"Peter Wiley" wrote

..... Perhaps you'd like to tell me that the police in the USA can
stop any/all vehicles on a public road and search them any time,
without any reason to suspect they're transporting something illegal?
That the police in the USA can enter & search any & all houses in case
there are illegal substances/activities occurring?

Unfortunately, US police can do exactly that, or even beat a confession out
of you just like the KGB, they just don't get to use the evidence in court.
If they can use the info from an illegal search or beating to obtain enough
legal evidence to convict they're home free. Otherwise, if you are innocent,
they you "get off on a technicality" but *nobody* ever gets punished for
violating your rights. So it's win-win for them.

Case in point. Town clown takes a gun off a teen and accidentaly shoots
himself with it. So he tosses the gun and tells dispatch he's stopping a red
honda with obscure tags, then moments later that a passenger shot him. His
cronies bust every red Honda in town and, despite *impossible* odds, find a
big bag of dope in each and every one of them. Probably the same bag. Months
later another kid found the gun and the truth came out, but what about all
the dozen or so Honda drivers arrested for dealing drugs? The prosecutor
dropped the charges, leaving them with records: dealers who'd gotten off on
a "technicality". Meanwhile the papers praised the cops for getting the
drugs off the street. And y'know why that crap continues? Cuz y'all live in
a dream world. And no, I've never been in a Honda.