[Clive]

In comparing the responses to the trashing of Campbell's office and the trashing of Flaherty's office, it may be instructive to note that Campbell is a Liberal and Flaherty is a Conservative.

[Savage Beast]

"a persistent problem in liberal societies such as ours: the conceit that violent law-breaking is somehow permissible if it is performed in the service of a fashionable cause."

Yes. Well said. And not only violent law-breaking but any form of violence, mendacity, injustice, oppression, or coercion. It is fashion and groupthink that dictate the dogma of the Left.

The word liberal in this context is a misnomer. There is nothing liberal about such thinking. Obviously, it is quite the opposite.