far they have been shut out, except for the bipartisan working group on the Senate Finance Committee. Still, they keep coming back for more and offering to work with the Democrats on health care. As noted above, some of them even say they agree with the Democrats on 80% of the issues and would welcome working together.
The other part of the problem is that the health care proposals of many Republicans are unconstitutional. See for example what Republican (and former Secretary of Health and Human Services) Tommy Thompson has to say in this video about Republican proposals for health care reform.
It’s clear that the health care reform ideas Thompson is talking about here are also unconstitutional. It’s also clear that one of the leading bipartisan proposals, which some Senate Republicans have supported, the substituting of health care cooperatives for the public option would also constitute an unconstitutional approach to health care which would lead to the same eventual result as the public option.
The real answer is for Americans to convince their representatives and senators to “just drop health care reform.” Click here for an easy way to email your representative and senators with just this message. Of course, additional pressure must be put on Congress to drop health care reform through phone calls, personal visits, and public rallies.
As one pundit put it a couple months ago, the Democrats only need to pass the germ of a government-run health care system. That minimal health care reform legislation could be parlayed by the executive branch into a completely government-run health care system over time.
Given the radically unconstitutional orientation of our present presidential administration and Congress, the only safe course is to develop enough pressure on both Democrats and Republicans in Congress to get them to back away from any further work on health care this year and next. That would buy enough time to get a majority of constitutionalists elected to Congress in 2010 and 2012, which would ensure that any unconstitutional health care reform bills could not be passed any time soon.
Unbelievable as it might be, we're on the verge of congressional passage of a radical and unconstitutional cap-and-trade energy tax that would cost thousands of dollars per household per year, cripple the production and use of carbon-based energy, and destroy our economy. All this for the purpose of reducing man-made global warming, a completely unproven theory. See "Treasury Memo Resets Cap and Trade Energy Tax Debate" for more information.
What's needed is a national firestorm of opposition such as we witnessed in the health care town halls in August. And we need it now. Already Senator Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) is preparing for legislative hearings on a Senate cap and trade bill in early October. A vote in the full Senate could happen as early as late October, but more likely in November or December.
We also still have a chance to stop cap and trade in the House, because even though the House narrowly passed its version of cap and trade back in June, if the Senate passes a bill, then the House and Senate will need to vote on a compromise version.
Click here to send an email in strong opposition to cap-and-trade legislation to your senators and representative. But don't stop there. Be sure to contact others in your sphere of influence. Apply pressure to your senators and representatives through personal visits, phone calls, letters to the editor, and participation in appropriate rallies and other events.
The "Cap and Trade" cover article in the September 28 issue of The New American magazine makes an excellent educational tool for convincing your friends and associates to actively oppose cap and trade legislation. It also provides many talking points for letters to the editor and radio talk shows.
We must preserve our freedom and prosperity by bringing Congress back under the discipline of the Constitution!
A 4-minute video of Lord Christopher Monckton's stern warning to Americans on October 14 about the dangers of a Copenhagen Treaty on Climate Change has gone viral with millions of views on YouTube over the past month. Click on the embedded video below to see for yourself Monckton's powerful warning. For further information about Monckton's warning and what it means, read "
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Let's face it. We're all tired of this health care reform debate. We know what's at stake -- an eventual complete government takeover of our health care system.
