Why not arrest more rioters? - Letters to the editor

The International Herald Tribune reporting on the “extreme right wing rioters”  in Budapest on Sep 20 asks the nagging question: why aren’t the police arresting these trouble makers?
International news services such as Reuters and Associated Press, and also MTV (Magyar Televizió), posted photographs and videos on the Internet of the mostly young and mostly male rioters hurling petrol bombs, cobble stones, and even their shoes at the police.
The collective motive for these assaults seemed to be for physically harming the Hungarian police who were there to restore order. The wonder of it all is that no one had so far been reportedly killed.
A popular excuse for the hooligans raising hell was as a “counter demonstration” to the peaceful demonstrations by gays and Roma earlier that day. Other news accounts explained the violence erupted to protest prime minister Ferenc Gyurcsány’s administration.  
But the rioters don’t need an excuse. Similar riots have erupted (been organized?) in Budapest during the past several years in September, under the banner of the [red and white striped] Arpád flag. Meanwhile, reacting to the news, now all over the Internet, travelers who had planned to visit Budapest during the Sep 20 weekend were asking whether the city is safe.
Obviously, the Budapest rioters don’t refer to themselves as hooligans, trouble makers, lunatics, or terrorists.  
The news media typically refer to these miscreants as extreme right wing groups. But that is much too dignified for what these creatures are in fact.
Perhaps their mothers didn’t breast feed them enough or their fathers had beat them too much – and now they’re taking it out on the rest of us. But whatever caused the wires to get mixed up in their brains is now beside the point. The rioters are grown up and dangerous.
If the Hungarian police are not directed to take more aggressive action in putting these deviants behind bars, the day may come when the rioters take over Hungary. We all know very well the fate of countries that allow themselves to be overrun by lunatic mobs.