Fine form of government.(LETTERS TO THE EDITOR)(Letter to the editor)

Thank you for the outstanding article on the Constitution entitled "Government Is Not the Problem," by Edwin Vieira, Jr., in the June 23, 2008 issue of THE NEW AMERICAN, in which Vieira explains that congressmen may not legally ignore or supersede the Constitution. I agree with him 100 percent.

Having said that, it appears to me that everything Vieira says is largely irrelevant in America today. The Congress makes laws that are unconstitutional, but the police enforce these laws just as if they were valid. The president issues executive orders that give him dictatorial powers over the people in times of martial law or national emergency (ignoring the fact that only the Congress has the right to pass laws), and Congress does nothing to check his power. Is anyone going to quote the Constitution when a swat team appears on their doorstep and tells them to evacuate their home or surrender their firearms?

Given the fact that the Supreme Court hears only about one percent of the legal cases challenging the constitutionality of a law, what hope does the average citizen have to protect himself from the criminals in government?

If the people finally get organized and demand that something be done (such as enforcing the law against illegal aliens), the president diffuses the situation by promising that he will take action (such as building a fence), and then when everything has calmed down, he continues on his merry way.

With the mass of people largely apathetic or ignorant of the ...