by Dr. Ada Fisher
Thinking of the abuses of government being
experienced on the Obama watch one can think of the vaudevillian sketch "Slowly
I Turned" as the assaults on citizen rights and
constitutional liberties is played out front and center.
First, the commandeering of records of the press which
even though national security may be an issue, infringes on freedom of the press
whether explicit or covert. Who is to say that anyone of us will
not be next if we write a column or a book or give a speech that questions the
validity of government actions?
Secondly the assault on the Second Amendment granting
citizens the right to own weapons is tilted to gain sympathy for the innocents
killed by the mentally ill, terrorists without borders and individuals on their
own personal crusades whether vigilantes or jihadists. But with a
slight of hands, this same administration is willing to take aim at individual
privacy and rights in the use of drones to spy and attack citizens without due
process provided or allowing these citizens to face and know their accusers as
constitutionally mandated.
Third is the misuse of the Internal Revenue Service to
limit access to tax exemptions from those groups with Tea, Patriot or
Conservative in their names. Forgotten is that this same effort to
overly scrutinize has long been suspected as applying to civil rights leaders or
those with views not currently in favor during their time of operation.
But you haven’t seen nothing yet; for if the use of the IRS to make
citizens comply with Obamacare isn’t halted as Senator Tom Price and others are
trying to do, havoc is going to be reeked on individual bank accounts to pay for
health insurance that some might not have chosen.
What’s to say
the money set aside for rent or other necessities isn’t that same money from
your bank account the IRS will take without asking to pay for government
mandated health insurance?
Fourth is the unraveling of parental responsibility and
authority over their children. Do parents have a right to a say in
what there children are taught? Does a common core curriculum
being proposed throughout the nation step across this line? Will
the ability of minors to purchase the morning after pill as proposed by the
Obama Administration’s Health and Human Services and the Food Drug
Administration cause unexpected bleeding and possible complications in minors
who don’t consult with physicians, parents or an adult before taking
them?
Disturbing was and is the request to keep raising the
national debt with no end in sight or a willingness to reduce non-essential
spending, i.e. not spelled out in the US Constitution. New taxes
being proposed for air plane flyers ignores the millions made in excess baggage
fees or the already sanctioned government subsidies which should instead be
preferably removed. We are living in a nation where increasingly more is being
demanded of government than it can afford to give and personal freedoms are
being sacrificed on the altar of more government on the supposed notion of more
security while individual responsibility loses ground to relativism, i.e. if it
is important or relative to me then it most be important or relative to
you.
Do you feel safer today than you did ten years
ago? At the price of my constitutional freedoms, I’ll take a lot
less government and keep my gun for my personal security.
Dr. Ada M.
Fisher is a physician, licensed teacher in secondary education—mathematics and
science, public speaker, former county School Board Member as well as the NC
Republican National Committee Woman. Her book, Common Sense Conservative
Prescriptions Solutions for What Ails Us, Book I may be ordered through any
bookstore or purchased on line through Amazon.com or theCreateSpaceStore.com.
Contact her at P. O. Box 777; Salisbury, NC 28145; DrFisher@GETDOCTORINTHEHOUSE.com
