Symposium â€“ Obama's universal death care

The greatest achievement of any fascist or tyrannical dictator is to convince you he is a champion of the people, of freedom and liberty while simultaneously he puts the shackles on your wrists, on your ankles … and on your mind.

~ Ellis Washington, "Epistemology" (unpublished)

Socrates (470-399 B.C.) was a famous Greek philosopher from Athens who taught Plato, and Plato taught Aristotle, and Aristotle taught Alexander the Great. Socrates used a method of teaching by asking questions. The Greeks called this form "dialectic" – starting from a thesis or question, then discussing ideas and moving back and forth between points of view to determine how well ideas stand up to critical review, with the ultimate principle of the dialogue being Veritas – Truth.

Characters

Socrates
President Barack Obama
Sen. Teddy Kennedy, the lion of liberalism
Sen. RINO (= Republican in name only)
We the People (mute part)

{Setting: Heaven; Date: the future}

Prologue

Socrates: We are gathered here at this Symposium to discuss the eternal security of health care policy. God has allowed me this unusual dialogue to ask you a few questions, President Obama regarding your universal health care for all Americans and to fully examine this policy in the light of Veritas (Truth).

Dialogue

Socrates: President Obama, you are desperately trying to get Congress to pass a universal health care bill for you to sign before the August recess. We all understand that universal health care is socialism. Sir Winston Churchill, about the evil intent of socialism, wrote: "Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance and the gospel of envy. … The inherent vice of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries."

Tell me, sir, when in the history of humanity has socialism ever worked to improve the plight of any people or the plight of any nation?

Obama: {arrogantly} Well, Socrates, you must understand that the medical experts whose opinions I respect are all in agreement that universal health care is a HUMAN RIGHT. To save health care costs, to improve the patient's health is our main goals. Our plan will ensure that every American will receive quality health care at an affordable price.

Socrates: Apparently, President Obama, you think that this Symposium is a political advertisement. It is not. I am not in your domain; you are in mine. Since you refuse to answer, or are incapable of answering a simple historical question about socialism in light of your proposed health care system, I will go to the next participant.

Sen. Teddy Kennedy, you have left a long, shameful legacy in America, the capstone of which is universal health care. For all of your convoluted words of the necessity to "help the poor," would you and your fellow colleagues in Congress make the passage of this universal health care program retroactive in exchange for your own gold-plated health care plans? In other words, will Congress agree to wait in line like ordinary Americans for the seizure and brain cancer operations you had in 2007 or Obama's grandmother's hip operation she had only two weeks before she died, Sen. Kennedy?

Sen. Teddy Kennedy: "My fellow Americans …" (The good senator lapses off into a rhetorical flourish of incoherence, euphemisms, platitudes and doublespeak.)

Socrates: You have heard the words for the ages of that great conservative British parliamentarian Sir Edmund Burke: All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing?

Sen. RINO: Yes, Socrates I've have heard those words of Burke before.

Socrates: Then obviously you either don't understand Burke's words or you are not a "good man." Which is it? … By the clueless expression on your face, I contend that it is both, which brings me to the original intent of the Founding Fathers of America. What did they and We the People want for this republic, which has stood for 233 years? A philosophy of failure, a creed of ignorance, a gospel of envy, the equal sharing of miseries, to quote Sir Winston Churchill?

Sen. RINO, We the People: {profound silence}

Epilogue

Socrates: {soliloquy} President Obama, you are so supremely enamored with your own abilities, your own words. Like a demigod, you think: if I speak it to the masses, it must be true. To believe that socialized medicine will improve the existentially best health care system in the world is indeed a big lie Goebbels would be envious of.

Government is a necessary evil; nothing more. We the People decide through representative government and freedom what health-care system is wanted, not a narcissistic demagogue or a faceless bureaucrat. This original social contract, this liberty interest of free citizens contracting with the doctor of their choice for medical care will be dead. This is not universal health care, but universal death care.

We know that Democrats have long ago sold their souls to the devil on all issues of life, but will the loyal opposition on the right, the RINOs, now have the political courage to stop this socialized health care disaster by Obama, which will only lead to the untimely death of millions of elderly Americans deemed not worthy to prolong their life?

America, We the People, since Roe v. Wade (1973), have allowed the killing of 50 million innocent babies. Now, in the name of universal health care, you will kill another 50 million elderly Americans whom you will decide medically are just too expensive to bother with keeping alive any longer. Who then will be left to save you when the bell tolls for thee?

Will your feeble life be worth saving in the eyes of a faceless bureaucrat whose death care policies will be measured by how many people he can force off health care? Indeed, Obama and his death care plan will destroy the last liberties of America's republic. Therefore, I urge you to hearken to the words of one of your Founding Fathers, Thomas Jefferson: Let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.