With the War on Terror especially, the Patriot Act was something out of George Orwell's 1984. As usual a Democratic Congress refused to have the gonads to impeach Bush over that and instead resorted to cowardice. Now I think some of what you said is a little far-fetched but yes there are some cops out there who will definitely beat you beyond a pulp, who will make trumped-up charges just so they can get their quota, use their muscle, etc. I know of two cops, one is a good friend who is retired from the K-9 unit, the other is a former traffic cop who is now over other people as a manager and constantly uses his muscle to harass and show his superiority over his workers. I agree with you that the War on Terror, just like the War on Drugs, has lost its original purpose and has instead eroded the freedoms of people and grown the Leviathan State and by the way the erosion of freedom under the War on Terror started with Bush, not Obama, just so people know (although Obama has also eroded freedom under the War on Terror).