The Ancients Declare Obamacare Ruling Worse Than Obamacare Itself

Bill Flax, Forbes h/t Free Republic

Here's an essay which expresses perfectly what ails us and why the recent Supreme Court decision was in grave error.

The essay relies upon the basic philosophy upon which this government was based-  that is the rule of law as opposed to the rule of men.  Flax points out that a democracy is only a collection of men-- therefore if you rely upon a group of men to rule, as in a democracy, you still have the rule of men.  The safeguard of liberty is in the law, not in men.  Therefore, when asked about what kind of government that was created at the Constitutional Convention, Ben Franklin was quoted as saying- "A republic, if you can keep it."

• The Affordable Care Act reflects the logical continuation of a decades-long drift toward domineering by Washington over every facet of life.
• The brake on this zooming locomotive called government should be the rule of law. 
• The limiting agent on government cannot be the temporary passions of the crowd, easily bought by bread and circuses; nor subject to the self-aggrandizing whims of public officials, but the Constitution to which Caesar swears subservience. [comment:  the oath of office that everyone in government must take-- they have to swear an oath to the Constitution, not to their party or leader.]
• Yet liberty’s safeguard has never been democracy; mob-rule in the Greek, but the Constitution.
• Wherever Law ends, Tyranny begins,” warned John Locke. If rights are subject to majority rule, not law, how are we free? What can’t government do?
• Obama bestows allies with waivers and kickbacks per political calculation.
• With the public dole overflowing, and severe reticence to sensibly control the franchise, democracy as John Adams foresaw, “wastes, exhausts and murders itself.” 
• To survive, America must restore in Adams’ words, “A government of laws, and not of men.”
•  If democracy supersedes legality, two wolves can vote to devour an innocent lamb for lunch assuming they construe the proverbial slaughter as taxation.

Note: all emphases have been added.

Comment:

Well done.  But will mere argument be enough?  It is an old argument between the wolf and the lamb.  Guess who wins that one.