The police and military in this country are certainly part of "the people" but they make up what? 5% of the population?
Our system is set up with many layers of involvement from different levels which are used to create legislation, determine its legality and implement appropriate punishment for violators. Many of those people are much better educated and prepared for those duties than I am. However, if you want to eliminate them and leave the entire decision on what is legal and what isn't in the hands of the police go right ahead but I don't think you'd be too pleased with the resulting police state.
If the majority of the people in this country disagreed with the majority of the criminal laws in this country the prisons would be empty from all of the acquittals handed down by the juries.
Whether people disagree with the law is irrelevant to its enforcement. How many people do you know who want to pay their taxes when they can barely afford to pay for their child's school lunches?
As for believing that enforcing the law results in a police state... No, if you can go send a violent criminal to jail now, sending a seditious politician to jail is no different. We simply fill their seat with someone else. We are not talking about a coup, we are talking about ENFORCING THE LAW.
Working as a politician to subvert the publics' liberty is about the highest crime any human being is capable of.
A rag tag group of poverty stricken rabble rousers in a foreign land is of little to no threat to the publics' freedom. A politician who is actively plotting and funding efforts to remove those freedoms is a HUGE threat to the public. Where are the police, the military, those who took an oath to stop such things from happening? Oh right, they're off saying if ordered to they will violate the publics' constitutional rights. Please tell me how this deserves respect?
You people keep bringing up "Well if the majority says this..." you know what? The majority doesn't have the right to oppress, we have a republic, not a direct democracy, because when the majority is given power bad things tend to happen. I mean, what happens when all the media works for the same organization? What happens when the public is brainwashed to want to throw away their rights? What happens when the public is so brainwashed they demand that we lose our sovereignty? Do you not understand why your logic is so fundamentally wrong? It's your duty to know these things.