"We should stomp out evil wherever it is sadly even if it carries a badge perhaps especially when it carries a badge..."

I prolly couldn't agree more with this, but

"it's better to be tried by 12 than carried by 6"

I note that this is trump, and wins the hand, every time. It's a lot of the reason for the part in the Declaration of Independence that discusses why folks put up with so much crap before undertaking to replace a corrupt government.

The cops are just bag men. Fact is that the Declaration of Independence points out reasons that individuals are sovereign, not nations, and not all of the reasons either. As we have done away with kings in this nation, we have found that the problems with monarchies aren't that they are run by hereditary rulers, but that there are rulers.

Elected officials are every bit as bad, when the elections are between lying criminals, and shilled by wholly owned media, in the vacuum of ignorance created by an mandatory education system designed to produce good servants of the overlords.

Reagan said that government doesn't solve the problems, government IS the problem, and what he said was true, while what he did was make the problem worse - typical of elected officials. We are observing the beginning of a global revolution in technology that allows people to voluntarily undertake decisions en masse, in real time, to support such civil efforts as they desire, and Steemit is one shot across the bow of corrupt government.

Liquid Democracy is another, and so is BTC. While the NSA, NGA, and the rest of the alphabet is become part of the most intrusive surveillance state apparatus the world has ever seen, the very technologies that are the basis of their insidious powers are but the infant capabilities that will make them obsolete.

We are the sovereigns, each of us. It is our authority to rule ourselves which is being used to surveill us, steal from us, and oppress us. WE DON'T HAVE TO DELEGATE IT TO ANYONE.

It has been usual and customary to do so. It has been convenient to be part of empires that can oppose large gangs of thugs, and opposing empires from killing us and taking our stuff.

It isn't so convenient anymore, and technology has become ever more capable of allowing us to resist oppression when the 2nd Amendment isn't allowed to protect the 1st anymore, and will continue to improve. It is better defense to have friends and neighbors at your side, than to have guns in your hand.

I have broke bread with cops, drunk with them, and called them friend. But there are cops I would not, and they are cops for reasons, too. There seems to be more of the latter than the former, nowadays, and not by accident. The problem is that badges are not lawful. It isn't a just implementation of law when some citizens are more equal than others, and, from being practically immune from resistance, immune from prosecution, and granted license to steal, beat, kidnap, and even kill the people they are supposed to be hired to 'serve and protect', cops are more equal because they have badges.

The very idea of cops is wrong. There didn't used to be many of them, and most folks attended to the problems cops are now mandated to resolve, with the guns on their hips, or the help of their neighbors, in the USA. We're gonna have to go back to that, because the cops aren't getting it done, and are causing trouble.

My point really is that it's not the particular cop that searched the truck that is to blame for the seizure of the truck, it's the entire corrupt edifice of government, that cops are the interface with, that is. From HRC's email shenanigans to Dyncorps trafficking of little kids for sex under government contract, it is government that has become the threat to sovereignty, rather than the protector of it.

Today the NSA can do all the stuff Snowden has proved they are, but tomorrow WE will - and then HRC and Dyncorp won't be able to hide their crimes in real time. The solution isn't to strap up and cap off, but just not to pay protection money to criminal syndicates anymore, and handle our business ourselves. We don't need to kill their servants, we just need to make them obsolete.

Tech isn't the enemy of freedom, even though it seems like it when you look at the NSA. Tech is the solution to the NSA. We just haven't developed it enough yet. Not only surveillance and live streaming of corrupt officials either, or through better weapons, or BTC. Elon Musk is gonna colonize Mars in a couple years, and that gives a whole new meaning to voting with your feet - which border walls render moot.

Where's my spaceship 'Liberty'? Freedom is real, and belongs to individual people, not masses of voters called citizens. Nations aren't free. You, and I, and every other person are, no matter what color we are born, or what language we speak, or where we speak it, and despite thugs oppressing us. Freedom is a real part of each and every person, as real as their heart, and only ignorance and poverty have kept us from living in freedom.

Technology is erasing the power to keep us ignorant and poor, and will enable us to be utterly free, not long from now.

Government, as Reagan noted, is the problem to solve, and like all problems, requires improved means. Technology, as fast as it is increasing, isn't coming fast enough for me.

/rant.