Obama Government Officials: There Will be Consquences if Private Businesses Disagree

Via Memeorandum I came across this story over at the Volokh Conspiracy called "Administration Tells Regulated Industry That There Will Be “Zero Tolerance” for Alleged “Misinformation” in Industry’s Statements About Government Policy":

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius wrote America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), the national association of health insurers, calling on their members to stop using scare tactics and misinformation to falsely blame premium increases for 2011 on the patient protections in the Affordable Care Act.... "There will be zero tolerance for this type of misinformation and unjustified rate increases," she wrote "I want AHIP’s members to be put on notice: the Administration, in partnership with states, will not tolerate unjustified rate hikes..."

The precise nature of the threat — as with so many threats — is not made entirely clear, so the legal analysis of the threat is also unclear.  But if the Administration is threatening to use its considerable regulatory power to retaliate against insurance companies that, in the Administration’s view, are conveying “misinformation” — for instance, because their financial analyses disagree with the Administration’s financial analyses — that strikes me as quite troubling.

Quite troubling indeed. You really need to ask yourself and your friends and your family whether or not they believe anymore that everyone (both individuals and private companies) have the right to be free, to earn and keep property, and to protect others lives, or if they believe that the government exists to control others (both individuals and private companies) based on what they think is right. The very fundamental nature of our nation is being threatened by Obama and Democrats who support him and his agenda, and using the instruments of the state to force (or in this case vaguely threaten to use force) others to follow what they believe in is tyranny, and all tyrants must be overthrown. The evidence is piling up, in bits and pieces- just like Democrats hammered on George Bush for supposed faults and problems and all those little blows took their toll and idiots then voted Democrats, we must continually guard our freedoms and liberties and call out Obama and the Democrats when they exercise their power in unjust, immoral, and illegal ways, such as was done above.