Breitbart's BigGovernment.com publishes blog post comparing health care reform proposal to slavery
October 19, 2009 9:12 am ET by Media Matters staff
From a BigGovernment.com post by Dr. David Janda titled: "ObamaCare Debate: Freedom vs. Oppression":
On September 22, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln issued The Emancipation Proclamation:
"That on the 1st day of January, in the year of our Lord 1863, all persons held as slaves within any state or designated part of a state, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free; and the executive government of the United States, including the military and naval authority thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons and will do no act or acts to repress such persons, or any of them, in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom. . . And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of mankind and the gracious favor of Almighty God."
With these words President Lincoln ended slavery -- a flagrant violation of the institutions of the United States of America, "a government of, by and for all the people."
The institution of slavery denied essential freedoms to fellow Americans. Today, in 2009, another freedom is being denied to every man, woman and child -- freedom of health care. Some in the HMO industry, many in the insurance industry, and many federal "Big Government" bureaucrats are denying Americans their freedom of health care. The Obama Health Care Plan is the instruction manual and play book for this mandate.
These "Masters" of Health Care are trying to deny individuals the freedom to choose what doctor you can see, what medicine you can take, what hospital you can go to, and how you spend your health care dollars. They even take it a step further in the Obama Health Care Plan, determining -- IF -- yes, IF you can be treated. These "Masters" of Health Care are driving us to unnecessary pain, suffering, and, in some cases, death.
Previously:
In rant on health care, Levin equated Senate Finance bill with "economic slavery"
Beck: "The government's irresponsible spending is turning us into slaves"
Tax deduction change latest Obama proposal Beck claims "involves enslaving people"
Sounds to me an exact description of the insurance companies.
"Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude...shall exist within the United States."
This is one of those misunderstandings, but anyone with a high school education would have learned the difference between the proclamation and the 13th amendment.
The Emancipation Proclamation only freed slaves in the Confederacy, unless the Confederate state returned to the union, naming only ten states that it applied to. The proclamation was more of a political ploy, adding the abolition of slavery as a goal to the war in order to drum up foreign support of the Union.
To view a map of the areas affected by the proclamation, view here:
Map of Effected Areas
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One has to wonder--if Dr. Janda is this bad on history, how is he on current events (one might say, the last page of the history book)?
The "public option" is an OPTION.
And as posted above, insurance companies already decide what you can and cannot do.