Unmarked police cars are merely a symptom of a larger problem - the creation of an institution alien to our country's founding principles.

The institution of police in a free society where law enforcement was originally and properly done by locally elected sheriffs whose actual 'muscle' depended on the voluntary help of their citizens in the form of a temporary 'posse' is just another example of a violation of principle that seemed to be 'a good idea at the time' leading inevitably to abuses that diminish freedom.

Our government was founded on the principle that the sole reason for its very existence is the protection of the inherent natural rights of the sovereign individuals who delegate whatever authority that government might possess. No authority that does not, of right, reside with the individual can be 'delegated' to anyone. The overwhelming majority of law enforcement activity today involves 'laws' that no-one had any right to enact in the first place. It is performed by people who are almost totally unanswerable to the public they are supposed to 'protect and serve' - it is not at all surprising that abuses, in and out of the system, occur on a massive scale.

It is also not at all surprising to see the Founders denigrated as terrorists in official law enforcement training - had a policeman magically appeared on the streets of Revolutionary-era America and treated the citizens of that time the way the police routinely treat the citizens today, he would be quite lucky to merely be tarred and feathered...