I hear you Jesster. The cops certainly weren't always this bad. Things are getting worse very quickly from my view, with their cameras on our roads, their infrared vision devices, steadily expanding ability to perform searches without warrants, electric torture devices, and on and on. I mean, this is the wealthiest country in the world and we have the highest prison population in the world. This fact alone should scream out tyranny to everyone in the country. It warms my heart to see more people waking up to our growing police state. Its way past time to end this absurd "drug war" that has militarized our socialist police force and free ALL prisoners being held for victimless crimes immediately, in mass. In fact, everyone of these unlawfully imprisoned victims of the "drug war" are properly entitled to restitution for their imprisonment. Ideally, I would say the government should give them each an acre of land per year they were imprisoned out West, land which the government is currently holding off the market via physical force.
Sounds like if Ron Paul were elected some cops would be searching for a new job.