The police are breaking the law.
No, they're not breaking the law. They're just taking advantage of laws your elected officials wrote.
So if you want to stop the cops from stealing from you, get your elected official to change the law, or threaten to _vote_ him/her out of office.
That's how it's supposed to be, but citizens keep voting the same politicians into office that vote against their interests.
Clinton caused some of these tough on crime and drugs laws. So if you voted for his party (Obama), then you voted for this.
All the politicians do is stir up emotional issues like "they're trying to take away your guns", or abortion, to distract the sheep. It works all the time.
In this case, we have the big media, big industry, and big government in a huge orgy of bribery and self-interest, that all benefit from people accepting authoritarianism. There’s a relief valve, a small minority of people getting their political analysis from Comedy Central or their security analysis from Bruce Schneier, but the vast majority get their talking points from people who are funded to act like there is still a debate about climate change.
It’s not technically against our will, but our will has been manipulated.
The smartphone example does not fit.
Very few needed to be manipulated into buying one. You've got to have a phone, whether it's a smartphone, a feature phone, or even a land line phone. Unless extraneous circumstances dictate otherwise, a phone is a necessity.
In a sense it was forced upon us. You see, we were whipped into a frenzy where the most likely thing to do, given our emotional states, was support whatever the perpetrators wanted in the first place.
It's a trick that works all the time.
It's almost as if the voting process itself is part of the system, rather than being separate somehow? If we examined that process as a part of that system, we might conclude that it always produces the same results for durable structural reasons rather than because voters always fuck up in special contingent ways.
Sadly, the supreme court is stacked with nutjobs from both sides so issues like this are ignored.
No, there isn't. The Constitution is a part of the law (and a part that constrains whether other things that purport to be law actually are.) Violating the Constitution is violating the law.