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.
You’ve identified the communists’ game plan, inadvertantly.
They WANT there to be mass chaos and violence.
They WANT the locals to not be able to handle the situation.
They WANT ordinary folks to want the government to make the violence stop.
Then they step in with the left’s version of the “Patriot Act”, which everyone should have known would be instantly, as soon as the left gained power, applied not to the enemies of America as the Bush admin used it, but to American citizens who oppose the communists.
I think it will backfire horribly on the Democrat party. We need to start identifying the Democrat party as one and the same as OWS.
Powerful campaign material for viral videos and national TV will be available from their shenanigans such as old ladies being pushed down, a black police officer being shoved off his motorcycle, effigies of bankers hanging from nooses.
Re: Nixon and his “law and order” campaign.
LBJ and HHH were not Leninists, and they were unwilling to use muscle to win.
The SA was very effective, even though the Germans killed or beaten up by them were very few.
Once the average German saw that the SA was immune from punishment, while (entirely justified) resistance to SA violence was severely punished, they fell right into line.
Our people are no different.
I have been writing, too, on FR for nearly a month that Herman Cain seize the HIGH GROUND and turn this into a 1968 type campaign. Polarize it on Law and Order, alright, but he will paint Obongo into a hopeless corner with his radical soul mates and make off of somewhere upwards of 60% of the popular vote if not more. It is winning issue which a number of famous US polticians have used, most recently Ronald Reagan and George Wallace. Law and order appeals to many people. The people will be tired of the Anarchist trashing everything in sight, and the illegals rioting over vanished jobs they think are owed to them, in city after city. These people will not vote. The mass majority of voters highly offended and threatend will. And they will severely punish the Democrat Party for this. Brilliant GOP Chair Lee Atwater would recommend this strategy. Lyn Nofziger would. Pat Buchanan would. All the greats would say we have an immense winning issue for 2012 if the OWS stuff continues to spin out of control. There have been open calls for murder to be perpetuated in certain upscale areas of San Francisco by those turning out for OWS demonstrations, caught live on streaming radio. These boys are serious, but they are way outgunned with the massive force of American Manhood and Guns, not to mention our power at the ballot box as well. 2012 is the year to bring it on, Obama in his Alinsky mode, Bill Ayres imposter to the core, will egg it on, but it has potential for a massive grassroots GOP/Independent/Conservative Democrat backlash and running The Imposter Messiah clear out of Washington D.C. on a rail right straight back to a hut in rural Kenya.