People need to accept and be willing to act on the fact that words on a piece of paper -- even if it's the U.S. Constitution -- mean nothing unless citizens are

People need to accept and be willing to act on the fact that words on a piece of paper -- even if it's the U.S. Constitution -- mean nothing unless citizens are willing to stand up and insist they be followed. The challenge we all face is that we're too cowardly, generally, to stand up to tyrannical acts like this. The Patriot Act; mass spying on all U.S. citizens by the NSA and others; our military and taxes being wasted overseas in armed conflicts most of us would never agree to. Many complain. And do nothing. So, the words in the Constitution are selectively ignored. "We the People" are afraid to insist that document be adhered to. Stealing citizens' possessions, as this president just empowered, despite "presumed innocent", is just another failure on our leadership's part to enforce the Constitution. The only way to stop this kind of stuff is to insist these overreaches are set aside. Many of us have bookmarked the websites of the Washington D.C. offices of our 2 senators (there are 2 senators per state) and Congressmen. When something like this goes down we can quickly get the phone number/email addresses from the bookmarked pages of our Reps and call them, email them. Do that as a habit, it's easy, and you've let it be known that the government isn't allowed these arbitrary violations of our rights. Senator Feinstein: http://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/washington-dc http://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/washington-... Senator Boxer: http://www.boxer.senate.gov/contact/offices/ http://www.boxer.senate.gov/contact/offices/