You are all right on all counts.
Chair, you are correct about the need for civil security protection. A good example of this is the teacher tenure laws. They were created to protect a teacher from abuses by the "elite" within a community. I have seen a teacher fired because the police caught the son of a school board member rolling (TP-ing) the yard of that teacher. The teacher didn't have tenure and the contract was "not renewed." OTOH, it is difficult to fire teachers who have become incompetent for whatever reason.
There must be a way to balance these abuses. However, in our humanness, with our basic selfish tendencies, I think that day is long in coming.