This is what we're up against:

"Our government was founded on principles of checks and balances to ensure that no one party holds absolute power." --Ben Brandzel, MoveOn PAC Advocacy Director

Does he really believe these are our founding principles? Or worse yet does he know what he speaks is false but using the Orwellian tactic: "Repeat a lie often enough and it becomes truth"?

The Constitution makes no mention of political parties in this or any other matter. Frankly, to quote former congressman and current MSNBC host Joe Scarborough, "these days when it comes to wasting your tax dollars there's not a dime's worth of difference between Republicans and Democrats."

Checks and balances were put in place to limit the power of government over the people by preventing any one BRANCH of government from being more powerful than the other. I.e. Executive, Legislative, and Judicial.

Sadly the judicial branch is out of control and so called "conservatives" in the Republican Party - all the way up to the President - continue to disseminate false info about our Republic. We have become a nation ignorant of its history and Constitution. The government schools dumb us down a little more each generation thereby increasing government power over us incrementally.

This is a bipartisan effort, make no mistake about it. Both sides of the aisle our addicted to power and the prestige associated with buying votes from special interests. In the process they have eroded our Constitution to the point where it is no longer considered the law of the land. Instead 9 ambulance chasers in robes, who are willing to make the Constitution say whatever they want it to say, rule us.

Our “conservative” President won’t even refer to this nation as a Republic, which it is, but rather uses “democracy”, which it certainly is not. (See Orwellian tactic above). Insidiously we have been turned into indentured servants in tiny increments over the last 90 years. If government had attempted all of these transgressions at once, we would have had a second revolution. Instead, we take smaller crumbs each generation from the government who has stolen the bread we make, to provide those same crumbs. Why risk any thing - your job, your suburban home, to fight tyranny when tyranny is forced upon you in microscopic increments? It's not worth it, is it? But what will our children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren be left with?

If we look back at the changes over the last three generations alone we will see that they will all be dependent on the government for everything and big brother will be monitoring every facet of their lives. Right down to the microchip buried underneath their skin that carries all private health, banking, insurance, and family information.

Think I'm nuts? Conspiracy theorist?

You're wrong. It's already been developed and being tested.
See here:
"Big Brother Under Your Skin The future is now. The microchip implant for humans is here. Free with every vente latte!"
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/g/a/2004/10/20/notes102004.DTL
And here:
"Concern over microchip implantsNew technology getting under some people's skin"
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=15185
And here:
"CNN and CBS Report on Microchip Implants for Humans Currently in Use"
http://www.wanttoknow.info/cbscnnimplants

The sad fact is we are too involved in our own little worlds to do anything about it. We shut it out and try to be as happy as we can be with what we have. The fact to which we shut our minds is, that by doing so, we betray those who have shed their blood and given their lives to preserve and protect what we have casually forsaken.

"Contemplate the mangled bodies of your countrymen, and then say, 'What should be the reward of such sacrifices?' ... If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animating contest of freedom, go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen!" --Samuel Adams

"Freedom is not empowerment... Anybody can grab a gun and be empowered. It's not entitlement. An entitlement is what people on welfare get, and how free are they? It's not an endlessly expanding list of rights--the 'right' to education, the 'right' to health care, the 'right' to food and housing. That's not freedom, that's dependency. Those aren't rights, those are the rations of slavery… There's only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." -- P. J. O’Rourke