This is designed to overwhelm Americans. To drive us into either fealty to the feds or revolt.
That's my take on it. The Progressives are trying to overwhelm the system, overload it to the point of breakdown. A lot of the arbitrary application of the law is designed to foster distrust of authority. The OWS creates a feeling of chaos just crying out for a Kent State moment by the overloaded police, or a violent reaction by a citizen. Either way, the government wins by having an excuse to suspend more civil liberties.
This president is the front man for a Progressive movement to advance socialism/communism, and he has done a superlative job in that respect. IMHO, the intent is to see if they can't use their momentum to get the nation well beyond the tipping point, so that whatever happens, we can't get back to our Constitutional Republic.
Folks say Obama is incompetent. As President, he has thoroughly failed to live up to his oath of office (and should have rapidly been impeached, but for our recumbent Congress -- another story), but I maintain that he has been a supremely successful Community Organizer. He, and those running him, have masterfully read the condition of our country and played it to perfection (for their cause).