That's your twist, not mine.
I said (essentially) that due to "mission creep" the Cops are now interpreting laws instead of merely enforcing them, and that since there's very little oversight they can enforce them as they see fit--just like it's up to them to decide if you're being reckless and when you're not and it's all a relatively grey area.
Thus, your "freedoms" are restricted in reality by interpretation far more so than they are in theory where we're all "free" as long as we don't violate some specific law--and even that's an intangible freedom at best.