"THE PEOPLE are being wholly ignored by government at all levels. The 10th Amendment should have emphasized much more strongly the power of the people themselves who very often do not need, do not want, and do not benefit from many of the laws passed by their so-called representatives. Thomas Paine was warned of this and the framers of the Constitution tried to prevent it, but here we are now anyway with government trying to dictate to us rather than listen to and serve us. Joy, Washington State

Our society has arrived there. We were doomed when our government representatives whom we hired to work for us began getting away with ignoring us and dictating to us instead.

So many are looking for a leader of some kind to make decisions for them and tell them what to do so that they don't have to do the hard work of actually thinking for themselves. Churches and political parties want people to march in lock-step, no questions, no objections, just follow and do what you're told. That is scarily evident today in our own government and is preventing reasonable and intelligent decisions on many vital issues.

Today there is a mass effort by millions of perfectly able bodied people to escape their personal responsibilities and depend on the government for help and sustenance instead. The help, of course, comes from money those of us who live up to our responsibilities earn. These lazy, greedy, useless, selfish people seem to be winning.

Those who are working against American sovereignty commit treason. What government in the world would they rather have that would benefit this nation? There is none. The U.N. certainly does not and would not as it it basically an anti-American organization made up mostly of dictators of various kinds who oppose any kind of human freedom in their own countries and work mightily to take away the Constitutional rights of Americans. The Council on Foreign Relations is working right along with it. I once thought the CFR was a loyal American organization but discovered that it is the exact opposite.

What was said of the Church of Rome then is even more true of Islam today. We must wake up to the fact that it is inimical to any form or secular government and to religious or political freedom. Islam hates everything in our laws, our culture, our Constitution, and our Bill of Rights and it is right here, now, in our country, trying to weasel its way into control step by stealthy step.

Very true. But to those of you trashing Israel, quit it! Israel is the only real democracy in the Middle East, a tiny island of freedom and democracy in the middle of a huge swamp of countries representing every kind of bad government known to man.