Health Care Reform

In the U.S., and indeed throughout the world, instability and chaos are signals.  Moral, social, political and economic instability are a sign that something is seriously wrong. This instability and chaos exists because, “Justice and injustice, law and crime, have become entangled under corrupt “legislative and administrative rules”[i] that threaten the peace, security, and welfare of our citizens and of our nations.

Our interpretation of freedom is actually license which has resulted in harming the people, their families, businesses, our infrastructure, and thereby the nation itself.

Administrative Rules which function outside of their legally intended purpose, and outright reject the Constitution, causes harm. It denies the people their legitimate rights, and turns a blind eye to destructive forces, and the reality of its cause. Totalitarianism sets in, causing more harm.

When people are governed by lies, fear sets in and no one trusts anyone else. This empowers evil and allows corrupt laws to continue to dictate the regulation of society, eroding the fabric of our nation. This is domestic terrorism, which takes its form in economic coercion.

In our times, we are living under corrupt laws, based on myths, which stand in conflict with the Constitution and the legitimate rights of the people. The legal order continues to function in a limited capacity. The Constitution and the rights of the people need to be liberated from corrupt laws that undermine the rule of law and promote the demise of democracy.

Pope Benedict is clear that “peace and law, peace and justice can never be separated from each other. Wherever law is destroyed, wherever injustice takes power, peace is put at risk.” The damage becomes evident with each passing day. Pope Benedict puts peace as the forefront of our concerns to ensure a form of law that guarantees justice both for the individual and for society as a whole.

Change is needed that becomes more evident everyday. Those who function at the economic level will need to work to bring about change through the restoration of moral values and justice for all.

Pope Benedict XVI points the way when he credits the period of peace in Europe to the merits of the first generation of politicians in the postwar period – Churchill, Adenauer, Schumann, DeGasperi. He attributes their ability to influence change by:

Their refusal to be guided by the idea of retributive punishment, revenge

or the humiliation of defeat. They wanted to do justice to everyone, replacing competition by collaboration, a mutual process of giving and receiving.

The nations were all united in their shared responsibility for the

rule of law after they had witnessed the perversion of law under

Hitler. The core of the peacemaking politics was the link they

made between political activity and morality.

These politicians took their moral idea of the state, of law, of peace,

and of responsibility, from their Christian faith. They constructed a state based on ethical reason, and it was their faith that helped them give new life to reason.

Are we not now living with the same tensions and dangers that plagued Europe under the rule of evil? Perhaps these times are more dangerous and insidious because corruption in our nation casts suspension on democracy and the rule of law. The fear of Catholicism and Christianity has been instilled in the people by those who promote and support the Dictatorship of Relativism, to the point where most of my life, the right to practice Catholicism has been denied by the Administrative Rule of Law. As an example, being forced to pay for the immorality of abortion with tax dollars and medical insurance premiums.

Make no mistake, we are in a crisis. Catholics and other Christians have a unique role to play. It requires a response, an asset to restoring God’s rightful place in our lives and in the marketplace.

[i] Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (Now Pope Benedict XVI), Values in a Time of Upheaval