Power and Authority

Something that I think is sorely lacking in this country is education about our basic rights, the constitution, and the government.
Think about it...
Do yo really know what a government "of the people, for the people and by the people" really is?
And if you do understand what it is, can you tell me why it no longer exists today?

Well, if not, I can certainly tell you...
It is all about "professional politics". We no longer live in a Republic, which is a rule of the people by and through a parliament/senate/etc... We never did live in a Democracy (one person, one vote).
What we have here is called a Plutocracy, or a rule by the rich. Go ahead, guess how much it costs to run for representative, senate, or president...even at the local level, it is insane the amount of money it takes to get into office...
Why do you think the politicians are so in with special interests? They provide the money necessary to get into office.
So now our country isn't ruled by the people, but by the RICH people...which is only like 3% of the population. That leaves out representation for the rest of the 97% of us.
If yo never thought about term limits, now would be a good time. Professional politics is destroying our country. We are being held hostage by special interests and big business. There is little if any real, fundamental difference between the Democrats and the Republicans - they both have their special interests and businesses, but the names change...
Term limits would ensure that people would get ONE shot (maybe two, if we are generous) to do their work in the senate, house, or other political spot...and then it would be someone else's turn...after a while, you would run out of rich people, and then it would change the whole system.
The problem is, of course, that in order for this limitation to be set, we would rely on the current people in power to change it...like that would happen this side of hell...
What people need to know is that the constitution put into place a framework for US (we the people) to create a government. That government has no rights, but it does have authority to exercise certain powers that WE (the people) delegated to it. The government is therefore limited in its scope and application. But over the years WE (the people) have happily let the government take more authority to exercise more power, until we are at a point where we are having basic laws, like the Posse Comitatus Act (18 U.S.C.1385), which Bush just circumnavigated, leaving us vulnerable to federal troops on our own soil...and having people detained without trial for a suspicion of activity, just ask all the people at GITMO... when did all this become COMMON and tolerable.
Why do we tolerate this? Because we do not understand who really is in charge around here, and that would be US (we the people).
When you wake up and see yourself wanted in connection of having not committed a crime, maybe then you will believe me, but I would hope you would learn about this before it happens to you.
Look into Patriots, Constitutionalists, Sovereign Citizen, Constitutional Erosion, and other things to find out just what it is that is really going on.

UPDATE
It is now November 2008, and what I "foretold" is beginning...
US Troops are now in operation on US Soil.