"For in a Republic, who is 'the country?' Is it the Government which is for the moment in the saddle? Why, the Government is merely a servant -- merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn't. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them." -- Mark Twain [Samuel Langhornne Clemens] (1835-1910) And what is happening to America WILL NOT AND CAN NOT CHANGE until the people learn, once again, the dangers of contracting into the jurisdiction of their servant, thus giving up all of their rights for a bowl of porrige. I did a post some time ago titled, The government is not violating the Constitution. The unspoken point of that post was that WE, the people of America, are the ones violating the terms and conditions laid out in the Constitution. And those terms are, separation.