Letter to the Editor: We, the people are dying

CLEARLAKE -- I have the feeling that "We the People" and "Government for, of, and by the people" are things of the past. It seems to me that the country the Founders created and I grew up in are things of the past.

Elections don't matter any longer. The Supreme Court threw out legislation that the Congress and President signed. The vote of Californians defining marriage (done twice) was overturned by the Supreme Court. How many initiatives in California have been thrown out by judges? Why vote?

Privacy is a thing of the past. The government logs our phone records and internet communications on top of our purchases and travel.

Where can this intrusion of our privacy to be found in the constitution? Or, when did a vote of Congress authorize this outrageous invasion of our privacies?

Instead of a government that exists to protect individual rights our government exists for its own ends.

The Second Amendment protects the rights of citizens to own weapons, a safeguard against a tyrannical government. Yet our Federal and State governments chip away at this God-given right to defense. When the people are defenseless what will be the check against tyranny? None.

Our press (including movies and television) has become nothing more than a propaganda organ for the present administration.

The First Amendment protects an independent press. But where are the stories about the corruption in the administration (Solyndra, Bengazi etc.)? Is the press really free anymore?

Consider the AP reporters phone records being secretly tracked by the Justice Department. Do you smell blackmail and control of the press anyone? Goebbels would be proud.

Congress counters the will of the people.

Obamacare never had popular support but our Anointed Ones passed it to see what was in it. And now the same Anointed Ones in the Senate passed Comprehensive Immigration Reform. Over one thousand pages of legislation that none of them have read.

It is amnesty for illegal aliens.

Amnesty is opposed by a vast majority of citizens but then again we are just peons, the elite know best. Why vote?

Freedom loving Americans will not tolerate an increasingly oppressive government much longer.

Is there any wonder that ammunition is in short supply? I fear that the American Revolution (1776-1781) will be renamed the "First American Revolution." Time is running out.

"We the People" and "Government for of and by the people" are dead unless the American people wake up.