I agree with your assessment, but I and others in my profession don't agree with their views on that. In fact we see it as an ultimate slap in the face when someone sees themselves (either as an individual or a group) as being in-equal and above the law. In fact as a group in LEO's we find that as a serious affront and a challenge... so there's that.
The problem is that people ARE above "the law." They really are. Of course, by this I mean "the law" NOT as the principles of justice which are in conformity with the DOI and the Constitution. The problem comes in when tyrants (lets call them what they are) think that because they can legislate tyrannnical precepts that people are obligated to respect them out of respect for the true moral law. We are not. Nor are we obligated to submit to, respect, obey, or assist those carrying out such precepts. People are sovereign over this, and not only have the right, but the obligation to resist unjust laws.
Any thinking person will immediately recoil from this and object "but this is a recipe for anarchy, with each man deciding for himself what is legal"... and there is truth to that charge and it is a danger. This is why the list of legal codes should be SMALL, and I mean miniscule.
Anything other than statutes which forbid (I did not say PREVENT, I said FORBID, and there is a huge difference) causing harm to another's property or person are illegitimate and have no MORAL force of law. They may have statutory force, but have no moral basis.
Of course, this sounds to moderns like someone wailing a song in Ugaritic or chanting Sanskrit, it is so out of our grid. One of the first things LEOs/lawyers/criminal justice workers hear is "the law is NOT about morality or justice... it is about LAW and nothing else." This sounds pretty, but is nonsense. It may "work" so long as the moral structures of society are agreed on, but as our post Christian age continues to dissolve, and the moral bulwarks crumble, there becomes zero difference in bureaucrats shuffling papers and prisoners into jail for real crimes vs wonks gleefully filing mass numbers of incarcerations for having too many mags, or evil black rifles, or criticizing government, or .... crap, whatever some little tyrant decides somewhere is "law." THIS PRINCIPLE IS ALSO FOR LEO's. Once "law" is divorced from moral absolutes, people who enforce and prosecute the law can and will morph, as a body, into a bunch of goons who see themselves as enabled to work violence (some will learn to like it, as well) on anyone who does not "comply." This is not a personal accusation. I have met you and you know I respect you. You also know it is the truth. Zeal for "the law" as nothing more than codified regs will breed monsters who enforce it, and lead to a "us v them" mentality that is NOT just the punks and thugs, but society wide. Of course, we see what the rejection of principles in writing law is doing across the nation in the impeachment farce and the VA gun laws.
"Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God" said Jefferson. This is serious stuff, and you can be a pagan in a room full of Christians and still understand that. Jefferson is an example. However, in a room full of pagans who all nod to each other about "the law" as important, but reject the universal moral principles on which law sits, it is weird how that view doesn't seem to come up so much. Instead, we see murder protected as a "right" and mass murder as a foreign policy, theft encoded as revenue law and megatheft in the form of money creation/generation, petty regulations defining stuff as stupid as hair braiding, and all sorts of other nanny state idiocy. All this is because "law" has become divorced from morality, and people instinctively know that this type of "law" has no moral force behind it..., and is in fact tyrannical.
All this stuff ain't just about piety and sitting in a church on Sunday. It has broad implications for society, and we are seeing them happen.