What's up with the cops these days?

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Originally Posted by GhettoDogAllStars

In a free society the cops should never have the right to search you without cause, and then arrest you for refusing. This is grounds for a revolution.

The problem with revolution is that the resulting government is almost always worse. That was not true for the American Revolution, but that may be because the power that was overthrown was very much like an occupier, and we had an existing governmental structure already in place. Usually, like in the French revolution, if the existing government is overthrown, the initial leaders of the revolution are consumed by the groundswell of anger that is released, and more tyrannical and dictatorial elements within the revolution usurp the movement.