You know, as a libertarian, I constantly get told about the virtues of government and how we need it to protect us (you know, from wandering War Lords or some s

You know, as a libertarian, I constantly get told about the virtues of government and how we need it to protect us (you know, from wandering War Lords or some such). The police being an extension of that protection. And look what happened here. Helpless citizens, being beaten and attacked in plain site, in front of police, and even recorded doing it. And not a damn thing is done. Screw geo-politics, the police should by all means have escalated immediately, called for backup and arrested/shot the assailants. That is their job, we are told. You need only hypothesize what would have happened if this was a gathering of some sort of gang, and it was assaulting individuals the same way. This is a "war lord" from another land, attacking your citizens in front of you. The blatant double-standard should be enough to throw up red-flags for every single citizen seeing it.