You paint with a very broad brush there and would seem to see the cup as draining, whereas I see it as filling. Life is good and getting better.
The very fact that there is a distinction creates the only conclusion possible, you are either free or you are arrested.
Resistance will be met with dire consequences even when the law is on the citizen's side. This is a fact and many documented case are readily available, with little effort to retrieve them required on the part of the researcher required.
"Accountability" is typically civil and not criminal, of little use (in reality) to effect the required change. There is rarely any accountability applied to the transgressor, specifically, tax payers bear the burden.
Parsing the discussion with the legal construct, title of this thread, inserted into the legal arena by those who make a living off of the law is to acknowledge reality yet do little to rectify this insult to liberty. The folks who make a living of the law business are not willing to expose themselves as we are exposed...they have rigged the system in their favor, if you will.
Poor "lawyering" does not excuse ignoring the obvious, by judges, because "procedural constraints" preclude placing the obvious in the official record...placing themselves on a hook, if you will.
Far too much time would be needed to use specifics, where generalities accomplish the task, to convey the fact that the system is again reinforced against liberty and the citizen.
Eliminate QI and exemptions in the law that shield the transgressor and the transgressor's boss.
http://www.judgesabovethelaw.com/