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 saf