The Law of the Medes and the Persians

In regard to the Healthcare extravaganza the Democrats are trying to foist upon the American public, I would like to point out an interesting bit of trivia - or what some might regard as trivia - in the Biblical account of Daniel 6:8 "Now, O king, establish the decree, and sign the writing, that it be not changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not."

This is the precursor to the "Daniel in the Lion's Den" story we all know from sunday school, in which Daniel gets arrested and thrown into the Lion's den for praying in defiance of the King’s order to pray only to him.

What makes this noteworthy is the phrase "which altereth not." Even Darius the king was bound by the decree he himself made and was unable to release his friend Daniel from its penalty. God intervened on Daniel's behalf and preserved him, but Darius had no way out of his decree "that changeth not."

What does this have to with Healthcare? It's just that the Senate Democrats have slipped a number of interesting clauses into their bill, which are intended to have the same force as the law of the Medes and the Persians "which altereth not." That is, they have tried to make the Obamacare bill unrevokable by inserting certain language in the bill.

I would have thought we all learned better in the intervening millennia since the kingdom of the Medes and the Persians passed from the scene. Evidently, someone needed to tell the Medes and Persians that they were shooting a bit too high in their attempt to make laws that would stand for all time. One cannot find any remnant of their kingdom nor of their laws except some dusty remnants that are only historical curiosities. Their purposes perished with their kingdom.

Yet we find the sneaky (or haughty) Democrats conniving to imitate them. They have inserted these words in their healthcare takeover bill: "it shall not be in order in the senate or the house of representatives to consider any bill, resolution, amendment, or conference report that would repeal or otherwise change this subsection."

Aside from the fact that this is a rule change which requires a 2/3 majority in the Senate, which it does not have, it is simply an incredible exercise in hubris.

It is incomprehensible that any given Congress can pass a bill that cannot be altered or repealed by itself or another Congress. This rogue Congress has passed a bill which trumps the will of the people, thus attempting to set itself above the people's power to change it. But in this government, the people are the rulers, and Congress the servants. The system is set up that way, and no Congress can consider itself or any of its enactments secure from the will of the people. Is it then impossible to annul the bill? Not at all.

No Congress can bind another Congress. No law that any Congress makes can be unchangeable. All laws by Congress have the same flaw that the laws of the Medes and the Persians have - they are made by fallible men, and they oftentimes must be unmade by wiser, but still fallible men. To insist otherwise is to claim for our laws the supernatural certainty of Divine Revelation. That might actually be what the Democrats meant to achieve, but the last time I checked, God has not ceded his authority to Congress, especially a Congress filled with practicing Atheists.

If on no other points, this point at least must be challenged in Court. Our very basis of Constitutional government is endangered if it is allowed to stand.

So, taking the long view, whether this noxious healthcare "law" gets implemented or not, it eventually will be repealed or fall to the ground under its own weight. Hopefully, it will be in the very near term, having been felled by the weight of its own unconstitutionality and internal contradictions. If not, it might bring down the Constitution and the rest of our Liberties with it.

One final observation. What are we to conclude about the motives of the writers of the current bill who have been caught red-handed attempting to run something behind the backs of the American people that sounds suspiciously like the machinations of the Communists during the Cold War, in which they always spoke of resistance to their power grabs as "counter-revolutionary". They meant that their new thug regimes had sole legitimacy because they were the "wave of the future', and attempts to unseat them were bound to fail because they were morally and historically "righteous". I conclude that the Democrats have exposed themselves as true enemies of the Constitution, which they have attempted to usurp within this bill.

The irresistible force of the people's will shall break in pieces this monstrosity claiming to be the immovable object. It, like the law of the Medes and Persians, shall be gone someday. Sooner, rather than later. It must not be allowed to stand. And may the Democrat Party, with its present noxious band of arrogant criminals in Congress, perish with it, taking Obama and his thug regime along for the ride.