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Resist ACA purchases
To force people to buy a product against their will is not freedom, but slavery. Our system of government was based upon checks and balances, and it is time for the people to exercise theirs.
No one can claim our right to buy or not to buy a product – be it federal or state legislature, court, police, president or potentate. To resist this force requires the people ultimately to claim their right, and exercise it, by not buying. Rights not used are lost. For those who want the product but do not want to be forced to buy, simply purchase whatever you want and do not let the government know.
The real issue is: Do we value freedom or the alternative – involuntary servitude. Slavery only produces poverty and injustice, but don’t forget it comes with a great cost: “Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen,” said Samuel Adams.
Resist the communist schemes of President Obama’s health care scam.
Steve Tanner
Bonners Ferry