So much for our checks, balances

For more than 60 years, I have felt my freedom was secured by an incredibly well conceived Constitution. It created three branches of government and a system of checks and balances as a way to provide an ironclad guarantee that our rights provided in this Constitution could not be compromised.

On June 28, however, that sacred covenant between the people and their government was broken when the not-so-Supreme Court decided in a 5-4 decision to forsake the people and their guaranteed rights by ruling in favor of Obamacare and an overreaching out-of-control government. So much for the concept of checks and balances as the antidote for abuse of government power.

Chief Justice John Roberts, who seemed more concerned about the prestige of his court as seen through the eyes of the socialists among us than he was about a government determined to usurp our freedom, ruled against the preservation of personal choice. At that brief moment in time when Justice Roberts was determining how he would rule, he actually held the liberty of all Americans as well as all future generations in the palm of his hand, and let it slip through his fingers.

I try to see the big picture as I contemplate what the future will be like for the American people because of this high court’s decision. I see this ruling opening many new doors for this mega government to become ever more intrusive. Sadly, because of this ruling I predict the day will come when we shall all be living our lives at the pleasure of this government in a place where independence and self-determination will simply not be tolerated. I hope I’m wrong, of course, but I think the Supreme Court’s ruling on Obamacare marks the beginning of the end for the great American experiment.

Vincent A. Froberg

Elgin