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This is an example. If it does not make sense, as in 'how can this be?' then it is time to start the laborious process of finding out what is going on. Much of what is incomprehensible in our political system such as the Kelo decision comes to make sense even though the reality is other than we might think it should be from our somewhat cursory education in the public school system.

My own eye-opening came at a city council meeting where a citizen came to testify about something where he did not understand reality. He became unruly and police were called. The Mayor banned him from going on public land for six months, and that essentially put him under house arrest since he could not leave his own property. How can the Mayor do that? Are we not the public? The citizen said he was there representing the public, and in that he was quite wrong since he was in fact addressing the representative of the public--the Mayor. From that you progress to understanding how Washington DC can prohibit oil drilling in ANWR or anywhere on Federal land (public lands), or how snowmachines can be restricted in Yellowstone (public lands). You can even go into the outer space environment and see the real problem with the 1967 UN Outer Spaxce Treaty, which is where most people log off the discussion if they have gottten that far.

Anyway, however you get into the topic and wherever you start, there is a lot of reading and history to cover. You might even begin to wonder where the public corporation came from and why they call General Motors, for example, a public corporation when it is privately owned.

You may choose to undertake this mission or not. If you accept this mission, you will perform the equivalent of yet another college degree and your reality will be changed forever.