The ultimate purpose of all the state’s laws and enforcement apparatus, regardless of the many ostensible justifications for this law or that, is to defend the interests of the system and those who control it. Any laws passed by the state, and any armed and uniformed functionaries employed by the state to enforce those laws, will interpret the laws in a way that serves the interests of the system of power.

Ultimately it is a fundamental interest of the system of power to preserve its own credibility, and toward that end we have the United States Constitution, from which all of the authority of our system of power is both delineated and so derived.

Failure to preserve and to protect our right to assemble, to speak, to petition, and even to bear arms, is a failure to preserve the credibility of the power structure and its legitimacy to rule.

Failure to abide by our Constitutional guarantees is to become Lawless, Unconstitutional, to be utterly despised and cast aside by any means necessary.

That said, it appears that any society that lacks sufficient organization to be called a state is to be in a state of disorganization, a state of Chaos.

Chaos cannot feed the people nor arrange for defense against disaster - natural or otherwise.