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While I think Horowitz is right that much of these antiwar protests are organized by radical communists and anarchists I think he overstates their propensity for real violence. Sure they caused a lot of damage at the WTO riots a couple of years ago. But I don't think smashing up some store fronts and tipping over a few cars is a major threat. David should calm down a little. He gives these jerk offs to much credit. Most are college drop out dope smokers- who read a Noam Chomsky book once. The most "succesful" among them work at Starbucks. They use their primitive leftist views to hide their own personal failures in life (they work as 28 year old bag boys becasue they "want to".)

500 San Francisco police spending their days babysitting semi-violent "protestors" are 500 police NOT guarding the Golden Gate Bridge, etc.

These jerks are running interference for Al Qaeda, period. In a time of war, I would treat them extremely harshly. No "in'n'out" arrest.

The Weathermen, the Bader-Meinhoff, The Red Guards, ELF, ALF
were all dismissed in the same manner at various times.

I have a history similar to David's; we are of an age. I remember when he became a non-person, overnight. I became one quite shortly afterwards for refusing to get involved in bombing a power substation.

What is not generally acknowledged about the economics of the anti-Americans is that many of them can count on inheritances from the grandparents or parents and more than anyone would guess have trust funds that they go to great lengths to keep secret. I have known very few cadre who were really *poor*. Some grow enough pot to live comfortably and only need a job to show some means of support. Any job will do.

Their cause is financed by the heirs of some of the wealthiest & best known names in American business history.

The violence is perpetrated by a handful, but they can count on help from the masses: money, safe houses, alibis, jobs, references, cars. Even years later, it is easy to guilt trip those who went back into society into being accessories in some manner.

People who have never been inside The Movement take these folks at face value. It is easy to underestimate them and they count on that.

They are very angry and focused. Usually, the leaders are not dopers.

I think he is dead on.

I don't think smashing up some store fronts and tipping over a few cars is a major threat.

A major threat? Maybe not, but it is major-league vandalism. These idiots must be punished to the full extent the law allows.

They have no right to smash those storefronts anymore than they would to smash your home.