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Rightly so! I have a feeling that it will be these very people who will help us in the long run to fight to preserve these freedoms. We have a temporary respite for now; but I'm afraid of some 6 years or so in the future when our present admin. is out of power.

Hopefully a good person will come along and carry the torch for G.Bush; and keep a totalitarian regime from getting in. These people were so spoiled under B.C.; that now they perceive their 'power' over the people is slipping. So they cling like cats clawing to hang on.

I'm afraid that many of us don't know how to take the country back close to where it was back in the 18th century. Many of us who would do something don't know where to begin! We would have to do much of it with baby steps.

I think that the "Founding Fathers" intended for us to grow. They envisioned the country becoming powerful; and being a 'beacon' of liberty for others to aspire to. But they would never have wanted us to get so powerful, that we get lazy and spoiled, and resemble the ruling powers we left behind!

Unfortunately, there are so many powerful lobbying groups that have their roots wrapped around certain people in power, just like the roots of a poisonous weed. We would have to fight twice as hard as they did back then. It could be done; but it would be very difficult to do without another war!

"Many of us who would do something don't know where to begin!"

It's not really hard to know where to begin, but it does get difficult after that. You begin with the premise that you live in a nation of The People, by The People, and for The People. Keep that phrase in your head and everything will fall into place.

The Founding Fathers handed down to us a Constitution that was a template for a unique way of governance, and it was based on individuals controlling those who governed them.

That was a VERY inique idea in the 1700's. Nations at that time were generally governed by kings or queens not by common men. But, here in the new world of America the idea worked, and from that template a mighty nation grew.

"But they would never have wanted us to get so powerful, that we get lazy and spoiled, and resemble the ruling powers we left behind!"

Unfortunately that's what's happening. Because of our way of governing, and the blood shed to keep us free, we have become a prosperous people, and that very prosperity has caused Americans to become governmentality spoiled and lazy. Americans are an industrious people, but as far as self-governance goes the average American is clueless.

The result of being governmentality spoiled, lazy, and clueless is letting other people make the laws that govern you. Some of those people are unelected, and are appointed to lifetime jobs with no accountability to anyone. By the time your average American finds time to see just what kind of laws are being passed, and who is passing them, his whole world has been rocked. And, that brings us to the SCOTUS.

The SCOTUS is nine unelected justices who are appointed to lifetime careers without any oversight by, or accountability to, The Common Man. They are, in effect, a tyranny within a Republic. They are charged with interpretation of the Constitution, and they have abused their office - repeatedly.

The Constitution is what the SCOTUS says it is which makes that document subject to the biases of a majority of the Justices. Their rulings have the effect of law and the Legislative branch is becoming rapidly irrelevant as a law making body.

The People have lost their ability to govern themselves, but there is a way out. Written into the Constitution are instructions on how to change it. The Founders put those instructions there knowing that one day the liberties of The People would come under attack and they'd need a peaceful means to defend themselves.

Amending the Constitution is difficult and time-consuming, but if you consider the alternatives, either slavery or rebellion, it's well worth the effort.

So, you see? It's not so difficult after all. You have a premise for a beginning and an Amendment for an ending - the middle part is up to you.