You need to understand; the military doesn't govern its own actions. The military is directed by our appointed representatives. Your venom toward our armed services is misdirected.
As to the erosion of civil rights, you need to consider the virtual cold war that is going on between gun collectors and law enforcement. Additionally, while I wont defend bad cops... you're painting with a very broad brush... there are some very good cops out there who try very hard to fight a tainted system. Problem is they have very few tools to do so. When those in the a department rail against obviously aggressive and abrasive tactics, or meeting ticket quotas to prove that the department is "doing its job", it shows there is a fundamental problem with leadership.
The same holds true for military personnel and any other civil servant for that matter.
I understand your anger, I do... but the blame here simply doesn't belong to all those average citizens who are just doing their job. I can also understand the desire to want to call them names and turn them into the "other"... to objectify them, but doing so only makes us as bad as anti women's rights groups or worse, fringe hate groups. Its a trap that we simply cannot, must not, fall into.
If you want real change, and it sounds like you do, it starts with the leadership. We have to work together to change the leadership, or pile on political pressure to get the changes we want. We have to work with the system as it is now, to get the system we want. It's hard, and it sucks... but it's also the right way to do this.
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