NSW Police Minister. Prohibited weapons.

[Sergeant Hartman]

Hmm is that why people like Chelsea manning, Julian Assange, Snowden etc came out with the stories that basically said

The us government was wiretapping their own citizens inside the country without any court order

Stuff like rendition, where people which included American citizens could basically be kidnapped from the middle of the street, chucked on a plane and moved to a 3rd country and held against their will and torchered without any court of law giving permission.

You yourself have picked up a few examples. But there are plenty of cases where normal citizens have become the centre of criminal investigations by the IRA, DEA etc.

Or as discussed above, where many states just "rewrite the constitution" by passing laws that actually take these rights away.

Yes the constitution gives rights but it seems most of them are easily taken away in complete sight by elected lawmakers, or by deception by the government agencies including CIA/FBI/Homeland etc.

In Australia, the premise is there aren't any rights. But you get a lot of things to keep you happy, like universal and free healthcare, free school education for kids, reasonably good standard of living and reasonable stable environment with very high wages, and ofcourse a bit of social security...aka dole/pension. And finally jobs lots and lots of government jobs