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I will support the peace keepers and enforcers until they are no longer law abiding.

Yep. Police officers have the same rights as anyone else when they are accused.

I can make the nicest cop go loony in about 5 minutes.

Nope, I’m not a fan. The police of yesterday aren’t the same as the police of today. The people may not be either - but that’s no damned excuse.

When they recognize my unique ability to be reasonable, intelligent and well rounded - I’ll recognize theirs. Until then I’ll be harassed for my appearance, my car’s condition or my gun at my hip.

So until they back off, I ain’t backin’ off. No sir, Not a fan.

The same rights as everyone else?! Go accuse a policemen of lying at a traffic stop. Will it be your word against his? No the cop is assumed to be telling the truth. Shot your dog because it "attacked" him? Assumed to be telling the truth. Some kid walking from his friend house to his own house has something in his hand and the cop that shoots him claims it was an AK when it was a wireless Xbox controller? Assumed to be telling the truth. Cops ram a pickup and then shoot it up, ineptly not even wounding the driver , and say "sorry we thought you were a wanted fugitive", despite the truck being a different make, model, and color than the fugitives vehicle and despite the owner of the truck was a foot shorter weighed 100 pounds less and was white where the fugitive was black they are assumed to be telling the truth.

Maybe I'm over reacting though. Let's try an thought experiment. Imagine you are walking down the street and you shoot a guy talking on his phone and say "He had something in his hand, I thought it was a gun" what is it that you think would happen to you? What do you think would happen to a cop?

Cops do have the same rights, plus much more.

A simple example is traffic court. I recently sat in court and heard a cop testify that he witnessed a lane violation behind him, in his motorcycle side view mirror while turning. He yammered on about his training and experience.

The “accused” said that they did not commit the violation AND had a much better view of the situation looking forward and in full control of the car.

The judge took the cops view. They almost always do.