“Friends! Brethren!
Countrymen!–That worst of plagues, the detested tea, shipped for
this port by the East India Company, is now arrived in the
harbor.” -Boston, November 29, 1773
Intolerable Acts. The very sound of such words reeks of a tyrannical
villainy that exceeds the “run of the mill” oppression
normally associated with a bloated, out of control government. However,
it also reeks of something else: A people who believe they deserve
better and are unwilling to tolerate the tyranny, regardless of the
ramifications of resistance. Despite the insistence from our president
otherwise, we descend from a good, decent and independent people.
However, our government, unable and unwilling to acknowledge this fact,
is re-instituting a policy of Intolerable Acts, and we need only
consult our wise ancestors in order to discern the remedy.
In colonial times, an arrogant English
monarchy, its’ treasury having been depleted by the French and
Indian War, decided it could recoup its’ losses by levying a
series of new taxes on their American colonies. The Stamp Act of 1765,
the Townsend Act of 1767 along with the infamous Boston Massacre
agitated the colonists, but when the Crown to tax tea, the colonists
revolted. They refused to pay the taxes required by the Townsend Acts
claiming they had no obligation to pay taxes imposed by a Parliament in
which they had no representation. Parliament then retracted the taxes
with the exception of the tax on tea, this remained as a demonstration
of Parliament’s right and willingness to tax the colonies.
In concocting a scheme not unlike the political shenanigans of
modern times, they gave the East India Company a monopoly on the
importation of tea to America. Parliament then reduced the tax the
colonies would have to pay for the imported tea. The scheme would
actually allow Americans to get their tea at a cheaper price than
before. However, if the colonies paid the tax on the imported tea, they
would be acknowledging the English Parliament’s right to tax
them. It was assumed that the colonists would rather pay the tax than
deprive themselves of their tea. It was a big mis-calculation. Our
ancestors were not so easily deceived by Parliamentary trickery.
In Boston, the arrival of three ships loaded with tea ignited a
furious reaction. On December 16, 1773 as many as 7,000 agitated locals
gathered about the wharf where the ships were docked. The colonists
demanded the ships leave…without paying the tea taxes. The
Collector of Customs refused to allow the ships to leave without paying
the tea taxes. A stalemate? No, our ancestors had a surprise for
the English Crown. 200 men, many disguised as Indians, marched
two-by-two to the wharf, descended upon the three ships and dumped
their offending cargos of tea into the harbor waters. This was the
first, and most famous tea party…but by no means, the last.
In early 2009, within the first month of the presidency of Barack
Obama, his administration sought, and acquired, the single biggest
booty in the history of theft, when the newly elected Democratic
majority pilfered the United States Treasury for 787 billion dollars
under the guise of an economic stimulus. The fact that the United
States did not have 787 Billion dollars was not an impediment, they
simply borrowed and printed the money. The public, having just voted
out a republican president and majorities in congress for, among other
things, excessive spending, reacted with hostility to this intolerable
action. Suddenly, taxpayer tea-parties started popping up all across
the country. The movement led to a massive display of over a million
people at a demonstration in Washington DC on September 12, 2009.
Millions more were participating in similar events nationwide. This
government was put on notice that it has our attention, and it has
earned our contempt.
However, the Obama administration, like King George’s before
him, does not handle criticism well. If you will recall your history,
the English Crown responded to the Boston Tea Party by imposing a
series of laws sponsored by British Prime Minister Lord North in 1774.
These laws, known as the “Intolerable Acts,” were the
harshest laws ever imposed by Parliament against the colonies. They
included:
1. QUARTERING ACT: Allowed British troops to stay in houses or empty buildings if barracks were not available.
2. QUEBEC ACT: Granted civil government and religious freedom to
Catholics living in Quebec. This was a direct insult to Americans in
the colonies, who had been denied the same sorts of rights that the
Quebec residents were being granted.
3. MASSACHUSETTS BAY REGULATING ACT: Made all law officers subject
to appointment by the royal governor and banned all town meetings that
didn’t have approval of the royal governor.
4. BOSTON PORT ACT: Closed the port of Boston until the price of the
destroyed tea was recovered, moved the capital of Massachusetts to
Salem, and made Marblehead the official port of entry for the
Massachusetts colony.
5. IMPARTIAL ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE ACT: This allowed the royal
governor of a colony to move trials to other colonies or even to
England if he feared that juries in those colonies wouldn’t judge
a case fairly.
Whether it be through arrogance or ignorance our current president
has revived the spirit of the “Intolerable Acts.” In fact,
when comparing the policies and initiatives of the Obama administration
and his congressional democrat catspaws, to that of the British
Crown’s colonial impositions, there is an eerie similarity. It
would appear, however, that the modern version is exponentially
more…intolerable! Let’s have a look at them.
1. HEALTH CARE REFORM ACT: For some reason I see this as having
considerable similarity to the 1774 Quartering Act in that it has the
potential to be the most intrusive trespass of government into our
lives. Almost every aspect of your life can be controlled through
government administered and regulated Health Care. Everything from what
you eat to where you live can be evaluated to determine your health
risk. By rendering the health care system a slave of government
regulation, it will come to pass that government bureaucrats will have
a say in EVERY aspect of your behavior. Behavior viewed as risky, such
as eating at fast food restaurants, consuming soft drinks or even
sexual behavior, will be vulnerable to regulation with just this act
alone. Privacy and freedom be damned! They might as well be living with
you in your house, just as the British soldiers who were being
quartered in our ancestors homes, against their wishes.
If you think I’m exaggerating, consider this example: The
United States Department of Health and Human Services has already
conducted a study to determine the health risks of firearms. Once the
Health Care Reform Act becomes law, the U.S. Constitution will not be
able to stop government bureaucrats from issuing a finding of
“endangerment” and then, by fiat, they will restrict or
deny you the right to possess or own firearms in the name of reducing
health care costs. Why do you think progressives are salivating at the
prospects of passing this damnable law? In one stroke, they can assume
dictatorial control over EVERYONE’S life.
The Health Care Reform Act is not the product of a limited
constitutional government, but instead is an attempt at limiting
freedom. The president claims passage of this would be an historic
achievement on behalf of the American people. This colossal invasion of
a centralized “command and control” apparatus into
the health care system will unleash a tyranny that will ultimately
destroy the doctor-patient relationship, ration health care and stifle
medical innovation. Do you believe this is being done for YOUR benefit?
TOLERANCE ACT: As with the Quebec Act of 1774, this intolerable act
involves recognizing “rights” or status for certain groups
at the expense of others. This is best displayed with the recent
signing into law of Hate Crimes legislation that, among other things,
allows for homosexual victims of crimes to be classified as a protected
class of citizen and therefore crimes against them are subject to
greater punishment than crimes against others not listed as a protected
class. This atrocity is an offense to the idea of equal justice under
the law. Worse, is the fact that someone who criticizes the homosexual
lifestyle on religious grounds can find themselves charged with a Hate
Crime should any harm come to a homosexual, in spite of the fact that
the religious speaker wasn’t involved in the crime. This
effectively invalidates free speech protections. It appears that some
people are now more equal than others to the point that they are
legally beyond criticism.
But it doesn’t stop there. Equality engineering is also at the
heart of the homosexual marriage agenda that is poisoning our political
discourse. Homosexuals insist they are being discriminated against
because their “relationships” are not recognized as a
marriage. They see only their individual rights where marriage is
supposed to be defined as a union. When two homosexuals combine 1+1
ALWAYS equals 2. Yet when a man and a woman combine in a relationship
1+1 equals a lot more. Not just in the children created, but in the
mutual sacrifice of the couple in raising new citizens. Every
successful society throughout history has recognized this marriage
based family model as the centerpiece of its civilization. How can
homosexuals claim their relationships are equal to that? Their demand
to reduce marriage into nothing more than two individuals’
self-interests is not only selfish, but evil and intolerable.
But the Tolerance Act just keeps on giving. This myth of equality is
the centerpiece of the Obama administration’s war on American
exceptionalism. Obama, always trying to level the playing field, would
deny the United States its’ role as sole superpower to instead
have us be just one nation among the cooperative of world nations.
Obama is also trying to destroy the relationship between excellence and
reward in our own country. Achievement is, in his sight, a sign of
inequality and unfairness that requires correction. Community
organizing and pandering to parasites super-cedes constitutional
protections for individual rights and freedom. As the schoolchildren
sing: all are equal in HIS sight. Therefore, he justifies granting
amnesty to illegal immigrants, tolerance of Islamo-fascism, and racial
preferences for jobs and college admissions as a form of reparations
for America’s alleged past transgressions. Intolerable.
THE CZAR ACT: Like the Massachusetts Bay Regulating Act before it,
The Czar Act unlawfully concentrates federal power in the executive
branch of government. Unelected Czars appointed by presidents without
congressional approval has been a growing problem in recent
administrations. However the Obama administration has more Czars than
congressionally approved cabinet members…39!! With thirteen more
projected for future appointment! This is a massive delegation of
authority to unelected bureaucrats. Their rules have the power of
law…made by regulators, adjudicated by regulators and enforced
by the executive branch. It is essentially a shadow government that
answers only to the president. Take a look at his appointments, a more
wretched hive of left wing villainy could not easily be found…
1. Herb Allison (TARP Czar)
2. Alan Bersin (Border Czar)
3. Dennis Blair (Intelligence Czar)
4. Ron Bloom (Car Czar)
5. John Brennan (Terrorism Czar)
6. Carol Browner (Energy and Environment Czar)
7. Adolfo Carrion Jr. (Urban Affairs Czar)
8. Ashton Carter (Weapons Czar)
9. Aneesh Chopra (Technology Czar)
10. Jeffery Crowley (AIDS Czar)
11. Cameron Davis (Great Lakes Czar)
12. Nancy-Ann DeParle (Health Czar)
13. Earl Devaney (Stimulus Accountability Czar)
14. Linda Douglass (Dis-Information Czar)
15. Joshua DuBois (Faith Based Czar)
16. Arne Duncan (Education Czar)
17. Kenneth Feinberg (Pay Czar)
18. Daniel Fried (Guantanamo Closure Czar)
19. J. Scott Gration (Sudan Czar)
20. David Hayes (California Water Czar)
21. Richard Holbrooke (Afghanistan Czar)
22. John Holdren (Science Czar)
23. Kevin Jennings (Safe Schools Czar)
24. Gil Kerlikowske (Drug Czar)
25. Ron Kirk (Trade Czar)
26. Vivek Kundra (Information Czar)
27. Mark Lloyd (Media Diversity Czar)
28. Douglas Lute (War Czar)
29. George Mitchell (Mideast Peace Czar)
30. Ed Montgomery (Auto Recovery Czar)
31. Lynn Rosenthal (Domestic Violence Czar)
32. Dennis Ross, (Central Region Czar)
33. Gary Samore (WMD Policy Czar)
34. Todd Stern (Climate Czar)
35. Larry Summers (Economic Czar)
36. Cass Sunstein (Regulatory Czar)
37. Michael Taylor (Food Czar)
38. Paul Volcker (Economic Czar)
39. Jeffery Zients (Government Performance Czar)
40. Van Jones (Green Jobs Czar) Oops, this self described COMMUNIST
resigned after it was revealed he was a 9/11 truther. Apparently,
however, being a convicted felon and a communist was just fine with
this administration.
Worse, even than the proliferation of these unelected overlords, is
who they are. These Czars are among the most radical, totalitarian
leftists this country’s godless institutions of higher education
have ever produced:
John Holdren, Obama’s Science Czar, is a eugenicist that has
laid out plans in his book, Ecoscience, for forced sterilizations and
forced abortions as a means of population control. He stated that
population control laws could be constitutional, under the right
perception. Holdren also proposed such atrocities as forced adoptions
for babies born out of wed-lock and claims that forced sterilization of
women would be easier to enforce than men. What a guy, huh? He might
appear reasonable, if only by comparison, to the half-wit Cass Sunstein
who is Obama’s regulatory Czar. He has publicly stated a desire
to impose regulatory agendas such as outlawing sport hunting, giving
animals the legal right to file lawsuits and using government
regulations to phase out meat consumption. That’s right, he wants
your cat to have the legal right to file a lawsuit against you. Of
course your cat will be represented by an ACLU attorney who is a
quackaloon liberal that talks to cats and knows what they want. I have
a cat and if they have their way, she won’t just think
she’s in charge..she will be!
Harold Koh, Obama’s pick as Legal Adviser to the State
Department, is a self-described trans-nationalist who has openly stated
that judges should interpret the Constitution according to other
nations’ legal “norms.” So much for national
sovereignty! Applying Sharia law in US courts is more than acceptable
to this man, and, in his child-like world, the United States
constitutes an “axis of disobedience” along with North
Korea and Saddam-era Iraq. Moral relativism at its finest.
“In questions of power, let us hear no more of trust in
men, but rather bind them down from mischief with the chains of the
Constitution.” -Thomas Jefferson
Now you know what he means by “mischief.” Unfortunately,
our constitution is bound in chains by these unconfirmed, unelected and
unconstitutional parasites that are sucking our freedom away right in
front of us. Are we really powerless to stop this or, worse, are we
just indifferent?
CAP AND TRADE ACT: Not unlike the Boston Port Act of 1774, the Cap
and Trade legislation pending in the Senate would punitively
restructure our economy based on the false premises of man-made global
warming and the alleged climate debt that Western industrialized
nations “owe” the world for emitting C02 into the
atmosphere. The progressives, who bear a hatred for our petroleum based
energy economy, have clicked their heels and repeated three times
“there’s no energy like wind and solar, there’s no
energy like wind and solar, there’s no energy like wind and
solar.” All we are waiting for now is the wizard to make it all
work.
The Senate, however, is balking at passing this economy killing
legislation so the American Politburo, masquerading as the Obama
administration, has circumvented the law. This of course is what all
progressives do even as they expect you to follow the laws THEY create.
The Environmental Protection Agency has issued a finding of
“endangerment” for carbon dioxide. That’s right, a
naturally occurring ingredient in the breath we exhale is now labeled
as dangerous. By issuing this finding the EPA, under the authority of
the Clean Air Act of 1990, can therefore regulate all carbon emissions
nationwide.
“If you don’t pass this legislation, then …
the EPA is going to have to regulate in this area,” the official
said. “And it is not going to be able to regulate on a
market-based way, so it’s going to have to regulate in a
command-and-control way, which will probably generate even more
uncertainty.” -White House Official under condition of anonymity
Command and Control is the dream of all liberals. They know
what’s best for us and are righteously indignant at having to
constantly explain their “good” intentions and get the
consent of the governed. So they threaten EPA regulation in an attempt
to not only blackmail the Senate into passing disastrous Cap and Trade
legislation, but also to express their willingness to act dictatorially
if they wish. This, in spite of the fact that the Clean Air Act of 1990
is congressional legislation that congress can amend or rescind if they
wish…and they better do it fast. This administration is fast
rendering congress irrelevant. A dictatorship, always the result of
liberalism, is on our horizon.
IMPARTIAL ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE ACT: This is EXACTLY like the
1774 Intolerable Act that bears the same name. This allowed the royal
governors to move trials in the interest of “fairness” as
defined by the government. Does this sound familiar? The announcement
by Attorney General Eric Holder that he is going to give 911 mastermind
Khalid Sheikh Muhammad and his co-conspirators civil trials in New York
City has re-opened this intolerable wound. Once again we have the
spectre of progressive moral relativism being imposed on the citizens
of the United States. An enemy combatant, that does not even
acknowledge the rules of the Geneva Convention, is going to be tried as
an ordinary criminal, with the full accompaniment of rights and
protections of an American citizen. History is indeed repeating itself.
This administration came in hell-bent on prosecuting the military
and intelligence apparatus that so successfully kept a repeat of the
9/11 attacks from occurring for seven years. Apparently this Attorney
general, with the approval of his boss, believes the terrorists had
reasonable grievances against the United States and now he has given
them a worldwide platform from which to advance their cause. In the
process, the progressives will get to put the United States on trial,
particularly the Bush administration and the CIA, and portray the
United States as a villain deserving the “social justice”
that the terrorists administered.
Do not think these trials will serve any other purpose. Other
countries don’t give enemy combatants the right to a civil trial.
This passes for original thinking in this administration. Terrorists
should be tried in military tribunals, as had already been agreed upon
and which then senator Barack Obama supported. However this
administration cannot even bring themselves to call them terrorists!
They are consumed with the politics of American guilt…and it is
intolerable!
In a culture that celebrates victims and their victimization, we
must now accept that we too have become victims. Victims of a
progressive attempt to fundamentally transform America either
through our acquiescence to these intolerable actions, or through a
deliberate attempt to over burden our government and economy with more
debt and expectations than it can possibly handle. The collapse of our
economy excites progressives as it will create an opportunity to
rebuild a new America in their own image. An image of command and
control, where those who know better do our thinking for us. Our
portion is obedience.
This strategy of forcing political change through orchestrated
crisis, has a name and is well documented, and revered, among the
elitist, progressive American left. The “Cloward-Piven
Strategy” seeks to hasten the fall of capitalism by overloading
the government bureaucracy with a flood of impossible demands, thus
pushing society into crisis and economic collapse. I urge you to
discover it for yourself. Read it, learn it and fight it.
Progressives, socialists and liberals of all stripes talk a good
game, but they are not the type to sacrifice anything for their
beliefs. They speak often of the poor and weak in our society but you
will never see a liberal take a vow of poverty and dedicate himself to
helping them. They simply exploit their misery to further their quest
for control. Remember this the next time a liberal invokes Jesus or
tries otherwise to conceal himself in religious foliage in an attempt
to guilt his victims into accepting social policies that encourage
parasitism.
Destroying the United States is their objective and “by any
means necessary” is their moral code. They want the rest of us to
accept poverty in the name of “equality” and
“social justice” while they appoint themselves as bearers
of the burden of managing our lives for us. This is the ultimate
Intolerable Act.
Friends! Brethren! Countrymen! That worst of plagues,
progressivism, has now infested our government rendering it
intolerable. We must exterminate this government…by any means
necessary! -Sidney Allen Johnson
