You take a common, but not very useful view of the Police State: As long as they are violating the rights of (pick as many as you want): homosexuals, pot smokers, people with other skin colors, people richer than me, people poorer than me, people who live in the city/country/suburubs (i.e. where I don't), you are just fine with the Police State.
The fact is, all it takes is a small - say $200 - bribe to a confidential informant, and it's YOUR door they are breaking down. You WANT to live in a country that does that over something as innocuous as what that person chooses to put in their own body?
When the Army runs short of recruits because enough people figure out we live in an unfree nation, THEN someone might listen.
What a banal and childish "me, me, me" attitude.
If you would read my comments on the thread, I conceded that random dog searches are another step toward the left. But:
1) A US Citizen can be more free than any other person on the planet.
2) Only those US Citizens that exercise their freedoms actually have them.
Just sitting around and bitching about it ain't a free person make.
If you can manage the attention span required, read Natan Sharansky's "Fear no evil" and you may learn that freedom cannot be taken away from a person that does not voluntarily relinquish it through apathy (and whining).