Again, the first GOP candidate to pick up Nixon’s Law & Order mantle wins going away.
You make a very good point. One of the problems is that the ordinary citizen has been left completely undefended. I don't know if you saw the video of the thugs in DC attacking the Reagan Dinner attendees, not only screaming at them but physically shoving them (I guess if they do it without the use of their hands, it doesn't constitute touching), knocking down and injuring old ladies and children, and then pounding on the doors and windows and shrieking obscenities and not permitting people to enter or leave the building. If they thought they could have gotten away with it, they would have killed as many of the Reagan dinner attendees as they could have. So far, they don't dare, but pretty soon, they're going to kill somebody.
And in any case, the whole point is to make everything seem so unstable and crazy and dangerous that Republicans or any opposition will be afraid to be visible in any way.
It's gotten this far with the support of Obama and also because the municipal unions (which control the police) see themselves as part of the radical leftist OWS coalition and thus their policy is more sympathetic to the thugs. I feel badly for the police officers themselves, who are doing heroic work but are essentially prevented by their new "rules of engagement" from driving off the attackers and can only protect people in limited situations, basically by putting their bodies between the attackers and their intended victims.
Obama means to terrify and his "army" of university students, civil service workers, unions and a few of the black underclass is exactly the one that Castro, Chavez and every other leftist dictator in the hemisphere has used to destroy his country and take it over.
This is not something to be lightly dismissed, and is indeed a national issue.