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Obamacare: Unconstitutional, and void

Congress does not have the power to force you to buy health insurance.

Obamacare is unconstitutional according to a ruling issued today by U.S. District Court Judge Roger Vinson in Pensacola, Florida. Twenty-six state Attorneys General challenged the individual mandate, which penalizes Americans who do not purchase a government-approved health insurance plan from one of a handful of government-sanctioned sellers.

Judge Vinson agreed, and because of Obamacare's "no severability" clause, all of it has to go.

"I must reluctantly conclude that Congress exceeded the bounds of its authority in passing the Act with the individual mandate," Vinson writes. "Because the individual mandate is unconstitutional and not severable, the entire Act must be declared void."

Void. Unenforceable. Not operable.

Judge Vinson struck a decisive blow for Freedom today. Yes, Freedom. And Liberty.

Of course the Obama Administration will appeal this ruling faster than Nancy Pelosi can say, "more Botox, Stat!" If there's one thing Barry and his liberal band of socialists hate it's Freedom. Freedom is messy. Freedom means they can't guarantee equality of outcome. Freedom is incompatible with their grand design for wealth redistribution. Freedom gives people the idea that they're in charge of their own destiny, and then who needs a benevolent bureaucracy staffed by elite intellectuals?

Obamacare is the antithesis of Freedom.

Thank God for patriots like Judge Vinson. Coupled with a similar ruling in December by Judge Henry Hudson in Virgina it's likely that the U.S. Surpreme Court will be weighing in sooner rather than later now.

Good.

Give me Liberty, or give me death!

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(Of course there is a Memeorandum thread!)

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